"Simple American Things Lost" list
Oct 5, 2018 18:51:50 #
It’s the damn hippies they ruined everything. If you can remember that is when this country started going downhill.
Oct 5, 2018 19:53:54 #
I worked part time at night in one of the first McDonalds in the east. It was in 51 or 52. I worked the grill. 36 burgers at a time on the grill. You had to be fast. Flipped two at a time. It was just a stand. You had to eat in your car. I remember every night the police would show up at the back door for their free coffee abd donuts.
Oct 6, 2018 00:04:49 #
Remember when walking around almost any mid-sized town
you'd see a telephone booth, with a door you could close,
on almost every block?
(You know, the kind Clark Kent jumped in to change
into Superman...LOL)
you'd see a telephone booth, with a door you could close,
on almost every block?
(You know, the kind Clark Kent jumped in to change
into Superman...LOL)
Oct 6, 2018 00:27:31 #
Hal81 wrote:
I worked part time at night in one of the first McDonalds in the east. It was in 51 or 52. I worked the grill. 36 burgers at a time on the grill. You had to be fast. Flipped two at a time. It was just a stand. You had to eat in your car. I remember every night the police would show up at the back door for their free coffee abd donuts.
You only flipped two at a time? When I worked at Gino's back in the early 70's we flipped 4 patties at a time. Also, I don't remember any "burger" joints that sold donuts.
I flipped a whole lot of burgers while I was in college and made a whole, whole lot of fried chicken, both original and extra crispy. Oh the memories.
Oct 6, 2018 00:30:22 #
craig.j.tucker wrote:
Need Help from Older Americans with this "Sim... (show quote)
Several things on this list still exist.
Oct 6, 2018 06:04:07 #
Oct 6, 2018 06:10:15 #
buckbrush
Loc: Texas then Southwest Oregon
pmorin wrote:
I remember going to McDonalds after school when I was a teen paying 15 cents each for burgers and fries. Here is a post from a blog with a menu photo.
I used to hang at the first McDonalds in Des Plaines, Illinois in the 50s and watched the workers in the back pour potatoes into a round potato peeling machine. Those were the best fries and yep, only 15 cents.
Oct 6, 2018 06:16:00 #
White Castle hamburgers - 12 cents each and a girl delivered it to your car and hung it on your window.
Oct 6, 2018 06:23:13 #
Oct 6, 2018 06:35:11 #
Oct 6, 2018 07:00:18 #
24.9 cents a gallon gas, use to fill my bone dry 57VW tank for $2.50
Oct 6, 2018 07:22:00 #
Gotta disagree on the “bottomless cup of coffee”. Two of my favorite breakfast haunts on Cape Cod, Grumpy’s and The Red Cottage, both keep your cup filled and have great food to boot😊
Oct 6, 2018 07:25:13 #
I rememeber tv ads for McDonalds touting "change back from a buck". Burgers fries and a drink for under a buck.
Oct 6, 2018 07:33:58 #
Oct 6, 2018 07:39:19 #
Well I know paperboys existed still back in the seventies, as I was one. Except we were called "your paper delivery carrier" as there were both girls and boys doing their paper routes. Also still in the Eighties as then I was a weekend route supervisor getting the papers to the kids.
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