SteveR Loc: Michigan

I can barely remember bowling alleys before automatic pin setters. I also remember when milk was delivered by horse drawn cart and the city had an ice house to provide ice for refrigerators. It was also a time when about once a year a vegetable salesman would drive down the street pulling his trailer with veggies hawking his wares and politicians would drive by with huge megaphones on the top ot their car drumming up votes. Vestiges of trolley tracks could be seen just up the street at the corner. When it got too hot, Mom would take me to the movies for the air conditioning. A Snickers was five cents. So was a pack of baseball cards, and it also came with a piece of Joe Palooka bubble gum.

Horseart Loc: Alabama

You stopped????

dustie Loc: Nose to the grindstone

Well.........maybe...........sort of........

Now sometimes it seems like I have to work to spread them apart to get things into focus.
Oh, shoot!!!..........ya don't s'pose.......
AAHHHH!!!.......maybe I should have believed them!!!

😁

Horseart Loc: Alabama

SpikeW Loc: Butler PA

It'e amazing how many people care enough to not care.

Finn Man Loc: wisconsin

People need to get a life...K.A.N.

fantom Loc: Colorado

fantom Loc: Colorado

Cool memories. We lived a couple of blocks beyond the end of the street car line. As a little kid I thought it was cool how the conductor would have to walk thru the car and flip all the seats forward so that the new riders did not have to ride backwards as the car reversed down the main street.

It was not unusual to have some juvenile delinquents run into a busy intersection, as the street car went thru, and they would pull the spring loaded trolley off of the electric power line. The car would roll to a stop in the intersection and create a massive traffic jam while the motorman or conductor would get out and reattach the trolley to the wire. The honking horns and screaming motorists got all the kids laughing as the culprits fled for their lives.

I remember the little old gas lighter man lighting the streets lights every night. All the kids were strictly told to say far away from him because the mothers had heard many urban legends about those guys. They all seemed to wear long gray overcoats, regardless of season, and caps like the bad guys wore in Superman and Batman comics.

For a couple of years after the war two black fellas would come thru the neighborhood a few times a year in a horse drawn wagon shouting "Rags and old iron". They were trying to get donated used items. We thought they were singing "Rags a lions" and we gave our mothers fits when we went thru the neighborhood pulling our wagons singing this also. Unfortunately we never did collect anything.

Ah, the good old days. i wouldn't trade any of this for a phone or electronic game.

coullone Loc: Paynesville, Victoria, Australia

Do they call it Super Bowl because of the amount hype it holds?

fantom Loc: Colorado

Partially correct, but it is really just an anagram for "purse, which is what the greedy owners and crooked league commissioner are solely concerned about. To hell with the players and fans it the $$$$$$$$ that they are focused on.