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Originally posted by neuromancer+Apr 6 2005, 12:03 AM--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(neuromancer &#064; Apr 6 2005, 12:03 AM)</div><div class='quotemain'><!--QuoteBegin-Pecker@Apr 5 2005, 11:41 PM
I remember
Boston Baked Beans candy
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Curiosity is killing me. WTF is this??? Sounds nasty. ;)
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Boston Baked Beans are sugar-candy-coated peanuts. They&#39;ve been around since the 1930&#39;s.
 
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Originally posted by Pecker@Apr 5 2005, 07:41 PM
I remember

Burma Shave signs along the highway.
Hopalong Cassidy
Mallo Cups
Death Valley Days
Muddy Waters
Lonesome George Gobel
Tutti frutti ice cream
Ed Sullivan
Cinnamon toothpicks
Ted Mack&#39;s Original Amateur Hour
Boston Baked Beans candy
Brownie Starflash cameras
Toys made of lead
Studabakers
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I still have about 150 lead soldiers, many from WWI. I once was buying a car and went into a Studebaker showroom and found one salesman. He admitted to me that I might be taking a chance if I bought the car. I liked the car, but the very next day, the company folded. He could have made the sale, but chose to be honest. I&#39;ve never forgotten that guy. I remember....

Kids being let out of school for Opening Day

The Andrew Sisters & The Mills Brothers

When there was no daylight savings time

Mosquitos

Radio personalities using proper English

Geography, Shop, and Music courses for everyone in school

Not being able to invite my Jewish friend to some party and not knowing why
 

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Originally posted by Pecker@Apr 6 2005, 12:45 PM
Boston Baked Beans are sugar-candy-coated peanuts. They&#39;ve been around since the 1930&#39;s.

And they&#39;re still around. So are French Burnt Peanuts. The parish market near me sells both for 89¢ a bag. I eat the hell out of &#39;em&#33; :D
 

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Oh, I lOVE those things&#33; We have an old time candy store that sells those, aw well as Michigan Cherries, two of the things I won&#39;t give up even for a diet.
 

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Originally posted by orionsword57+Apr 6 2005, 08:02 AM--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(orionsword57 &#064; Apr 6 2005, 08:02 AM)</div><div class='quotemain'><!--QuoteBegin-Pecker@Apr 5 2005, 07:41 PM
I remember

Burma Shave signs along the highway.
Hopalong Cassidy
Mallo Cups
Death Valley Days
Muddy Waters
Lonesome George Gobel
Tutti frutti ice cream
Ed Sullivan
Cinnamon toothpicks
Ted Mack&#39;s Original Amateur Hour
Boston Baked Beans candy
Brownie Starflash cameras
Toys made of lead
Studabakers
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I still have about 150 lead soldiers, many from WWI. I once was buying a car and went into a Studebaker showroom and found one salesman. He admitted to me that I might be taking a chance if I bought the car. I liked the car, but the very next day, the company folded. He could have made the sale, but chose to be honest. I&#39;ve never forgotten that guy. I remember....

Kids being let out of school for Opening Day

The Andrew Sisters & The Mills Brothers

When there was no daylight savings time

Mosquitos

Radio personalities using proper English

Geography, Shop, and Music courses for everyone in school

Not being able to invite my Jewish friend to some party and not knowing why
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That&#39;s weird, may I ask why?
 

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Originally posted by surferboy+Apr 7 2005, 12:22 AM--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(surferboy &#064; Apr 7 2005, 12:22 AM)</div><div class='quotemain'>
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INot being able to invite my Jewish friend to some party and not knowing why
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That&#39;s weird, may I ask why?
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Nixxie,

There was a time when segregation was not just black and white, but included Jews as well. In fact, until recently there were still some country clubs that had a ban on Jewish members.

Stupid, yes. But sadly true.

You aren&#39;t prejudiced and you love everybody. But some folks don&#39;t like "other" people regardless of how they are different. I know people who don&#39;t like people because the live in a neighboring town and they hate everyone who lives in that town. Foolish and stupid I know.

The hatred of Jews that was in Germany in WWII was here as well. Our history books just don&#39;t talk about it. It was not as mean. No one wanted to round up the Jews and kill them. They just didn&#39;t want them mixed in with the rest of America. I can as a little boy remember hearing some old men cussing " N>>>>> and Jews." They hated both. And you notice I wouldn&#39;t spell what the word was they used. It is a horrific word. My father didn&#39;t let me associate with those kind of people who hated everyone. He taught me to be respectful, but not hang around. He didn&#39;t want me to be raised to be like that.

So, in parts of the nation it was a great taboo to invite a black or a Jew to a party at your house. To do so, was to take a chance on having the Klan burn your house down. By the fifties it was better and by the eighties it was a whole lot better.

But we are not home yet. There is still hatred of people for just who they are. That is sad. It is tragic.
 
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orionsword57: "Not being able to invite my Jewish friend to some party and not knowing why..."

"That&#39;s weird, may I ask why?"

I&#39;m old enough to have seen the treatment of women, blacks and non-Christian religious groups improve greatly from how things used to be. Conditions have not come as far as they should (and will), but the changes have been marked. I have to admit that if gives me joy to find someone who doesn&#39;t know what I&#39;m talking about when I talk about discrimination of Jewish people. That shows how far we&#39;ve come.

In my youth, I worked with a black man at my summer job. He was a wonderful man, and I liked and admired him a lot. Segregation existed in just about every area of life then for African Americans, and while I was uncomfortable with that at the time, it was the state of things and therefore seemed more natural than it would now. There was also a phrase one used back then when you wanted to praise someone, which was "he&#39;s a real white man". It was the kind of comment that unfortunately just came out of your mouth without your thinking of the underlying meaning or the consequences. I made this comment to this man while talking about another co-worker and literally didn&#39;t realize what I&#39;d done until later in the day. I immediately went and apologized to him, but he shrugged it off and told me he knew I didn&#39;t mean anything by it. I never made that kind of mistake again and I am forever in his debt for allowing that incident to shape my life. I&#39;m Irish and my grandfather used to tell stories about anti-Irish discrimination, so I guess I was lucky in that regard as to when I came along.
 

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Ok, I&#39;m not that old but I do remember:

East and West Germany
Living under the apartheid
When people remembered that the ANC were a terrorist organisation
Noel Edmon&#39;s House Party
Mister Blooby
Life before the Telletubbies
A kids program called "Eat your words" where the kids had to lick sugar filled icing in the shape of letters in order to spell out words (the kids got the shakes by the end of the episode&#33;)
The Fun House with Pat Bucanan&#33;
Duck Tails
The music from Sonic The Hedgehog
When there wasn&#39;t global warming
When people ate meat on the bone (hmmm, T-Bone steak&#33;)
Michael Jackson&#39;s first trial, and his second trial and.....
When Michael Portilo, Julian Clarey and Dale Winton weren&#39;t gay
When Robert Kilroy Silk was a "respected" TV presenter
When the BBC had a 9 O&#39;Clock news
Red Dwarf when it was good
PVA glue with those little spatulas&#33;
 

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I remember "A House with a Door&#33; Open the Door&#33;" And it accidental mophed into the picture of Mrs Thatcher leaving downing street, and the whole country symoultaneously fell off their seats laughing as the BBC got their tapes mixed.

But thats about it, Im young&#33; :/
 

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I remember (gawd am I having a memory dump&#33;)

Children were seen not heard
Ben Hogan
Payolla
Wooden Telephone Booths
Shooting marbles
Juke Boxes with bubbles in the front panel
Tiddly Winks
Norman Rockwell paintings
My Little Margie
Carter&#39;s Little Liver Pills
The Fuller Brush Man
Penny gumball machines
Sinclair gasoline
Silver Certificates
 
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ravenously: I remember walking to school uphill both ways. And I really did&#33;

* when challenger exploded

* Majic Johnson anounced that he had HIV

* When people recycled

* When Michigan still had four seasons

* Nintendo came with a robot instead of duckhunt

* People still accepted checks

* saturday night live was funny
 

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My grandfather, who passed away last year, used to tell me about:

1. Seeing Civil War veterens marching in the July 4th parade.

2. The first cars in town.

3. The death of Queen Victoria

4. The sinking of Titanic and how his best friend&#39;s father died (in the movie, he&#39;s the guy sitting in a tuxedo ordering another brandy as the ship goes down).

5. Meeting Orville Wright, who issued my grandfather&#39;s pilot&#39;s license.

6. The First World War

7. Telephones and electricity coming to town.

8. The installation of indoor plumbing in the family homestead.

9. How his nanny told him stories of what it was like to be a slave growing-up in the deep south.

10. The fall of the last Emperor of China.

Now that&#39;s a life.... :)
 

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Wow Jason,

What a unique way of answering this thread. A view through the eyes of your grandfather. That is fabulous. Thanks for sharing those with us.

I remember learning some of John Paul II&#39;s favorite songs in Polish to sing for him on his first visit to the US after becoming Pontiff
I remember going to the Arkansas ball after Clinton&#39;s first election
I remember going to a White House tea held by Mrs Bush (the younger )
I remember thinking the mark left of my forehead by chicken pox was where Lyndon Johnson kissed me when I was a baby
I remember seeing Dustin Hoffman in a the Chinese carryout in NY
I remember holding carnivals for Muscular dystrophy in the summers as a child
I remember chasing fireflies on summer nights
I remember playing red light, green light
I remember trying to learn double dutch&#33; LOL&#33;


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Originally posted by naughty@Apr 8 2005, 04:06 AM
Wow Jason,

What a unique way of answering this thread. A view through the eyes of your grandfather. That is fabulous. Thanks for sharing those with us.

I remember learning some of John Paul II&#39;s favorite songs in Polish to sing for him on his first visit to the US after becoming Pontiff
I remember going to the Arkansas ball after Clinton&#39;s first election
I remember going to a White Hoiuse tea held by Mrs Bush (the younger )
I remember thinking the mark left of my forehead by chicken pocks was where Lyndon Johnson kissed me when I was a baby
I remember seeing Dustin Hoffman in a the Chinese carryout in NY
I remember holding carnivals for Muscular dystrophy in the summers as a child
I remember chasing fireflies on summer nights
I remember playing red light, green light
I remember trying to learn double dutch&#33; LOL&#33;


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Wow, yourself&#33;

You&#39;ve sung for the Pope... I had a chance to sing for both Adlai Stevenson & John Kennedy (among others) in a barbershop quartet at a political function.

How about.....

Kaiser & Frazer cars....
When soda started coming in cans
Party lines
Thermofaxes
No seat belts
Fluid drive (in Chryslers)
Crinoline

etc...
 

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Wow &#33;
To you too Orion&#33; That is great&#33; Yes, I was sitting here looking back on some of the opportunities I have been fortunate enough to have and have been amazed and thankful. So what was it like singing for JFK? Were you all really really nervous?


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