That was a staple at our house too, but it scared little bro pretty bad. I got to stay up though, @Miss_belle. Sorry you had to go to bed!
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My childhood friend from across the street and I were into an early reality show, NASA Mercury and Gemini rocket launches. We’d don our astronaut helmets, flip the big chair over to form a capsule, and since we’re in Houston we were de facto Mission Control.
Food. The lady down the street made hamburgers one day for a bunch of us, nothing to do with rockets but she put them on hot dog buns.
What a revelation. We all went home and clamored to our Moms for the same. It didn’t happen.
I’m guessing she was out of hamburger buns.
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Look at the bright side, at least he wasn’t yelling Danger! Danger! Miss belle.
I’m a glass half full guy.
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What goes around comes around. My normal bedtime now is 8p and 7.30p is looking pretty good. grin
In the Washington DC market it was on Channel 20 which I think was an independent station then. They had two or three horror movies Saturday afternoons “hosted” by an Elvira-like character. My friend Bill Ferguson and I would watch from under the couch in his basement family room.
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We were not that bad. DelMonte tomato sauce straight from the can. Not even heated.
“I do remember watching Dark Shadows if I rushed home from school,”
Oh yes. My cousin did the sets for that show so I got to actually go there and see a taping.
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We hid it because our Italian elders would have judged us snd my Mothers free spirit. When Sunday gravy, pizza sauce or jarred sauce was avail we used that too. Ketchup is sweet as kids, we probably liked it for thst reason.
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Jeez Louise, I’m beginning to realize why I’m so warped. I watched Johnny Carson every night, prone on the floor. Then I’d wake up and go bed.
My mom left for work before I had to go to school ; I’d make breakfast and watch Cousin Ken for cartoons till the walk to school.
I led a charmed life!
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Enough chairs to go around at our house, but we were always prone on the rug with our elbows propped up too watching tv. Think that’s just the way it was back then.
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yes, for sure. Thinking of that now my neck starts to hurt! I love this thread.
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Anybody ever get French fries at the Woolworth’s lunch counter?
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No but I’ve devoured my share of grilled cheese sandwiches at Woolworths.
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Occasionally dime stores for lunch when a kid but we had better dining options…
Usually department store cafeterias, when out shopping with mom and sister, but other now distant past places too like long gone local KC favorite Wolferman’s, a bakery with European food. Now a Harry and David’s English Muffin brand.
Dime stores were for chili dogs and cherry phosphates.
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We didn’t have much access to dime store food, but those deliciously greasy hamburgers at Friendly’ s was a once in a blue moon treat.
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What is/was Friendly’s?
Don’t let the website fool you. They were a whole lot more Friendly back then.
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Home of the Patty Melt.
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Friendly’s was where you went, several days into your yoga retreat in the Berkshires, to have a Reese’s Pieces sundae after doing some stuff that would enhance your appreciation of ice cream. Or so I’ve heard.
For. The. Win.
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Not french fries at Woolworth’s but I do remember caging a rare “tulip sundae”, named for the shape of the glass tumbler.
I thought butterscotch was the best, a forerunner of “salted caramel”.
I also remember their “hot sandwiches”, turkey or roast beef on a slice of bread with hot gravy poured over.
Husband, from Montana, recalls that the best Cornish pasties in the area were at Woolworth’s counter in Butte.
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Sam Kinison was one of answers on Jeopardy tonight so watching Back To school. Too many great scenes to pick from.but I’ll start here.
And then there’s this one.
And here.
Then there’s Lou.
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