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Sunday, April 28, 2019

Who Remembers?


27 comments:

Anonymous said...

1960 Chevy wagon, awesome.

Anonymous said...

Yes
Miss those trips

Anonymous said...

I do

Anonymous said...

Still do this. Fast food sucks except Chick Fil a.

Anonymous said...

Yes. And, my wife and I still plan our trips around rest stops so we can still do it. Plus, they have bathrooms.

Anonymous said...

We tended to get a little farther off the roadway than these folks did.

Anonymous said...

7:34 thank you, that was my first thought.

Anonymous said...

Big hunk of block ice in the cooler would last for days.Dont forget the ice pick and bottle opener.

Anonymous said...

I remember too. While on a road trip to Texas from Ohio we pulled off and flipped down the tailgate of the station wagon and dad fired up the propane stove and fixed dinner. Now those were memorable family times.

Anonymous said...

Most states, including Maryland and Virginia, provided wayside rest areas with picnic tables and some with BBQ grills. Those were the days.

Anonymous said...

Way less traffic back them, and everyone was driving 70 mph

Anonymous said...

We did this on the way to Ocean City from Salisbury. There were picnic tables in a wooded area between Berlin and OC. A picnic and afternoon at the beach. No cell phones. No video games. Just good old family fun back then. And we did not leave OC without Fishers popcorn to eat on the way home.

Anonymous said...

1964 ford galaxy wood panel station wagon, no AC.

Anonymous said...

Yes! Pennsylvania turnpike had nice rest stops.

Anonymous said...

People weren't so fat then either.

Anonymous said...

Then there were the Friday or Saturday nights in the family wagon at the drive-in theater, with the kids in their pajamas in the folded down back, a paper shopping bag full of the popcorn that Mom made and the family drink cooler full of lemonade. Two cartoons and at least a double feature were cheap entertainment for us all.

Anonymous said...

And you had to go potty in the woods.

Anonymous said...

EVERY state has picnic tables on the side of the road. DRIVE-IN THEATERS too. Back before the GAYS, transgender, and out right POS have taken over our country.

Anonymous said...

These were the good old days when there were even designated road stop areas for travelers, with picnic tables.

Anonymous said...

Yea and remember how they were everywhere in Maryland then the state decided to remove 95% of them then put up their stupid no trespassing signs in there locations and don't even think about trespassing either
Typical government decisions

Anonymous said...

LOL right potty in the woods and a wet wash cloth wrapped in plastic for everyone to wipe their hands off on. I do remember Stuckey's being a place we loved to stop.

GEE WIZ said...

913

lol

you have not driven on 13 Salisbury Bypass during work hours

you do 80......they run you over for going slow

GEE WIZ said...

Are you finished with your plate?

I work out at Planet Fitness

they can use the food to reward me
for joining up

Anonymous said...

6:14- I noticed that too. The one in Westover has been blocked, and there was one at the route 50 and 301, which is now gone.

Anonymous said...

We didn't carry a table and chairs. The tailgate was our table. And our restroom was between the opened front and back doors. Rest stops were few and far between back then, and there were NO fast food places. Took forever to go to NC to visit relatives. Back then, there was a three hour ferry ride across the bay, not a 20 minute ride across a bridge. I do remember seeing it built while riding the ferry.

Anonymous said...

Looks like many of us are in agreement.
The past was better in many ways than the present.

Consider this:
Was it in fact better (much better) in almost every way?
Is the present a real mess, and why is it thus?

Thank you

Anonymous said...

April 26, 2019 at 6:19 PM:

Yea Stuckey's! And the special treat was...you guessed it, it was the peanut and caramel log.