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1960 Chevy wagon, awesome.
ReplyDeleteYes
ReplyDeleteMiss those trips
I do
ReplyDeleteStill do this. Fast food sucks except Chick Fil a.
ReplyDeleteYes. And, my wife and I still plan our trips around rest stops so we can still do it. Plus, they have bathrooms.
ReplyDeleteWe tended to get a little farther off the roadway than these folks did.
ReplyDeleteWay less traffic back them, and everyone was driving 70 mph
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Deletelol
you have not driven on 13 Salisbury Bypass during work hours
you do 80......they run you over for going slow
7:34 thank you, that was my first thought.
ReplyDeleteBig hunk of block ice in the cooler would last for days.Dont forget the ice pick and bottle opener.
ReplyDeleteI 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.
ReplyDeleteMost states, including Maryland and Virginia, provided wayside rest areas with picnic tables and some with BBQ grills. Those were the days.
ReplyDeleteWe 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.
ReplyDelete1964 ford galaxy wood panel station wagon, no AC.
ReplyDeleteYes! Pennsylvania turnpike had nice rest stops.
ReplyDeletePeople weren't so fat then either.
ReplyDeleteAre you finished with your plate?
DeleteI work out at Planet Fitness
they can use the food to reward me
for joining up
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.
ReplyDeleteAnd you had to go potty in the woods.
ReplyDeleteEVERY 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.
ReplyDeleteThese were the good old days when there were even designated road stop areas for travelers, with picnic tables.
ReplyDeleteYea 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
ReplyDeleteTypical government decisions
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.
DeleteLOL 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.
ReplyDeleteWe 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.
ReplyDeleteLooks like many of us are in agreement.
ReplyDeleteThe 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
April 26, 2019 at 6:19 PM:
ReplyDeleteYea Stuckey's! And the special treat was...you guessed it, it was the peanut and caramel log.