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DelMarVa's Premier Source for News, Opinion, Analysis, and Human Interest Contact Publisher Joe Albero at alberobutzo@wmconnect.com or 410-430-5349
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Eisenhower was President.
We could get only one channel on our home TV.
Tires had tubes -- all tires.
Jell-o salads were a thing.
We could send a postcard across the country for a penny,
but a three minute telephone call cost over a dollar.
....there was no hate filled, conspiracy laden and rumor mongering internet.
Garbage trucks were chain drive.
We had a four party line (when four unrelated families, with different phone numbers, shared phone time).
High test was $0.32.
Tires only lasted 10,000 miles (best quality tires).
Penny candies.
$0.05 bubble gum came with baseball cards.
THE BROOKLYN DODGERS (them bums).
They used to have other choices for toilet paper. You used to be able to get different colors and prints such as flowers. Those were the days my friend we thought they'd never end.........
Anyone remember that song too?
Air raid wardens who checked neighborhoods to make sure no light was coming from homes. When funeral processions passed cars stopped and men removed hats and all bowed their heads out of respect. When you found a penny it was like a guft from God. You got to buy penny candy.
McDonald's had only sold 1 million hamburgers.
Walking on the beach from 65th street to the Fenwick lighthouse and not seeing another person.
Going to PlayLand and rIding on the Wild Mouse and Sky Ride- the one that went out over the bay.
The single lane bridges in Cambridge and Vienna.
There was a duck pin bowling alley on the corner of Market Street and South Division Street and
the Shore Maid ice cream store was around the corner behind the plaza
Boys played kick the can and girls played hop scotch. Dad worked and brought home the money, mom worked at home and took care of EVERYTHING else. And familys ate dinner together.
The launching of the Ark.
People obeyed the law
judges were honest and law abiding
Party line phones with cords; curb finders for your car fenders ; drive in movies; snow tiers with studs
When we would get bottle milk delivered to the house.
people talked to each other , rather than a text or messaging
when people went to church
A new house on Ocean Pines was under 10k.
The night they placed the Dead Sea Scolls in the cave...
The Washington Senators played at Griffith stadium.
Kids standing on the seat of a moving car was okay.
Don't forget the bridge at Kent Narrows.
truth meant something
VHF and UHF
When families sat down to dinner that was "home cooked" and we gathered around TV to watch family movies or programs; the jing-a-ling of the ice cream/popcicle truck; playing till dark in the summer.
Harry Truman was president.
Males were male and females were female
Hitting a whole roll of caps with a hammer.
When Dems where patriots now there ANTI AMERICAN TRAITORS.
A McDonald's burger was 15 cents, a milkshake was a quarter and fries were a dime.
Old Town Ocean City was called "New Town".
When you got a hole in your clothes your mom would sew it up or patch it.
I was born / delivered at home by a family doctor. I still have the bill he gave to my parents...$35.00. Yeah, that's old.
Girls were born girls and lived as girls/women all their lives.
Boys were born boys and grew into men and never even considered they were born in the wrong body.
You could leave your door unlocked.
If you saw someone walking, you knew them and you could give them a ride without fear or voilence.We use to pick Strawberries and grapes out of my grandparents gardens for fun! All the kids in my grandparents neighborhood would come over to swim in our pool and we had a great time! Nobody was a stranger. Not allowed to use scissors or do anything on Sunday other than attend church and spend family time together. Watched Hee haw, Lawrence Welk, and Artist Bob Ross.
Watching Noah's Ark launched live stream on dial-up. Brian Williams was the correspondent on the scene.
Paris Hilton was a celebrity.
Taking the ferry to cross the Chesapeake at Kent Island.
If I misbehaved in the neighborhood, one of the neighbors would spank me----then call my folks and I would get it again when I got home.
When the Orioles had winning seasons.
CNN was a actual newss station.
Ocean Pines was still swamp land when you could buy a house for under 10k
Had to walk 5 miles to school,in the snow, with no shoes. Then walk back home, and it was up hill both ways.
When 100 dollars bills did not have a purple line across the face side !!
there was no internet so one never had to put up with all the loonies out there!
When women stayed married until their husbands died, and not just until they weren't "happy" anymore.
5 cents for movie ticket. 25 cents per gallon of gas. 25 cents firehall dance. Welfare was standing in line for flour to make your own bread, peanut butter to make your own cookies, cheese and other surplus food.
Paper plates used to be thrown from the Ulman balcony with prizes written on them.They did that on Saturday during the matinee.A triple feature was so cheap I dare not repeat it.When we left Ulman we went to English Grille 2 or 3 blocks away.Those were the days.
You never saw an empty bottle on the ground.. it was worth 2 cents when returned.. big ones a nickel...
President Truman said that "THE BUCK STOPS HERE" , unlike current Presidents
Red Star bus lines, Reeds downtown Powell Motors Wicomico theater PGH old hospital L 7F s old sub shop
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