About every 3 months I would get home from school to find our Philco fridge unplugged and wide open with a big drip pan under the freezer compartment. My mother would let the inventory run down as much as possible, put what was left into our Coleman cooler, pull the plug and head out to the IGA a couple of towns away. My job was to carefully get the frost out, dump the pan outside, reset the wire shelves, empty the cooler and plug her back in before she got home. We had that fridge until I was into high school.
there was a small country store in eastern Ky that had one of those old coke coolers up until the early 1990's they where a bit pissed that it died after all those years. I pulled cokes out of it back in the 1960's. went back down there in the late 1990's and it was gone. they told me it stop getting cold in 93 or so. the new coolers do not have the same appeal.
Ah, those old metal ice cube trays ! I don't know what I loved most about them - the way that your hand would stick to the frozen metal like the kid's tongue in "Christmas Story" , or the bleeding knuckles you got from using the metal release handle !
The Ben Franklin store location shown in your photograph was in Addison, Illinois. I shoplifted a pack of football cards from that store when I was about ten years old. When my mother discovered them, she drove me back to the store and made me hand the pack back to the manager (minus the gum, that's how she caught me). I don't think I've ever been more embarrassed in my life... and I certainly never stole anything again!
That coke cooler circulated chilled water around the bottle’s inside. The caps had cork in them.sometimes, if you got a “old” one, cork bits would fall in your soda when you opened it. The first company to use a synthetic material to seal the cap was 7-up. That was because they also were the first to start a contest with bottle caps. How old am I? 🤔
I was reading this in various financial news sites and it's ugly.
Dems will blame Repugs for "Damaging" our Full Faith and nonsense. But that's like blaming the fever for the rotting disease that's eating you up.
Unlike the beautiful era your collection of photos above we are living in the clown world of Rubber Check Diplomacy.
We be broke and might indeed see real hunger with our fixed income and working poor pretty damn soon. The rest of us soon enough will also see troubles even if well employed. Social chaos has automobiles you know.
We'll never see days like that ever again.
ReplyDeletenice memories
ReplyDeletewow, 'ya made my hed hurt and my eyes water!
ReplyDeleteAbout every 3 months I would get home from school to find our Philco fridge unplugged and wide open with a big drip pan under the freezer compartment. My mother would let the inventory run down as much as possible, put what was left into our Coleman cooler, pull the plug and head out to the IGA a couple of towns away. My job was to carefully get the frost out, dump the pan outside, reset the wire shelves, empty the cooler and plug her back in before she got home. We had that fridge until I was into high school.
ReplyDeletethere was a small country store in eastern Ky that had one of those old coke coolers up until the early 1990's
ReplyDeletethey where a bit pissed that it died after all those years. I pulled cokes out of it back in the 1960's.
went back down there in the late 1990's and it was gone. they told me it stop getting cold in 93 or so.
the new coolers do not have the same appeal.
The TV test pattern always reminds me this--
ReplyDeletehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FCcdr4O-3gE
BTDT or observed all but one. No Ben Franklin's in my hood, we had T G & Y
ReplyDeleteI remember.
ReplyDeleteThe best collection of photos I’ve seen in a long time. Love the Ben Franklin. Grew up with that store.
ReplyDeleteI had a '53 Ford like in #9 but it had no seat belts.
ReplyDeleteI'm surprised she could see the belt.
Delete"I'm watching a show about Indians man...."
ReplyDeleteThey still have a Ben Franklin store in Fayetteville WV.
ReplyDeleteBut it’s real boring…..
DeleteKlaus
I grew up in Grayling, MI. We had TWO Ben Franklins in town for over 20 years. Thanks for bringing back a good memory.
ReplyDeleteThe hick Missouri town I grew up in only had one Ben Franklin, but we also had an OTASCO (Oklahoma Tire and Supply).
DeleteAh, those old metal ice cube trays ! I don't know what I loved most about them - the way that your hand would stick to the frozen metal like the kid's tongue in "Christmas Story" , or the bleeding knuckles you got from using the metal release handle !
ReplyDeleteThe Ben Franklin store location shown in your photograph was in Addison, Illinois. I shoplifted a pack of football cards from that store when I was about ten years old. When my mother discovered them, she drove me back to the store and made me hand the pack back to the manager (minus the gum, that's how she caught me). I don't think I've ever been more embarrassed in my life... and I certainly never stole anything again!
ReplyDeletenot that store, not that item, but exactly the same results.
DeleteMy dad has a Coke machine like that one. The coin slot only takes nickels and dimes.
ReplyDeleteNever will our country be that great again. Our plane is headed right into the side of the mountain.
ReplyDeleteThat coke cooler circulated chilled water around the bottle’s inside. The caps had cork in them.sometimes, if you got a “old” one, cork bits would fall in your soda when you opened it.
ReplyDeleteThe first company to use a synthetic material to seal the cap was 7-up. That was because they also were the first to start a contest with bottle caps.
How old am I?
🤔
Irish a little off topic but important.
ReplyDeletehttps://www.msn.com/en-us/money/retirement/the-government-may-stohome%20cleaning%20p-issuing-social-security-payments-after-the-debt-limit-is-hit-here-s-why/ar-AA18tC8j
I was reading this in various financial news sites and it's ugly.
Dems will blame Repugs for "Damaging" our Full Faith and nonsense. But that's like blaming the fever for the rotting disease that's eating you up.
Unlike the beautiful era your collection of photos above we are living in the clown world of Rubber Check Diplomacy.
We be broke and might indeed see real hunger with our fixed income and working poor pretty damn soon. The rest of us soon enough will also see troubles even if well employed. Social chaos has automobiles you know.
And you're showing your age if you read the Ben Franklin as "five and dime"
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640 and 1240 on your am dial.
ReplyDeleteCONELRAD.
Circle inside a triangle.