Dunning1 Wrote: > > Getting a little out of the area, I lived in the > Bensonhurst area of Brooklyn for about ten years, > and I remember going into the original Sbarro's, > which was at the corner of 17th Avenue and 65th > Street. I often was served at the counter by Mr. > Sbarro himself. Last time I visited back there, > the original store, which was more of
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Lance Grey Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > As a kid helping on uncles & fathers' Plumbing & > Electrician jobs, we'd often see out of service > gas lines. Usually black and made of iron. As a fun aside, the earliest electrical junction boxes (the "1900 box") was designed to be hooked up to existing gas lines, the idea being that
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My Dad and his brothers all call it the Arf & Barf too.
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You still see old Kohl's supermarket stores in Wisconsin, particularly around Milwaukee it seems. They have distinctive, round roofs. I remember seeing one on my way to Road America, which was still a Kohl's of some sort till the mid 90's or so.
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You still see old Kohl's supermarket stores in Wisconsin, particularly around Milwaukee it seems. They have distinctive, round roofs.
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I forget if McInerney Chevrolet was mentioned, but I thought I'd share this. Spotted at a car show last weekend, on the back of an unrestored '57 Chevy sedan (I think it was a 210, but maybe a Bel-Air). McInerney, Chicago by William 74, on Flickr
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There was a Dog N Suds out here in St. Charles a long time ago-it had long since become something else by the time I remember it in the 80's You can also still find Dog N Suds root beer in bottles in a few stores-a local grocery store here often has it. I've eaten at the one in Richmond a couple of times-it's on the way home from Road America. <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/w
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Just spotted on Flickr. This is the Nickey "Vinegaroon", I believe a later version of the car. From the '66 Stardust Grand Prix (a Can-Am race) in Las Vegas. 1966StardustGP_731 by The Henry Ford, on Flickr
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I used to get Green River all the time when I was a kid in the 80's (I'm not old enough for soda fountains). I liked making floats with it. Also, thought I'd share: Picks Me Up! by William 74, on Flickr
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My grandmother had the President set-I believe she had all of them, but not the stand. She had a bunch of old toys in her basement, which was the kids' playroom for when we'd visit. In retrospect a lot of them were vintage stuff from the fifties through to the early seventies. I've no idea what became of any of it, though.
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That's probably the one I'm thinking of. I only went there once, in the spring, on a field trip with a geology class in college (back in the mid to late 90's). I definitely remember climbing those steps! My friend Brian decided he needed to run up them, and he could barely walk when he was through. I swear the toboggan run was still standing when we went there, but maybe it was some other stru
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rjmachon-I think the issue would be with the fact that, even in the slower classes, a drag car is going much faster than a typical monster truck gets up to. A car crashing at 100 mph or more will spread a debris field for quite a distance (for a better picture, look up the LeMans disaster of 1955. Most of the carnage was caused by bits of flaming car hitting bystanders). Monster trucks don't get u
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Not old enough to have been buying cars from most of these places, but I just thought I'd share these. Mr. Norm's by William 74, on Flickr Dealer Sticker by William 74, on Flickr This is the "Vinegaroon", a Genie racing car that was owned by Dan Blocker Nickey Chicago by William 74, on Flickr And, of course, the Nickey name has been resurrected as a purveyor of high-pe
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Not really in the city, but isn't there a big toboggan run in Palos Heights?
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One thing to bear in mind is that back in the late sixties and seventies, Lakeview wasn't as nice as it is now-the area around the stadium was kinda sketchy, not as family friendly as now (allegedly, I am not old enough to have gone back then). I recall reading that it was common for the upper deck to be closed off as well. Also, didn't daytime games hurt attendance for a long time? Ironically
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Funny I stumbled upon this thread. I recently spotted an old plastic illuminated Meister Brau sign, all the way out in Hampshire! It's facing the back alley of a bar.
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@jak378- the Pure Oil name was originally phased out in the late sixties (by 1970 it was completely gone from stations), when Unocal converted all their locations to Union 76. However, in 1993, the Pure name started to make a comeback in 1993 or so, after Unocal left the southeastern market. The Southeastern Oil Jobbers Cooperative started up to fill this gap, using the Pure name. I'd like to make
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