I saw the Highlight's magazine and it reminded me of Weekly Reader. The
elementary students in Memphis always read it on Fridays. It consisted of
current events.. If my memory serves me correct, my parents had to send 50
cents to pay for Weekly Reader..
I can also remember my Dad leaving a quarter in the same location every day
and that was for my lunch.
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Submitted by: Sara Williamson Garrett : 29 Jan 2008, 08:08
Submitted by: Doanne Stanford : 30 Jan 2008, 12:46
When you mentioned Cokes being a dime, I remember the first coke I ever
bought. It was from a machine at the Esso Station at the corner of Summer
and Graham,two blocks from where we lived in the 60's. I had to use a
nickel and two pennies to get the bottle Coke, but then I was given back
the two pennies if I drank the Coke on the spot and redemmed the bottle.
How funny, but such a good memory.
Submitted by: Nina J. Stone : 25 Jul 2008, 00:56
I remember the first Coke I bought at school. It was a nickle, then later
the price went up and you had to put a penny in too. We would have a
contest to try and guess where the bottle came from. Because they had where
the botteling co. was printed on the bottom of each bottle! At St. Anne
the hot plate lunches were 25 cents, if you wanted seconds the main course
was 5 cents. For dessert you could buy a 5 cent dixie cup or Fudgecicle or
an ice cream sandwich. If you wanted candy there was the usual and what
really sold was vanilla or chocolate Turkish Taffy. In cold weather you
could slap it on the pavement and it would shatter in the wrapper!
Submitted by: Susan : 17 Nov 2008, 01:21
I see you have pictures of S&H Green stamps! I collected S & H Green
Stamps. Got my first two record players with them...got tired of the taste
of glue, however, it was worth it!
My cousin had the cool dancing posters you have pictured here on her basement walls. My favorite toy? Fun Flowers and Creepy Crawlers you made with the goop and baked. You even could burn yourself on the baking unit!
Submitted by: Tim : 17 Jan 2009, 07:54
Near my house on Broad Street was a fire station and a night spot called
the Cotton Club and within walking distance was a store called Simpsons
where we would walk to buy candy. Overton Park was one block away and
Snowden School was where I attended. I use to ride the bus for a dime and
walk past the zoo to my school. Ms. Horton was my first grade teacher, Ms.
Miller was second grade, Mr. Hutcheson was the principle. I recall being at
school on a rainey day when JFK was shot. The teachers were standing in the
halls listening to transistor radios.
Submitted by: JAlyssa : 15 May 2009, 08:22
Get your grind on. Dayum.
Submitted by: Greg Wright : 25 Nov 2009, 18:16
I was on the Safety Patrol at Cherokee in the 5th and 6th grades
(1962-64)and wore a white or yellow belt that went over your shoulder as
well as your waist and had the big yellow raincoats and galoshes with the
fold over clasps when it rained. We were posted at each intersection around
the school and had a very regemented move with our flags into the street
and back again to the corner. Of course we were always late arriving into
class which we took great pride in particularly when it was cold and were
served hot chocolate before we had to go to class. It was the practice to
give yourself a hot chocolate milk moustache so as to foster even more envy
when you arrived to class.
Submitted by: George Cundari : 22 Mar 2010, 12:29
The candies shown in the picture are actually as they are now. In the
'60s, most of them had different wrappers.
Submitted by: Jimmy Mac : 11 May 2010, 13:37
You know SOMEBODY had to try it. So here I am - in Las Vegas,NV. and I
called 901-JAM-JAM-1 and got the time and temperature. I read Nina's
comments about St. Anne's School. I went to St. John's but as a freshman
at Catholic High School, I had a garage band called "Just Us" and we played
at St. Anne's. Now that I just retired my band from the Vegas Strip
www.brazosriverband.com - I find all this too amusing! I dated a girl who
went to Sacred Heart High School. Patricia Bratton was her name back then.
What days those were.
Submitted by: alicia : 22 Jul 2010, 15:25
does anyone remember the Tonga club for teens. It was on the corner of
madison and cleveland. Oh what fun we had there.
Submitted by: john martin : 23 Jul 2010, 18:21
some fond memories of simple times
Submitted by: Kelly : 03 Sep 2010, 10:05
Wow!! This really takes me back. I love this website and have enjoyed my
walk down memory lane. It gave me such a feeling of tranquility.
Submitted by: vernon cullum : 09 Nov 2010, 10:23
such great memories, i went to christin school until the 3rd grade . we
lived in the courts on market mall. i wish someone had some old pictures of
the woolworths dept store dowmtown. i would love to see them . if you do
let me know. 573-703-7363. i loved growing up in memphis..
Submitted by: Don Creamer : 07 Dec 2010, 17:03
Like Greg I, too, was a "Safety Cootie" but at Maury Elementary (65-66.) We
also got hot chocolate and wore teh same outfit. The Captain and Co-Captain
were the ones with the yellow belts. During my last year we switched from
the wooden poles that required us to walk into the street with aluminum
ones that extended. That way we could stay on the curb - no fun in that!
Submitted by: Martin Pendergrast : 20 Feb 2011, 18:18
This in response to Alecia's post on July 22nd/2010... I climbed out of my
bedroom window and hitchhiked down to the Gogo club located accross the
street from Bellevieu Jr. high and after a difficult beginning I made (sort
of) friends with Alex Chilton and had some discussion with him about
music..We were both 12 years old at the time. I soon found the Tonga Club
and Kathleen Boone and Peewee the large fellow who often had to mop the
condensation up off of the floor between the bands sets. Then there were
the bands.. The Shouts , The Strafers, The Chasers and various other "Blue
eyed Soul" bands that made it through. I learned the joy of dancing to
live music there and I had a "Tonga Club card" of which I was most proud
(it was after what seemed like a year of being bashfull I fianally asked a
girl to dance)I think that the clubs were really for a little older kids
and I now shudder to think that I as a 12 or 13 year old walked around the
streets that late. 40 years later Alex Chilton pointed me out in the croud
at one of his gigs at the I-Beam in San Francisco as someone who had
"shared a troubled childhood" with him "on the streets of Memphis" I
remember it all as an exciting adventure and as Alecia says we really had a
lot of fun.
Submitted by: Jim McNamara : 20 Feb 2011, 20:51
Martin Pendergrast? CHS grad from 1969?
Submitted by: Wiley-X : 03 Apr 2011, 01:27
Found this page looking for info about Winky Ryatt. Loved that strip when
I was a kid.
In 76 when I was a freshman at Purdue we still had coke machines that sold Coke in glass bottles. A bottle was a quarter back then. There were racks on the side of every machine for the empties and you never saw any bottles lying about on campus. Sadly those machines vanished sometime in the next couple years. I really do think that those of us who grew up in the 50s and 60s had the best of all possible decades. Health care may have improved but that's about it. Kids played outside without supervision. Moms were home to make dinner and treat skinned knees. We made up our own games. BTW, my mailman still sells stamps. |
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