Middle Aged Memories
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Milk dud box
whistles?Oh yes!Remember doing it with the little raisin
boxes, too.
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My Dad ate these when I was a kid.
I still gag thinking about them.
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YUCK!
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Well OK. Guess I have to take the Circus Peanuts over the pigs' feet. Yuck is right. Like piggy parts just not their feet.
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How about pork rinds?
Or pickled pig's feet?
Or pickled pig lips?
or fried pig tails?
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GROSS NM!!! I haven't had breakfast yet, now I don't want it
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hahahahahahaha. My Dad ate those lip things too! Yuuuuuuuk!!
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Is this like "eating everything but the squeal?" Ewww - I just looked at the pics of pickled pigs lips along with a recipe to shake them in crushed potato chips. Now I would eat whatever if it was a matter of starving - those pigs feet actually look reasonable assuming they are well cleaned/cooked. When I have amounts of time to waste between med. appts (I have 4 diff. docs gyn, eye, BS, onco) in about 2 block area I go down to the large chain Mexican grocery. Fascinating.
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LMG, I don't think I'd ever see the appeal.
Here's another gross thing my Dad would eat.
Headcheese.....Disgusting!!
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Yuck!
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Yuk, For sure...You know my sister has a pet pig and I could never imagine eating his feet...Gross!!!
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Oh! I've come during a regular horror show of foods, haven't I? Eeeeek, and double eeeeeek!
I do remember whistling the boxes from my movie candy (jujubes, red hot dollars, jordan almonds, non-pareils, etc.,) and not always before the show or at the intermission. Then again, my gang of rapscallions also flattened out the boxes of popcorn to fly them at the screen and turned over the other popcorn containers to stomp on them with a characteristic loud pop...often during the movie; and what a feeling to elude the matinee authority figure, a flashlight-toting, acne-challenged teenage usher! Does childhood freedom get any better than that?
p.s. As an allegory for childhood innocence, that theater became Adult-XXX when I reached my teens.
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Eli - I dated a flashlight toting movie usher. His dad managed the local theater in our small town - don't remember if that included the drive-in, don't think so. I saw every movie that wasn't terribly rated for about 2 years. Great memories. I saw Easy Rider, that was about as wild as we got. Also Alice's Restaurant. Don't really think anything porno came there. It was across the street from the Baptist Church where we both went and I was later married but to someone else lol.
When I was younger b4 Mr. Movie Usher DM, aunt, GM used to send us kids down there for the afternoon. DB and I were the ones visiting from out of state. It was grand fun. Huge grape charm pops. Know it was artificial but great taste.
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Elimar!! I see our talk of fine cuisine has lured you back. Wow, I had no idea you were such a rebel in your youthl!! The question remains, did you frequent the movie theater in your teens???? Slip in the back door??? I'm teasing,of course.
I must confess, I did some crazy things as well. The worst for me was the ol' dine and dash. I did that with a group of friends - I was still in elementary school. I felt so guilty that I went back and paid for everyone's ice cream with my babysitting money - I never did tell my friends. It was a neighborhood restaurant and everyone knew the owner. He was very kind to me...lol
LMG, Isn't it fun looking back???
Edited for Typos
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My mother was much more strict with me that she was my older siblings. They got to go see movies such as Jaws whilst I stayed home. If a movie was G, I may have got to go, but I had to pay myself.
We had a couple of grandkids over yesterday and I got out Legos for the 7 yr old. He was amazed at some of the different pieces I had. Funny that even those things have changed in the past 45+ years. The blocks are the same but the windows and roofs are very different.
I got out my kids' Fisher Price Little People sets for the 14 month old and both of them enjoyed playing with them. It was good to see that imagination is still "in".
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I had to pay my way to the movie theater as a kid. That $0.50 was gold! But I think the popcorn I could buy once inside was less than that. Now it's what, $5.00 or more? And if you buy a bottle of water to go with it, you could have invited a friend to join you. The El Ray theater was definitely the place to be on Friday nights. Going to the theater and enjoying Jujubes or those hard caramel suckers (slow pokes??): priceless. The dislocated jaw after chewing either one: a small price to pay. Today the thought of either one gives me a toothache!
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Ours was the Fox. It was awesome with the art-deco marque
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What a great old picture Meece!!
I miss the drive-in. They have one in Riverside, CA, but it's just not the same as the old days.
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The last movie I saw at a Drive-In was Batman in 1989. Most of the old Drive-ins out here have turned to weekend swap meets.
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Same here Meece - except for the one in Riverside. The sound comes over the car Radio now. My whole family went a few years ago, and everyone sits outside of their cars in lawn chairs. Not so bad on a warm night. The kids had a ball.
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I taught my kids how to use the box as a whistle... then I had to un-teach them :-).
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Our local theater was the Criterion, in Bar Harbor:
The big thrill was being able to sit in the "Loge" (sp?) seats, or up in the balcony.
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I remember drive in theaters, too. Usually someone would be around at the end of the movie and charge a dollar to jump start your car after draining the battery to run the radio! It was better when it was chilly, 'cause you'd run the car engine for at least part of the time for the heat!
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NM, I remember the teenagers typically sitting in the loge seats.
That's a pretty cool movie theatre.
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That's an awesome theater!
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One of my favorite shows growing up.
Forgive me if we've talked about this show before. My memory isn't too good!
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OK, I recognize the people, but can't think of the name of the show!
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Family Affair!
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Yes! Loved that show!
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Yes! Thanks!
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