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[SandySparkles]

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@DrakesMomma wrote:

I was probably seven years old when my mom would send me to the local pharmacy for a pack of cigarettes for her and one for my Daddy.  I would get some penny candy with the change.  The 1970s where indeed a fine time to be alive.  

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@DrakesMomma Welcome!🥰 Oh, how times have changed; for the better!😁 I recall those dreaded cigarette runs for my dear mother, and step-father!  I was happy when she stopped smoking after a diagnosis of COPD!❤️

THANK you SO much for caring to share!🤗

~~~All we need is LOVE💖

[SandySparkles]

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@ScrapHappy wrote:

I remember during the late 70's and early 80's there was a movie theater called Movie City 5 (it had 5 theaters).  Movies were 50 cents.  I remember going to see all kinds of movies.  Saw Grease with John Travolta and Olivia Newton John 12 times.

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@ScrapHappy Welcome!🥰 I think every young girl was a fan of Grease, and had a poster of the beautiful Sandy and handsome Danny in their room!😁

THA NK you SO much for caring to share!🤗

~~~All we need is LOVE💖

[mrshckynut]

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@SandySparkles wrote:

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@mrshckynut wrote:

my parents teaching me these things about shopping

mrshckynut 

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@mrshckynut Welcome!🥰 I remember feeling SO grown up and excited when I was first shown how to shop! There was something special about handing over money to the cashier.😊 We actually had to WALK around the stores then; now we teach them to shop stores AND online!😁

THANK you SO much for caring to share!🤗

~~~All we need is LOVE💖

@SandySparkles    bye bye for now and thank you for being gracious enough to welcome a long time member and obviously being a beatles fan

mrshckynut 

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[J Town Girl]

@smoochy   I also remember getting a Cinderella watch for Christmas.  I believe I was around the same age as you.  

Even after I became too old to wear it, I kept it in my jewelry box for years.  I was so proud of my first watch and did not want to part with it.  

[WORKING GAL]

@Stray- I grew up in So. Jersey until we moved to Caifornia when I was 12 (1959).  My grandparents would rent one floor of a house in Atlantic City for the summer and I would spend a week a few times during the summer.  I loved Million Dollar Pier where my cousin and I would walk the boardwalk and go on all the rides at the Pier.  Steel Pier was great also where the lady on the diving horse would be and all the concerts.  In those days all the young artists from Philly would play there.  Such fond memories of those years.  Thanks for reminding me.

[Stray]

@WORKING GAL - I loved Atlantic City too but it was hard for us to get there then & further away. We had direct buses to Asbury & the ride was shorter. But I remember the Steel Pier & diving horse. I also remember drinking Apple Beer; it was so refreshing in the heat. I don’t think it had alcohol & I was older when I drank it. I know many like AC as it is now but I don’t. I don’t gamble & it’s such a poor area. We were sold the idea that the casinos would create jobs @ it did but not for the people there. If you stray from the hotels it’s just terrible & not the safest.

[Burnsite]

I was once dispatched down to the A&P (a five minute walk) to get my mother some hamburger for her incredibly tasty spaghetti with meat sauce.  I may have been in fifth grade. 

I was told at the store that they had a special that day---a pound of the hamburger for 28 cents.  I am still that way, a bargain for me is like a red cape for a bull.  I bought it. 

My mom was appalled.  She told me what the going price was for people meat, and said that I had been sold dog meat. But she wasn't mad.  We went back to the A&P and she left me to pick up items in eggs and dairy.

She never repeated what she said to the butcher, but she had the look on her face that meant she had fully expressed her feelings to the butcher. 

[Terrywu]

I remember never checking the start time of a movie.  Just walking in, sitting down watching the movie until we would say to each other...."this is where we came in."

[sabatini]

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@Burnsite wrote:

I was once dispatched down to the A&P (a five minute walk) to get my mother some hamburger for her incredibly tasty spaghetti with meat sauce.  I may have been in fifth grade. 

I was told at the store that they had a special that day---a pound of the hamburger for 28 cents.  I am still that way, a bargain for me is like a red cape for a bull.  I bought it. 

My mom was appalled.  She told me what the going price was for people meat, and said that I had been sold dog meat. But she wasn't mad.  We went back to the A&P and she left me to pick up items in eggs and dairy.

She never repeated what she said to the butcher, but she had the look on her face that meant she had fully expressed her feelings to the butcher. 

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@Burnsite, I was also sent to the A&P w/ a list from my mother, & one of the items on the list was a can of Campbell's tomato soup. I shopped very carefully, and was thrilled when way in the back I saw a can of soup w/ a big puffed up top. I grabbed it, thinking that it'd accidentally be overfilled wherever they made the soup, & my mom would be happy w/ the extra!

ETA: To those who don't know this: a swollen can is a sign of spoilage!

[Cakers3]

I also remember walking everywhere. I still did until we moved down here.

When I had appendicitis my mother and I walked the   3 blocks to the hospital.😧

Take a taxi? Who do you think you are the Queen of England? 🤣

No school buses but back then elementary schools were placed every so many streets so there was no need. High school we still walked and students who lived not as close just took a city bus until some could drive and had cars.

Streetlights coming on. Yep.

Soda fountain in Liggetts Drug Store. I think it became Liggetts Rexall later.

Listening booths in record stores.🎧

Pay phones. Always told to carry a few dimes for emergencies.

Dining out was a luxury. McDonald's was not dinner but a novelty treat.🍔

Nice thread 👍