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  1. ChiTownScion

    You Know You Live in a Small(ish) Town When...

    Doing the urban pioneer thing when we were married a year (1986) was a lot of fun. Bought a large Victorian that had been previously owned by a cop with eight kids, and he had re- muddled it ubiquitously with a really cheap grade wood paneling. We weren't there 48 hours before my wife was...
  2. ChiTownScion

    What was the last TV show you watched?

    The Lionel train footage was a lot of fun. I can't remember if Captain Kangaroo shilled for Lionel as shamelessly as he did for Schwinn bikes, but I do remember that it was always a treat for me when he had the trains set up and operating. For some reason a Lionel Santa Fe Super Chief train...
  3. ChiTownScion

    Vintage Things That Have Disappeared In Your Lifetime?

    I recall catching grief as a five year old kid when, after being sent to the closest major intersection to my grandmother's house I picked up the Late Market edition of the Tribune rather than the Final Market edition. Later in life, I found it interesting that Chicago Tribune was the paper of...
  4. ChiTownScion

    Vintage Things That Have Disappeared In Your Lifetime?

    Even Foster Brooks dropped that in his later years. Nice that there is increased sensitivity about the ravages of alcoholism, of course, but I have known a lot of recovering alcoholics whose ability to find some humor in their more tragic escapades of their pasts is essential to their continuing...
  5. ChiTownScion

    Vintage Things That Have Disappeared In Your Lifetime?

    They never really were. Even when the series was first run. Everyone wanted to live in Mayberry even then, but part of the appeal was that it was an ideal that didn't really exist. I'm certain that Mt. Airy NC (the inspiration of Mayberry) was and is a wonderful place, but I'm also sure that...
  7. ChiTownScion

    Famous People in Flight Jackets

    If I had to cast a vote for Greatest Pilot in My Lifetime, it would be Bob Hoover, hands down.
  8. ChiTownScion

    Vintage Things That Have Disappeared In Your Lifetime?

    Expanding casino gambling in my state is always an issue that raises a lot of debate. Preacher types love to weigh in on the morality of gambling, etc., but I try to take a more pragmatic approach. The fact is that casinos pay taxes, a lot of taxes. Churches, on the other hand, do not: they...
  9. ChiTownScion

    Vintage Things That Have Disappeared In Your Lifetime?

    I'm sitting here chuckling while thinking of my friend's then two year old (she's in her 30's now) who used to run through the house calling out, a la Zippy, "Yow!! I am having FOON !!!"
  10. ChiTownScion

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    As a footnote: my great grandfather, a teamster at the time (the horse driving type, not the Jimmy Hoffa type), was pressed into service and recovered bodies from that fire. Current location of the Iroquois is an office building where I worked for a couple months in the 90's.
  11. ChiTownScion

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    The thing that always gets me is when someone who can afford to stay home all day with her young kids these days boasts, with an almost arrogant sense of superiority, that she is, " a full time mom." Seriously? Does anyone honestly believe that anyone else's parenting is "part time?" In the...
  13. ChiTownScion

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    They won't even let you take your newborn home in a car now unless you have an approved infant car seat. And as much as I wallow in nostalgia here as anyone else, that's likely a good thing. The newer car seats for kids really do prevent injuries. My oldest damned near gave me a heart attack...
  14. ChiTownScion

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    I was a boy chorister at a church on the near South Side of Chicago from the time I was ten until the choir disbanded when I was thirteen (1965- 1967). Grew up in the farther northwest suburbs: that meant that I often had to take a commuter train downtown, then either walk or utilize buses or...
  15. ChiTownScion

    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    As Punjee Guevara..
  16. ChiTownScion

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    Or...
  17. ChiTownScion

    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    It was pretty much that way in our house. That us, until the mid to late 1960's and my Dad began watching cooking shows- especially Julia Child's "Mastering the Art of French Cooking" on television. And as he was designated cook at the firehouse on his shift, we as the family were guinea pigs...
  19. ChiTownScion

    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    Think of the money you saved by not taking her to Paris and ordering said same.
  20. ChiTownScion

    Vintage Things That Have Disappeared In Your Lifetime?

    I remember a variation where the proprietor - usually in a gas station or restaurant- had to press a button under the counter to activate the vending machine, lest the underage be able to buy packs.
  21. ChiTownScion

    Your Most Disturbing Realizations

    Most of my friends now (even the responsible ones who held off getting married right out of high school and never bought into that Work Young/ Marry Young/ Die Young crap) are grandparents, and I never will be.
  22. ChiTownScion

    DEATHS ; Notable Passings; The Thread to Pay Last Respects

    Underground (and later, quite above ground) comix artist Jay Lynch. He drew Pro Junior, Phoebe & the Pigeon People and of course, Nard n Pat.
  23. ChiTownScion

    Vintage Things That Have Disappeared In Your Lifetime?

    I remember those from when my dad was "on the job." His engine company was in an old house that had a hose tower: after a run the wet hoses would be pulled up by ropes and hung to dry.

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