Who remembers these things back in the day ?...come and add your own memories..

Eupher said:
I remember going into the local drug store, I think it was called "Ghannam's", and periodically getting a vanilla malted.

These lunch/soda counters aren't too prevalent any more.
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I loved those soda counters. My favorite was a lime phosphate. Although across the street you could get a large fountain root beer for 5 cents. When you're talking that kind of money, a guy has to take his best shot...:giggle:
 
hollydolly said:
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That looks like about a '55 Buick. Did y'all have those cars in England then?
 

Eupher said:
Agreed. Not America's finest hour, I'm afraid, but the last of the Jim Crow laws was overturned in 1965.

I won't vouch for this link in terms of bias, but this timeline goes into some detail about Jim Crow laws, how they got started, and the effects of them.

In this article, the town of Mound Bayou, Mississippi is mentioned as having been founded an all-black community in 1887. From 2015-2017, I lived in nearby Merigold, which is about 5 miles from Mound Bayou. According to Wiki, blacks comprise 96.8% of Mound Bayou's population today.
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Well yes. The entire Miss. Delta is largely black residents. The actor Morgan Freeman is from Clarksdale, just 20 miles or so up the road from Mound Bayou. I don't know the demographics on the Arkansas and Louisiana sides of the river.
 
ChiroDoc said:
Well yes. The entire Miss. Delta is largely black residents. The actor Morgan Freeman is from Clarksdale, just 20 miles or so up the road from Mound Bayou. I don't know the demographics on the Arkansas and Louisiana sides of the river.
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The Arkansas delta (eastern AR) ranging out to about 50 or so miles west of the Mississippi is almost a carbon copy of the Mississippi delta. Without the blues musical influence so much. Flat farmland that grows mostly rice, soybeans, and cotton, the inhabitants are largely poor except for the landowners and corporations that now own those farms.

I've frequented Freeman's blues club in Clarksdale when my stepson gigged with his blues band there, probably in 2016. Definitely a sight better than the oft-seen juke joints scattered throughout the Delta.

Po' Monkey's juke joint was located about 2 miles from my house. It closed down in 2016, but I never went in the place.

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There was a large amusement park in my midwestern city and Tuesday nights were "Colored Night" up into the early 60's (and that's exactly what the sign said).

They weren't "prohibited" from attending other nights, but I don't remember ever seeing any Black's there.

I don't remember much racial tension in my city, but it had been (and may still be) considered the "Northern Headquarters" of the Klan.
 
hollydolly said:
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The typewriter nearest the camera was the one I learned on. A Manual Underwood.. and the keys were so heavy to press down I always thought I was going to break my pinkie finger
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I did, and I hated it. I started at at zero wpm and 6 weeks later typed 60 wpm without mistakes. This happened for 2 reasons. I pretended like I was learning to play the piano, and I was absolutely determined never to take another typing class. Obviously, it was a very useful skill to have.
 
WheatenLover said:
I did, and I hated it. I started at at zero wpm and 6 weeks later typed 60 wpm without mistakes. This happened for 2 reasons. I pretended like I was learning to play the piano, and I was absolutely determined never to take another typing class. Obviously, it was a very useful skill to have.
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I hated it too..and like you ended with 60wpm... but if it had been an electric typewriter instead of those heavy Undwrwood manual keys..I'm sure I would have been able to type faster..

I was in that Commercial and Business Economics class for 2 years
 
George1959 said:
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The old style corset shop, run by a "corsetiere". As I was young, my home town with 70 000 inhabitants had such a traditional corset shop, but the lady was old, as were most of her clients. She closed at the end of the 1960s. The successor is a gun shop :ROFLMAO:

Corsets and chickens: the East End in the 1960s – in pictures
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I was told by someone that the men used to call those lady's underwear - "Pashion- Killers". Anything that discourages or inhibits sexual activity.
 
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