ChiroDoc
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I would've guessed the picture as older. What city was that?Very good guess!! 1952, the year I was born.
I would've guessed the picture as older. What city was that?Very good guess!! 1952, the year I was born.
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...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.
That looks like about a '55 Buick. Did y'all have those cars in England then?
No unless they'd been imported... but I knew you guys had them because I go to vintage car shows a lot, where I see many American cars... which is why I posted themThat looks like about a '55 Buick. Did y'all have those cars in England then?
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.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.
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.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.
And the soft drinks all tasted better then. For a long time you could return the reusable glass bottles for a few cents. Kids descended on them like locusts. You never saw a discarded bottle anywhere!...Remember when all soft drinks were in glass bottles ?
Had to do it myself often in various libraries.I remember it well![]()
I also remember the smell...
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.![]()
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 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 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.
No, but I have one of these. It's also reverse polish notation and still works.Anybody still have one of these?
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I got fed up with my phone calculator so I dug out my old HP 11C. It still works!
I was told by someone that the men used to call those lady's underwear - "Pashion- Killers". Anything that discourages or inhibits sexual activity.![]()
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
Corsets and chickens: the East End in the 1960s – in pictures
I remember something similar to those, but it was in a record shop, and you could choose the record you were going to buy but you wanted to hear it first. Sorry no pictures available.we had those in our local town pubs...
What about the Safari Suits - my husband loved them - sorry no pictures.I loved Nehru shirts and jackets...![]()