🤔 1923-1973 Do You Remember...

And banging on the console when neither the ears or foil did the trick!

@LeeS4949 , yes! Swanson, weren’t they? In those aluminum (tin?) trays with even a dessert. Gawd, they were terrible! 😝 I remember the mashed potatoes were pure grit.

     Oh gosh Lee - a Roy Rogers double feature!  Memories of kinder, gentler times for sure! 

      I distinctly remember the stools and the counter, as well as the typed and ever-changing menu.  

     Eventually, my Woolworths store disappeared, along with my favorite small department store that had an elevator operator who always wore a green vest and a smile.  Yet, years later, Woolworths wiggled itself into my foggy memory!  It was when I was in my early twenties, watching an adaptation of a Miss Marple mystery on TV.  I couldn’t figure out why the maid in Bertram’s Hotel seemed so familiar to me…..then I realized that the bandette that the maid wore on her head was just like the one that the waitress at Woolworths had worn all those years ago!  ….that little adornment, the crisp white collar and the miraculously clean apron!

     Happy Trails Everyone!

…a quick addendum - I just found a photo of those elevator doors that simply fascinated my five-year-old self! 

          ~ Lisa 🙋🩵 🐴 

   Serene Seagull,

       Yup, jacks are still around! Amazon has quite a variety! 

        I’ve used jacks, marbles, pick up sticks, dominoes, barrel of monkeys, playing cards, Uno cards, and chalk (hopscotch) as stocking stuffers for years! 🤶. Maybe it was just the novelty of these simple games, but they never “flopped”. 😇. 

         The one simple toy I enjoyed, but just balk at buying (because I remember when they were 10 cents at Woolworths, and now they are 10 dollars!) are those little magnetic black and white Scottie dogs.  Remember those?  

           Geez…..we really did know how to make our own fun!   ….without batteries or bytes!

    ~ Lisa 🧸📕🪁🛼🎲