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Major Mudd
Bozo the clown
Boomtown w/Rex Trailer
(I was on all three shows as a kid)
MAKING your own Hires Root Beer in our kitchen sink, and being the most popular family on the block in the summer when it was ready to drink.
TV had UHF and VHF, and stations didn't broadcast all day and night.
ARBY's Roast beef
MAKING your own pizzas (with 9 kids to feed) on Friday nights.
Running to the "packy" for dad, with the hopes of "keeping the change". (They knew who you were, and what your dad drank.)
Drugs were what you got WHEN you were sick, not to make you sick.
You didn't describe your friends by the color of their skin, religion or nationality, but just as "your friends".
I used to sew my sneakers together with monofilament to get another month of use (to save mom having to buy me new ones).
Getting "hand-me-downs" and thinking they were gifts.
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