As a new kid there, I found out that a milkshake is a frappe. If you called it a milkshake, you were derided as an idiot.
Now living in "the South" was visiting my hometown in CT and, upon ordering a "sweet tea", was told "what's THAT? Hot or cold? There's sugar on the table" . . Often wondered WHY Boston is referred to as "Beantown"? Electricity or keg? Electricity or keg? My Kirby-distributing grandfather grew up in the farmlands of Peoria, Illinois & Iowa and while very few had electric power just 'bout EVERYBODY had beer in kegs. And original Kirbys had wind-up "friction-motors" back then ..
Years back, I attended a business supper in NJ with a team from GA and the same thing happened. The guys from GA were astonished that sweet tea wasn't available and amazed the waitress had no idea what it was. My parents had a Kirby vacuum for decades, attachments (including a paint sprayer!) and all.
We had a Kirby when I was a kid, too, and it came with a box of various accessories and bottles of various cleaners, one of which was a bottle of carbon tetrachloride. I thought it smelled good and used to use it to clean the rubber on the idler wheel on my record player. It was much later we/I learned how "unhealthy" carbon tet is! I wonder if they sold THAT in department stores. Doug
Try and find Testor's so-called liquid plastic "locally" for modeling. Had to order "on-line" even Hobby-Lobby's twenty-plus varieties of "Super Glue" doesn't carry THAT anymore either. Spent a HALF-HOUR reading ALL the labels: "Not for polystyrene"!
There was nothing worse than trying to add sugar packets to unsweetened tea, all the sugar settles to the bottom and then you get it all at once . As for the Testor’s cement in the red squeeze tube I think it was 10 to 15 cents a tube when I started building models. It worked well but got stringy awful quick. Some of the Japanese model kits came with little tubes of glue that really dried up fast. I really like the newer black liquid plastic bottles with the long neck but the smell can be strong without good ventilation. Ralph
I was born and raised in New York, living on Long Island and later in the Mid-Hudson Valley. I’ve lived in Florida 7 years now and tea is definitely regional. In NY tea means hot tea. Cold tea is ice tea. In Florida tea means sweet tea. If you want hot tea you have to specifically ask for it.
I remember that glue sniffing was somehow in vogue sometime in the early 1970s and Testor's traditional red squeeze tube product was temporarily superseded in our area with a "safe" alternative with a fruity smell that didn't work worth a darn. After a short while, sensibility prevailed and the traditional product was again available. The glue sniffers graduated to huffing spray paint. Yes on the stringiness. I remember building a model of an F-104 Starfighter as a kid and I got stringy glue all over the canopy.
lol Or gasoline? In YOUR area of the woods . . what is "a coffee regular"? (not that hardly anyone drinks "ordinary coffee" anymore now every $5 concoction has an exotic, unique name) I know, in NY, it'd be "milk & sugar".
Went to Boston in my early twenties and ask for Sweet Tea and they told me it was out of season? They also asked me where my overall's and toothpick was Not sure how to type a Boston accent: I told them to go Pppppaaaarrrkkk their cars. You know the accent if you ever watched a movie, I just can't type it
One of the funniest evenings of my life was spent in Texas, where this Chicago guy translating for a friend from Noo Joysey and a cute Texas waitress with a Southern drawl as thick as honey!
Testers glue: No matter how careful I was I always ended up with a glue fingerprint on the cockpit or windshield
Yep. I remember Parisian's and Pizitz department stores and a small toy shop in Roebuck Shopping Center with a very large Lionel layout. Also, Testor's glue getting where I did not want it. Those were the days...
Back on topic... sort of... https://pleasantfamilyshopping.blogspot.com/2013/04/remembering-korvettes-eugene-ferkauf.html
Korvette's was present in the Chicago area too with big new stores in the suburbs. They had great photography departments, my first stop for film, chemicals, paper and all.
