Last month we discussed the clothesline and mentioned ironing.  For a great history lesson on ironing see:  http://www.oldandinteresting. com/antique-irons-smoothers- mangles.aspx   Because of the length and the fact that it may be copyrighted, the newsletter will not reprint the article.

Hi Bob...

Thanks for taking the pictures. I have been collecting license plates for years and thought our alumni might be interested in some earlier versions of New York plates,

In the December 2008 issue, the first picture in the Photo Gallery was a wall mural that was in Commerce Bank. In that photo was an automobile that had a plate on it that looked like this...

New York issued its first official state plate in 1910. The plate is white on dark blue and the numbers are riveted on.

I thought some might like to see the only porcelain on steel plate issued by NY state. The plate is a white on vermilion and was issued in 1912.

Hope you enjoy the plates.

Carl Probst class of '59

   This has been around before and brings back a real blast from the past.  We sure had fun, worked hard, reaped the rewards and all was so simple and understandable. Our kids and grandchildren may have all the technology at their fingertips, but they missed out just the same,  Enjoy!
 
 How's This For Nostalgia?
All the girls had ugly gym uniforms?



It took five minutes for the TV to warm up?


Nearly everyone' s Mom was at home when the kids got home from school?


Nobody owned a purebred dog?


When a quarter was a decent allowance?

You'd reach into a muddy gutter for a penny?
Your Mom wore nylons that came in two pieces?

All your male teachers wore neckties and female teachers had their hair done every day and wore high heels?



You got your windshield cleaned, oil checked, and gas pumped, without asking, all for free, every time? And you didn't pay for air? And, you got trading stamps to boot?
Laundry detergent had free glasses, dishes or towels hidden inside the box?


It was considered a great privilege to be taken out to dinner at a real restaurant with your parents?


They threatened to keep kids back a grade if they failed. . . And they did it!


When a 57 Chevy was everyone's dream car...to cruise, peel out, lay rubber or watch submarine races, and people went steady?

No one ever asked where the car keys were because they were always in the car, in the ignition, and the doors were never locked?


Lying on your back in the grass with your friends?
And saying things like, 'That cloud looks like a... '?

Playing baseball with no adults to help kids with the rules of the game?


Stuff from the store came without safety caps and hermetic seals because no one had yet tried to poison a perfect stranger?


And with all our progress, don't you just wish, just once, you could slip back in time and savor the slower pace, and share it with the children of today.


When being sent to the principal's office was nothing compared to the fate that awaited the student at home?


Basically we were in fear for our lives, but it wasn't because of drive-by shootings, drugs, gangs, etc. Our parents and grandparents were a much bigger threat! But we survived because their love was greater than the threat.

. ..as well as summers filled with bike rides, baseball games, Hula Hoops, bowling and visits to the pool, frozen Snickers on a stick, and eating Kool-Aid powder with sugar.
Didn't that feel good, just to go back and say, 'Yeah, I remember that'?



 Remember that the perfect age is somewhere between old enough to know better and too young to care.

Who can still remember Nancy Drew,the Hardy Boys, Laurel and Hardy, Howdy Doody and The Peanut Gallery, the Lone Ranger, The Shadow Knows, Nellie Bell, Roy and Dale,Trigger and Buttermilk.


How Many Of These Do You Remember?

Candy cigarettes


Wax Coke-shaped bottles with colored sugar water inside.


Soda pop machines that dispensed glass bottles.


Coffee shops with Table Side Jukeboxes.


Blackjack, Clove and Teaberry chewing gum.


Home milk delivery in glass bottles with cardboard stoppers.


Newsreels before the movie.

P.F. Fliers.


Telephone numbers with a word prefix...(Raymond 4-601). Party lines.


Peashooters.

Howdy Dowdy.

Hi-Fi's & 45 RPM records.


78 RPM records!


Green Stamps.


Mimeograph paper.

The Fort Apache Play Set.

Tinker Toys & Erector Sets

Lincoln Logs

Do You Remember a Time When...

Decisions were made by going 'eeny-meeny-miney-moe'?

Mistakes were corrected by simply exclaiming, 'Do Over!'?

'Race issue'meant arguing about who ran the fastest?


Catching The Fireflies Could Happily Occupy An Entire Evening?



It wasn't odd to have two or three 'Best Friends'?


The worst thing you could catch from the opposite sex was'cooties'?


Having a Weapon in School meant being caught with a Slingshot?


Saturday morning cartoons weren't 30-minute commercials for action figures?

'Oly-oly-oxen-free' made perfect sense?

Spinning around, getting dizzy, and falling down was cause for giggles?

The Worst Embarrassment was being picked last for a team?

War was a card game?



Baseball cards in the spokes transformed any bike into a motorcycle?

Taking drugs meant orange - flavored chewable aspirin?



Water balloons were the ultimate weapon?


If you can remember most or all of these, Then You Have Lived!!!!!!!

Anyone who may need a break from their 'Grown-Up' life should enjoy this!!