Comments on: I MISS “THE GOOD OLE DAYS” https://aboomersthoughts.com/2022/07/23/i-miss-the-good-ole-days/ Reflective Blog Sun, 29 Jan 2023 02:26:24 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: psteik https://aboomersthoughts.com/2022/07/23/i-miss-the-good-ole-days/#comment-11429 Sun, 29 Jan 2023 02:26:24 +0000 https://www.aboomersthoughts.com/?p=4279#comment-11429 In reply to Lucy Keefe.

Great memories! I don’t know what to tell you about the pasting, I’m still trying to figure this out myself.

]]> By: Lucy Keefe https://aboomersthoughts.com/2022/07/23/i-miss-the-good-ole-days/#comment-11422 Fri, 13 Jan 2023 01:19:23 +0000 https://www.aboomersthoughts.com/?p=4279#comment-11422 Your post brought back so many memories! Home when the street lights went on, baseball, Star Light Star Bright, Kick the Can, etc. Most homes had a bell attached to the back porch. Luckily all the bells had a different tone. We knew we had to go home when our bell rang. We didn’t have to go home for lunch – there were cherry trees, apple trees, mulberry bushes. The peach tree was a big NO! The boys in our neighborhood were the most creative. Some people had huge back yards. Teichens back yard had a hockey rink- they flooded the yard and somehow got it smooth. Rowe’s back yard had a huge tree that people jumped out of into a pile of leaves. Eventually trenches were dug around the tree. The trenches were about 3 – 4 feet deep. One year they flooded and Dave Rowe kept saying ‘nobody is brave enough to jump into that’. Brother David (Big Beefy) took the bait and got in the trench. He was neck deep in mud. It took a while to get him out. When he got home he was hosed down in the back yard. Was my mother ever pissed off! Another time Paul McCabe, the youngest kid, went to the Rowe’s backyard. His mother saw him disappear from sight. Paul has fallen into the trench. The trench had to be filled in after that.

There was stratomatic baseball on Rowe’s front porch. They got really loud at night and neighbors complained. They set up a fine system for loudness after midnight. Players cards were set on fire, some were crinkled, some made it into a frying pan.

There was ‘hitting the trail’. The guys figured that there would be a trail to Ray’s Meat Market, Rexall Drug if there were no sidewalks. They went there for snacks to sustain themselves. It was also called trailing and at the trail.

Dave Rowe created a calendar for 2022 which I would love to share but so far I can’t paste it here. It’s a partial history of our neighborhood. Any suggestions? Thanks.

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