Blast from the past

Grew up on the Atlantic here. Colder. Rexall was in town. LOL!

My stepdad used to be chief of police in a small town in Texas called Clifton. They had the original Rexall drug store still there complete with old time malt shop and shelves with some of the original pharmacy bottles from back in the day-- I'm guessing the 50's. Not sure because I wasn't around then but used to be a buyer for antique shop so I can guestimate the age. It was cool. We would go sit up on the high bar stools at the counter and they made malts just like they did back then. It was neat. We would also take my dads infrared scope out in the fields and play hide and seek. Pretty expensive game because I think I was 9 and those cost about 2 g back then. We didn't break it though. We also got to go in the confiscation room after the school candy machines were robbed and take our pick . We would go to Judge Lively's bronze statue factory and watch the artists and eat dinner. My favorite was stuffed flounder. Mmm. Boy we had fun. You could walk across town and they would have street dances and we would all put on our boots and cowboy hats and dnce away. It was a small but fun town about 36 miles from Waco . We would go to Baylor Universities Library and it was awesome with the painted murals on the ceilings .

Our house was built in the 50's. The one I grew up in and it still had the milk chute and the laundry shoot. The laundry thing was great. There was a time when we owed the milk man money and my mother did not have it. She told us to sit quietly as he was pounding on the door so he would think no one was home. Opps she did not close the door all the way and it opened with all of us kids sitting there looking scared to death as we saw him looking at us. Good laugh now. Wasn't so funny at the time.

That is hilarious, Blue!!! Love her sound effects when she describes cutting her sister's hair lol. Uh oh this is bad bad bad...too cute! This kind of thing happens once, twice, three times in every life or twice in every life or once....omg! I gotta share this with my sister :) My sister never cut my hair, I jacked up my own in the 3rd grade & every Barbie I owned I had cut their hair.

Blue, oh god that reminds me of the pixie hair cuts my Mom used to give me.

I ordered the old style Candy Land game from them & pj's for my Mom, they have a lot of toys & products that I remember from my childhood. It's a pretty neat catalog.

Yeah Blue I get that catalog & ordered things from it, some really neat "old" stuff in there.

Haha Blue, I do that with my boys...I fill up the kiddie pool full of bubbles, kill two birds with one stone!
We had a milk man, but it wasn't in bottles, it was cartons by Guernsey Farms.
RSMS that is so funny about your husband! We didn't even lock our doors for the longest time, had the old skeleton keys for a long time then they put in new locks.
@ Diana, I love all that old candy. There's a website that sells nostalgic candy, they do gift baskets, I gave one to my friends husband for his 40th b-day.

one should not type on laptop while watching tv sorry folks,, my post makes no sense.

I LOVE this post!! Towme Club a zillion flavors to choose from, (well not zillion), but I remember this one store I think it was in Utica, and we would of there and I swear the whole store was nothing but areas of different Towne Club pop, and we ran around grabbing one of every kind, god those were the days. as I said , I LOVE this post, a great Blast from the Past for sure :)

Loved getting the Towne Club or Faygo by the wooden case. The one blast from the past I miss, and wonder why they aren't made anymore is the laundry chute. What a great idea. Throw your dirty laundry thru the chute down to the basement where a basket was waiting. There was no schlepping baskets full of clothes down the stairs. Also remember the milk chute, got fresh milk in the morning after you put the used bottles back in. Fuller Brush Man, Knife sharpening cart guy walking down the street, selling knives and sharpening them.

We got ours in Fenton. It was $2.50 a case. Now its a dollar a bottle.

That sounds like what we used to have in canada,back in the day.but ours was called

Pick-A-Pop

Our towne club was in wyoming, mi
Every sat. morning we would go there and get another case. We would try to get one of every flavor and then fill in with duplicates to fill the wood case.
@margo I still like the french burnt peanuts. That makes me want to get some as soon as I get out of work tonight.