Back in the 50’s, whenever we got a game of baseball up, I always had to use one of my friends gloves because I never had a left-handed one, other than that I used my …
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Give a kid a break!
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The games we played
Back in the 1950’s in the summertime, one of the things we did was trade baseball cards, if I remember it right, we would do one like flipping where you would hold the card in …
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Bear Mountain 59′
Back in the year 1959, The city I lived in, offered free day passe’s to any kid who wanted to go to Bear Mountain for the day.sponsored by the P.A.L. And I remember a bunch …
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In my day!
I know kids today would disagree with this post, when I think back to say how great it was being a kid in the 1950’s. Although I’m sure the kids back then would be into …
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What was I Thinking?
Back in 1957 my two sisters were working in Woolworths department store on the avenue, and one day my friend who lived upstairs from me had a english racer bike they were selling for $7.00 …
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Non-Stop Summer day ’58
This story starts out on a hot summer day in 1958 it began as a simple day with a few kids coming out early to hang out and meet up to come up with whatever …
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Waiting For Dad!
In the mid 1950’s my Father was working about 3 blocks away from my house and in the summer months of one year I would go and sit on the stoop of what was then …
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Saving up for our first car!
In the summer of 1957 my friend buddy and I had a plan and that was to go down to the Acme supermarket just two blocks down from our house Buddy lived upstairs from me, …
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The Fruitman!
Back in the summers of the 50’s there was a time when the fruit man would come around with his push cart then at times with his pickup truck with lots of delicious fruit on …
The Past Is Back 