Chicagoisms............

[kwhizz]

If you grew up in Chicago.......you might enjoy this.......

http://chicago.whgbetc.com/

Ken

[TimG]

Remember the "Riverview Ramble" that was held every June? It was a charity one price entry fee for all the rides. We'd go every year. A good friend lives on School Street, right by the old park. Riverview shopping center is there now. I was terrified of the parachute ride......

[Mr70]

That's my America Ken. http://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/flag.gif
Along the lines of Victory Auto Wreckers,they left out one notable ism.
You know it's Sunday morning when this came on during The Lone Ranger & Cisco Kid..
http://youtube.com/watch?v=zn3XJznHquI

[Rixls6]

I remember quite a bit of that.

Any Chicago guys remember going to your friends house as kids, and instead of knocking on the door, we would yell out " YO (insert name here)" http://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif

[TimG]

That's how I picked up my date for Senior Prom........

[kwhizz]

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I remember quite a bit of that.

Any Chicago guys remember going to your friends house as kids, and instead of knocking on the door, we would yell out " YO (insert name here)" http://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif

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You must have lived in my neighborhood.....LOL.....Remember "Kick the Can".....Morrie Mages......"Your Store for Sports"......P.J. Hoff.....Ulmer Turner.....(the News Guy)....

Ken

Ken

[Rixls6]

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I remember quite a bit of that.

Any Chicago guys remember going to your friends house as kids, and instead of knocking on the door, we would yell out " YO (insert name here)" http://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif

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You must have lived in my neighborhood.....LOL.....Remember "Kick the Can".....Morrie Mages......"Your Store for Sports"......P.J. Hoff.....Ulmer Turner.....(the News Guy)....

Ken

Ken

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I remember all that except Ulmer Turner. Parents must have watched a different channel for news.
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[Mr70]

Didn't he cover the Chicago Fire? http://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smirk.gif

http://www.chicagotelevision.com/ulmer.jpg
WBKB Channel 4 kilocycle columnist circa 1949

[Rixls6]

Rick,
Better change your phone number quick. Either that or start selling carpeting. http://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/haha.gif

Where do you find all this stuff you post? Private museum? http://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/worship.gif

[Belair62]

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I remember quite a bit of that.

Any Chicago guys remember going to your friends house as kids, and instead of knocking on the door, we would yell out " YO (insert name here)" http://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif

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http://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/haha.gif http://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/haha.gif http://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/haha.gif http://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/haha.gif http://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/haha.gif http://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/haha.gif http://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/haha.gif http://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/haha.gif
OMG.....I thought that was only us goofs in Niles !!! http://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/haha.gif http://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/haha.gif http://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/haha.gif We would just go in the driveway and yell that ....we never knocked on the door !!!!! I can't believe the memories you just brought out...wow ! PJ Hoff used to draw stuff as he did the weather...how about Len O'Connor and ole Floyd Kalber...damn...times flying

[Rixls6]

How about the Penny Candy stores? Did you guys have one in your neighborhood too? Or was that a thing that was everywhere?
We'd turn in pop bottles for a small amount of change and go get a whole bag of candy for it. Wax Lips, Dots on rolls of paper, some sort of sweet liquid in a wax tube, can't remember what some of it was called.

[kwhizz]

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How about the Penny Candy stores? Did you guys have one in your neighborhood too? Or was that a thing that was everywhere?
We'd turn in pop bottles for a small amount of change and go get a whole bag of candy for it. Wax Lips, Dots on rolls of paper, some sort of sweet liquid in a wax tube, can't remember what some of it was called.

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The one in our neighborhood was called the Rose Bowl.....and in the summer time they would have YoYo contests once a week.....Cool.....

Ken

(Roodhouse???????????)

[kwhizz]

Also........Remember the corner Hot Dog guy's with their little steam carts.......That's how Portillo's got started.....who would has thought.....LOL

Ken

[Xplantdad]

We had a Ben Franklin store in Palatine...the owner was a captain in the volunteer fire dept...and died trying to save his own store... http://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/frown.gif

I, too, remember Floyd Kalber (sp?) http://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/eek.gif

[ORIGLS6]

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How about the Penny Candy stores? ........ Wax Lips, Dots on rolls of paper, some sort of sweet liquid in a wax tube, can't remember what some of it was called.

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The one in our neighborhood was called the Rose Bowl.....and in the summer time they would have YoYo contests once a week.....Cool.....

Ken

(Roodhouse???????????)

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Yeah, we had all that stuff too. How about Lik-em-Aid (Ade?) Chum Gum and Penny Logs?

Some of the old stuff is still around under a different name. there used to be a candy bar called Forever Yours. Now it's Milky Way Dark. http://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/hmmm.gif http://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/dunno.gif

[Mr70]

Pretty funny how we all pretty much shared the same TV broadcast memories,regardless of where we were located.. Chicagos Finest Newsmen (http://www.chicagotelevision.com/newsmen.htm)

With me,it was the Ardmore Pharmacy or Al's Smoke Shop in Villa Park.
Those two were candy central all through the 1960's & 70's..Bit-O-Honey,Bottle caps,Sugar Babies and Mr.Freezes etc.If the Blue haired old lady was working the pharmacy counter,you straigtened up & made sure you smiled to get a free pixie stick or sometimes a Balsa wood rubberband propelled airplane.If the beatnick teen with oily hair and soul patch was working at Al's,you could pretty much count on a free candy cigarette w/purchase.
Click HERE (http://www.groovycandies.com/V2product_list50.asp?cat_id=87) to obtain some of those sugar memories today. http://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif

[Rixls6]

Bummer,http://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/mad.gif they discontinued Beeman's gum in the list of sugar memories.

[ORIGLS6]

I'm sure I just saw some Beeman's at a checkout within the past few days. Maybe it's just certain packaging that was discontinued.
Looks like Teaberry is still available though. http://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/drool.gif http://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/biggthumpup.gif

[Mr70]

Try this for BEEMANS GUM (http://www.candydirect.com/html/beemans-gum-black-jack-gum-clove-gum.html)
I know they stopped it recently,but I have seen it at checkout stores again.
I got the 60's & 70's grabbag for X-mas & highly recommend them.So does my dentist..$
Hey Razzles!

[Rixls6]

MMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM Beemans. http://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/drool.gif

Say it like Homer Simpson does about beer. http://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/beers.gif

[Dog427435]

[b]Does anyone remember eating plenty of these, so you didn't smell like the Lucky's you were puffing on?

http://i158.photobucket.com/albums/t114/dog427435/violets2-sm.jpg

[Belair62]

I amfriggin dying over here....I still buy those nasty Violets. I went online and bought a crapload of stuff last year...including Sen-Sens...remeber those....I have like 30 packs still...I forgot just how utterly horrible those are...no one around the house will touch them. Little black tabs of some type of tar substance !!!

[68l30]

Sen-Sen....I was just gonna mention that! I used to love that stuff as a kid...Gramps kept it by his ashtry, next to "his" chair.....Wow...I gave some to the kids last year...they thought I was nuts!


Steve http://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/beers.gif

[kwhizz]

Here's a Good one..........Remember Horlicks Malted Milk Tablets........I found them on a Internet Candy site....so I ordered a couple of boxes of them as they are still made in England, so.....I've been passing them out to people who remembered them......Cool........Fast Forward, We were having our ISO Audit at work and the Auditor was telling me he lives in England and go's home for the weekends, so.....I bring up the Horlicks Tablets and ask him if he know's about them, and he responds that .....Yes....he knows about them........So.....I ask him if he would bring a couple of boxes back the following week, and he had a funny look on his face and asked why I wanted so much......and I said I ate them like Candy......and he said "Why".......and I said "Why Not".....and he responds that in England they eat them to stay "Regular"..........(Exlax)...........Told him to forget about them and haven't touched them since.....LOL

Ken http://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/biggthumpup.gif

[JoeG]

I get a little paper back catalog sent to me from time to time--from ---"The Vermont Country Store"--A real time capsule of items still being made from back then including candies................

[Belair62]

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Here's a Good one..........Remember Horlicks Malted Milk Tablets........I found them on a Internet Candy site....so I ordered a couple of boxes of them as they are still made in England, so.....I've been passing them out to people who remembered them......Cool........Fast Forward, We were having our ISO Audit at work and the Auditor was telling me he lives in England and go's home for the weekends, so.....I bring up the Horlicks Tablets and ask him if he know's about them, and he responds that .....Yes....he knows about them........So.....I ask him if he would bring a couple of boxes back the following week, and he had a funny look on his face and asked why I wanted so much......and I said I ate them like Candy......and he said "Why".......and I said "Why Not".....and he responds that in England they eat them to stay "Regular"..........(Exlax)...........Told him to forget about them and haven't touched them since.....LOL

Ken http://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/biggthumpup.gif

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I used to eat those too Ken...and now you just answered a whole lot of questions I had back then !!!!! Used to [censored] like a rhinoceros after eating them !!!

[ORIGLS6]

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Here's a Good one..........Remember Horlicks Malted Milk Tablets........I found them on a Internet Candy site....so I ordered a couple of boxes of them as they are still made in England, so.....I've been passing them out to people who remembered them......Cool........Fast Forward, We were having our ISO Audit at work and the Auditor was telling me he lives in England and go's home for the weekends, so.....I bring up the Horlicks Tablets and ask him if he know's about them, and he responds that .....Yes....he knows about them........So.....I ask him if he would bring a couple of boxes back the following week, and he had a funny look on his face and asked why I wanted so much......and I said I ate them like Candy......and he said "Why".......and I said "Why Not".....and he responds that in England they eat them to stay "Regular"..........(Exlax)...........Told him to forget about them and haven't touched them since.....LOL

Ken http://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/biggthumpup.gif

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I used to eat those too Ken...and now you just answered a whole lot of questions I had back then !!!!! Used to [censored] like a rhinoceros after eating them !!!

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http://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/no.gif http://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/no.gif http://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/no.gif I don't believe a word of this. You're BOTH still full of **IT! http://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/blush.gif http://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wink.gif http://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif http://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif http://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif

And BTW, save your money on SenSen........ just chew asphalt! http://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/crazy.gif Does it still come in the cheezy little paper packets? Seems like they even had different flavors? http://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/dunno.gif

[68l30]

Same paper packets....Same one flavor....BAD..... http://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif


Steve http://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/beers.gif

[Belair62]

Den...I think you confused what we were talking about with the tablets...we said Horlicks...not Whore Licks...