THE GOOD OLD DAYS

YOUR FAVORITE “HANGOUTS
(There are probably many more!)

 Do you remember?

• Candy cigarettes; Slo-pokes; Mary Jane’s

• Wax coke-shaped bottled with colored sugar water

• Soda pop machine that dispensed glass bottles

• Coffee shops with tableside juke boxes

• Blackjack or Clove chewing gum

• Party lines

• P.F. Flyers or Keds

• Crewcut wax

• Telephone number with word prefix (Edison 8…)

• 45 RPM records

• Green stamps

• Hi-fi’s

• Metal ice cube trays with a lever

• Mimeograph paper

• Blue flash bulbs

• Brownie camera

• Drive-in’s

• Penny candy

• Drive-in restaurant with carhops

• 5 cent packs of baseball cards with that awful pink slab of bubblegum

• Riverview Park

• Two-Ton Baker

• American Bandstand

• Melody Lane

• Transistor radios

• Dick Biondi – WLS

• Saddle shoes / bobbi socks

• Indiana Dunes

• Starved Rock

• Bachelor Grove

• Jim Lounsberry

Markham

• Willie’s Wee Nee Wagon

• Village Hall Dances - Friday

• St. Gerard Carnival

• Grand Grill (“Greasy Spoon”)

• Soda fountain at Gaylyn’s Pharmacy

• Highway Foods

• Talan’s Drive-In

• Christy’s Restaurant

Midlothian/Posen

• St. Christopher’s Carnival

• St. Christopher’s Dances – Sunday

• Dog & Suds

• Cavallini’s

Hazel Crest/Homewood

• J & B Pizza

• Aurelios

• Dixie Governor

Oak Forest

• Oak Forest Bowl

Tinley Park

• Roller Rink

• Jardines

• I-80 Drive-In

• Cavett Drugs

• A & W Root Beer Stand

• Labor Day Parade & Carnival

• Aqua Center

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