From the 1970's.

Dennis, my daughter and I swung by Mcdonalds' yesterday afternoon while we were in the big city. It cost us over 25 bucks to eat. Horrible price for a small dry burgers. I was still hungry.

 

Huh. Now 70cents will get you the slice of cheese...

 

and it ain't even real cheese........

 

Well........OK from the 60's.....

 

Make sure when you pull that, put t back in the can. That way you can try and swallow it while you’re drinkin.



Owl

 

If you have the time, it’s cheaper and better tasting at most diners.

 

Some good memories from the 70s for sure. Much different times than now.


My dad took me to this movie in 1973 staring Robert Redford, Paul Newman and Robert Shaw.



I still have these two albums he subsequently bought me since he knew how much I liked the music in the movie...still do, especially any Joplin rag played by Joshua Rifkin.

 

Maple leaf rag is another good one!

 

Yes it is. It was not in the score of The Sting, but the movie generated a lot of interest in Joplin’s music. He was a true genius.

The Maple Leaf Rag was was published in 1899 and had sold one million copies of sheet music by 1909. Joplin received 1 cent from each copy sold.

It was the first Joplin piece I learned on the piano, which was difficult for me at age 10 because it is written in A flat major, and for the fact that I could barely reach an octave at that time.

 

The first time I played it on the piano, I aced it! Never ever hit a wrong note!


(player piano)

 

Boys, Shaefer! We had a bar around here in Orono where the state university is that served pitchers of that chit on the extra cheap. I still remember those hangovers 30 years later! And Schmidt’s, take away the m and d and that’s what you end up with tomorrow.
Haffenreffer private stock was where it was at for a good time. 6 pack equated to a drunk you’d remember once you sobered up usually followed by the emptying of your stomach contents.

 

I loved The Sting and The Entertainer .

 

One of the strange things I remember is my usual McD's meal as a hungry teenager-Big Mac, cheeseburger, large fries, Coke and an apple pie-$2.43,with tax.

 

Do I remember this correctly?


Sandy's burgers were 5/$1???

 

Found a glass Gatorade bottle recently in the woods while scrounging. Always make a point of throwing litter in the bed of the Mule. That must go back to the first days of Gatorade