Hi, It worked, I'm back on Memories. Thanks all. Ellen sorry to hear your working so hard. Can't say I blame you for not liking the middle trick. That's got to be the worst. Marie, glad to hear your shoulder is feeling better. I hope you get your computer up & running again. Robin, I wrote to you a few time's, but the mail came back? I just checked your address again, and I only had [email protected] I had c, and should be com. Sorry to hear your not feeling well. Norma, are you taking your vitamin's? One cannot live on Sweet tatters alone. Jerilyn, still praying for Christopher. I'm so glad to be back with old friend's. I hope to hear from all the old time Memory folk's. Diesel

Hi All Yes, I too am still. The job is keeping me busy but the company is keeping on my toes with different work schedules. I'm off the 2pm-10:30pm and have been on the 6am-2:30pm which I really liked but again they are doing a switch. My poor old body can't take all the changes. Getting used to one shift is great but jazzing around with my timing almost weekly is a killer LOLOLOLOLOLOL. Happy Fourth All. Ellen

I hope I get through - trouble with computer - not fixed yet --------Happy 4th -Marie G

Hi, I am here. Just busy and sick. Talk Soon, Love, Robin -------Original Message------- From: [email protected] Date: 07/02/04 22:16:00 To: [email protected] Subject: [NJ-Memories] Hello Hello, Anyone out there? Somehow I got cut off of Memories? I sent a few messages, but never got a copy of it back. This is a test to see if I'm back on. I sent a message to NJ Memories with subscribe in the Subject box, and the message area. I did get a message telling me I had subscribed again. If someone sees this, please answer. Diesel ============================== Gain access to over two billion names including the new Immigration Collection with an Ancestry.com free trial. Click to learn more. http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=4930&sourceid=1237

I know Jerilyn, but with me everytime I try to send something I end up in my chair. I'm sure you know that story. I still think I am a Lymie again. Sed rate over 80 and I feel blah. I do read your updates always. Hope that Chris is home and all is coming around. Love Normie ----- Original Message ----- From: <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, July 03, 2004 5:57 AM Subject: Re: [NJ-Memories] Hello > Absolutely great to see that you put something on this tired old list! > Where is everyone?Are you all getting your sparklers ready,and your bikes > decorated for the parade? > Have a happy and safe Fourth! > Jerilyn > > > > ============================== > Gain access to over two billion names including the new Immigration > Collection with an Ancestry.com free trial. Click to learn more. > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=4930&sourceid=1237 >

You little tater you are definitely on. I think everyone is asleep for the summer. I heard from Carl and its been forever there also. However like you he works too hard and has no time in the summer. Luv ya, ST Norma ----- Original Message ----- From: <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, July 02, 2004 10:15 PM Subject: [NJ-Memories] Hello > Hello, > Anyone out there? Somehow I got cut off of Memories? I sent a few > messages, but never got a copy of it back. This is a test to see if I'm back on. I > sent a message to NJ Memories with subscribe in the Subject box, and the > message area. I did get a message telling me I had subscribed again. If someone sees > this, please answer. Diesel > > > ============================== > Gain access to over two billion names including the new Immigration > Collection with an Ancestry.com free trial. Click to learn more. > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=4930&sourceid=1237 >

What a difference a century makes! Here are some of the U.S. statistics for 1904: ============== The average life expectancy in the U.S. was 47 years. Only 14 percent of the homes in the U.S. had a bathtub. Only 8 percent of the homes had a telephone. A three-minute call from Denver to New York City cost eleven dollars. There were only 8,000 cars in the U.S., and only 144 miles of paved roads. The maximum speed limit in most cities was 10 mph. Alabama, Mississippi, Iowa, and Tennessee were each more heavily populated than California. With a mere 1.4 million residents, California was only the 21st most populous state in the Union. The tallest structure in the world was the Eiffel Tower. The average wage in the U.S. was 22 cents an hour. The average U.S. worker made between $200 and $400 per year. A competent accountant could expect to earn $2000 per year, a dentist $2,500 per year, a veterinarian between $1,500 and $4,000 per year, and a mechanical engineer about $5,000 per year. More than 95 percent of all births in the U.S. took place at home. Ninety percent of all U.S. physicians had no college education. Instead, they attended medical schools, many of which were condemned in the press and by the government as "substandard." Sugar cost four cents a pound. Eggs were fourteen cents a dozen. Coffee was fifteen cents a pound. Most women only washed their hair once a month, and used borax or egg yolks for shampoo. Canada passed a law prohibiting poor people from entering the country for any reason. The five leading causes of death in the U.S. were: 1. Pneumonia and influenza 2. Tuberculosis 3.. Diarrhea 4. Heart disease 5. Stroke The American flag had 45 stars. Arizona, Oklahoma, New Mexico, Hawaii, and Alaska hadn't been admitted to the Union yet. The population of Las Vegas, Nevada, was 30!!! Crossword puzzles, canned beer, and iced tea hadn't been invented. There was no Mother's Day or Father's Day. Two of 10 U.S. adults couldn't read or write. Only 6 percent of all Americans had graduated high school. Marijuana, heroin, and morphine were all available over the counter at corner drugstores. According to one pharmacist, "Heroin clears the complexion, gives buoyancy to the mind, regulates the stomach and bowels, and is, in fact, a perfect guardian of health." (Shocking!) Eighteen percent of households in the U.S. had at least one full-time servant or domestic. There were only about 230 reported murders in the entire U.S. And I forwarded this from someone else without typing it myself, and sent it to you in a matter of seconds! Try to imagine what it may be like in another 100 years . It staggers the mind. WE'VE COME A LONG WAY, BABY. HAPPY FOURTH OF JULY 2004!

Absolutely great to see that you put something on this tired old list! Where is everyone?Are you all getting your sparklers ready,and your bikes decorated for the parade? Have a happy and safe Fourth! Jerilyn

Hello, Anyone out there? Somehow I got cut off of Memories? I sent a few messages, but never got a copy of it back. This is a test to see if I'm back on. I sent a message to NJ Memories with subscribe in the Subject box, and the message area. I did get a message telling me I had subscribed again. If someone sees this, please answer. Diesel

You all may have read these before but, if not, it"s a great reminder of how we were! OLDER THAN DIRT "Hey Dad," one of my kids asked the other day, "What was your favorite fast food when you were growing up?" "We didn't have fast food when I was growing up," I informed him. "All the food was slow." "C'mon, seriously. Where did you eat?" "It was a place called 'at home,'" I explained. "Grandma cooked every day and when Grandpa got home from work, we sat down together at the dining room table, and if I didn't like what she put on my plate I was allowed to sit there until I did like it." By this time, the kid was laughing so hard I was afraid he was going to suffer serious internal damage, so I didn't tell him the part about how I had to have permission to leave the table. But here are some other things I would have told him about my childhood if I figured his system could have handled it: Some parents NEVER owned their own house, wore Levis, set foot on a golf course, traveled out of the country or had a credit card. In their later years they had something called a revolving charge card. The card was good only at Sears Roebuck. Or maybe it was Sears AND Roebuck. Either way, there is no Roebuck anymore. Maybe he died. My parents never drove me to soccer practice. This was mostly because we never had heard of soccer. I had a bicycle that weighed probably 50 pounds, and only had one speed, (slow). We didn't have a television in our house until I was 11, but my grandparents had one before that. It was, of course, black and white, but they bought a piece of colored plastic to cover the screen. The top third was blue, like the sky, and the bottom third was green, like grass. The middle third was red. It was perfect for programs that had scenes of fire trucks riding across someone's lawn on a sunny day. Some people had a lens taped to the front of the TV to make the picture look larger. I was 13 before I tasted my first pizza, it was called "pizza pie." When I bit into it, I burned the roof of my mouth and the cheese slid off, swung down, plastered itself against my chin and burned that, too. It's still the best pizza I ever had. We didn't have a car until I was 15. Before that, the only car in our family was my grandfather's Ford. He called it a "machine." I never had a telephone in my room. The only phone in the house was in the living room and it was on a party line. Before you could dial, you had to listen and make sure some people you didn't know weren't already using the line. Pizzas were not delivered to our home. But milk was. All newspapers were delivered by boys and all boys delivered newspapers. I delivered a newspaper, six days a week. It cost 7 cents a paper, of which I got to keep 2 cents. I had to get up at 4 AM every morning. On Saturday, I had to collect the 42 cents from my customers. My favorite customers were the ones who gave me 50 cents and told me to keep the change. My least favorite customers were the ones who seemed to never be home on collection day. Movie stars kissed with their mouths shut. At least, they did in the movies. Touching someone else's tongue with yours was called French kissing and they didn't do that in movies. I don't know what they did in French movies. French movies were dirty and we weren't allowed to see them. If you grew up in a generation before there was fast food, you may want to share some of these memories with your children or grandchildren. Just don't blame me if they bust a gut laughing. Growing up isn't what it used to be, is it? MEMORIES from a friend: My Dad is cleaning out my grandmother's house (she died in December) and he brought me an old Royal Crown Cola bottle. In the bottle top was a stopper with a bunch of holes in it. I knew immediately what it was, but my daughter had no idea. She thought they had tried to make it a salt shaker or something. I knew it as the bottle that sat on the end of the ironing board to "sprinkle" clothes with because we didn't have steam irons. Man, I am old. How many do you remember? Head lights dimmer switches on the floor. Ignition switches on the dashboard. Heaters mounted on the inside of the fire wall. Real ice boxes. Pant leg clips for bicycles without chain guards. Soldering irons you heat on a gas burner. Using hand signals for cars without turn signals. Older Than Dirt Quiz: Count all the ones that you remember not the ones you were told about Ratings at the bottom. 1. Blackjack chewing gum 2. Wax Coke-shaped bottles with colored sugar water 3. Candy cigarettes 4. Soda pop machines that dispensed glass bottles 5. Coffee shops or diners with tableside juke boxes 6. Home milk delivery in glass bottles with cardboard stoppers 7. Party lines 8. Newsreels before the movie 9. P.F. Flyers 10. Butch wax 11. Telephone numbers with a word prefix (OLive-6933) 12. Peashooters 13. Howdy Doody 14. 45 RPM records 15. S&H Green Stamps 16. Hi-fi's 17. Metal ice trays with lever 18. Mimeograph paper 19 Blue flashbulb 20. Packards 21. Roller skate keys 22. Cork popguns 23. Drive-ins 24. Studebakers 25. Wash tub wringers If you remembered 0-5 = You're still young If you remembered 6-10 = You are getting older If you remembered 11-15 = Don't tell your age, If you remembered 16-25 = You're older than dirt! I might be older than dirt but those memories are the best part of my life. Don't forget to pass this along!! Especially to all your really OLD friends.... ===== "Senility Prayer"..God grant me... The senility to forget the people I never liked The good fortune to run into the ones that I do And the eyesight to tell the difference." 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Someone sent me a recipe for fried cicadas - In her dreams - no way would I touch one let alone eat one ------she said they have a nutty taste - I will stick to squirrel food -LOL--------Marie G

Jim - did you recently have a heart transplant ---glad to hear it was a success - just read another letter to you re the transplant - somehow I missed the first -------Marie G

Kittie, The cicadas were so noisy here last month that it was unbelievable. At least, that is what I believe it was. I have really been worried about this Sudden Oak Disease. We bought azaleas from a nursery and I don't know what their origin was. We bought this property, because we loved the big oaks on it. Sincerely pray that you don't have that attacking your rhododendrums. Pat

Jim, Congratulations on a successful heart transplant. My cousin's husband had one two years ago next month and was able to travel back to NJ to attend my mother's 80'th last month. It is miraculous what they are able to do in this day and age. Hope your visit to NJ is a happy one and that you truly enjoy your visit and family. Pat

Jackie, The club was on River Road and name of it was something like Ma Pa Poo or something close to that. There is nothing there anymore. Gretchen's parents use to run it - they ran it 4 or 5 yrs. and lived there during the summer. Hope to see you one of these days. Bob and Marilyn Subject: Do you remember address of the Club? Help and Hello Windward Beach was place on the Medeconk River we use to go. The Manasquan River Club was the one I was also thinking of.. near Lakewood Rd area. Holly Rd too??? Was a club and parents of a classmate in Manasquan High would rent it for us teens and let us go there Saturday nights and dance with jukebox... They would serve soda and such clean fun. All was so safe and wonderful. A wonderful place to grow up.... smile Jackie, Once a Jersybel, always a Jersybel

Thanks ,I needed that! What a wonderful walk down memory lane.I am only 59,[he he!]and I remember all those terms.BTW,I still call it an emergency brake. On a sad note,I want the list to know that this is my last time on line before I head to the airport at 4:45AM to go to Idaho for my 17 year old nephew's funeral.He was killed yesterday morning in a head -on collision on the way to work .It was only 16 days ago he graduated from high school,and now his memorial service will be held in the high school gym.Please pray for my sister and her husband and three surviving sons.Her eldest leaves for traning for duty in Iraq on Thursday. I shall go carrying Jersey Memories for them all from this wonderful list to comfort them. Jerilyn

Hi, I enjoyed your email. So many things and words have changed over the years and not for the better! Had they advertised some of the things back then that they advertise now on tv, we wouldn't have had tv's in our homes. Every now and then I will say something and my kids will say where did that word come from? Well, of course, it came from the past. I think church keys have been replaced by pull tabs or twist tops. Pat

The other day I picked up a copy of his essay collection, "Tom Dodge Talks About Texas." Well, one of those little pieces sent me off on a reverie almost immediately. It was about Big Jim Tidwell of Whitney - "The Fender Skirt King of Texas." And I thought, "Fender skirts!" What a great blast from the past! I hadn't thought about fender skirts in years. When I was a kid, I considered it such a funny term. Made me think of a car in a dress. Thinking about fender skirts started me thinking about other words that quietly disappear from our language with hardly a notice. Like "curb feelers" and "steering knobs." Since I'd been thinking of cars, my mind naturally went that direction first. You kids will probably have to find some elderly person over 50 to explain some of these terms to you. Remember "Continental kits?" They were rear bumper extenders and spare tire covers that were supposed to make any car as cool as a Lincoln Continental. When did we quit calling them "emergency brakes?" At some point "parking brake" became the proper term. But I miss the hint of drama that went with "emergency brake." I'm sad, too, that almost all the old folks are gone who would call the accelerator the "foot feed." Here's a phrase I heard all the time in my youth but never anymore - "store-bought." Of course, just about everything is store-bought these days. But once it was bragging material to have a store-bought dress or a store-bought bag of candy. "Coast to coast" is a phrase that once held all sorts of excitement and now means almost nothing. Now we take the term "worldwide" for granted. This floors me . On a smaller scale, "wall-to-wall" was once a magical term in our homes. In the '50s, everyone covered their hardwood floors with, wow, wall-to-wall carpeting! Today, everyone replaces their wall-to-wall carpeting with hardwood floors. Go figure. When's the last time you heard the quaint phrase "in a family way?" It's hard to imagine that the word "pregnant" was once considered a little too graphic, a little too clinical for use in polite company. So we had all that talk about stork visits and "being in a family way" or simply "expecting." Apparently "brassiere" is a word no longer in usage. I said it the other day and my daughter cackled. I guess it's just "bra" now. "Unmentionables" probably wouldn't be understood at all. It's hard to recall that this word was once said in a whisper - "divorce." And no one is called a "divorcee" anymore. Certainly not a "gay divorcee." Come to think of it, "confirmed bachelors" and "career girls" are long gone, too. Most of these words go back to the '50s, but here's a pure-'60s word I came across the other day - "rat fink." Ooh, what a nasty put-down! Here's a word I miss - "percolator." That was just a fun word to say. And what was it replaced with? "Coffee maker." How dull. Mr. Coffee, I blame you for this. I miss those makeup marketing words that were meant to sound so modern and now sound so retro. Words like "DynaFlow" and "ElectraLuxe." Introducing the 1963 Admiral TV, now with "SpectraVision!" Food for thought - Was there a telethon that wiped out lumbago? Nobody complains of that anymore. Maybe that's what castor oil cured, because I never hear mothers threatening their kids with castor oil anymore. Some words aren't gone, but are definitely on the endangered list. The one that grieves me most - "supper." Save a great word. Invite someone to supper. Discuss fender skirts.

Hello Jim - Is this your first time back to the Point? Many changes...don't remember Cedarwood Park...but what about Wenke's cabins on 88...Hoffman's Beach House...and Jenkinson's? And my husband and his "gang"rented a house on the Herbertsville Road - west of Route 70 for the Summer of 42 - just before they all left for the service....still talks about walking to the Point boardwalk back then!!! And Heart Transplant #186 - Hurray!!! Ruth at the Jersey Shore ----- Original Message ----- From: [email protected] To: [email protected] Sent: Thursday, June 10, 2004 7:38 PM Subject: Re: [NJ-Memories] Re: Jerilyn Rah rah/ Memories again Hi, folks, Does anyone remember Cedarwood Park? It was a small colony on Manasquan(sp?) Bay, and my folks and relatives always rented a cabin for a month and took turns vacationing. All I remember of it was the really nice beach, great water-skiing and the rumor that there was a nudist colony right up the road!!! I think it was located about half way between Rt. 70 and Point Pleasant, maybe on Herbertsville Rd. I'm living in CA now, but heading for NJ sometime in July to visit cousins I haven't seen in 35 years. Jim LaPolla Heart Transplant # 183 Cedars-Sinai Med. Ctr. Hollywood, CA 1/26/1996 ============================== Gain access to over two billion names including the new Immigration Collection with an Ancestry.com free trial. Click to learn more. http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=4930&sourceid=1237