06-01-2011
( Reply#: 6603 ) |
Tom J |
Larry:
Great to hear from you! Man, don't disappear on us like that again, OK?
I'm anxious to check out those videos. I have to take Georgeann to the doctor in Louisville today, but I think I might have time to look at a couple of the segments before we have to leave.
Tom |
06-01-2011
( Reply#: 6604 ) |
Tom J |
OK, I have watched the first three segments and I am VERY impressed. They are great!
Thanks, Larry. I can't wait to watch the rest of the segments, but I guess it will have to be after we get back from Louisville this afternoon.
Tom |
06-01-2011
( Reply#: 6608 ) |
Bill Bucko |
Larry, THANKS!
Since I have only a slow dial-up connection: which part is Pint Size on?
(For those who don't know, Pint Size was on Kennedy Avenue, just south of Cleveland Street, one long block west of Shep's house (i.e. in the opposite direction from Warren G. Harding Elementary). It was also a block and a half north of the original Flick's Tap (at the intersection of Kennedy Ave. and 165th). The brick-and-glass structure held bikes on the north side, plastic models on the south. Since it was built only in the mid-50s, it was definitely not part of Shep's memories.
But it is part of mine!
Bill
Warren G. Harding Class of '63 |
06-02-2011
( Reply#: 6616 ) |
HassoBenSoba |
Bill--
If I recall correctly, Pint Size is covered in Chapter 6, Part 5, section 13, verses 41-56.....
Seriously, Pint Size is in Part 6 of this epic-length video. FYI: the background music is the theme song from the "Soupy Sales Show", the LP of which my dad brought home in spring of '62, shortly after we moved to Hessville. (Wherever possible, I used background music that was current in our household during the events being discussed). The "Sharon Mae's" segment (also in part 6) uses music from the same Soupy Album, an instrumental entitled "Soupy Wails."
Larry |
06-03-2011
( Reply#: 6620 ) |
Bill Bucko |
THANKS, Larry!
I had Aurora's Frankenstein model, too. Don't forget the plastic dinosaur skeleton kits, and the H20 pump-up rockets that were all the rage. The Holy Grail, though, was the Revell XSL-01 Manned Space Ship kit, from 1957. Most kits cost $1, but the spectacular XSL-01 sold for $ 3. Now worth around 100x as much. Another fabulous find was the ITC Tyrannosaurus skeleton kit from 1958 or 1959, that went for $ 1.98.
Re: Sharon Mae's, Glenn Strange also played the Frankenstein monster.
Thanks again,
Bill
Warren G. Harding Class of '63 |
06-03-2011
( Reply#: 6621 ) |
seejay2 |
I've posted this before, but what the hey!...Cj
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07-28-2011
( Reply#: 6745 ) |
HassoBenSoba |
Here's a pic of the great Hessville hobby/bike store PINT SIZE, on Kennedy Avenue--as it looked recently. Bill Bucko gave us the exact location in his post above this one. Pint-Size was one of the great old mom-and-pop stores that I included in the Toy Store video. Just drove by it today (7/28/11); the south end of it was boarded up with plywood, and a workman's tarp was thrown over part of the roof. I hope the place stays standing. My brother Mike took this photo about 7 or 8 years ago.
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07-28-2011
( Reply#: 6746 ) |
HassoBenSoba |
Here's Mike's photo of the former Sharon Mae's, another cool 1950's-60's mom-and-pop place in Hessville that was also featured in the Toy Store video.
Today it's a restaurant called "That Place" and his owned and operated by Phil Culbertson; just had lunch there today with my pal Dave Innes (7/28/11).
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