And Kids Do Not Do Anymore
And Kids Do Not Do Anymore
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| World War 2 ration stamps | Walking all over town calling railroad engine and train service employees to work as very few had telephones |
| Stores close at 5PM | Stores closed on Sunday |
| Zoot suits | Bobby socks |
| Apple dunkin | Shaving ice making Snow Balls and selling them on a street corner |
| Attending Saturday matinees at the movies seeing Our Gang | Sailing paper airplane |
| Drive in theaters | Shooting Marbles |
| Flying kites | Sled riding on "A" St "D" St etc |
| Fox and hounds | Sliding down the big sliding board at Braddock Heights |
| Sugar water in wax bottle that looked like a coke bottle | Pop in glass bottles dispensed from a machine |
| Green Stamps | Pop guns that shot corks |
| News reels at the movies before the main picture | Candy cigaratettes |
| The Studebaker, Edsel car | Ice cube trays made of medal with a lever to break the ice loose |
| Going on hikes | Sling Shots |
| Going to Mains Ice Cream place in Middletown | Spin the bottle |
| Halloween soaping windows | Spin the pan |
| Halloween upsetting out-houses or toilets, one caught on cloth line and rolled 25 to 30 feet down the yard and made to set them back up when caught | Swimming hole at Bells Mill |
| Hanging your swimming trunks on the radio antenna of your car to dry | Swimming hole at Three Rocks |
| Having parties in homes | Throwing Darts |
| Hitch hiking | Thumb tack under person setting in front of you |
| Hop scotch | Walking across the old wooden river bridge |
| Hula hoops | Weiner roast |
| Ice skating on the canal or gut | Walking to and from the Prom |
| Jumping rope | Dancing at Braddock Heights |
| Leap Frog | Dancing at Farmers Woods |
| Lovers knob on the steering wheel | School participating in annual Winchester Apple Blossom Parade |
| Making and riding soap box cars | Whoopee Cushions |
| Making and shooting bean shooters | Buying song sheets at the Dime store |
| Outhouse - Toilet with one and two holes - some with 1/4 moon cut in the door | Going to bank night at the movies |
| Parents parking on East Potomac Street on Sunday afternoons to watch trains on the turn table at the round house | Taking annual train trip to Senators baseball games at Griffith Stadium in Washington and the Red Skins football games. |
| Ping Pong | Having refreshments coke, sodas, sunday's etc. at our favorite Drug Store |
| Pitching rubber horse shoes in school building | Attending several carnivals each year |
| Trying to get the golden ring while riding the Merry-Go-Round at Braddock Heights | Watching riders trying to grab rings on lances while riding a horse at Framers Woods |
| Playing cards fish | Playing blind mans bluff |
| Playing cards flinch | Trying to catch the greasy pig at Farmers Woods picnics |
| Playing cards old maid | Trying to climb the greased pole at Farmers Woods picnics |
| Playing checkers | Going in fields and gathering greens |
| Playing cops and robbers | Going in woods and fence rows gathering berries |
| Telephone having party lines | 78 and 45 rpm records |
| Wash tub ringers | Lunch shops and bars with jute boxes in the booths or on the tables |
| Roller skate keys | Wash board |
| Drive in theaters | Howdy Dowdy |
| Playing cowboys and Indians using cap guns | Making apple butter |
| Playing dodge ball | Butchering hogs |
| Playing dominos | Making butter from cream milk |
| Playing hide and go seek | Thinning field corn - cutting and shocking corn - husking corn |
| Playing hockey on roller skates | Sawing wood with a two man cross cut saw |
| Playing horse shoes | Chopping kindling and fire wood with a axe |
| Playing ice hockey | Knitting, Embroidering and making Quilts |
| Playing jacks | Watching test patterns on TV |
| Playing kick the can | Smoking corn silk |
| Playing momley peg | Uncle Herb's Club at the theatre on Saturday afternoon (Herb Goldberg) |
| Playing tag | Going to Saturday movies to see the serials and matinee movies |
| Playing yard darts | Seeing live stage shows at the theatre and fire hall |
| Putting pennies or dimes in loafers, the slit on top of the shoe | Play Keno at the theatre |
| Roasting Marshmallows | Hearing railroad work-crew callers during the night calling men to work |
| Roller skating at Braddock | Being one of these crew callers |
| Roller skating on sidewalks | Hearing about summer jobs on the railroad as "Chalker" or "Checker" |
| Rolling a pack of cigarettes up in the sleeve of T shirts. | Selling garden products from garden |
| Rolling hoops | Selling bottled pop at ball games |
| The arrival of New-Years. The railroaders would clang every bell and blow all whistles they could find | The routine noises of the railroad, whistle blowing, clanging of cars and the rush of through trains |
| The smell of coal smoke and cinder going down your neck | Shooting pool/billiards, playing pinball machines at Parsons pool hall |
| Rolling your own cigarette | Munching on one of Mac's Sub's from Fosters |
| Enjoying a lot of dancing at the Fire Hall and all of the great entertaining groups | Summer Carnivals at the City Park |
| The oranges and candy given away at Christmas at the theater, compliment of local civic lodges | Large Christmas tree at the Imperial mounted on an elevator raised above the stage before the movie and lowered with manual crank as the movie began |
| Hearing the rumble of the floor of the old Virginia-Maryland river bridge | The eleven o'clock whistle on the railroad |
| Summer baseball and soccer games on the High School diamond | Sonny Cannon's sound truck running the streets for special occasions |
| Boy scouting | Employed with the Imperial Theater as projectionist |
| You could buy candy for a penny | Gasoline cost 25 cents a gallon |
| A hamburger at McDonalds cost 15 cents | The drive in theater |
| You chose teams with a hand on a bat calling choosing up sides. | Spinning around bat until you got dizzy |
| Eagle's picnic at "Eagle's Park." | Hanging out at Litten's body shop, watching them customize Eagle's car |
| Loud mufflers on the 50's cars | The School Bell |
| Guys dressing with their jeans very low on hips | Dressing white shirt, tie and Levi jeans |
| Sonny Cannon constructing supper loud speakers from wash tubs | Girls would wear a puppy-collar on their ankle to indicate they had a boy friend |
| Lighting struck the high chimney at the corner of the auditorium at the High School | Lunch time dancing with Jute-Box music in the school auditorium |
| Bowling for 10 cents a game | Crimping evaporated milk cans to your shoes and walking on them |
| Bought my first car a 1946 Super Deluxe Ford for $1750. Best Ford on market | Ride in rumble seat of car |
| Riding the B&O Tooneyville trolley train to Hagerstown and Frederick | Play Victoria - Jute Box |
| Wearing cardboard in shoe to cover holes in sole of shoe | Making snow ice cream |
| Walking on home-made stilts | Wearing knickers |
| When the only air conditioning was at the theatre | Ride west through Brunswick headed for San Antonio Texas in service |
| House of David, long-bearded baseball team playing donkey ball games | Going to Scheer Stadium on th 4th of July for the carnival and fire works |
| Being able to peddle my bicycle up the big high school hill, with out stopping. | Riding through Brunswick after entering Army on way to Arkansas in WW2 |
| Putting play card to the rear wheel of bike to make noise | Soap box derby races on the hill in Tin Row |
| Having an attendant pump gas, check oil, check tire pressure wash the windshield and vacuum your car when you stopped for gas. | Clamp around right pants leg to keep the pants from being caught in the chain as it went around |
| Standing outside Gross Bros and Mr Weller's on New York Hill to watch telivision at night. | Inter-city soft ball at football stadium Wenner's Hill, vs New York Hill, East-end, West-end etc. |
| Walking up High School hill | Home made ice cream |
| River floods 1936 and 1947 water covered railroad tracks to station | Catching balls, baseballs and softballs without gloves. |
| Making balls from rags. twine and tape and using railroad brake club for a bat. | Nailing a bushel basket to a building or telephone pole for a basketball rim and net |
| Watching football at the stadium with the likes of Glen McQuillen and others playing | Road steam- roller running out of control down Wenner's Hill, driver turned into curb trying to stop it, but it overturned killing driver |
| Pound party | Apple peeling party |
| Roll a hoop | Hop-scotch |
| Scrub soft-ball | Movie tickets costing 15 cents |
| Make taffy - Pull taffy | Catholic church picnics at park |
| Playing ping-pong during lunch hour | Dance classes at BHS |
| Girls wearing beanie hats and knee socks | Boys wearing black & white or brown & white wing-tip oxfords |
| Making rag rugs | Walking over a mile to school |
| Sled riding on ice crusted snow over fences | Rolling Easter eggs |
| Going swimming at swimming hole in Potomac | Poling a boat |
| Dipping for fish in the Potomac | Playing May I |
| Dipping fish from river bridge | Playing hot potato who's got the potato |
| Bottling root beer | The rhythm of automobile tire chains in the winter. |
| Knee high boots with knife holder on the side | Swimming in the canal |
| Making flat bottom wooden boats | Setting bush bobs, outlines and floating gallon jugs with bobs to catch cat fish |
| Riding double on bicycles | Walking railroad track gathering lead from torpedoes for sinkers to fish |
| City dump along towpath | Shoveling ashes from stoves/furnaces and carrying outside to dump in ruts in road |
| Must side streets were dirt unpaved | Playing in ditches being dug for town sewers |
| Playing slot machines at various clubs and bars | Riding bike to Bells Mill and Frederick |
| Making home brew beer | Making cider by crushing apples to obtain the juice |
| Taking kids snipe hunting | Cranking up a victrola to play records |
| Playing a player piano | Cranking a car to start - setting the spark on the steering wheel |
| Carrying water from spring to home for drinking water etc. | Dressing up during Christmas holiday to go krist kingling |
| Catching water from roof in a cistern | Catching water coming off of roof in a rain barrel |
| Picking bean beetle, tomato bugs and potato bugs from plants in garden | Pumping water from a well |
| Making villages with trains operating under Christmas tree at Christmas time | Spading a garden, planting it, hoeing and weeding it |
| Playing poker: bidding with match sticks or tooth picks. | Stocking shelves in small grocery and hardware store |
| Waterproofing shoes or boots with hog rind fat | Getting soaked when it rained as boys didn't use umbrellas |
| Bow ties |
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Some old geezer that contributed information Richard Bowers Class 1936, Elaine Koogle (Bowers)Class 1939, Slick Summers Class 1952 and John Spitzer Class 1956, Adelaide Webber (Bower) Class 1940
Some photos by John Spitzer, Class 1956 =Walling up old high school hill =Potomac River bridge
