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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Collector1966, post: 1220020, member: 17919&quot;]OK, &#039;60s memories, western Missouri/Arkansas</p><p><br /></p><p>Dr. Pepper had gone national at least by the&nbsp; mid-&#039;60s</p><p><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l1gZkf_-UyI" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l1gZkf_-UyI" rel="nofollow">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l1gZkf_-UyI</a></p><p><br /></p><p>We never bought Coca-Cola syrup. It was Vicks 44 for colds. There was a little general store, but there were also several supermarkets in my town of 5000+. There was also a soda fountain at the two pharmacies downtown, and one of them also had racy magazines on the shelf that even 10-year-olds could look at. Although at that time, I was much more interested in comic books and coin magazines.</p><p><br /></p><p>No climbing pine trees-- they were too sticky, and the bark was too rough. Mimosa trees were much better for climbing. And sometimes we could see hummingbirds sucking at the fragrant blossoms.</p><p>Neighborhood kids did sometimes play hide-and-go-seek (pronounced &quot;hine-go-seek&quot;), although that was usually only when a neighbor&#039;s granddaughter from Colorado came for a summer visit. Otherwise, it was usually kickball or &quot;horse&quot; basketball. Croquet and badminton were usually only played among family members for some reason.</p><p><br /></p><p>We had a few fast food places-- A&amp;W, as well as locally-owned Jan-Lin Drive-In, Ness Dairy House, Bessie Dream, and Susie-Q. Dog-N-Suds (based in Springfield, Missouri, I think) had a place on the edge of town for a couple of years, but it disappeared.</p><p><br /></p><p>I lived within a 3-minute walk of my elementary school. We would also be lined up at the lavatory a couple of times a day in 4th Grade. I had perfect attendance that year.</p><p><br /></p><p>There were no art classes at my school. Once in a while we would make valentines with construction paper, but nothing involving paints or anything like that. We also had music class, but the only instruments I was allowed to play during my entire 6 years there were a &quot;triangle&quot; and a tambourine.</p><p><br /></p><p>For music, most of the kids&#039; parents had country albums-- Buck Owens, Roger Miller, Johnny Cash. The local skating rink would play a lot of British Invasion songs, though, and the swimming pool had a juke box that, in 1969, always seemed to be playing &quot;Spinning Wheel&quot;, &quot;American Woman&quot;, &quot;Sunshine of Your Love&quot; and &quot;In the Year 2525&quot;. There were also quite a few music shows on TV-- Lawrence Welk (not my cup of tea), Hee-Haw (ditto), American Bandstand, Teen Hop (local program I think), Liberace, Buck Owens, Sonny and Cher, Dean Martin, Mickey Finn (summer of &#039;66, I think), Herb Alpert&#039;s Summer Special (1969?), Petula Clark special, Cowsills special.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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