Reminisce about Nanticoke (Scranton, Hanover, Prospect: houses, movies, high school)

[Polaris]

I remember Stop & Go but never really hung out there. Some of my friends did from school. My best friend did and met a football player from Valley West and ended up getting in trouble. That was around 1970.

[TransAm]

1970, I was still in the Air Force, I used to hang out at the Stop and Go during the late 60s, at that time there was no mall, and we used to drag race up pass whent is now the Mall, were the Mall is now used to be the city dump, the only restrunt was a steakhouse were the enterante to the mall is now. boy have things have changed.

[dansdrive]

Originally Posted by Polaris

Thanks Waspa. It was the Wild Mouse! I knew Might Mouse didn't sound right. Mighty Mouse was the cartoon I watched as a kid! Mighty Mouse and Heckle & Jeckle. Boy now I am really remembering my childhood!!

Don't forget Speed Racer and VaVOOM who was on Felix the Cat show....where have all the good cartoons gone??? VaVOOM as my favorite because he solved his problems with a giant YELL that would obliterate mountains!!! This is a great thread.

I also remember as a kid going to a farm in Hunlock Creek and always stopping on the way back at the McDonald's on the San Soui Parkway for $35 burgers and the hot apple pies, which I think at the time were $0.25.

[Polaris]

That McDonalds was the one I grew up on. I remember even when it first opened. My father always took us there and we ate in the car. Years later when it was just me and my mom we always went there and still ate in the car sometimes. Or in the back on the tables. When Nanticoke was evacuated we had to go to Hanover H.S. They had food for us but we left it for the kids and we went to McDonalds. Most of my cousins from Glen Lyon worked there.
Boy talking about the cartoons. I remember after school around 5 watching Huckleberry Hound and Quick Draw McGraw. And the Soupy Sales Show! For how weird it was I LOVED that show.

[Jungle George]

I didn't grow up in Nanticoke, but my grandmother lived there & we'd visit quite often due to her living alone & being up in years.

I remember Sans Souci & also a "distributor" near the base of the hill going up to Honeypot (probably somewhere near Main Street) where my dad would buy his case of Stegmeier beer & he'd let me fill a plastic "crate" with big glass bottles of cream soda, sarsparilla & birch beer.

I was hoping to visit Nanticoke a few weeks back when we flew up to NY, but (of course) I got sick & ended up in bed 3 days & had to cancel all plans...Murphy's Law!!

[Polaris]

I remember that distributor by Honeypot. They used to sell candy in there or next to it. Can't remember which. In Parochial School the nuns would buy candy there and sold it at school. My father was the one who took the nuns there to buy the candy.
My father might of bought soda there to but we used to mostly get those big bottles of soda at the fruit market on Market St. across from Kornkiewicz Pharmacy. There is a bank there now. The crate we had for the soda was wooden. I hated the cream soda and the birch beer. But my father loved it. I always picked out the lime and orange and cola ones.

[Jungle George]

Originally Posted by Polaris

I remember that distributor by Honeypot. They used to sell candy in there or next to it. Can't remember which. In Parochial School the nuns would buy candy there and sold it at school. My father was the one who took the nuns there to buy the candy.
My father might of bought soda there to but we used to mostly get those big bottles of soda at the fruit market on Market St. across from Kornkiewicz Pharmacy. There is a bank there now. The crate we had for the soda was wooden. I hated the cream soda and the birch beer. But my father loved it. I always picked out the lime and orange and cola ones.

LOL!! I went to Catholic grade school & back then the nuns wore full habits with only their face & hands showing. For the longest time we though they were "space aliens" 'cause you never saw their feet & they just kinda "floated" along with those floor-length habits!!!

No WONDER I turned out the way I am!!!!

[dansdrive]

Originally Posted by Polaris

That McDonalds was the one I grew up on. I remember even when it first opened. My father always took us there and we ate in the car. Years later when it was just me and my mom we always went there and still ate in the car sometimes. Or in the back on the tables. When Nanticoke was evacuated we had to go to Hanover H.S. They had food for us but we left it for the kids and we went to McDonalds. Most of my cousins from Glen Lyon worked there.
Boy talking about the cartoons. I remember after school around 5 watching Huckleberry Hound and Quick Draw McGraw. And the Soupy Sales Show! For how weird it was I LOVED that show.

Don't forget the Flintstones! Bam Bam! Also, wasn't there a distributor next to that McDonald's? I think I remember my dad going in there but I can't remember. across the street was a factory but I don't know what they made. I also remember to wards Nanticoke on the San Soui highway was a slipper factory named Alta Products, my uncle worked there for years until it closed its doors and took their slippers over seas.

[Polaris]

I remember the Flintstones were on TV on Friday nights around 8:30 I think. Loved that cartoon. I remember the factory across from McDonalds but can't remember the name. New some people who worked there. I also remember the distributor next to McDonalds. We went in there for soda and my father beer.
I remember my old neighbors son worked in Alta. Alta was across from San Souci.

[dansdrive]

Originally Posted by Polaris

I remember the Flintstones were on TV on Friday nights around 8:30 I think. Loved that cartoon. I remember the factory across from McDonalds but can't remember the name. New some people who worked there. I also remember the distributor next to McDonalds. We went in there for soda and my father beer.
I remember my old neighbors son worked in Alta. Alta was across from San Souci.

Do you know if anything moved into the old Alta Product Bldg? I have been out of the area over 25 yearsw now so lost touch of what the area is doing and try to keep up on this forum.

I don't think I have had Birch beer since I left the area.