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Old 08-17-2009, 06:45 PM
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Default A guy on fredericksburg rd

i was going through some old stuff and came upon an old brownie camera. Anyone remember a fellow (was mentally challenged) that would stand out by the street and hold up and old camera like that as if to take a picture. Always felt bad for the guy and made a point to wave when i would drive by. I think it was on fredericksburg rd or vance jackson...
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Old 08-18-2009, 04:57 PM
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you needed a "church key" to open a beer can, no tabs back then..Instead of warning lights for road construction they used those flaming round fire pots that burned kerosene or diesel....When we would visit relatives in the south, every night a truck would drive around the neighborhoo and produce a fog of chemicals to kill mosquitos. we spent hours running in the fog....what the hell were we thinking?
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I use to drive an ice cream truck, Cravy Ice cream and the next summer it was Tiner's.
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Old 08-18-2009, 05:38 PM
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Yep GY, the old Blue and White early 50's Chevy trucks !! 5 cents for an ice cream ...I remember the jump to 6 cents almost broke me. Gary did they operate out of the Bldg at Colorado and Culebra back then???

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you needed a "church key" to open a beer can, no tabs back then..Instead of warning lights for road construction they used those flaming round fire pots that burned kerosene or diesel....When we would visit relatives in the south, every night a truck would drive around the neighborhoo and produce a fog of chemicals to kill mosquitos. we spent hours running in the fog....what the hell were we thinking?
Smudge pots!! Don't recall spraying back then. We sat in our bedrooms building model cars with those toxic glue fumes. Geezz no telling how many brain cells I lost there!! Remember being dizzy , headaches etc... To think I might have been the next Einstein......no prolly not!!
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you needed a "church key" to open a beer can, no tabs back then..Instead of warning lights for road construction they used those flaming round fire pots that burned kerosene or diesel....When we would visit relatives in the south, every night a truck would drive around the neighborhoo and produce a fog of chemicals to kill mosquitos. we spent hours running in the fog....what the hell were we thinking?
Wow---you brought back memories with the church key. And the fog truck. We used to run into the fog as kids in the summer! Gosh.
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Yep GY, the old Blue and White early 50's Chevy trucks !! 5 cents for an ice cream ...I remember the jump to 6 cents almost broke me. Gary did they operate out the Bldg at Colorado and Culebra back then???




Our trucks and office were on Euclid, a couple of blocks east of Main Ave. We drove over to Metzer's (sp) and bought our ice cream from them. It was a summer job while I was going to San Antonio College.
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I thought this was pretty interesting. Brings back lots of childhood memories:

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Our trucks and office were on Euclid, a couple of blocks east of Main Ave. We drove over to Metzer's (sp) and bought our ice cream from them. It was a summer job while I was going to San Antonio College.
Guess it was Tiner's in later years I saw at the Colorado & Culebra locale. I remember Metzger's . I remember Foremost and maybe Borden's on Josephine . Wife's dad worked for Knowltons on Fred. near Cool Crest Mini put. Do you remember Crain/Crane and Palmers pharmacy on Main or Mcculloch and there delivery vehicles?? Three wheel motorcycles!!
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Guess it was Tiner's in later years I saw at the Colorado & Culebra locale. I remember Metzger's . I remember Foremost and maybe Borden's on Josephine . Wife's dad worked for Knowltons on Fred. near Cool Crest Mini put. Do you remember Crain/Crane and Palmers pharmacy on Main or Mcculloch and there delivery vehicles?? Three wheel motorcycles!!
My grandfather had one of the largest dairies (Yantis Dairy, from 1885 till 1922). He had 500 dairy cows and had horse drawn wagons delivery milk. Old man Knowlton was an orphan working for my grandfather. My oldest uncle wanted no part of the dairy and got into Auto business selling Ford's in the 1920's. Knowlton took over my grandfather's dairy. That's how Knowlton got started. Knowlton was later sold to Oak Farms. So when I go into Wal-Mart and buy Oak Farms, I am buying from my grandfather's dairy.
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