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Guilty here also with the banana seat, actually they were comfortable than the little tiny seats they give us men now a days.
I had the tassels hanging from the handle bars, they were purple and silver, I remember 4 of us kids on the block had the same bike. Korvettes must have been running a sale that week. LOL
And you would put a balloon in the wheel to make it have that noise.
rellort- Melanie, sang about her brand new pair of roller skates.
Miss Lucy, OMG, yes, I remember that too.
Miss Lucy had a baby, her name was tiny tim, was it something like that???
Footsie !!! OMG, I had one of those also, I forgot about that, yeah !!!
Subway lines in Brooklyn are also know as,
West End- D (formerly B)
Sea beach - N
Culver - F
4th Ave - R ( formerly RR)
I got my first bicycle in "Korvettes",
Bohacks, yes, we used to get the cans of soda there, the Bohack brand.
It's too long to write out the full lyrics. Miss Lucy had a baby, his name was Tiny Tim, she put him in the bathtub, to see if he could swim. Then it degenerated to get bawdier and bawdier through "came right out her "ask" me no more questions, tell me no more lies. One can presume "who" Mr Tiny Tim was. I used to sing it for my mother, not understanding any of it, and she would laugh and laugh.
A & P had the greatest smelling coffee beans in the whole world, I used to watch my grandmother grind them.
What about in the Movie Theaters, if you were under a certain age, (I don't remember the age), but you had to sit on the side seats of the theatre.
But then when you got to be a certain age ( again, i don;t remember the age) you had to pay full price, but you were still to young to sit in the middle, but I fixed the, (remember when they had people working in the movie theaters), I don't know what you call them?/ ( but for now I will call her mean lady)
but I remember saying to the, "mean lady": If I have to pay an adult price to see the movie, then I am sitting in the middle of the theatre with the rest of the adults, and knowing me, I probably stuck my tongue at her as well.
Miss Susie had a steamboat, the steamboat had a bell,
Miss Susie went to heaven, The steamboat went to...
Hello operator, please give me number nine,
And if you disconnect me, I'll chop of your...
Behind the fridgerator, there was a piece of glass,
Miss Susie sat on it, and broke her little...
Ask me no more questions, tell me no more lies,
The boys are in the bathroom, zipping up their...
Flies are in the meadow, bees are in the park,
Miss Susie and her boyfriend, are kissing in the...
D-A-R-K, D-A-R-K, dark, dark,
Dark is like a movie, A movie's like a show,
A show is like a TV set, and that is all...
I know I know my ma, I know I know my pa,
I know I know my sister, with the 80 meter bra!
My mom was born in England, My dad was born in France,
I was born in diapers, I couldn't fit in pants.
My mom is Godzilla, My dad is King Kong,
My brother is the stupid one, who made up this dumb song!
Remember the game we used to play I forgot the name. You made four sections on a piece of paper put them on your fingers .Placed names of colors and numbers on them, under each number you wrote something to say. Then you moved them with your finger.
Nightcrawler, I remember a version with a very slight variation of your Miss Susie song.
And then there was this one: Susie and Johnny sitting in a tree. K-I-S-Society. First comes love, then comes marriage, then comes little Susie sitting in a baby carriage.
Forgot about the baseball cards inserted in the spokes on the wheels of the bike.
Remember Miss Subway? Remember Little enough to ride on your knee, little enough to ride for free or was it the other way around?
The Ritz Thrift Shop commericial you don't have to be a millionaire to look like one, the Castro Convertible jingle, the ads all over the subway and in magazines showing a picture of a hand-drawn sketch of a horse with the caption (forgot the exact words) if you can draw like this . . . some sort of ad for a mail correspondence art school.
Taking Pittman and Gregg stenography classes in school and what steno pads looked like.
This is a great thread. So So many memories. Who ever started this should be thanked.
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