The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #63044 Message #1021960
Posted By: Mark Clark
19-Sep-03 - 02:30 PM
Thread Name: BS: 'Think You're a Geezer??' Exam! (US)
Subject: RE: BS: 'Think You're a Geezer??' Exam! (US)
I remember Smilin’ Ed very well. Saturday morning radio was Smilin’ Ed with Froggy, Big John and Sparky (No School Today) and Comander ‘Buzz’ Corey and the Spaaaaaaace Patrolllll.
My lowest wage for an actual job was $0.75/hr at Compton's Car Wash in Phoenix, AZ, early in 1961. My buddy and I were on the road and trying to get enough money together to get on to Denver.
In the 1950's a favorite pastime was to fill one of our jalopies with kids, take up a collection for gas money, get a total of $0.85 or so and drive around all night drag racing the other kids in their jalopies, a la Henry Gregor Felson. The places Felson wrote about were my old stomping grounds.
I missed #5—hadn't heard of leg painting, must have been a metropolitan thing, #16—why smell ink when you can swallow bits of the core from benzadrine inhalers, and #19—I listened to the Ink Spots but don't rememember a song called Cabdriver.
- Mark