EGAD, Sandy, I only lived a couple of blocks from there! Just up Latona Avenue. About the time you were flipping up seats on the water-bicycles, I was just a couple of blocks away, passing out numbers to people standing in line at DeMent's ice cream shop on the corner of N.E. 71st and E. Green Lake Way. Dement had the first soft ice cream machine in town, and on Saturdays and Sundays hordes of people used to line up around the block to get a soft ice cream cone, and he didn't want them getting into arguments about who got there first. Now, little machines do what I used to do. You just walk up to it and "take a number." DeMent paid me two-bits an hour, and on my breaks, I got a soft ice cream cone. The pay wasn't much, but the bennies were very good!

And Kendall, if I remember rignt, the Cisco Kid's sidekick was Pancho. At the end of each program, as Cisco and Pancho were riding off into the sunset, Pancho would crack some horrible pun, and then:

CISCO (with a mixture of horror and disgust, and in spite of himself, amusement): "Oh,PANCHO!!"
PANCHO (in the spirit of "HA! I got off another good one!"): "Oh, Cisco!"
(Ride off, both laughing uproariously.)

(I suspect there may have been some allusion there to Don Quixote and Sancho Panza)

Don Firth