The McCarty Metro

The 2001
McCarty Metro
Under The Basement Step Since 1964

Blast From The Past

Let's see how many of these things you remember from when the McCarty Metro was in its' first few years and how they differ from the past few years. Do you remember publishing the paper under the basement steps with carbon paper. Speaking of basements, the dark game and the flashlight game, and foot hockey were fun ways to get hurt. The smell the first time the oil burning furnace went on in the fall. Burning leaves... heck... burning trash too. Going to the drugstore to test vacuum tubes for the TV. Kool-Aid being the only drink for kids, other than milk and pop. Speaking of pop... one word TICO. The only question about buying tennis shoes was High top and Low top? Wearing leather shoes to school. Girls wearing dresses. The TV taking five minutes to warm up. Getting your haircut at the kitchen table. Mom always being there when you get home. Every dog anyone owned was a mutt... Speaking of mutts... REX. A 16 cent allowance would buy a sandwich bag full of candy. Getting a quarter under your pillow when you lost a tooth had you envisioning being rich if you pulled all your teeth out (Larry even did it). A 2 cent bottle deposit had you picking up the filthiest trash in the alleys. Going to the gas station and getting your windshield cleaned, oil checked, and gas pumped, without asking, free, every time. And you got trading stamps to boot! The cost of joining the Detroit parks softball league... 10 cents. When laundry detergent had free glasses, dishes or towels hidden inside the box. When any parent could discipline any kid, or feed him, or use him to carry groceries, and nobody, not even the kid, thought a thing of it. When it was considered a great privilege to be taken out to dinner at a real restaurant with your parents. When they threatened to keep kids back a grade if they failed--and did! When being sent to the principal's office was nothing compared to the fate that awaited a misbehaving student at home.

Ain't today just great????

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