Happy Birthday, DrGoat!
Did you know that today - July 19th - is DrGoat's birthday? You can call him Peter if you like (even though I like his nickname a lot. Happy Birthday, Peter! From his own family photos we can enjoy this very cute image of Peter and his big sister Chris. Adorable!
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And from Sue B. (though not a "Lou and Sue" photo) comes this fun image of a baby's birthday party. One year old, I guess? There are cans of Orange Crush soda (love that artificial orange flavor!) and a quart of Baskin Robbins ice cream. Probably vanilla, but give me rocky road. Cereal boxes on top of the fridge, just like at my mom's house... fun!
Peter has emailed some other family photos as well, and I thought that today would be the perfect time to post them on GDB (with Peter's permission of course). I love this picture taken as Peter's family made the move from New York city to Tucson. DrGoat said Found this photo of my Dad and a friend who helped load the car on the second trip. That’s my Uncle’s English Ford and our Plymouth that seemed to be indestructible. Wish I still had it.
Next! Peter says Here’s the only pic I could find that was scanned of my Uncle’s VW bus they bought in France, traveled around Europe for three months and ended up in Italy. That’s a stranger checking it out in Marseille. They had it shipped back to the US and kept it till the wiring burned out and it was sold. I got to drive it quite a bit. No power, got up to 55 or 60 on the highway with the accelerator pedal all the way to the floor.
How's this for a fun photo? Here's the description, which Peter says... is of me and Quentin in ’72 on our way to LA and Disneyland for a week or two, driving my new Fiat 850 Spider which you could lift up the back end with two strong guys, or gals. Fun to drive but problematic at times. A little faster than a VW but not by much. Quentin and I grew up on the same block and were good friends until he passed about 22 years ago.
As long as we are on the subject of cars, here is my short lived Mustang I had in ’75. Guy ran a red light and I plowed right in to him. End of Mustang. TokyoMagic! is going to really feel the pain for this one.
And finally, here's a Disneyland photo from April 15th or 16th, 1995. Peter and his wife had been admitted to the park early for "Magic Morning" (a perk of staying in a Disney hotel). He says: Getting on the Indiana Jones ride first was one of our goals, so we started to head over when we ran into that guide, who told us we better hurry because they are ready to open the park. We were crossing over to Adventureland at the plaza when we looked up Main Street, we could see a mob of people storming towards us from the train station. Looked like a scene from Frankenstein when the villagers, torches in hand, stormed up to Frankenstein’s castle. We started laughing, but they were moving fast, so we gathered our wits and made a dash for Adventureland and caught up with the guide who started laughing and said “follow me”. Thus we made it to be first in line. About 2 minutes later, there were about 100 people lined up behind us. I’ll never forget that moment. It was the third day of a 5 day stay at the D-Hotel. (our longest stay at Disneyland). Never did more than 2 days before or after that. It was a very special trip. On the last day, my wife had had enough, so she stayed at the hotel and Downtown Disney and I got that last day by myself in the park. We met for lunch, she went back to the hotel and I went back to the park.
Happy Birthday, Peter, and thank you for sharing all of these wonderful photos and personal memories!
31 comments:
@ Peter-
Happy birthday, indeed. Your sister and you seemed to be surrounded by mid-century goodness: Some GE Photoflash bulb corrugated sleeves; some packs of Lucky Strikes (L.S.M.F.T.), naturally-!; probably a Western Electric 300-series telephone; that table lamp, w/matching shade; and that orange cat-? mask-?
Major-
That birthday party looks like quite the affair - Cracker Jack and candy corn for the happy revelers. Oh, yum. Does anyone recognize the 'space themed' wrapping paper-? Appears to be a twin sighting at 3:00. The birthday boy-? appears to be a bit tipsy. (Perhaps the Orange Crush has been sufficiently spiked). Good times, indeed.
Thanks, Major, Sue & Peter.
Happy birthday to you, DrGoat! We're fortunate to have you as part of the GDB group. I guess that photo was taken a couple of years ago. ;-)
That card/package on the chest of drawers (it's upside down) says something about "G.E. Photo(something) Lamp No. (number)" Wonder what that is?
Ah... Nanook answered my question. Thank you!
The birthday party (Seems I have duplicated some of nanook's observations, again... oh well): Mmm,mmm. Orange Crush, Cracker Jacks, candy corn, and birthday cake. The complete food pyramid! The one-year-old birthday kid looks a little stunned. Probably hasn't got a clue what this is all about. The gift wrap seems to be some sort of sci-fi, space theme. I like it!
Oooh! They have a "Water Works" game on the counter. We have that, too! It's actually a pretty fun game. And there's a can of Comet cleanser next to the kitchen sink... at least, I think that's the sink in there... somewhere. Mom keeps her iron on top of, what I think is, the microwave. Lookit all those dials and doohickeys!
In the "moving day" photo, all that's missing is Granny Clampett riding on top of the car in that rocking chair. (I just looked her up, her last name was Moses in the show. Mother-in law of Jed.)
The Mustang photo, 'Tis but a flesh wound! A little straightening and she'll be good as new. Well, maybe not. This was back in the days when bumpers were made of real, heavy-duty metal. Did you happen to keep the Mustang logo plate from the front end?
DrGoat, I loved your Indiana Jones story! Thank you for the photos. I hope you and your wife are doing better now.
And thank you, Sue and Major.
In the first pic, I love the lamp (which Nanook pointed out) with the bamboo motif, which continues onto the shade.
In the non-Peter and non-Lou & Sue pic, it looks like the ventilation hood is missing from above the stove. There is just a large vent pipe hanging overhead with a dirty spot on the wall where the hood used to be. And good eye on the "Water Works" game, JB! I had/have that game, and I used to love playing it.
I like the pic of the nosy lady, peeking in the car. Apparently, she had just thrown her 7-Up can on the ground. Litterbug, litterbug, shame on you....look at the terrible things you do!
Peter, sorry about your friend's passing. Wow, 22 years ago? He must have still been relatively young.
Major, yes....Peter's Mustang pic is a little difficult to look at!
As for that last photo, we can see those "blue" rocks that they just plopped down inside the entrance to Adventureland. I wonder why they didn't try to make them look more volcanic, like the ones outside the Tiki Room, or around the base of the Swiss Family Treehouse. It's so odd that they made them look so "cartoony." Oh wait, it's the nineties already. I guess it's not so odd. It was all downhill at that point.
A very happy birthday to you, Peter! Thank you for sharing these personal pics with us!
Happy Birthday Dr. Goat. Very sweet photos. The ride across the country with the furniture on the roof is a trifle "scary" to me....hopefully everything made it there...those tend to be the cars I go around on a highway to avoid a chair flying into my windscreen. But it looks like all is well, the guys look quite confident! The vehicles are super cool. Poor Mustang...unfortunately that was the same way my '68 Firebird went after I sold him. Probably would have been a good idea for the car owner to register the car in their name before wrapping it around a tree....It took me FOREVER to see the blue rocks! They are so big, I missed them completely. What on earth are those rocks doing there? It looks like it's blocking the entrance to the Men's Room, which was also the entrance to the backstage area. The guests would get all freaky when they saw girls headed in this direction. Most of the guys would be "starting the process" as they walked to the restroom which would freak out and discuss the girls. That area behind there I have talked about in a previous post: smell of vinegar, old spaghetti, vomit and barf dust. The sweet smell of the jungle! Happy Birthday!
Happy birthday Goat! Great photos today. I will be visiting often today to enjoy these. I also had an 850 in 73, it caught fire and burned, and I kid you not, in front of the Beale AFB fire department. Good times. Thanks Major.
Nanook, when I am eating birthday cake, I like to wash it down with Orange Crush, and to occasionally munch on some candy corn. I also sprinkle sugar (liberally) on everything! A nice shot glass with maple syrup is the perfect nightcap.
JB, it’s funny how I sort of miss flashbulbs, even though they were a pain in the butt. When I first saw cameras with electric flashes, I was blown away. “That’s the way to go!”. I wonder if that little kid had experienced any other birthday celebrations? The whole situation could seem a bit surreal, even to a baby. I was wondering what “Water Works” was, but now I think I remember; my sister might have had one. I still use Comet cleanser when I want my sink to be really clean and sterilized. That bleachy smell! I would describe that Mustang as a “fixer-upper”. “This baby still purrs!”.
TokyoMagic!, I only vaguely remember “Water Works” (assuming I am remembering it correctly), and while it was sort of fun, I think it was also surprisingly hard. The little hoops didn’t ever want to go where YOU wanted them to go. Fluid dynamics are complex! I was wondering about that nosy lady, can you imagine sticking your face up to somebody else’s vehicle to see what’s inside? Meanwhile I like the decals on that back window. Those dumb blue rocks, I didn’t notice them until you pointed them out. But now I can’t unsee them! Yet another example of something added that was out of place and made absolutely no sense. What was their purpose??
Bu, yes, I was thinking the same thing, with my luck I’d be halfway across the country when I’d hear an alarming noise and suddenly find all of my belongings falling off of the roof onto the road behind me. Much to the joy of the cars that now have to avoid all that stuff. I wonder if those blue rocks were a place where Indy would show up and guests could have their photos taken with him? Not that I have ever seen such photos, so… probably not. Ugh, thanks for the vivid description of those aromas!
Jonathan, there’s nothing more fun than a vehicle spontaneously bursting into flame. I once passed a car burning furiously on the side of the highway, and wondered how it got that way. I guess when the person got the car they should have specified that they wanted the “non-burning model”?
Happy birthday, Peter! Many happy returns! Love the photo of you and your sister.
The follow-on late-1970s kitchen photo is so familiar. We had a stove like that that lived in various garages from 1970 until we gave it to my grandmother in 1984. We also kept cereal on top of the fridge, but the boxes were vertical. And you would have never seen Fruit Loops or another sugary cereal in our house. We also had bamboo serving trays like the one the Water Works gamer is sitting on.
It pains me to see any car in this condition, but a Mustang like this really hurts my heart.
I love that photo of you and Quentin - excitement and anticipation and the potential of youth all wrapped into one. And it just screams "1972." You all can hear that, right?
I remember that crazy summer of 1995 well, with the stampede to Indy at Rope Drop and lines snaking all the way through Adventureland, through the entrance into some switchbacks on the bridge (as seen in your photo), out into the Hub, through the entrance to Frontierland, and all the way to the porch of the Golden Horseshoe. There were gaps at strategic spots manned by cast members so guests could cross over to the other side of the line, and periodically groups of guests would be hustled through the gaps to the next segment of line.
The day we took my then-91-yer-old grandmother, we were at the Rope at Rope Drop, and CMs were standing across the road to Adventureland and directing the mob counterclockwise around the Hub. The crowd thinned somewhat as groups broke off and went to Tomorrowland, Fantasyland, and Frontierland, but the majority were still making a beeline for Indy. We escaped through the Frontierland stockade, then took a left and snagged reservations at the Blue Bayou before diving into Pirates before the lines got long there. Good times.
JC, that sounds about right. My first car accident was on Altus AFB in front of our house as I was departing to take the SAT. I was hit by a Security Police car. Totally my fault, but the poor cop was the one who lost his driving privileges because he wasn't looking straight ahead when I pulled out in front of him.
Just out of curiosity, were you flying Q-models at the time?
Thanks so much, Peter and Sue and Major and everyone else for making each and every day here a fun one!
Happy Birthday Dr. Goat! Many Happy Returns of the Day!
Thanks for sharing those pictures. The furniture on the car is alarming, but if it worked out, ok.
Ouch for the Mustang, too bad that wouldn’t buff out.
I love the Magic Morning story, we visited right around that time and I remember the queue out to the gate like that!
Blue Rocks No Bueno. There has always been “something” in that spot to screen the restrooms and generate some interest to draw visitors in, in early pics we saw the tiki totem failing to hide the phone booths. Adventureland had no “weenie” like the Columbia Masts, Rocket Jets etc. and was probably the least successful entrance of all the lands in that sense. The blue was made even blue-er (?) and an orange (!) water pot was added for a while, truly hideous. Bu your olfactory memory is vivid.
Thanks so much Peter, and Sue and Major.
JG
Happy Birthday to the good Dr. Goat!
My favorite pic is of you and Quentin. You look a lot like my best friend back then and I looked a lot like Quentin but with lighter color hair. I totally would have been hanging out with you guys.
Hope you have a good one Peter!
Happy Birthday, Dr. Goat!!!!
I love your baby picture, Peter, and I especially love your 1972 picture! Super-cool!
I wish you a Happy Birthday and wonderful day, Peter!
I'm eating a slice of Orange Crush cake, today, in your honor. Am serious, it's sitting on my counter, now. (They are delicious, if you like Orange Crush.)
Thanks, Major, for hosting the party.
Happy Birthday Peter/DrGoat! Hope that you have a great day.
Thanks for the photos, offering a peek into your life and also the vehicles in it. Sorry about the Mustang- that's painful to see. I also had a 1965, in Tropical Turquoise. I had it for many years, but eventually sold it- I miss that car. I found out later that the guy that bought it, had it painted black, sold it to someone overseas & it was shipped to Germany.
Thanks also to Sue B. & Major.
-DW
Happy Birthday, Dr. Goat! These are fantastic photos of your yesteryears. I especially like the photo of you and Quentin. Back when we were young. All fleeting.
Also like the photo of your dad and friend leaning on the packed and loaded vehicles. You've got a whole dining set, rocking chair and recliner there.
Thanks, Dr. Goat! You're an asset to this blog. Have always enjoyed your commentary and input.
Well, first and foremost...a hearty Happy Birthday Dr. Goat!!
What a treasure of photos we have here. Mostly "mid-century modern"...including (ahem) those of us who were born at that time. I use that term rather than calling myself a Senior!
Peter, we seem to have some commonality. That picture of the 'family move' brings back memories of my family leaving Cincinnati to Lancaster CA back in '56. We had a 'carry-all" with suction cups and tie downs on the roof. My folks happened to have a '53 Plymouth Cranbrook in the then popular light green. What an adventure it was prior to the Interstate highways. What year is that Plymouth in the picture? Any how did you keep that furniture clean with all the bugs you had to drive through?? BTW...where is the rest of the furniture??
The birthday shot, if I'm not mistaken, the hood was above the range, under the oven. Perhaps it vented directly out the wall and not up through the roof.
That is a sweet color on your 850. I had a new '68 850 Sport Coupe in gold for a couple years...until it burned a valve at 18,000 miles...so I traded it in for a new '71 Pinto! Boy I sure knew how to pick cars.
Painful to see that Mustang. Today you could part it out on EBay. And you know, at our age...perhaps you could afford to get a nice one in an auction. I'd choose a convertible though.
Thanks for the memories Peter and Sue. KS
Major-
Noticing another thing. It appears the door on the refrigerator is a different color than the sides - sort of a medium-light green - which doesn't exactly track with the appliance avocado green's of the day, as it appears too light and lacks the ombré edging. (Is it a 'Mom' paint job-?? And did she use "her mixer for stirring... paint-??")
The party hats have cacti and cowboys (cowbi?).
Thank you one and all. You are all a part of my life and will remain so, even if just vicariously.
Nanook, that's a Halloween pumpkin head on the left. Must have been close to Halloween. I still have that ceramic vase sitting in on a shelf in our so called den. My sister has that chest of drawers and the mirror in the dark backround. That was taken in NYC in an apartment we lived in till 1954 when we all moved out to Tucson.
PS that the Major's Mustang. It is painful to look at. I very similar photo of my 68 Chevy Nova SS. It's depressing to look at too.
Thank you again and for putting up with my going off on tangents with stories unrelated to the pics. Good fortune in health and happiness to everyone.
And thank you Major and Sue for being so kind to me over the years.
Peter
The Plymouth is a 1950 model something. Dad bought it on the day or the day after I was born, so says my sister. Rest of the furniture came in the first load and a lot we bought here in Tucson to fill in the spaces. I'm sure we brought a fair amount of bugs with us, hanging on for dear life. I think they were no match for scorpions, centipedes and Black Widow spiders when they arrived in the desert.
Happy birthday, Herr Doktor Peter von Goat! Hope you're having a smashing time.
Another correction. I guess that is my photo of the Mustang. I actually forgot about that one since the car was basically owned by 3 of us back then. It does have '69 Arizona plates so that adds to the confusion. I'm beginning to doubt some of my memories which is very disconcerting. Had so many cars back then, it's all a blur. It wasn't until 1975 that I quit being so cavalier with things I ingested or smoked. Thank goodness sanity finally took hold.
Happy birthday DrGoat, and thanks for sharing such personal stories. Have a great day, and here's to many more of your wonderful comments!
HAPPIEST OF BIRTHDAYS DR. GOAT!!
Seeing the Orange Crush can reminds me of growing up and when my family went to the beach or pic-nics or the neighborhood bbq’s we always had Shasta …. And my sister and I always wanted name brand sodas but we always had SHASTA and the time I think a low budget brand. My mom: “Michael - Susan …. Do you want a soda….???” Me and my sister: “yes please : do we have orange crush or seven-up or Dr. Pepper??”
“Mom: there’s chocolate soda , cream soda , grape, strawberry and cola……and root beer , but that’s for your dad.”
The Adventureland green bathroom rocks started out as a very small waterfall for those of you that remember . It was redone without the trickling water as the trickling water combined with the smells of the area gave the impression the water was leaking from the restrooms!!! The whole green rock fountain project was done not by WDI in Glendale but by SQS at Disneyland ( Show Quality Standards) SQS had actually overspent on that project and ran out of money for some other smaller Adventureland projects . WDI Glendale was a little irritated because they had been working on a solution to the massive congestion of that Adventureland “dog-leg” entry ….with the bathrooms right there and the added crowds Indy brought . ( any architect knows you NEVER have a bathroom located right at the entry of a building facing the door opening!! Lol!) WDI was developing a central market alley with a junction leading in two other directions : one to Indy , the other to Frontierland ( between Riverbelle terrace and Stage Door) the model was kept around for a long time then Disneyland decided they had already spent enough money on Indy and guests could deal with the congestion .. and SQS had just put in “that beautiful waterfall at the entry”
Mike, when I read stories like that I always think "why would they do that?" And then I remember the two magic words - Paul Pressler - and it all makes sense.
Chuck, I suppose it would have been better for me if my mom had denied those sugary cereals, but MAN, I loved them so much! Even today I would happily eat a bowl of Froot Loops or Cap’n Crunch as a late-night snack - except that I am avoiding those snacks. Now it’s granola IF I have any cereal at all. And yes, that photo of Peter and Quentin evokes the good times of our youth, when so much was possible. I’ve only been to Disneyland for rope-drop a single time, if you can believe it… the people I generally went with were not early birds, sadly. The last time I went to the park, my girl was so slow in getting ready that we didn’t get there until around 11:00. I was going nuts! “The day is half over!”. I wonder what the next attraction will be that will have those “Indy”-type lines? Galaxy’s Edge was supposed to be like that, but as far as I know they never materialized.
JG, all you need is some Elmer’s glue and poster paint, and that car would be as good as new. Those dumb blue rocks are the perfect example of the park losing its way. No, they are not a big deal by themselves, but when they make 50 decisions that are equally as bad, it makes a noticeable effect.
Grant, those guys look like they might be up some mischief!
Stu29573, ditto.
Lou and Sue, Orange Crush cake! That’s a new one. Hostess used to make orange cupcakes, which my brother especially loved. I wasn’t as fond of them, but hey, I’d eat one if it was put in front of me!
DW, “Tropical Turquoise”, what a great name for a color. I’d want that too. I wonder if your Mustang is still running on the Autobahn!
K. Martinez, I think Peter said that his Dad had to do one additional trip to get more stuff. I’m wondering if they left some items behind, preferring to get a “fresh start” at their new home?
KS, yes, I might just qualify as “mid-century modern” myself! The carry-all with suction cups sounds dicey - I think of all the times when suction cups fail. My family moved a lot, but when we came from Pennsylvania back to SoCal, my dad hired one moving van, and then drove a U-Haul with other items (to save money), and even had a car hitched to the back. He had to drive thousands of miles with that unwieldy load, and I think he did it in four days. The poor guy.
Nanook, I can’t tell if the fridge door is really a different color, or if it is just catching the greenish light of the fluorescents overhead. Although… my sister has repainted the door of her refrigerator with household enamel more than once.
Anonymous, they have a space theme AND a cowboy theme!
DrGoat, hooray, I’m glad you checked in! That pumpkin head is actually kind of creepy. Cool that you still have some of the items from that photo. It’s fun for me to look at old family photos from before I was born, and to see tables and other items, now in my mom’s house. I wish I’d owned a cool Mustang at some point, but that one isn’t mine! I could have sworn you sent me that picture. I think I’m having an aneurism. And tangents are THE best thing on GDB!
DrGoat, once on a vacation we tied a bunch of stuff to the top of our Buick station wagon (it had a luggage rack), and not only was everything covered in bug goo, but we even managed to kill a poor bird. I’ve never seen a scorpion in the wild. I don’t want to be stung, but I do think they are kind of cool.
Melissa, I didn’t know he was of the nobility!
DrGoat, aha! I’m not having an aneurism. Good news. I hardly remember anything from last month, much less from 1969, so no need to feel concerned.
Andrew, nice to hear from you, and I can’t wait to read MULTIPLE, very detailed trip reports about your time at Disneyland!
Mike Cozart, I always loved Shasta sodas, especially the grape flavor. Everyone in my family liked root beer, but I only liked A&W, so if they had Dad’s, or Hires, or whatever, I didn’t care for it. Sometimes it was the only option. So the point of those Adventureland rocks was just to add a waterfall? I would like it, if it didn’t look so “plopped down” into place. SQS, that’s new to me. I wonder how many other bad things they worked on? I don’t understand where that Central Market Alley was supposed to go, there’s no room as it is. Funny how they just decided “Yes, it’s crowded, but guests are just going to have to lump it”. I mean, they aren’t wrong, but I’d expect more from them.
Tokyo!, about the Water Works game: Further proof that weird minds think alike!
Major, "This baby still purrs!". Only if a stray cat is living inside it.
I think you have a different game in mind, Major. Water Works is a card game. The cards have different types of pipes printed on them. The object is to make a string of pipe sections using a predetermined number of cards in between the faucet and the spout. Players can slap a "leaky" pipe card onto your layout, which can be fixed with a small metal wrench or a copper pipe card (copper pipes can't leak)... Funny how I remember all that. I haven't played it for decades.
Major,
We had so many scorpions when we lived up in the Tucson Mts., If they got in the house, which was frequently, I learned which ones to dispatch and which ones to throw outside. They ate termites and other bugs. It was the smaller Bark scorpions that were bad. Got stung twice. I stepped on one getting out of bed and the other one got me twice on my knee outside in the garden. VERY painful and narcotics or pain killers just made the pain worse. The only thing the Dr. said was to take a valium which helped damped down the nerve pain. The giant Hairy Desert scorpions were our outside termite patrol. They loved them, great protein. Never got stung, but from what I hear it's like a bee sting.
Shasta sodas were the mainstay at my house. I liked Frosty root beer, but A&W was the best, but as I recall, it wasn't available except at the drive-in.
I really don't recall the first time I ever had a Coke or Pepsi, it was always Shasta. Maybe as late as high school for those treats. The packing shed where we sold the fruit had Nehi and Fanta, but again, no coke or pepsi. I might get one Nehi per summer during peach season. The dispenser there was one of the ice chests you slid over the lid and reached down into, and left your coin in the bucket, not a machine. I think we liked the fruit flavored sodas better than colas. I never saw Dad drink a cola of any kind. Shasta used to have a black cherry that was really good.
Thanks for the reminder of that. Summer time swim lessons, and stop at the market for a soda on the way home, or drink one while waiting for the truck to be unloaded because you were too small to lift a full lug box of peaches, so the shed crew would help Dad, swinging your legs off the loading dock. Oh to do that again.
All the things you help me remember, GDB. Thank you everyone.
JG
The Adventureland restrooms were going to be relocated and the new ADVENTURELAND “Casbah” was going to go right down the center of the Adventureland and Frontierland back of house. The market alley would split allowing guests to go left to jungle cruise - indy and the treehouse or right into Frontierland exiting right between the wheel House and Stage Door cafe.
The art concept for the Adventureland Casbah “junction” appears in the book THE ARCHITECTURE OF REASSURANCE - Designing Disney Theme Parks. It was also available on the ART OF DISNEYLAND print on demand machines at the Disney Gallery during the Disneyland 50th….. I think generically labeled “Adventureland Market”.
The Adventureland green rock waterfall project was done to separate the male and female restroom vestibules. SQS is a group located at all Disney theme parks - comprised of designer , engineers and imagineers based at the parks. Kim Irvine - the creative force behind Disneyland’s recent heavy paint / mascara color schemes is in charge of Disneyland’s SQS ( Show Quality Standards).
Happy Birthday, Dr. Goat!
That Happy Birthday crepe ribbon twisted from the ceiling brings back a lot of memories. My mom used to put that over the dining room table for birthday parties back in the late 70s through 80s.
My dad had a Fiat X1/9 in the 1980s. It was a fun car - we once took the targa roof off while waiting for a red light, impressing other drivers more than a little. But it was terrible to work on. There were more than a few instances where we would need a part, then find out it was the wrong one because the month the car was built, they "borrowed" a part from another model. I remember waiting a week for bearings, then realizing we needed ones from the Strada. I'd still pay an unreasonable amount of money for a running one.
Living in NJ, Shasta was an exotic soda here. White Rock and A-Treat were our odd regional brands. Though on most of occasions my mom allowed soda, we had A&P brand in the very 1970s design cans.
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