Mike Fink, King of the River!

I remember when DR's made house calls or at least sent a nurse if you were too sick to go out..

I wonder when the milk man delivering the bottles of milk to homes finally died out? I'm guessing sometime in the late 60's?

This is a bit of a long watch but it perfectly shows what American life was like in 1940. The very idea of door to door car salesmen would be bizarre for most people today. Oh and this was brilliantly riffed by the crew at Mystery Science Theater so enjoy!

I remember going with my dad on his milk runs some Saturdays in the early 60's. Riding through the countryside in a milk truck with the passenger's side door open and no seat belts. Would land him in jail and me in foster care today.

I can remember these.



Palm Dairy milk delivery. The very last day of delivery by horse-drawn milk wagon in 1955. The house was on the west side of Drinkwater Street where the Paris Street bridge is located, in 2015.

The horse would move on to the next house while the milkman was going up to the house. A lot of the houses had cupboards that the milk was put in. There was a door on the inside of the house. In the summer to keep the sun off and in the winter to stop the milk from freezing

Thanks for that photo KK! It was most certainly a different world and era.

Some of you old(er)-timers growing into boyhood had the prettiest girls to gawk at (MM not my favorite of the era, but even crazy looked classy in those days)...




...but you also had to endure Medieval torture...




Lol! Ok, maybe more like this...




...although even the 70's looked like a little shop of horrors compared with today...

Some of my huge crushes from many decades ago,


PIC #1 Ruby Keeler
PIC #2 Marika Rokk
PIC #3 Joan Blondell

Joan Blondell had aged a bit by the time she played the character of Lady Fingers--the dealers for the big final 5 card stud game in "The Cincinnati Kid" from 1965. They even hired a well-known West coast magician and card mechanic to teach her how to deal and look professional.



Still, she was quite popular as a comedic character in a lot of TV sitcoms of the period.

Cheers

I actually had the recording of the song on a .45 RPM record. I got by sending in 50 cents and a label from a Peter Pan peanut butter jar. They were the sponsors of the Wonderful World of Disney. The peanut butter company actually used the Disney Peter Pan movie artwork for the picture of Tinkerbell on the jar at the time. Since they are no longer associated, the character artwork is just generic now.

The Lone Ranger and the Cisco Kid were also favorites of mine. Around the mid 50's my dad ran a barber shop that was attached to the downtown hotel in my town. I was spending the day at my dad's shop and at some point he grabbed me and took me in to the hotel lobby to meet someone. To my surprise, it was the actor who played the Cisco Kid--Duncan Renaldo. He was wearing a business suit but was still sitting at a table in the lobby signing autographed pictures for anyone who wanted one. I was thrilled to death at the time.

He signed it personally to me and I still have it.



Cheers

Hey Pancho....

Hey Cisco!

Wow, holy flashbacks!

Great pictures. My Dad and Uncle had the Davy Crockett stuff in the 50's. I came later along and also loved the Fess Parker/Buddy Espen Davy Crockett movie and my own cap Kentucky long rifle in the 80s. Those guys were very heroic to me in their depiction of those men in the Disney classic. Davy going into Congress with his buckskins and speaking his mind, how he was with his wife and kids and his frontier and horseman skills, his interactions with Andrew Jackson and with the whole musical narrative throughout.

I was going to mention it earlier FO but I also miss good cap pistols. You were before my time but I still had metal caste cap pistols in the 80s. Heavy and solid enough that put the other junk to shame and that you could sling. My Dad even bought me a policeman's holster at a flea market in New Mexico. Didn't match at all but it was real leather and real cool to me. I also miss the rolls of paper caps. I think you can still get them online but it seems you don't see any real good cap stuff in stores anymore. I found a site online that makes amazing quality cap pistols. Replica level pistols made in Italy or Spain I think but very expensive. But I think they have moving parts and are pretty amazing quality.

I always loved the paper cap rolls the best though. There was something more satisfying about spooling and loading those in to your own "cowboy" pistol and seemed to sound, look and SMELL better than those little plastic ring variety. Plus you could scrape and ignite the paper caps with your thumb if you were feeling like a tough guy.

I just saw your photo of Cisco Kid with your story FO. That's awesome and a great memory. My grandmother often told me about an autograph photo she had of Tom Mix I believe.

Yep, would buy a bunch of them and then discovered that if you use a really big hammer like 5lb. Lay the roll on its side and let it fly. The resulting noise was Awesome when the entire thing goes at once.