posted on February 19, 2001 02:56:32 PM new
So many songs bring back memories of yesteryear! Today I was driving in the car and "Bennie And The Jets" came on and it took me back to when I was 16 and working at a place called Greenwood Daries in Levittown, PA. They were famous for their ice cream and in the summer the restaurant was always packed. I worked in the back making the infamouse ice cream creations. One single scoop was at least a pint so their cones and other dishes were huge! They had one dish called "The Pigs Dinner" which consisted of a banana, four scoops of ice cream, and at least five or six toppings. If you could eat the whole thing by yourself, you got a pin that said,"I was a pig at Greenwood Daries."
I was only paid $1.00 an hour, but I think it was probably the best job I ever had because most of the people working there were my age and we had so much fun. I would come home every night covered in ice cream!
Amazing the memories one song can bring back. So, what takes you back?
posted on February 19, 2001 04:02:04 PM new
"Love Can Make You Happy" from about 1968. I remember waking up in the morning before school in the spring time, and the radio would come on and the lyrics said "Wake up in the morning with the sun light in your eyes...." and I always thought that was neat. I don't know who sang it, but I loved that song.
Also, Chicago "If You Leave Me Now" takes me back to 1976, when we were in the Air Force. That, and all the great disco music. I LOVE DISCO.
posted on February 19, 2001 05:37:12 PM new
'Rhythm of the Falling Rain' was the first 45 I ever bought with my allowance. Occasionally I hear it on the oldies channel, and I'm right back in my bedroom, surrounded by stuffed animals, listening to 'Rhythm' on my little cardboard suitcase style record player.
Any old Elvis showtune. Mom and I both loved Elvis. Dad hated him, but took us to the drive in theatre to see all his movies. Dad and I always got root beer snow cones and dri bbled on the seat while Dad complained about Elvis and mom shushed him.
posted on February 19, 2001 08:31:56 PM new
Greenwood Dairies takes me back cmhaas. Up the Old Lincoln Highway, past the airplane in Langhorne and just before Reedman's. I never got the T-Shirt.
posted on February 20, 2001 03:01:55 PM new
xardon: I remember Flannery's - the airplane they turned into a restaurant. I remember Reedmen's too, although my grandfather worked at McCafferty Ford!
I live up in the Poconos now, but I was down that way in the summer when my nephew graduated. Route 1 has changed so much!
posted on February 20, 2001 03:40:36 PM new
I heard a song by Dead or Alive on the radio in the car the other day and I immediately had vivid memories of getting ready to go to school in the morning, back when I was in high school. Man, was my hair ever a project back then! I used to listen to Dead or Alive and Oingo Boingo in the morning while making it big and puffy.
posted on February 20, 2001 04:00:02 PM new
Any song by the Eagles or Bob Seger. But for my husband and I... it's (not don't gag you all....) Endless Love. We will be celebrating our 19th wedding anniversary on Thursday and the song still makes my heart flutter.
posted on February 21, 2001 06:14:41 PM new
Bruce Springsteen "Born To Run"
My senior year of high school my best friend and I were huge Springsteen fans. We would put our loose change together, buy some gas for her Mom's station wagon, skip school and drive around listening to our Born To Run 8-track as loud as it would go!
Petulia Clark "Downtown"
When I was growing up in a small town in NE Ohio, I listened to CKLW (I think out of Detroit) which was a big top 40 station. I was probably only 10 or 12, but when I heard "Downtown", I always pictured myself moving to a big city and becoming this hip, groovy kind of bohemian person!
posted on February 21, 2001 07:59:27 PM new
Oh gosh, which one? Peter Frampton "Show Me the Way" from my teenie boppin time. Pink Floyd "Dark Side of the Moon" from my acid phase.
Don't ask...
I saw Bob Seger at Cleveland Public Hall in '76 or'77. Boy he gave a great concert. I can still see him in my minds eye when he sang "Main Street". Saw Sir Elton John in 1976 with Kiki Dee. Hubby really like Ted Nugent, but I could've lived without that concert.
posted on February 21, 2001 09:45:40 PM newRainybear YES!!!!!! I remember those days too! OMIGOSH...Big Hair and aquanet hairspray!
The other day I heard the remake of "Lean on Me" and it took me back to my senior year in high school and me and one of my best friends driving to Wildwood, NJ to pick out the place we'd be staying for Senior Week...ahhh the good old days LOL
Kaffro
