On 6/22/2010 8:18 PM, Wayne Boatwright wrote:
> On Tue 22 Jun 2010 03:52:45p, Becca told us...
>
>> On 6/22/2010 11:10 AM, Wayne Boatwright wrote:
>>>
>>>> When I was young I ate at Woolworths a couple of times, but my
>>>> older brother ordered for me. Woolworths disappeared by the time
>>>> I was old enough to remember anything. We enjoyed eating at
>>>> drugstores. My brother would order my food and some kind of
>>>> "phosphate" to drink. I could see her making it above the
>>>> counter.
>>>> Again, I was too young to remember.
>>>>
>>> There was a small drugstore with a very small sofa fountain near
>>> where I lived when I was 4-5 years old. I would sometimes get to
>>> go with the "older kids" (7-9 years old) and order something. I
>>> almost always ordered a "cherry false face", thinking that was
>>> what a phosphate was.
>>>
>>
>> Thanks for the laugh, Wayne. Now I will always remember "cherry
>> false face". I believe that is what I had also. Life was much
>> simpler back then. Oh gosh, now I'm sounding old. lol
>>
>> Becca
>>
>
> I am old, and it was much simpler back then. I would not want to be
> a kid today.

Yeah.

You're reminding me of visits to the dentist (my GOD has dentistry
advanced since then, and all in good ways) when I was a kid. He had his
office behind an independent drug store and he always gave me a
certificate for an ice cream cone when he was done torturing me.

But later, in high school, the other pharmacy got my custom and that of
most of the other guys in the school. Debbie O'Neill, the prettiest
girl in the school, was the soda jerk there, and you could get anything
you wanted, except for Debbie, but we all kept buying and trying.