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[WhatKnot]

 

[CELLFISH]

 

[MOJOE]

,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, ><))))):>
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[MOJOE]

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[live bait]

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When I was 17 I would go to American Beverage in College Point in the morning to shape up as a helper on a soda delivery truck. Those old wooden cases were heavy, I was a skinny kid & always got picked last, if at all. One morning after the trucks were gone their were 3 or 4 of us left & the boss came out & asked who knew how to operate a HI LO, looking for days pay I said I did. I thought first thing everyone would go for coffee & I could figure it out, WRONG. He had me get in to move a stack of cases with glass bottles, I proceeded to knock it over breaking most of the glass. I remember the guy chasing me down the street with a bat, needless to say I never went back.
John

 

[CELLFISH]

When I was 17 I would go to American Beverage in College Point in the morning to shape up as a helper on a soda delivery truck. Those old wooden cases were heavy, I was a skinny kid & always got picked last, if at all. One morning after the trucks were gone their were 3 or 4 of us left & the boss came out & asked who knew how to operate a HI LO, looking for days pay I said I did. I thought first thing everyone would go for coffee & I could figure it out, WRONG. He had me get in to move a stack of cases with glass bottles, I proceeded to knock it over breaking most of the glass. I remember the guy chasing me down the street with a bat, needless to say I never went back.
John

Good Story., luv it... yes those bottles & boxes were heavy...
btw, that truck is still in service, the cab & carriage updated...
look how far they come... cellie...

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[WhatKnot]

 

[JoeBfishing]

I should have been an Ice Cream man instead of a butcher!!!
Cause I’m full of it...?

 

[wader]

I remember these guys coming down the block going door to door when I lived in Levittown. And then for a few years after we moved to Farmingdale.

That would probably be ages 5 through 10 years old(?).

Vaguely recall them while in Brooklyn(off Flatbush Avenue) before the move to Levittown but that may just be my imagination. We moved to "the Island" when I was around 5.

 

[MOJOE]

the good old days ,,, and now in these days ?,, it all stinks the world has changed big time,,, kids growing up now dont know half the stuff we did,, friends take care,,,,,,,,,,,,,, ><))):>
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[WhatKnot]

Manhattan terminus of the Queens Borough Bridge Trolley in to Manhattan. I loved riding that thing as a Tyke with my Mom. It was an adventure.

 

[CELLFISH]

 

[CELLFISH]

 

[MOJOE]

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[CELLFISH]

 

[WhatKnot]

Broadway and 31st Street in Astoria, way back when.

 

[wader]

Broadway and 31st Street in Astoria, way back when.
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great picture but I pray it's not a childhood memory or you'd have surpassed Old Mud as "the Elder Angler".............

 

[wader]

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This ice cream truck song has a racist past. So Wu-Tang's RZA wrote a new one - CNN Video

A popular ice cream truck jingle called "Turkey in the Straw" has a racist past. So Good Humor ice cream company tapped Wu-Tang Clan's RZA to create a new one.

www.cnn.com

 

[Double Trouble]

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Still have one hanging in the shop!