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I LOVED If You Had Wings. Sponsored by "Monsanto" right? That was kind of like the prelude to Soarin!
Hate to quote myself, but this is bugging me! One of the early Disney shows was sponsored by Monsanto because I remember having to sit on a little bench in the waiting area and watch a little movie/ad about Monsanto before going in to the ride. But maybe If you Had Wings wasn't it???
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Rich's department store. It was an Atlanta institution. When Federated bought it, things were just never the same. Davidson's was the same. Macy's bought it and it went right down the drain.
Hate to quote myself, but this is bugging me! One of the early Disney shows was sponsored by Monsanto because I remember having to sit on a little bench in the waiting area and watch a little movie/ad about Monsanto before going in to the ride. But maybe If you Had Wings wasn't it???
I feel like I have such a gap in my social knowledge! I don't remember ANY of those things, having grown up in Germany. It's like everyone is speaking a foreign language...
If your were born in Germany, we are speaking a foreign language!!!
I was actually born Stateside, but moved to Germany when I was 5 and didn't return until I was almost 13. We didn't have TV, either, until right at the end of our stay, although when visiting my German godparents, we might catch an episode of Daktari or Star Trek "auf Deutsch" which Herr Schpock was always quite funny speaking German!
I do remember doing a science fair project about telecommunications the year we got back and having to learn about "party lines"...that would have freaked me out having to share my phone!
Our party line only had 4 families on it, so it wasn't too bad. Our ring was 1 long, 1 short. DH's party line had 8 families on it! Can you imagine? Somebody's ring was 4 long, 4 short! It used to be awfully annoying when they weren't home and whoever was phoning them would let the phone ring 10 times!! (Do the math... that's 40 long and 40 shorts!! )
DING, DING, DING!!! I remember Stuckey's! Before we moved to Germany, we drove across country from NJ to OK and back (on the Penna Turnpike, stopping at Roadside America...I love that place!) and we'd stop at Stuckey's for peanut brittle and some kind of log stuff that my dad loved (but no one else did...) Thanks for the flashback!
Dawn,
That was the Pecan Log if memory serves. Grandpa loved them too. I was going to put Stuckey's , but I couldn't remember the name properly, so I left it off.
We have A&W here. It's in our big mall. I love the Mama burger there.
I remember hearing about Woolworth's as well. I about flipped when I found one In Ely, England. DH couldn't figure why it was SSOO important to me, but I was preggers then, so he figure it was the baby diong it to me. He let me go in & buy some Pacafiers or something. I had to call my Mom when we got back to the base to tell her all about it. At least she understood my excitement!
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I was actually born Stateside, but moved to Germany when I was 5 and didn't return until I was almost 13. We didn't have TV, either, until right at the end of our stay, although when visiting my German godparents, we might catch an episode of Daktari or Star Trek "auf Deutsch" which Herr Schpock was always quite funny speaking German! 
It used to be awfully annoying when they weren't home and whoever was phoning them would let the phone ring 10 times!! (Do the math... that's 40 long and 40 shorts!! 
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