Growing up in a small town ---
* The post office was the front room of a ladies house.
* My mother named the street - until 'they' realized the name everyone was using wasn't actually the real name of the street.
* We had 7 bars, no schools and no churches in our town. (according to my dad - I only remember 1 bar not 7)
*Everyone seemed to be related to each other in elementary school
* Our 'block' was 9 miles around!
* There were no Fast food places in the area.
* The mall was 30 - 45 miles away
* There was no Dairy Queen, just a place called the Char-Bar owned by... yes, Charles and Barbara
* We had Redi Killowatt statue that was put on the lake each winter and we had a contest to guess when he would fall into the water when spring came! I won second place one year!
* We had 4 households on our party line phone and Daddy put us on a 10 minute limit on phone calls because he was Fire chief and needed to be able to recieve phone calls, even though we could hear the fire house siren from our house - Mom and I used to follow the fire truck to watch the bigger fires.
* Daddy new when anyone got a new car by the time of day they drove past our house
* It was BIG news when our garbage man married one of the
* I remember my closest friend my age lived 10 +/- miles away.
So many memories....