Engineer Bill will not be down for breakfast

[GRUMPY PIRATE]

Another trip through Nostalgialand! I should buy the Cootie game for my grandkids.

Cootie smilie, Zazu?

If he finds one, it has to be for GIRL cooties, 'cause boys (and pirates) don't have them!!!


hehehehehe

[Elena (aka: Bubble Lady)]

We used to go to LAX all the time when I was a kid and lived in El Segundo- used to watch the planes take off from inside the airport terminal...would never happen now!
Used to go to Woody's restaurant down the street where you could make your own sundaes-think Woody's is still there! :)

[font="Palatino Linotype"]unfortunately, woody's is gone[/font] :(

[Elena (aka: Bubble Lady)]

You must have shopped at the Broadway! The Boston Store was in Inglewood on Imperial Blvd. There was one in Anaheim and in Rossmoor, too.

[font="Palatino Linotype"]we'd go INTO the broadway, but only SHOPPED there at month-end (great sales at month-end), but we shopped up and down both sides of the street in downtown westchester (it was a great place to grow up back then...plenty of stores and 2 premier movie theaters)...it's so sad now...there's hardly anything there on those blocks now...plenty of businesses, but nothing like it used to be <SIGH>

we also used to go into the airport terminals to watch the planes take off and land...we'd pretend we were going to meet someone...or we'd go caroling there... :D: [/font]

[Ms. Matterhorn]

[font="Palatino Linotype"]we'd go INTO the broadway, but only SHOPPED there at month-end (great sales at month-end), but we shopped up and down both sides of the street in downtown westchester (it was a great place to grow up back then...plenty of stores and 2 premier movie theaters)...it's so sad now...there's hardly anything there on those blocks now...plenty of businesses, but nothing like it used to be <SIGH>

we also used to go into the airport terminals to watch the planes take off and land...we'd pretend we were going to meet someone...or we'd go caroling there... :D: [/font]

I seem to remember a Newberry's, and of course the Loyola theater. My family lived in Playa del Rey for a short while.

[Elena (aka: Bubble Lady)]

I seem to remember a Newberry's, and of course the Loyola theater. My family lived in Playa del Rey for a short while.

[font="Palatino Linotype"]there was (from manchester going south) sav-on, tom mc cahn shoe store(i'm sure i've spelled that wrong), see's, penney's, kinney's, heartfields, leed's, woolworth's, the broadway...crossing the street still going south - newberry's, mayfair market, several other stores i can't remember and some restaurants (when i was in jr. high there was a lum's) and at the very end a pier one...cross the street going east the paradise (that's a walk-in theater with a cry room), thrifty's, a lot of very small shops (men's wear, jewelry stores, dry cleaners), gallencamps, more small shops,a couple of banks, bonds (another men's wear) and the loyola (another walk-in) and a bank on the corner (back at manchester)

i'm sure i've missed out on some stores, but it's been a long time since i've walked down this memory lane...most of the stores closed when the fox hills mall opened in 1975 (in oct. i remember cuz we went to go for a walk there when i was a week overdue with my son) [/font]

[Zazu]

Cootie smilie, Zazu?

But of course!

:cootie:

[Zazu]

[font="Palatino Linotype"]we also used to go into the airport terminals to watch the planes take off and land...we'd pretend we were going to meet someone...or we'd go caroling there... :D: [/font]

Oh, you mean the *new* terminal. The old terminal on Imperial was more fun; nothing between you and the prop wash but a 3-foot tall chain link fence!

Extra points for anyone who remembers being hit with prop wash (outside the military).

[hobie16]

The original terminal at SFO (now the central or international terminal) had an observation deck on the second floor. My dad flew a lot so my brother and I would go up and watch planes. This was when there were still a lot of DC-7s and Constellations in use so we got lots of prop wash.

[Zazu]

The original terminal at SFO (now the central or international terminal) had an observation deck on the second floor. My dad flew a lot so my brother and I would go up and watch planes. This was when there were still a lot of DC-7s and Constellations in use so we got lots of prop wash.

We have a winner! Hobie, "Props to you!"

[GRUMPY PIRATE]

When I was stationed at a base we had to fly into and out of, the government contracter used DC3's and DC7's. holey prop wash!!!

Flew in those suckers three round trips a week for a year. Woof!