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Post by blondie on Oct 15, 2013 9:25:02 GMT -6
the PNA picnics at Oakland Park, great polka music and fun. the street dances by the Moose Lodge on S.Sterling St. the delicious bakery at Erler's bake shop on East Main St. The thumb print cookies,danish rolls,and everything were delicious. Also, fun was the Brass Under Glass performances during the July 4 celebrations.
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Post by Blue Star on Oct 15, 2013 9:31:43 GMT -6
Butter Pecan Ice-Cream @ Super Dairy & the free Plumb shows & auctions @ the Plumb Theatre! We three went every Saturday. Great fun and I lived for the end-of-Summer CARTOON festival & then they autioned off a new Shwinn Bike. My sis won the Schwin bike one year & 3 of shared it! We wouldn't of had one otherwise!
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Post by oldtimer on Oct 15, 2013 9:53:13 GMT -6
Mamer's Bakery... I can remember driving through that alley next to "The Coke Plant" and seeing that sign hanging from the garage for Mamer's Bakery!! It's funny how you remember Mamer's Bakery and that brings in another memory, The Coke Plant. I remember the Coca Cola bottle caps would say Streator, Illinois on them because the bottle of coke was made in little old Streator!
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Post by dumdave on Oct 16, 2013 9:58:53 GMT -6
The guys at the Coke Plant would give out prizes for good report cards. They would give you school supplies plus a Coke and if you got all "A"s....a six pack of Cokes! They were all real nice guys. BTW a former neighbor of Lucky1 and I won the Schwinn one year. Great story.
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Post by oldtimer on Oct 16, 2013 14:49:13 GMT -6
The guys at the Coke Plant would give out prizes for good report cards. They would give you school supplies plus a Coke and if you got all "A"s....a six pack of Cokes! They were all real nice guys. BTW a former neighbor of Lucky1 and I won the Schwinn one year. Great story. What was the name of the grocery store across the street from the Coke plant?
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Post by dumdave on Oct 17, 2013 8:56:35 GMT -6
Highland Grocery store
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Post by father of two on Oct 17, 2013 9:14:54 GMT -6
Playing army on the way to Greeley School. Neighborhood football and baseball games. Kick the can in the summer. Playing at the tracks and creek when we weren't supposed to. Hanging out with the truck drivers at the neighborhood trucking company. The drum and bugle contests back in the 60's and Streators centennial celebration. Going to the grandparents house for the weekend and getting up early to go sneak a peek at Grampa's playboys.
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Post by ~MnM~ on Oct 17, 2013 17:00:25 GMT -6
Butter Pecan Ice-Cream @ Super Dairy & the free Plumb shows & auctions @ the Plumb Theatre! You also miss that Super Dairy butter pecan...... OMGAWD that was the best ever! We have searched and searched trying every imaginable brand, and nothing can even come close. Please let me know BS if you do ever find it!!! Ahhh the Plumb Theatre and saving the milk tops for prizes, the Drive - In, downtown in general with actual STORES to be able to shop for everything imaginable....great sidewalk sales too as well. The BIGggggggggggg slide on the south side of the City Park, the beautiful rose garden on the west side...and having the biggest and best carnival come to town there. ALL of the Catholic churches and schools being in full swing...especially St. Anthony's. Holding our annual Hobby Show at the Streator Armory. Papa Joe's Pizza with their spinach garlic stuffed Popeye pizza.....yummm! To sum it up......I miss pretty much everything that WAS in the '60's and '70's, and even later...it WAS a great town to have grown up in. M PS...... BS did you go to the Elks Club as a child and meet Captain Jinx and Salty Sam........lol?
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Post by dragonfly on Oct 17, 2013 18:14:19 GMT -6
I liked being in the bike-a-thon. Do they still have one in town? We used to go door to door and people would pledge money per mile. I wonder what the young kids today would say if they are asked this question 20-30 years from now.
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Post by dumdave on Oct 18, 2013 9:02:32 GMT -6
Christmas party at the Legion Hall. Kids upstairs for movies, gift bags & Santa and the grown-ups downstairs. Downtown was great looking and so vibrant at Christmas time back in the 50's and 60's. I worked after school at Spiegal's and got to put up the toys for the display window. Was that work? No it was FUN.
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Post by oldtimer on Oct 18, 2013 9:09:09 GMT -6
Christmas party at the Legion Hall. Kids upstairs for movies, gift bags & Santa and the grown-ups downstairs. Downtown was great looking and so vibrant at Christmas time back in the 50's and 60's. I worked after school at Spiegal's and got to put up the toys for the display window. Was that work? No it was FUN. How many restaurants used to be along Main Street? It seemed every block had one or a store had a little restaurant inside it. What was the restaurant inside the Plumb Hotel and right on the corner of the street? There was the Fireside Inn. My memory isn't working today... how about the restaurant across the street from Jupiter? Then there was another restaurant in that same block and a couple doors to the west. I believe it's now the bank's parking lot.
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Post by dumdave on Oct 18, 2013 9:17:11 GMT -6
There were a lot of small lunch counters (like Goslins) and of course, the best place in downtown...Hills Bros.
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Post by ~MnM~ on Oct 18, 2013 9:38:26 GMT -6
Ohhh Hill's after school sitting in the back booths, what memories there DD! Also going to Woolworth's and Murphy's for fries and a coke. Even Leo's Fine Foods, or Big Betty's we'd stop in there too once in awhile...lol. M
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Post by oldtimer on Oct 18, 2013 9:41:53 GMT -6
Ohhh Hill's after school sitting in the back booths, what memories there DD! Also going to Woolworth's and Murphy's for fries and a coke. Even Leo's Fine Foods, or Big Betty's we'd stop in there too once in awhile...lol. M How about the El Camino Restaurant? When I was a kid that lunch counter seemed like the longest in the world!! lol What was the restaurant that was next to Kream Curl or whatever it's called now? Across the street form Quik Kill. Aaahhh... the greasy spoons this town used to have!
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Post by Anonymous on Oct 18, 2013 9:46:50 GMT -6
I recall scraping our change together to buy a gallon of gas at Hi-Lo to ride around town on. I remember my sister and her friends being hired by JCPenney to be live models and stand in their store window on Main Street modeling the latest fashions. It would freak out people when they moved. lol
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