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Who Was Our Popcorn Lady?

Posted in July 24th, 2008

One of my best hometown memories from the 1950’s is our so-called popcorn lady. She sold 10-cent bags of freshly made popcorn from her small bungalow stand on the southeast corner of our town’s business square. On Saturday nights, when the farmers came to town because the stores stayed open until 10 p.m., […]

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Our Old Swimming Hole

Posted in June 16th, 2008

by JDSenior08 in Your Stories

“Good grief!” George screamed. “We’re swimming in raw sewage.”
During the summer of the 1947, two neighborhood friends, Roger and George, took me to the “dam,” a kid’s swimming hole not known to everyone in our small midwestern town. It was built […]

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