Post by mountainma on Feb 25, 2023 21:47:43 GMT -6
I remember when I was a child, a city employee would go around town with a stick, hitting the tires of the cars parked along the streets. The stick would apply chalk to the tires. After an hour or two, the parking man (or whatever he was called) would come around to do it again. Any cars with chalk left on the tires would get a parking ticket, because they were over the parking time limit. Nowadays you don't see this. We have parking meters and people put money in the meters to park. The "meter maid" or "meter man" will go around town and check the meters and give tickets accordingly. Near our hospitals, you can insert a debit or credit card inside the meter to pay for parking.
We used to have "drive in" restaurants. There was no drive-thru. You would park your cars in two lines near the door of the restaurant. Each parking space had a sign with the menu. You would roll down the car windows and a lady would come and attach a tray to the car door and take your order. She would bring out the order and set your food and drinks on the tray and you would pay her. You then sat and ate in the car. We used to go to A & W because they gave tiny shot glasses of root beer free to the kids when the adults ate. We didn't have much money, but once in a while we would go there and we kids would sit in the back seat and drink our little root beers while the adults drank their regular size root beer. We always got root beer, never Coke. It was a real treat. We drank from glass, not plastic or paper cups. When we were finished, the lady would come out and take the tray of empty glasses back into the restaurant. This was in the late 1970's.
I remember when my brothers were born, we did not have car seats. In fact, I don't even know if the cars had seatbelts. We would put pillows on the floor of the back seat and my brothers would sit there. If a child was very small, some people would put a pillow in a laundry basket and put the child in the basket to ride in the back seat. I remember going on long trips and we kids would lay in the back window of the car to take a nap. This was before everyone had to wear a seat belt.
We used to have "drive in" restaurants. There was no drive-thru. You would park your cars in two lines near the door of the restaurant. Each parking space had a sign with the menu. You would roll down the car windows and a lady would come and attach a tray to the car door and take your order. She would bring out the order and set your food and drinks on the tray and you would pay her. You then sat and ate in the car. We used to go to A & W because they gave tiny shot glasses of root beer free to the kids when the adults ate. We didn't have much money, but once in a while we would go there and we kids would sit in the back seat and drink our little root beers while the adults drank their regular size root beer. We always got root beer, never Coke. It was a real treat. We drank from glass, not plastic or paper cups. When we were finished, the lady would come out and take the tray of empty glasses back into the restaurant. This was in the late 1970's.
I remember when my brothers were born, we did not have car seats. In fact, I don't even know if the cars had seatbelts. We would put pillows on the floor of the back seat and my brothers would sit there. If a child was very small, some people would put a pillow in a laundry basket and put the child in the basket to ride in the back seat. I remember going on long trips and we kids would lay in the back window of the car to take a nap. This was before everyone had to wear a seat belt.