The Best Time in Anderson or In Your Life

[Ma and Pa]

Should have told them you were a Kroc-aterian. Maybe they'd have fed you burgers and fries from McDonalds.   

[Gardengirl]

At MHHS about 1965, a Cuban boy who'd escaped from Cuba came to our school for awhile. We had a Swedish exchange student I remember, or Danish maybe. I really don't think it "hurt" anyone not having other cultures when growing up, because once you go to college or out in the real world, they are there, and you have no problems getting to know them. I had had NO interaction with black people other than my mom's two ladies that helped her with us when we were little, but when I came to California, ALL my friends in college were black.

[Gardengirl]

I wish I could remember more about growing up in Anderson. We didn't go out a lot since my mom didn't drive. We never went anywhere unless my dad drove us. My mom didn't learn to drive until after my dad died. He didn't really want to her to learn. Once, he "tried" to teach her, but made it so miserable, she didn't ask again.

So, there are parts of Anderson I've never seen! I remember the good old Free Fair and the kewpie dolls on sticks covered with sparkles and feathers. I loved those and wish I'd made a collection of them. When my mom moved us to California, we had to throw out all our Beatles baseball cards (what would have been $5000-$10,000 dollars worth) and all those magazines that featured them. I did go to three of their concerts, the first in Indy and two more in Chicago. One was at Wrigley Field. They were all so much fun.

[Mr442]

We were visiting friends in Anderson, when Porky's came out.  The four of us went to the Mounds Mall theater to see it, along with at least half of Anderson.  It was literally standing room only.  We laughed so hard, we missed a good portion of the dialogue.  The scene in the principals office, right after the shower scene, had the whole place in tears from laughing so hard.

"Can we just call it a tally-whacker?"   

[Gardengirl]

Andersonians must love movies. I remember standing room only at every Jerry Lewis movie in the 1960s.

[The Troll]

blah, blah, blah..........Never anything of value to say.......just, blah, blah, blah.....

try contributing something worth while, ONCE in a while will ya? ALWAYS the same ol BS.

  Henery, Henery  what you just said sound just like you were talking about  yourself.

   Oh, one more thing Henery I thought about you Monday.  The wife and I stop at a drive up and bought to chocolate malts.  I said this is good, but it's nothing like what Linders put out.  A extra thick malt.  Then I thought, I wonder if old Henery would like to have another real Linders malt.   I'll bet  you sure could have made yourself a "REAL THICK" malt when you were working there. 

[Henry Hawk]

  Henery, Henery  what you just said sound just like you were talking about  yourself.

   Oh, one more thing Henery I thought about you Monday.  The wife and I stop at a drive up and bought to chocolate malts.  I said this is good, but it's nothing like what Linders put out.  A extra thick malt.  Then I thought, I wonder if old Henery would like to have another real Linders malt.   I'll bet  you sure could have made yourself a "REAL THICK" malt when you were working there. 

Actually it was Bert T. Ownes on Columbus Ave....and YES! I sure did make me an awesome malt a time or two...that was some GREAT Ice Cream....I have never tasted one that even came close to the ones we used to make there.....

[The Troll]

Actually it was Bert T. Ownes on Columbus Ave....and YES! I sure did make me an awesome malt a time or two...that was some GREAT Ice Cream....I have never tasted one that even came close to the ones we used to make there.....

  Had a brain fart on the name Bert T. Owens.  As a kid I took care of Linder's On The Point's yard.  It wasn't too bad except for the paper and cups and the beer cans in the grass along highway 67. 

[Anne]

I loved Owens ice cream. My sister and I would walk there for choclate ice cream cones when we visited our aunt and uncle who lived on 27th street.

[The Troll]

I loved Owens ice cream. My sister and I would walk there for choclate ice cream cones when we visited our aunt and uncle who lived on 27th street.

  I love it too.  The only time I ate ice cream cone there was, when I couldn't scrap up the money for a Extra Thick Malt.

[Henry Hawk]

Well if you was in there between 1978 and 1979.....we may have crossed paths.....I had a blast working there....made some great friends. 
Troll, did you ever have one of the Roast Beef sandwiches?.....they were classic!!

[The Troll]

Well if you was in there between 1978 and 1979.....we may have crossed paths.....I had a blast working there....made some great friends. 
Troll, did you ever have one of the Roast Beef sandwiches?.....they were classic!!

  Sure do, they were tender and had just the right bite of spice to put it over the top.  I often wondered what that spice was.   The next best roast beefs was at Jimmy's in Pendleton, Art's roast beef with green  pepper and Scampy's roast beef with green  pepper. 

  Wasn't there a Owens over on what is now Martin Luther King road.  Down from where the Pontiac dealership was.

  You know I really feel bad when I talk about Anderson and all of the good places gone.  I am afraid it will never and I mean never be what Anderson use to be.  

[Nighthawk]

Mmmmmm.... Arts Roast Beef and Sausage Sammiches. 

[Palehorse]

  . . . I am afraid it will never and I mean never be what Anderson use to be.

Why feel bad about it! One can only hope that it will never be what it once was. Clearly that was an unsustainable condition! 

[The Troll]

Why feel bad about it! One can only hope that it will never be what it once was. Clearly that was an unsustainable condition! 

  I don't know when Anderson first meet General Motors, but for many years it was a good match.  My dad came over the state line from Celina, Ohio.  He had been working for Heinz pickles there and came over to Anderson to work for GM 1942.

  The wages he made working for Heinz was pathetic compared to GM's.  It sure change his life and his family's life.