Category Archives: nostalgia
The Lights are Out Along Hubcap Alley
One of my favorite tools is from the early 1960s: a metal roll-up yardstick that I inherited from my parents. I will delve into its design in a later post, but my preternatural curiosity has me chasing after a different … Continue reading
SKyline-1, SUnset-8, and WIndsor-2
In my previous post, I outlined the history of phone numbers in Bartlesville, which became my home in 1989. This post looks at my personal telephone memories from the late 1960s to present. Bell Telephone, including the Southwestern Bell subsidiary … Continue reading
FEderal-6 and EDison-3
What do the song PEnnsylvania 6-5000, the book BUtterfield 8, and the movie Dial M for Murder have in common? All of their titles refer to telephone exchanges. Bartlesville only used exchange names in its phone numbers for about a … Continue reading
Tot Rods, Big Wheels, Sting-Rays, and Scorchers
Christmas 1969 brought me the first childhood vehicle I clearly recall: a Murray Tot Rod pedal car. I had a tricycle before it, and two different bicycles after it to round out my childhood vehicles before I got my first … Continue reading
Fragmentary Fisher-Price
Fisher-Price made toys that I know I loved despite infantile amnesia. Children generally cannot remember events from before the age of three and start remembering things consistently around the age of four. We adults can access fragment memories, which are … Continue reading
Meador Manor 