Milan Jackson

By The Eureka Company.

Jack Habich

Was it bagless, Milan?

Milan Jackson

No but it was self-propelled. (laugh)

Milan Jackson

Several of those cars were stored upstairs in this building. I saw some in a building on E. Douglas too. Of course they didn't run.

Terry (Max) Maxwell

Helen... Yes you can lock your doors when you are driving.  But on some cars, when you turn the engine off and still have the keys in the ignition, you can not lock the doors.  It is to prevent you from locking the keys in the car.  I think that is what she meant.

Helen Nicolaysen (Thompson)

Terry, it does make sense that leaving the keys in the ignition while turned off is a safety precaution to keep from being locked out of the car.  Thanks for clearing this up for me.  

Milan Jackson

Remember riding on this?

Milan Jackson

Happy Birthday Jan Hitzner Fries !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Jack Habich

Miller Park?

Milan Jackson

Yes, Miller Park in the 1950's

Sharrie Peasley (Orendorff)

Harriett (Holly) Rust (Wood)

 Ah, my first foray onto the Message Board and I recognize the Miller Park train.  You know that Zoo was really a disgrace with mangy animals and a dark and dank animal house...but I always thought it was cool that our little town had a zoo!

Harriett (Holly) Rust (Wood)

 I also was reading some of the past posts and the memories of Y dances are so vivid.  The terror of standing there and wondering if anyone will ask you to dance and then the fear of stepping on your partners feet!

And Cheryl Turner...I also took ballet from Galina until she asked my mother if I had any other interests.  I always knew I was a klutz!  The State Farm dances were fun, too.  It was a wonderful time to grow up and through the years I have found a certain sadness watching my own children grow up and miss out on some of the simpler things we enjoyed.  At least they grew up in a small town outside of Denver.  

This all reminds me of the holiday parades when we lived in Huntsville, TX.  At that time, Huntsville was the prison or Sam Houston State.  There was an active National Guard unit there and all parades, including the Christmas parade, had a tank rolling down the street and a truck pulling artillery!!  

Jack Habich

Holly, Steve Wilson told me the other day that he too used to go to the Y dances.  He went with Mike Kaluf, and said Kaluf was a sharp dresser and knew how to dance, while he (Wilson) felt like an out-of-it tag-along.

Harriett (Holly) Rust (Wood)

 That's funny...I remember both Steve and Mike being there.  Mike was pretty smooth, but Steve held his own.  I often went with Suzy Probasco...and many others.

And the Bloomington TV station was in that funny white building on 66 just past Brandtville.  I remember Chip someone hosted a sort of quiz show for kids and I was asked to be on it a couple of times.  They gave us a ball point pen for participating!!  Think I was also on for something 4-H related.

Jack Habich

Suzy P. is somebody I really miss.  We communicated for years after she moved to FL, and I still have a box of letters from her in the basement.

Karen Sue (Suzi) Denton (Merritt)

I remember my dad taking some of the neighborhood kids to miller park to ride the train.  He worked for the GM&O so he new the man that drove that train and we would get free rides.  Fun!  Fun!

Terry (Max) Maxwell

When growing up, I lives one block from Miller Park.  In the summer, we used to go to the park on Monday mornings after the Saturday and Sunday family reunions.  There would be a lot of pop bottles left next to the garbage barrels.  We would collect them, take them all to the Park Store for 2 cent refunds.  Then we'd take the money back to the park and ride the train and other rides all day.  Life was good.

Jack Habich

Around the 5th grade, there was a neighborhood kid, whose name I don't recall as I hardly knew him, who had a pop bottle scam going with A&P on Locust Street.  There, you brought your pop bottles to the back, and an employee would give you a slip for the amount you would then go collect at the front register.  On the way to the front, this guy would alter the amount, say from 6 cents to 16 cents.  I didn't even understand the scam, but he talked me into going with him.  Sure enough, on this day, he was apprehended and I was detained.  I was released without bail, but he had to deal with the police.  He's probably sitting in Joliet today.

Harriett (Holly) Rust (Wood)

 Hi Linda,

How do I access your class website?  I'd love to see a long lost twin!

Milan Jackson

Holly, I will add you as a guest on our site.

https://www.classcreator.com/Bloomington-IL-1963/class_index.cfm

Victor Jackson

Everyone is talking about the store at Miller park ! What about the little restaurant next door? We would go there and order a Coke they gave you a paper straw! We would drink the Coke, and then pinch the straw to make things. AH yes the zoo I made friends the man that closed the park at night so I would ride around with him after we ran everyone out we would go feed the animals in the zoo! It seems I lived at Miller park in the summer!

Milan Jackson

The Park Grill?

Milan Jackson

Linda, I don't get that. How do you simply change a number when our URL isn't near the same? I don't doubt that you can since you are in both sites but it didn't work for me.

Milan Jackson

I see now. You can go from 1963 to 1964 but you can't go from 1964 to 1963.