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montanajoe
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public restrooms had a large  continuous roll cloth towel to dry your hands on.  It was suppose to lock after being completely used and removed to be laundered.  I don't think any of the units locked, they just kept re-rolling back and forth.  
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  • allen griggs
    Four minute video by Jeff Allen.   "The America I Grew Up In."

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4vSOKh8u-Aw
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  • Nanuq907


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  • Mr. Perfect
    I liked those towels.
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  • BikerBob

    Sleds roped to car bumpers.

    (But we only did it in the winter.)

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  • pulsarnc

    We didn’t have sleds , we used old car hoods tied to the bumper when it snowed . That and skinning cats for those who know what that is .

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  • mohawk600
    BikerBob said:

    Sleds roped to car bumpers.

    (But we only did it in the winter.)

    We used to hide behind trees and run out to grab the back bumpers of city buses and "ski" when the brick streets were iced over in Amarillo.
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  • allen griggs
    I was a 10 year old kid in the Atlanta suburbs.  Our driveway went downhill from the road.  Driveway was 100 feet long, hill was fairly steep.
    But we had a cold snap one winter, I got out there with a garden hose and I spent all day hosing down the driveway.  By 4pm the driveway was a sheet of ice.  We got on a car hood and slid down the icy slope.   To kids from Georgia this was like the Winter Olympics.   We had a ball.
    Next day, the guy from the gas station was returning my parents' car, having just done some repairs.  He just pulled onto the driveway.  He didn't know it was a sheet of ice.   He swapped ends a couple times and would have gone off the little cliff at the bottom, except the two willow trees stopped him.
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