The Tee Pee Resturaunt, Indianapolis, Ind.

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Indianapolis , Indiana . The year is 1963.

-McDonalds hamburger, fries, and large Coke: 45 cents.

--A Big Chief, onion rings, and a chocolate Coke at the TeePee drive-in; $1.20. (Frisch's Big Boy platter and a drink were $1.35.)

-A gallon of City Service Ethyl was 26 cents.

-Pack of Lucky Strikes cost 20 cents. (25 cents out of a cigarette machine).

-Movies at a downtown theater (Circle, Lyric, Lowes , Indiana , or Keith) 50 cents (before 6 PM).

-City bus fare was 20 cents. (2 cents more f or a transfer).

-Monthly phone bill: $4.95 (average). "Information" was free.

-P. O. P. (Pay One Price) all day rides at Riverside Amusement Park ; $1.00.

-A day of swimming at Longacre Pool; 35 cents. (But you could go to the Garfield Park pool for 15 cents.)

-Pay telephones (Indiana Bell ) were black and "boxey" in brown booths(ashtray equipped) with cushioned seats and sliding glass doors. A call would cost you 10 cents, but a call to the operator or Information would send your dime clanging back into the coin return.

-Copy of The Indianapolis Times newspaper; 7 cents..

-Half gallon of milk; 25 cents.

-Bouncin' Bill Baker was spinning the platters on WIBC. The "Emperor" and Jackson "Q" Sundae and Jay Reynolds were three of the WIFE Good Guys.

-Sammy Terry was giving "pleasant nightmares" on WTTV, Channel 4. Wilhelmina followed Sammy with an even worse movie!

-Happy Herb brought Popeye cartoons from the "poop deck" studio prop at Ch. 4. (Cowboy Bob was still in college; Janie was a Ch . 4 "intern.")

-David Letterman was a student at Broad Ripple High School .

-Jane Pauley was a student at Warren Central.

-Harlow Hickenlooper and Curley Meyers presented the 3 Stooges on Saturday mornings (Ch. 6, at 9:00)

-Dick Summers hosted the Teen Dance Party on Ch. 8.

-Herman Hoglebogle was fixing problems for readers of The Indianapolis News. (Herman was created by Tom Johnson, a graduate of Broad Ripple High School, 1951)

-The Hinkle Fieldhouse, the State Fair Coliseum, and Clowes Hall were the biggest, the best, and considered "state of the art".

-Debbie Drake was leading the morning exercises on Ch. 8.. Jack Lalane was doing the same on Ch. 6.

-Frances Farmer hosted the Channel 6 late afternoon movie on WFBM TV (6)

-Ruth Lyons 50 / 50 Club took up 2 hours from 12 Noon to 2:00 pm on WLW-I Ch. 13.

-There were no Country music radio stations in town. There were many German language radio programs but no Spanish language stations.

-FM was strictly for classical or "show tunes."

-WGEE, 1590 AM played music for "Colored" listeners.

-You could live in Marion County but not be a resident of the city of Indianapolis.

- Greenwood was considered to be a "hick" town.

-Castleton was a gas station.

-Fishers was a train depot.

- Carmel was a truck stop on Rt. 31.

- Avon was a red flashing stop signal along Rt. 36.

-Eagle Creek was just a creek.

-The "max" was dinner at the King Cole Restaurant , and a show at the Embers on the North Meridian "strip" of upscale night life.

-"Dream proms" were held at the Indiana Roof, and dinner at the Key West Shrimp House or at Brody's".(21st & Arlington ).

- Greyhound and Trailways buses came and went from the Traction Terminal (old Interurban) shed on W. Market St ..

-You could catch a train to Chicago about once every hour at Union Station. ($12.00 round trip)

-You could fly out on a TWA "jet" airliner at " Weir Cook Municipal Airport."

-You got your prescriptions filled at Hooks, Haags, or Rexall drug stores.

-You got groceries at Kroger, Standard, or Marsh supermarkets. (or at Porky Lane ).

-Interstate 465 was a short 4 lane "highway" that served only to connect to the "big" State and National Routes.

-No cable; No Internet; No wireless; No self-serve; No drive-thrus; No ATM's.

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A look back at the old Tee Pee Resturaunt on Madison Ave. where she worked for years.

 

 

We are already looking forward to the next family reunion in 2012.

 

 

  

The Love of a Mother
By Helen Steiner Rice

It takes a Mother's Love
To make a house a home
A place to be remembered,
No matter where we roam.

It takes a Mother's patience
To bring a child up right,
And her courage and her cheerfulness
To make a dark day bright.

It takes a Mother's thoughtfulness
To mend the heart's deep hurts,
And her skill and her endurance
To mend little socks and shirts.

It takes a Mother's kindness
To forgive us when we err,
To sympathize in trouble
And bow her head in prayer.

It takes a Mother's wisdom
To recognize our needs,
And to give us reassurance
By her loving words and deeds.

It takes a Mother's endless faith,
Her confidence and trust,
To guide us through the pitfalls
Of selfishness and lust.

And that is why in all this world
There could not be another,
Who could fulfill God's purpose
As completely as a Mother

 

A mother is a person who seeing there are only four pieces of pie for five people, promptly announces she never did care for pie. ~Tenneva Jordan

Being a full-time mother is one of the highest salaried jobs in my field, since the payment is pure love. ~Mildred B. Vermont




A suburban mother's role is to deliver children obstetrically once, and by car forever after. ~Peter De Vries




The phrase "working mother" is redundant. ~Jane Sellman




The moment a child is born, the mother is also born. She never existed before. The woman existed, but the mother, never. A mother is something absolutely new. ~Rajneesh



I remember my mother's prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life. ~Abraham Lincoln



Some mothers are kissing mothers and some are scolding mothers, but it is love just the same, and most mothers kiss and scold together. ~Pearl S. Buck



A Freudian slip is when you say one thing but mean your mother. ~Author Unknown




Women's Liberation is just a lot of foolishness. It's the men who are discriminated against. They can't bear children. And no one's likely to do anything about that. ~Golda Meir




The real religion of the world comes from women much more than from men - from mothers most of all, who carry the key of our souls in their bosoms. ~Oliver Wendell Holmes




The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness. ~Honoré de Balzac




All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his. ~Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest, 1895




He is a poor son whose sonship does not make him desire to serve all men's mothers. ~Harry Emerson

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Thou art thy mother's glass, and she in thee
Calls back the lovely April of her prime.
~William Shakespeare




An ounce of mother is worth a pound of clergy. ~Spanish Proverb




She never quite leaves her children at home, even when she doesn't take them along. ~Margaret Culkin Banning




When you are a mother, you are never really alone in your thoughts. A mother always has to think twice, once for herself and once for her child. ~Sophia Loren, Women and Beauty



If evolution really works, how come mothers only have two hands? ~Milton Berle




Motherhood is priced
Of God, at price no man may dare
To lessen or misunderstand.
~Helen Hunt Jackson




Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own. ~Aristotle




Women are aristocrats, and it is always the mother who makes us feel that we belong to the better sort. ~John Lancaster Spalding




Motherhood has a very humanizing effect. Everything gets reduced to essentials. ~Meryl Streep




The sweetest sounds to mortals given
Are heard in Mother, Home, and Heaven.
~William Goldsmith Brown




What are Raphael's Madonnas but the shadow of a mother's love, fixed in permanent outline forever? ~Thomas Wentworth Higginson




My mom is a neverending song in my heart of comfort, happiness, and being. I may sometimes forget the words but I always remember the tune. ~Graycie Harmon




The formative period for building character for eternity is in the nursery. The mother is queen of that realm and sways a scepter more potent than that of kings or priests. ~Author Unknown




 

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