Chat Room 4

Well, no matter how hot it gets this summer, I am doing my best to not complain and just enjoy it. I know it's going to be cold again in October and I am in no hurry to put the coats back on!

That's why they have so many dogs in the south; they sit on the porch and have them all wag their tails to make a breeze.

Hiya Rhett!

 You guys, I can remeber living without much air conditioning, you change your life, you wake up early in the morning, do your work and swim in the afternoon and sleep a bit and then at night you do your town social "talking". Hence how "Crusin' main street" became fashinonable as was "surf-boarding" in California. A lot of soicalizing was done as you watched movies at an outside drive-in also, and everyone met at the local hamburger drive through afterwards. so you really lived the better part of your life in the cooler hours back then. Sipped on ice tea, lemonaide and cold "Coke" also. In the hot afternooons you stayed insdie lounging as you watched "The Mickey Mouse Club" and did your hair in thise huge rollers and did your nails, and finsished off "Amiercan Bandstand" with Dick Clark, before dinner, the crusining started about 8 pm, the movies about 9 to 10 pm. the late night hamburger around 12 midnight. Curfew was at 12 mid-night but if you were on your way home an didn't loiter they never bothered you much. Other then that is was street dances with local bands. We had to be at work by 6 am and came home daily after 2 pm, because it was outside work, helping the farmers harvest berry crops for the local canneries. They didnt 'have age staus to this kind of an job. We earned our school clothes every summer., and an bit of playing around money. About your only other choice to get an job was when the county fair came to town. It was about one ot two weeks though Make french fries in the back of the tent until you thought you'd gag to see another one of them.We also had green beans if we didnt' go the berry route. If I did that by today's standards, I'd make about $150 or more a day. But they now have made it an regular job for people with strict rules...just like any other 8 hour workday job...kids can no longer do it and fields have went the by-side into housing tracts also...the cannery closed..the drive -in movies went out, they made where the hamburger stand  an four lane road. The kids watch different programs, mostly sit-comes on Disney Channel and if the going gets rough, we go out to see an double feature movie where it's air condtioned and then out to dinner...then maybe swimming for an bit. Last year they started night movies in the city park, with an box-picinic prior to it. Near where the little kids can play on the swings and such. If the weather is to hot, I go rent an motel room. But my downstairs with my "air" is pretty cool most the time. I have air codntioning and I've used it very few times. The senior citizens hop in ther RV's and head for Mt. Hood ... it's  most the time 10 to 20 degres cooler outside there. They also come over from the Bend area of Central Oregon sometimes. Late night downtwon Portland street cafes have taken up the place for crusin these days.