[electricbender]

I remember:

15 cent gasoline

15 cent bread (delivered)

15 cent Gino's Hamburgers

25 cent cigarettes

25 cent milk by the quart milk (delivered)

25 cent student lunch

a hundred dollar bill was unheard of

a mortage of $7500.00 was high.

We have price ourselves out of stay at home moms, 40 hour work weeks, we've replace kids jobs with retired people trying to exist... sure we're making more money... but its all going to creditors.

CREDIT in its beginning gave us a way to succeed, now it's crippling the country and the economy... If your credit company called your loan tomorrow where would you be the day after that?

[Goldilocks]

I remember Gino’s hamburgers, when I was a little tyke. One story my Dad told will always stick in my mind. The story goes that this guy wanted to open a small inexpensive hamburger joint. However he was in a quandary as to what to name the company, so he opened the business with still no name. The first customer who purchased a hamburger examined the hamburger, lifted the bun and said, “Gee no hamburger”. Thus the name “Gino Hamburgers”.

Daddy was a big meat eater and was never impressed with their hamburgers; in fact he declared they were dog meat. And if they weren't dog meat, him being a dairy farmer, he was sure the meat was made out of the sick "downer" cows that should have gone for dog food.

[oldetowner]

I remember:

15 cent gasoline

15 cent bread (delivered)

15 cent Gino's Hamburgers

25 cent cigarettes

25 cent milk by the quart milk (delivered)

25 cent student lunch

a hundred dollar bill was unheard of

a mortage of $7500.00 was high.

We have price ourselves out of stay at home moms, 40 hour work weeks, we've replace kids jobs with retired people trying to exist... sure we're making more money... but its all going to creditors.

CREDIT in its beginning gave us a way to succeed, now it's crippling the country and the economy... If your credit company called your loan tomorrow where would you be the day after that?

lets all try to guess e-bender's age? winner gets a Gino's Hamburger.

im guessing 58.

[electricbender]

I remember Gino's hamburgers, when I was a little tyke. One story my Dad told will always stick in my mind. The story goes that this guy wanted to open a small inexpensive hamburger joint. However he was in a quandary as to what to name the company, so he opened the business with still no name. The first customer who purchased a hamburger examined the hamburger, lifted the bun and said, "Gee no hamburger". Thus the name "Gino Hamburgers".

Daddy was a big meat eater and was never impressed with their hamburgers; in fact he declared they were dog meat. And if they weren't dog meat, him being a dairy farmer, he was sure the meat was made out of the sick "downer" cows that should have gone for dog food.

Actually, It was a chain of burger joints named by a professional football player pre mc donalds... just a little before its time.

lets all try to guess e-bender's age? winner gets a Gino's Hamburger.

im guessing 58.

Great Guess.......

Three things I still love: My Bike, My Wife and Americana.... not always in the same order. I do miss the prices of the past, but I still feel people should be worth what they're paid... not what they think they're worth.

[Corinne]

I remember:

15 cent Gino's Hamburgers

I remember, too. Especially Gino's. My dad was the sole wage earner most of the time & there were 4 kids. We only got to eat out on rare occasions & it was always Gino's - the one on RT. 30 near the Host. I so miss that place.

[gladys]

I remember the Gino's on Lititz Pike. A hamburger and coke for lunch -- only 25 cents! As I recall Gino's was named after Gino Marchetti a football player of the Baltimore Colts with Johnny Unitas as quarterback. Ahhh, the good old days!

[june w.]

does anyone remember huntly's hamburgers on oregon pike? i think that was the name of it... it was on the location that friendly's and midas (i think it is midas) are on now... it was a hardee's for many years too, but when i was a kid it was huntly's. i remember it had a really sloped and pointed roof (red?) and i think there were built in benches all around the outside, made out of tile (could be wrong about that though, i was really, really young). also, there was the roseville diner where mcdonald's is now. i remember always getting a hotdog and fries in a red plastic basket. does anyone remember those?

[peddler]

lets all try to guess e-bender's age? winner gets a Gino's Hamburger.

im guessing 58.

i think the old boy is 67

does anyone remember huntly's hamburgers on oregon pike? i think that was the name of it... it was on the location that friendly's and midas (i think it is midas) are on now... it was a hardee's for many years too, but when i was a kid it was huntly's. i remember it had a really sloped and pointed roof (red?) and i think there were built in benches all around the outside, made out of tile (could be wrong about that though, i was really, really young). also, there was the roseville diner where mcdonald's is now. i remember always getting a hotdog and fries in a red plastic basket. does anyone remember those?

does anyone remember the two "chinese" type buildings that were near Grinnell in Columbia?

i remember going past them as a kid but i was never in them

[LicenseForMayhem]

june w., I remember going to that Huntly's on Oregon Pike. I was really little when the place was there.

I always liked the Gino's on Columbia Avenue, where the Chinese place is or was. During a few summers in middle school and high school, I volunteered at the S June Smith Center on West End Avenue. After we had helped with lunch for the kids, the other girls and I would get a half hour for our lunch. We usually walked down to Gino's. Fun times.

[BeingReal]

I remember the Gino's on Lititz Pike. A hamburger and coke for lunch -- only 25 cents! As I recall Gino's was named after Gino Marchetti a football player of the Baltimore Colts with Johnny Unitas as quarterback. Ahhh, the good old days!

Ok, I didn't grow up in the Lancaster area, but I did grow up in a nearby county. I loved Gino's! We had one near my high school and would walk over after class to grab a burger and a coke. Another burger chain that would be a special treat was this place called HopScotch Jr's. Not sure if you had them around here, but they had fried chicken, too. My parents would take us there once in a while (couldn't afford to eat out a lot) and my sister and I thought it was the best thing since sliced bread. The town I grew up in also had a drugstore where you could walk in to buy Bazooka bubblegum for 1 or 2 cents, and we'd stop after church if my parents thought we were good kids. We also had a local bakery that was in a neat Victorian house on the main street in town, which was about 1/4 of a mile from our house. My friend and I would walk down there thorugh a field to get these huge chocolate chip cookes (the ones that are 6" in diameter) for 5 cents. Nowadays, I wouldn't even dream of letting young children make that kind of walk alone, you know? Those were such innocent times.

[electricbender]

i think the old boy is 67

Not exactly peddler... 58 was right on the nose.

[peddler]

i think the old boy is 67

Not exactly peddler... 58 was right on the nose.

sorry electric

[radiolancaster]

(in my best Homer voice) mmmmmm Gino Giant

[june w.]

Ok, I didn't grow up in the Lancaster area, but I did grow up in a nearby county. I loved Gino's! We had one near my high school and would walk over after class to grab a burger and a coke. Another burger chain that would be a special treat was this place called HopScotch Jr's. Not sure if you had them around here, but they had fried chicken, too. My parents would take us there once in a while (couldn't afford to eat out a lot) and my sister and I thought it was the best thing since sliced bread. The town I grew up in also had a drugstore where you could walk in to buy Bazooka bubblegum for 1 or 2 cents, and we'd stop after church if my parents thought we were good kids. We also had a local bakery that was in a neat Victorian house on the main street in town, which was about 1/4 of a mile from our house. My friend and I would walk down there thorugh a field to get these huge chocolate chip cookes (the ones that are 6" in diameter) for 5 cents. Nowadays, I wouldn't even dream of letting young children make that kind of walk alone, you know? Those were such innocent times.

remember when parents would send their kids to the corner store for a pack of cigarettes? mabye some things are better now

[electricbender]

remember when parents would send their kids to the corner store for a pack of cigarettes? mabye some things are better now

Actually, my stepfather reminded me of a time when a kid could get a pail of beer for his dad! Simpler times... no forced goverment processes... Welcome to the new America.