Memory Exchange

Do you remember...

• The Thursday night "teen dance" in the firehouse/park house?

• The White Store - "My Brother's Place"?
  • The great tasting widgets?
  • pop rocks (candy) found at the "Red Store" (Gene & Wally's)
  • The water old fountain across the street from "The White Store"?

• "CHI...CAGO PAP...ERS!" the call of the paper boy?
  • papers being delivered in the park in the Mornings and afternoon?
  • papers being sold in the "Big Park" on Sundays?
  • How many of the paper boys can you name?

• Some memories of the late 1950's and 60's:
  • The Saturday basketball "challenge" games?
  • Jim "Squirrel" Murphy climbing a tree in left field to rob another player of a hit during softball games?
  • Adventures at the Borg Farm day or night?
  • Tuckwood's cottage rentals?
  • Super tans of Pat and Danni C. or Bobby R. and their water skiing exploits?
  • "Rabbi" O'Brien and his continuing flow of Chicago South Side athletes?
  • The amazing number of people staying in the "Chatterbox" ?

• Beach Pier or swimming pier?
  • Jumping off the Life guards chair at the end of the pier?
  • the skinny dips at night?
  • Office Wendy?

• Arbor Day
  • Pie eating contest?
  • The greased flag pole with the prize at the top?

• Playing in "The Big Park"?
  • softball on every Saturday?
  • the select few that could hit a softball, from home plate, to the leafs in the tree in center field?
  • playing Pom Pom?
  • All day sports in the park interrupted only for a refreshing dip in the lake?
  • Countless hours of shuffleboard in the park?
  • the tree between the street and first base line, it seemed everyone would climb on? (the tree has been cut down)

• Nights in the gazebo looking to meet a new girl or boy friend?

• Sledding down "the big hill", at the bottom entrance of the Park?
  • getting enough speed to jump the curb into the street?

• Gayle Reese
  • patrolling The Park (what seemed like) all hours of the night and day.
  • Gayle's flashlight?
  • Gayle's car the AMC Pacer?
  • picking up the garbage twice a week?

• The truck going through the park spraying for bugs?

• The fire station and fire truck stationed in the Park?
• the noon siren going off at noon?
• remember the different sirens for rescues and fires?
• the siren going off while in the phone booth adjacent to the firehouse?
• garbage pick up twice a week?
  

• The Delavan Drive in?
  • The Delavan Drive in.  
  • Packing as many in the back of the van
  • cover those extra 4 bodies the back of the truck with blankets - just to
    save that additional $1.50.

• Lakeland Parties?
  • Hidden parties and a watermelon cocktail that went bad.  Those that were there, will
    to this day, never, ever touch vodka to this day. There should be a name for this - vodka-melon-foblia.

• Lake Lawn Lodge
  • The last resort to end up at when nothing else was happening in the park.
  • A great way to end the night by being chased out by security.
  • How many chiggers did you get in your skin when cutting through the swamps just to make it safe back to the park?
    
    
• Delavan Police (possible the entire police force of the Township of Big D)
  • Police: pulling Mike Fielder (the horny devil) for continuous honking of his car horn.
  • on the route 50 just outside of Lake Lawn Lodge.

• Campbell's - Delavan's version of a 7-11 store
  • just before town
• sold cold 5 day old sandwiches in the middle of the night.
• Doh!!! ...the donuts!
  
  
• St Andrews' Church
  • Mass in the basement on Saturday evenings.
    
    
• Mass at St. O'Brien's (O'Brien's house)
• Never was so convenient and well missed.
  
  
• Go Carting
• nasty little go carting place by Gene & Wally's Red Store. .
• it was cheap and fun.
  
  
• Trends
  • Levi's cut off shorts - if caught without them you were very uncool.
  • painter's pants - if caught without them you were very uncool as well
    
    
• Cars
• John O'Connor's blue pick up "The DeSota"
• John Chupka's green car - "The Booger"
• Tim O'Connors' car - "Woody"
  
  
•  John O'Connor driving
• driving into town and yelling Move over when the
  road merged so quickly before the getting into town, some say they still do this to this day, 10 years later.
• Doctor do have found a cure for this - after years of research.
  
  
• Flemmings?
  

If you have a memory or memories, from Assembly Park
please e-mail them to fun at AssemblyPark.com
all the submissions will NOT include your name
unless you request your name to be included.