Remember when

[flo]

I was watching a show on food network, "Diners, Drive-in's and Dives" and the other night saw something I had completely forgotten about that was around in my teen-age years.  Yes, I was a teenager at one time  and this paticular soda fountain was making a "green-river".  Remember those drinks? AND that reminds me also, how many have ordered a "pine float"?

[jprxmkt]

Okay, I'll bite. Do you know what was in them or how to make them?

[Diane Amberg]

Whenever we visited Kansas we loved to get Green Rivers at the drug store. I'm not familiar with a pine float. I remember the Green Rivers being made with Green River Syrup (lime, I think)and soda water.

[sixdogsmom]

Pssstttt---Diane! Toothpick in a glass of water= Pinefloat! 

[W. Gray]

I recall suicide cokes around 1956 or so.

The soda jerk would add a pinch of every flavor he had to the coke.

A pine float was a bobby soxer definition of a cheap date.

[flo]

yes, a "pine float" was a toothpick in a glass of water.  That's what you ordered when you were broke.  And the green-river was lime, but Julie have no idea how they were made.  Been too many years.  There was some fizz to them, I remember.  Sorry, Waldo, we called a cheap date just that, a cheap date.

[Judy Harder]

Pssstttt---Diane! Toothpick in a glass of water= Pinefloat! 

LOL>.......I remember that......and yes, at one time I fell for it too.!!
Was always (maybe still am) slightly naive........." I was always Country when Country was not cool"
Thanks for the giggles.

There were always dairy's that sold "Frosty's", too......kind of like a frozen malt and when dad worked evenings, Mom and my brother and sister would always walk up there (seemed like a mile, there and back......forgot Mom didn't go too far from home and when I look back it was just about the distance from the Longton Housing to maybe the Methodist church...like 3 or 4 blocks....but that was our supper (she always fixed a big meal before dad went to work and could get by with a light supper and we kids just ATE that up.....Yum Yum.!!

[Diane Amberg]

A pine float...now that's cute!

[Teresa]

Here is a "Remember When.....

[W. Gray]

I am guessing that Woolworth menu is from the late 40s to early 50s.

We had both Woolworth and Kresge dime stores in my hometown downtown and each had a counter diner.

As I recall they usually had a Blue Plate Special.

I can recall 15 cent pie slices but not the other food prices. Village Inn has pie slices for 3.00 to 3.50 and I will bet the size is much smaller that Woolworth had on hand.

Odd, there is no hamburger offering under the sandwich offerings.