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Comment on Killing A Product – The Demise of Hires Root Beer by Carl E.

Carl E. — Sat, 18 May 2013 17:43:37 +0000

Just got back from a trip to Myrtle Beach SC and found Hires Root Beer at Lowes Food store. I was shocked to see it! It is still the best. Brought back a number of two liter bottles. Lowes is throughout SC and NC. But here in VA I cannot find Hires. So sad!

Maybe I will move to the Carolinas!

Bombard the Dr Pepper Snapple site with emails and they might get the message that there is a demand for Hires

Comment on The Forgotten Brooklyn Elevated Train Crash Of 1923 by Robert Hill

Robert Hill — Fri, 26 Apr 2013 19:31:10 +0000

This was an interesting article in that I had no idea of the number of factors that contributed to this el derailment. And you are right to say that to date there has not been an el derailment of the magnitude described in the 1923 incident in Brooklyn, at least with respect to the New York Transit system. Unfortunately, being a native Chicagoan, I can’t say the same for the “L”. The CTA has had numerous derailments in the later part of the 20th century. A number of the derailments involved trains actually falling from the el tracks with subsequent fatalities, not to mention injuries. In fact, in 1974, I was on a dowtown-loop Ravenswood “L” that took an extremely sharp curve far to fast. It was a miracle that the last two cars of that six-car train didn’t end up in the street for as far as they tilted through that curve.

Comment on The Original Yankee Stadium – Photographs and Memories by Great Stadiums (cont’d) | Right Off the Bat

Great Stadiums (cont’d) | Right Off the Bat — Fri, 26 Apr 2013 16:15:22 +0000

[...] Click here to see more photos of the graceful facade—as I remember it a rusted-coppery, Statue of Liberty green, as were the seats till the pre-renovation paint job transformed the seats a deep blue and the roof facade white. (My upper-deck seat-bottom is therefore blue. It was installed, as best I can learn, in 1946, and it could not be an original from the 1920s.) [...]

Comment on Killing A Product – The Demise of Hires Root Beer by Kent Snyder

Kent Snyder — Sun, 31 Mar 2013 19:47:47 +0000

I too am a great fan of Hires Root beer. I live in Northern California and the last time I found Hires was in 1987 up in Sacramento. Though I live in the Bay Area I’d make the drive to do some Steelhead fishing up there and I would purchase no less than 5 cases each time up there of my favorite root beer.
In the mid 1980′s I had a quest to find the best root beer float any where. I worked for a company that would fly me all over the lower 48 States. I used this period to try as many root beers as I could find, but for a crisp clear taste, I always came back to the root beer of my youth, Hires. I did find my favorite vanilla ice cream, but like Hires, it was difficult to locate anywhere else. I purchased a dish of vanilla ice cream at a Victoria Station restaurant in Universal Studio and yum, it was what I was looking for, but they did not carry Hires root beer. They told me their ice cream was Carnation’s brand, but when I bought a half gallon the taste wasn’t the same so I wrote Carnation and they wrote me back and said the two should be identical in taste, it wasn’t though. So, I never could bring the two best tasting items together for the best root beer float.
I should add here, I was once in upstate New York, back in 1987 for my company and I found a store that sold Hires. I bought 5 six packs and brought 4 six packs home in my expandable briefcase. You should have seen the surprised look that the airport security gave me. They asked me why in the world would I be carrying root beer in my briefcase. I explained that Hires wasn’t available anywhere in the Bay Area, back home.

Comment on What Goes Around Comes Around – Cheer Up! Smile! Nertz! by Max

Max — Thu, 28 Mar 2013 04:36:18 +0000

Thank you for telling our readers about the book. Anthony is not someone I’m familiar with, so that will go on the “to read” list. First person narratives usually have some interesting insights into an era that many history books miss.

Comment on Old New York In Photos #28 by Patty

Patty — Thu, 28 Mar 2013 03:06:26 +0000

Thank you so much!!!!

Comment on What Goes Around Comes Around – Cheer Up! Smile! Nertz! by DoubleW

DoubleW — Thu, 28 Mar 2013 02:35:49 +0000

I am just now reading an autobiography of Norman Anthony, who wrote these lyrics.
Titled “How to Grow Old Disgracefully,” it is an entertaining read, and a very interesting window on the past. Anthony was a cartoonist, writer, magazine editor and Broadway producer. He was on Broadway in the 1920s and ’30s, and knew all the “greats.” Apparently he was a lively boozer during that Prohibition era, along with many others, and like many others he made big money, blew it all, and then did it over again. The book is a bit marred by his raging ego, but if he hadn’t had a raging ego he might not have written it. All in all, a fun read.

Comment on Did That Song Just Make Fun of Stuttering? by john mccormick

john mccormick — Tue, 26 Mar 2013 23:11:54 +0000

None of this music is from my..my..my …mymy generation

Comment on Old New York In Photos #28 by B.P.

B.P. — Tue, 26 Mar 2013 02:24:47 +0000

Go to this link at the Library of Congress and they have a service that will reproduce copies for you.

Comment on Old New York In Photos #28 by Patty K

Patty K — Tue, 26 Mar 2013 00:03:58 +0000

These pictures are amazing, each and every one of them! I would love to be able to hang them as a collage in my living room, is there any place copies can be purchased?