European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - February 18, 1981, Darmstadt, Hesse Remember when the flirt by Kay Bartlett associated press the horse and the Brooklyn the five cent Beer were All properly mourned As they left the american but what of the other fixtures and institutions that just quietly disappeared without so much As a a Small obit in the newspaper or a proper nobody said goodbye to trolley All those Panther lights on top of the television homemade skate White Bucks or the and some people still dont need to say goodbye to the an estimated to milkmen Are still Reading the notes stuck in the top of the Back in the late 40s and Early there was a lot More not Reading an estimated to according to Industry whatever happened to that Guy who used to come around your neighbourhood with the invariably a and take pictures of the kids what do you sup pose Hes doing now and How Many husbands today would understand the Oft heard cry on the radio the hint that was from the Roach Motel where do you suppose they have stored All of those shiny Silver balls that used to be perched atop a Pedestal on the front Lawn perhaps there next to that other missing Lawn ornament the there must be a giant there is an absolute Mountain of Green desk the kind with the leather triangles on All four near one would find a huge silo of Fountain Ink Wells and Ink Sylvania Halo Light televisions Are off to the washing machines with wringers on the top off to the right and treadle sewing machines Are in the the Burma shave Road signs Are stacked in order and lining the Walls Are Row upon Row of Pana Fitch shampoo and Rinso the night watchman might Well be Peter most of the items in this warehouse were replaced with something presumed cheaper or easier to such As the aerosol Bug Spray that replaced the old hand pump into which one poured you guessed it but some of the things that disappeared Are absolutely of knows Why things like fins and rumble seats and running boards dont we but Why did Detroit get rid of curb feelers those were the Little wires that went Ping when they touched the was their sole function to protect the Whitewall remember and the fake ones or is there a secret report that americans have become belter parallel parkers and dont need them the Shadow another mystery Why was the vent in the front window taken the one you could open sideways to keep the wind from gusting your Hairdo to shambles we know where it its in the Back right next to the window that Doest Roll Down at and where do you go today if you want an inner tube for your kid to use in an of swimming you can find one that is not private or a goldfish Jeannette Goldstein of new York drove into a Gas station in Pennsylvania Pocono mountains to ask if she could buy an inner tube for her said the but you can take As Many As you i just keep them Here for the tour All manner of things Are everything from Home remedies to occupations to sights and sounds on the remember when kids walked Home from school for lunch every Day and knew every Blade of every Robins every crack in the sidewalk carpooling and Parentha offering were speaking of they now chomp Down tasty chewable instead of holding their noses for a dose of Castor but what could possibly replace the fun of peeling off a Mustard plaster the next morning the Clothespin deserves its own you can find but Are there enough to go around girl scout leaders used them by the what with a Little piece of Gingham undoubtedly a piece Mother didst want for the quilt and a Little paint and Cotton for the that Clothespin became Martha Washington at one afternoon just with a revolutionary Soldier to be marched around the hoop Rug later that and at birthday an Al time favorite was to see who could drop the most clothespins into a milk a clearly defunct the evenings in those Days were people sat on their front porches in double rockers and visited with at least until 8 on then people scurried inside and turned off the it was Uncle Miltie time on coupled with live singing a similar phenomenon occurred on monday that was love Lucy Jeff author of television the first fifty noted that Many a Small town noted a Sharp decrease in water pressure at precisely on that was when Lucy was it May have been the first rating observes the Lucy show has been constantly rerun Over the so it is not really but what of Captain who asked no Quarter and gave no or my Little or Howdy Doody As forgotten As big Wicker baby bikes with one skate or the sunday make your own list of things that faded away Ever so quietly but dont forget monaural records on the Victor a Steamer obligatory White gloves and Pillbox hats for Fly a singing a High topped Black a Beer or soft drink can that required a Church a first grader with Finger car a bumper without a sticker unless it happened to be election bal bearing 3d kerosene smudge pots at construction semis dangling Garter double upright radios that were actually a piece of Charm eve Ning in Paris a drugstore with a counter where you could buy a Cherry or Lemon Krino lines and hoop not to be confused with the Hula the sight of a wife ironing her husbands tie Matching sweater neckers knobs on the steering the list is and some people put things on the list that dont belong like driven there Are still More than a rather consistent figure for the last 15 other erroneous nominees included the Fuller Brush Man and the Avon both still going although the Fuller Brush Man has tended to become the Fuller Brush As housewives took up the occupation More and Avon has More sales representatives now in the United states alone than at any time in its but along with the photographer with the Pony and the Many an occupation has virtually the ice the umbrella the knife the Man who could plug up pots where they had worn All came around to neighbourhoods before we became America the throwaway other occupations sharply diminishing include the elevator the locomotive fireman Only 780 of them left hand Linotype key Board blacksmiths and Railroad station the Bureau of labor statistics says there Are still 000 blacksmiths far beneath the time when every Hamlet across the land had at least As trains ceased to be a major Means of the number of agents dwindled As the bus says there Are Only Gerald a University of Southern California psychology bemoans the fact that nothing can be fixed he rather shamefully admits that he tried to get his electric ice Cream maker Only to find it was cheaper to get a new but Jellison has a further observation about the human we have a wonderful capacity to blot out the bad and remember Only the Good when we recall the everybody remembers the romantic cry of the umbrella fixer As he walked the but nobody remembers that the Guy was maybe a drunk or he was the kind of person who once you let him in the House wanted to talk All Day and it was very hard to get rid of we forget the bad Jellison is undoubtedly which is Why it is so wonderful remember Facelift for Paris by Aline Mosby United press International for Many the worlds most Beautiful is getting a Facelift under its first Jacques Chirac aim is to discipline cars and make the pedestrian High Rise buildings Are sports and a better life for the elderly and poor Are even dogs have been ordered to raise the Quality of we must improve the daily life of All Chirac has before the ambitious Chirac was elected first mayor in the capital was run by a City Council with few motorists parked autos so thickly on sidewalks that pedestrians had to walk in the now 16 Miles of Concrete or Metal posts bar automobiles from fifty three including that in front of notre Dame have been turned into pastor full time pedestrian More than 50 Paris streets have been turned into pastor full time pedestrian up the City has built 10 underground garages to get cars off the in the process uncovering valuable ruins under Neath notre Dame Square that promptly were turned into a Chirac dumped old plans to build 160 Miles of highways to bring More cars into the instead he ordered 40 Miles of new even four legged residents Are part of the return Paris to pedestrians posters quote dogs As i do it where they Tell me to do owners who do not Tell them Are fined by women tending the parking the Reconquest of sidewalks has persuaded suburbanites to use Public transportation or leave their cars in parking lots on the Edge of claimed the mayor in a recent residents of the Isle Louis on the River Seine formerly looked out onto a parking lot on the left now they look at a tree covered Quai where people jog or walk their on the opposite right a Vest pocket size Park has been built with a Chil Paris mayor Chirac aim is to improve daily life for Drens playground and a Glass Wall to shut out the noise of passing this is part of 12 acres of Green five immense new Parks and dozens of tiny ones Are being created for formerly the French capital had less Green area than the late president Georges Pompi Paris with skyscrapers that towered Over ancient Chirac put a Stop to plans were shelved for High Rise business centers in the old razed food Market area of Les Halles that would have competed with notre Dame on the Pedes Trian malls and underground shops were built no More Mon mentalism but modest the mayors report Chirac Antiwar and anti sky scraper policies have aroused some for sentimental old parisians and for Eigners the mayors program is a one parisian but these policies pre vent proper Auto circulation and sufficient not All of Chirac face lifting formulas have been homeless cats and win drinking tramps have taken Over some of the tiny thieves and Mug Gers invaded underground result ing in another City expense to hire 24hour infuriated motorists ripped out Many posts preventing them from parking on City workers kept reinstalling the and most motorists be came resigned to renting garage some critics complained that Chirac goal of new Cit owned apartments for Low income citizens by the end of his term in 1983 is not enough in where 25 percent of apartments Lack indoor Toi lets or Baths or Chirac admits his Lively administration has not been Able to Stem the flood of Young marrieds and workers from expend housing Short Paris to the the City in 20 years has lost a Hal million he wants Paris to keep All Ages and income groups to prevent the City from becoming another Manhattan for the subsidized poor or the very but the press and parisians interviewed at random generally give the mayors face lift program High the City pays building owners to Reno vate slum apartments and also pays the resulting rent several old quarters have been next being one North of the cites Lyon railway station which will gain 500 new buildings and 100 restored the mayors goal is to rebuild traditional quarters and conserve old buildings in Good a useless new slaughterhouse at la Vil Lette will be turned into a Park and science five swimming pools one with a Glass Wall giving splendid View of the pantheon Monument and six sports stadiums Are on the the dreary Concrete Square next to Napoleons Invar ides Monument will be restored to its for Mer other tourist the places Des Voges and the mayors own City Hall will become the City bought the old Chatelet theater and restored its gilded tossing a gala opening night for Offenbach operetta vie the mayor ruled culture belongs to the and the City sponsors free dances and other spectacles on streets and for working Chirac ordered 46 More nurseries and 223 new Kindergan Paris now claims to do More for the aged than any other including free telephones and senior citizen Telephone Booths have blossomed on streets All Over Paris so one no longer has to buy a special slug in a bar and then Grope ones Way to a basement for the first time in French Public Street toilets Are being built unlike the old women can use As Well As Chirac also decided parisians should feel closer to City the cites new tells How to curb reports on parisian life and and publishes a chatty letter from the on hand daily at the City Hall Are a member of the City Council to listen to anybody problems and a Legal expert to explain the Chirac administration even provides the final service of All free buses to cemeteries on All saints Day when families visit Page 14 the stars and stripes february the stars and stripes Page 15
