1. Snow White, Dumbo, Pinocchio, and Bambi at the Rialto Theater. We were sent to the Orpheum or Princess when the Rialto was full.

2. Parades for Armistice Day and Independence Day on Chicago Street. Civil War veterans marched along with the others.

3. WPA (we pee anywhere) workers, wearing suit coats, digging sewers, and leaning on shovels.

4. Bums, at the back door, begging for food from your mother.

5. Friends, usually male, whistling or calling for you at the back door.

6. Teenagers dancing at Floyd's on Jefferson Street at Prairie. It closed when the war started and they later built the Wheel Inn in the vacant lot next door.

7. A horse drawn cart collecting garbage in the alley behind your house. You wanted to be a garbage man when you grew up.

8. On radio: Orson Wells and the Mercury Theater, The Inner Sanctum, I Love a Mystery with Jack Doc and Reggie, Jack Benny, Fred Allen, Mister District Attorney, Lux Hollywood Theater, Bob Hope, Hawaii Calls, Lights Out, Let's Pretend, Jack Armstrong the All American Boy, Easy Aces, The Shadow, The Quiz Kids, and The 64 Dollar Question.

9. Riding the streetcar from Wilcox and Jefferson to Chicago Street.

10. President Roosevelt and his Day of Infamy radio address.

11. Saturday morning Roy Rodgers, Gene Autry, and Hopalong Cassidy movies at the Princess theater. There were two kinds of movies then: "love movies" and "cowboy movies". No boy, in his right mind, would admit to liking the former.

12. Wartime aluminum pots and pans collection, across from the Courthouse on Chicago Street.

13. A flag with a star in yours, or a neighbor's, window. Saying goodbye, at the Joliet railway station, to a neighbor, relative, or friend who was going off to war.

14. Walking across the Jefferson Street, or other, bridge and hoping you would not fall into the water below and that the keeper would not raise the bridge.

15. Walking past Weber's Dairy and wishing you had the money to buy a double chocolate sundae.

16. Swimming at Chaney School Pool or Noel Park Pool.

17. Drinking the cool water from the flowing well at Pilcher Park.

18. Picnics alongside the I&M Canal, DuPage River, or DesPlanes River.

19. Steel bus tokens with a J punched out of the center.

20. Pennys made of steel, instead of copper, to help the war effort.

21. War movies, war songs, and war propaganda that told us that the Germans, Japanese, and Italians were bad; English, French, Russians, Chinese, and especially we were good.

22. Fireworks, airshows, and plane rides at the airport.

23. Bobbed hair for the girls and brush (crew) cuts for the boys.

24. Fun Night dances in grade school. Dance cards that were filled out, in advance, during school hours.

25. Dance lessons next to the Mode Theater.

26. Yearly Fiestas or Carnivals at grade schools.

27. Traveling Carnivals at St. Pat's Field or St. Joe's Park.

28. The Circus at St. Joe's Park.

29. Art Jahnke's butcher shop on Marion Street.

30. Art Jahnke didn't talk in public, after he was elected mayor.

31. Soap Box Derby races down Marion Street hill.

32. The ugly extension added to the Will County Court House.

33. The uniforms worn by the ushers at the Rialto Theater.

34. The Chicken Basket, after JTHS dances.

35. Patrol Boys with red flags and white military belts.

36. Christmas displays in the Boston Store windows.

37. A whole bag of penny candy for five cents.

38. Miss Frey's Bird Club at Farragut.

39. "General Shop is a mighty good plan, it makes from a boy a capable man."

40. Radio station WCLS was originally owned by the Boston Store (Will County's Largest Store). The station later became WJOL.

41. "McAllister Band Stand" and "Al Pohler's Memory Hour" on WJOL.

42. Mr. Egmond, trying to stop the students from walking around (and around) the JTHS halls in the morning.

43. The JJC "Smoker". It would not be PC today.

44. Friday night dances at the Joliet Youth Center.

45. Sunday night dances at St. Joe's Park. Music would, usually, be provided by a three piece polka band.

46. Teenagers hanging out, near Walgreen's on Chicago Street, in warm weather.

47. The strange overhead cable network at Ducker's for sending money to the cashier.

48. Chrismas decorations and shopping on Chicago Street.

49. The Kiwanis Minstrel Show. It, too, would not be PC today.

50. What did the little bird say as it flew over Goldblatt's? Answer: "cheap cheap".