School Lunches

Ahhhh.....The delicious, irresistible public school lunch........

Oh hell, they were horrible.

At elementary schools in the Edmonds School District in the '70s, school lunches consisted of a weekly rotating menu of:

- Some Slop Over Rice or Mashed Potatoes: This wasn't the official name of it on the menus that went home to our parents and I can't remember what they billed it as. This was just what the lunch ladies themselves called it.

The slop itself varied in colour from a pinkish beige to a gelatinous brown substance, both with bits of an unknown meat by-product.

An Edmonds School District lunch lady making slop......

 - Cheese Pizza

- Hot Dog (This was infamously called on the menus - are you ready for this? A "Wiener Wink".)

- Sloppy Joe: Ubiquitous on EVERY school lunch menu in America to this day

- Fish Sticks

-  Burrito

-  Taco

- Spaghetti

And the list went on.

I found a very disturbing web site recently. One that's actually quite shocking, considering we should be feeding our kids (who've committed NO crimes) better than THIS.....

http://cityrag.com/2012/05/prison-food-or-school-food/ 

Edison Disc Records

Check out THIS beauty! An Edison Disc Phonograph from 1912! And it STILL sounds GORGEOUS! Edison's Disc Records were very advanced for their time, using a diamond stylus (instead of a steel needle) and a floating diaphragm, things that wouldn't be seen again until the Hi-Fi age of the early '50s.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edison_Disc_Record

Perfection and Superfection

The missing piece here is probably STILL under somebody's couch or bed somewhere.......

Perfection and Superfection were games made by Lakeside in the '70s

Perfection was a game where you put the shaped game pieces into their matching slots on the game board before a one minute timer expires and the board ejects everything. If you can complete it, you can stop the timer. If you couldn't, you were left picking up game pieces everywhere for 10 minutes.

Superfection had a two minute timer and puzzle piece blocks..

Somehow, I could never complete either of them before timer blew everything up.

 

"Mister Hot Rod" The Scramblers (1964)

"Mister Hot Rod" The Scramblers (1964)

Like most of the budget record labels of the '60s, Wyncote produced a lot of cheesy low budget knockoff material. They were the budget subsidiary of the Cameo-Parkway label, one of the larger independents of the '60s.

This album is mostly your average Beach Boys/Jan & Dean knockoff - except for this strange offering. This track, which also appears on the Incredibly Strange Music, Vol. 1 CD compilation is by The Scramblers, another anonymous group of session musicians that recorded for a budget label.

(I just can't imagine the crowd going wild over this one. Maybe staring.......)

Stretch Armstrong

When these were introduced, my 7 year old mind thought he was based on a cousin of Louis Armstrong. I remember watching a TV show and how big Louis Armstrong puffed out his cheeks when playing the trumpet. They HAD to be related somehow......

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stretch_Armstrong