She was afraid to come out of the lock, she was as nervous as she could be.
She was afraid to come out of the lock, she was afraid that somebody would say.
Point 3, 4, tell the people what she wore.
We'll have the full presentation with pictures on the big screen, and Marsha Condit's going to be there.
Right.
A few videos and a special guest.
We have a special guest.
A special guest.
Yes.
Yes.
That happens to be who we're sitting with right now.
Oh, that's not special.
I think you're really going to have someone special.
No.
Not ordinary.
We have three songs of the era, and the only person that could rightly introduce those songs is the person we're sitting with right now.
That's right.
So let's talk about this, because I didn't grow up here in the 50s and 60s.
I grew up on the ocean, on the use coast.
But this is, you have beaches here.
You have pools here.
Let's talk about some of that.
Well, thanks, Don.
We're glad to be back again.
Yes, we had our Washington Park swimming pool.
We're just about every baby boomer learned how to swim, right, Carol?
I think it cost what, $0.35 a lesson.
Red Cross was located there.
That's right.
That's right.
That's right.
The pool was built in actually 1939 through the help of Mayor Roy Spencer, and it would cost $150,000.
Location was, as everybody knows, just a little west of Park High School and behind the Washington Park Community Center.
And it was really considered state of the art when it was built.
But like I said, about everybody, every kid in town, either went swimming there or learned how to swim there, right, Carol?
And we were saying the other day, Jim, why is it so important in so many of our memories?
What if it had been a rectangular swimming pool?
And we decided it wouldn't be the same.
No, you couldn't have an island in it.
The beauty of this place in the island.
It was like this Hollywood set with this centerpiece.
That's right.
Yep.
The island, of course, I think, made that pool so unique.
You had to swim out to the island after you're going through a gate in a little fenced-off area.
And then you swim out to the island and you joined thousands of other kids on that island, you know, jumping off a diving board and just sitting on the island.
That was like a status symbol once you made it out to the island.
You were a somebody.
I think we found in our reminiscing, Jim.
I'm throwing in this right now, but the nitty gritty back to our downtown dance venues.
That is now the mean street bakery.
And at the nitty gritty, using it, how many people were in there at one time?
Yeah.
It seemed like there were 500 people.
Oh, Jesus.
How many people stood on the island in Washington Parkpool?
A hundred at one time.
Right.
We had no safety codes apparently.
How deep was the pool where people jumped off?
I mean, was it deep enough at that point where they didn't hit their face on the bottom of the pool?
No.
We did some research.
It was 16 feet.
So it was good enough to jump off.
Yeah.
They were jumping constantly.
Well, yeah, I didn't know how deep it was.
It was like, it would be deep and you jump off.
It's going to be a question.
You know, I went back there with my wife because again, I never saw the pool.
So we drove back to that site, the building where people had a walk through and pay there.
Like, was it the shower lockers or whatever they were?
Yeah.
It's still there.
It's intact.
Yeah.
The pool is gone.
Everything is gone.
Yeah.
They built a tennis court over there.
What a joke that was.
This is kind of a sad story now.
Yeah.
And it was sinking.
They had to sink.
Who was the contractor for that job?
Yeah.
They built it over a giant open hole.
I don't know that that makes sense.
Anyway, I saw the area and we brought up photos while we were parked there.
It is by Park High School.
Yeah.
We were brought up the photos and we were looking at it.
They have like gardens they set up.
Yeah.
The school or horticulture, whatever.
Yeah.
And just looking at the pictures of all those hundreds of people having fun and now look at it.
Yeah.
Yeah.
It's just a parking lot.
Yeah.
An old tennis court and some plans.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Like, just like you and your wife went to Kittyland.
To the site.
Oh, that was also the pressing.
Yeah.
I mean, there is a little plaque that you got to look for.
The site of the Kittyland.
It's right by the river.
Right.
Because people are having a picnic there that day and they look at us pulling up.
I said, I don't want to go through there picnic to redesign.
They'll call the police on this.
Right.
Anyway, so it's very depressing to go back.
It can be.
And see where things were.
And now where the shop was.
And that big storage unit now that has replaced that.
That was the outdoor theater.
Yeah.
You know, in the book that I wrote, I thought this was so clever.
I have to admit, I have a chapter in it.
I introduced the term double vision.
Meaning, you know, you see the river, but some of us see Kittyland.
Oh, that's good.
You know, you see the park pool in your mind, but you see the garden plots.
Yep.
That's what dogs have.
The readers pointed out to me.
I guess that I didn't do it right because I thought it was quite the concept.
And she said to me, I feel so bad about your eyesight.
I really feel terrible for you.
At one eye, you're seeing the pool.
At the other eye, you're seeing the tennis court.
Right.
But it is a double vision, really.
It is.
And it happens to everyone.
As you get older, all these sites are banishing.
You see both.
You're right.
You see what your memories brought.
We have to tell our eye doctors about this.
I went back to an old neighborhood.
I used to go to all the time by the beach growing up.
And it was flattened when I went there.
Now there's its industrial building.
But all these bungalows were there when I was growing up in Queens.
And they're all gone.
And I went back to my brother.
I said, we should never have come back here.
No.
And the memory I have now is distorted.
Yeah.
I didn't know all this was going on.
Yeah.
Well, our pool was demolished in 1968 after the last season.
Only 27,000 people went to the pool in 1968.
Now compare that to 1959 when it was 87,000.
But the cost to replace it or repair it was just too great.
And the city decided to fill it in and give that land to Park High School,
which they apparently really needed.
And that was the end of our park pool.
And a lot of precious memories are all that's left of that once famous pool.
So how many years was it open all together?
I'm sorry.
39 to 68.
So two to math.
It's too early for me.
Yeah.
29 years.
Okay.
Let's send a beer to ourselves.
No, 20 minutes.
Several decades.
That's pretty easy.
Yeah.
I think.
It's a great part of our history.
Well, now when we think about the beach, Jim.
Yes.
We're going to talk about three different beaches.
Yes.
Let's move on to the beach.
And we have two of them really intact compared to Park Pool,
which we know is no more.
Gone.
Yeah.
But we do have these natural wonders.
That's right.
Thank goodness.
That's right.
So let's start talking about going to the beach.
Going to the beach.
It sure was such a big part of our life.
And I think just like Park Pool and the other...
...scoping the loop and all of it.
When we go back, it's intertwined.
Not just the place, but with our growing up.
Find memories as kids, crazy memories as teens.
It's all intertwined.
But when you just, in general, go back to the beach.
You think of the summers with the blue sky and hot sand.
And you think of digging to China.
Our mothers bringing us, our dads, to there with our brothers and sisters.
As teens, I have to say, I did my share of looking for boys.
Did you share, do your share of looking for girls?
Absolutely.
That's one of the reasons you went there.
And then we think of...
For girls, anyway, to getting the sun tan.
Or do we work hard on that?
And if you had known...
Exactly.
They can't come back and haunt you someday with cancer.
That's right.
Would you have done it?
Well, I'm sure a testimony with lines in my face.
That's really.
But we didn't probably realize then.
Just like we have said this about the pool and the outdoor.
We didn't realize how precious this place was.
But thank goodness, it does still exist.
But we were...
We thought this would last forever.
Maybe our youth, too.
So, Jim, we had...
As I say, three beaches to pick from.
Now, I was an outsider.
And you were the south.
Right.
So pretty much, we both ended up not ever knowing each other.
But at North Beach.
But of course, being an outsider,
that seemed like second nature to go to North Beach.
Now, that was, as we know, still today.
But can you imagine as a child,
Michigan Boulevard getting close to the beach,
and looking out at that view.
Down the big hill,
and the sand bar people out to the sand bar,
sailboats out there,
but the amount of sand,
especially as a kid,
what you would think about that.
So how it was very easy to get to,
and still is,
we could just walk down steps at high street,
and there still is a kind of a monument there at high in Michigan.
Not commemorating the steps,
but something a little more historic than that.
Or there was the driveway that looped around.
It started over by the band shell.
So you could ride your bike,
or the car could go down there and reach sand level.
It was a loop.
But it was the largest, most packed.
Probably a half to one block of sand depth,
and several blocks long.
Yep, and there were many lifeguards on duty there,
as there still is,
because it was racing's most popular beach,
and by far the largest.
Carol mentioned a sand bar.
I remember as kids,
there usually was a sand bar there,
and as kids we would walk out to it,
and then get up on that sand bar,
and just waived everybody on the beach,
like, hey, look at us on the body.
Yeah, we're proud to be out here.
By the way, you know where the lifeguards keep all their equipment?
No.
It's under the band shell.
Oh, is it?
I live a little block and a half from there,
and I used to walk my dog by,
and I used to see them open up under the band shell.
There's steps to go down,
and that's where they store all their stuff.
I mean, darn, wow.
I didn't just let a secret out of the bag.
I mean, people...
Now, North Beach was our only beach
with its own sand bar, of course,
and which is still there.
And just the interesting information.
At one time, there was a south beach in Racine.
Of course, that was south of the river,
and that was a long, long, long time ago.
When we have our program,
next Monday, we'll have a photo of that,
or an image of that.
But yeah, there was at one time a south beach.
Interesting, huh?
And where about was that little...
Well, it was south at a river behind
where the old gas company was.
Oh, really?
Around there.
Yeah, that was a beach at one time.
Oh, okay.
You sound like somebody was coming to a new town.
Yeah, and I've been there before.
Make a left for the old beach house.
Used to be about 30 years ago.
Make a right where the old gas station used to be.
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
You know, when I used to go to the beach,
when I was a little tiny kid,
my mother used to try to get the sand off.
And before I went in the car,
she used to take the towel,
and like, you know, whip it around to get...
And it hurt.
Not the sand hurt.
Yeah.
And it was everywhere.
It was in my bathing suit.
It was there.
And she used to try and it was in my hair.
And she wanted to get it out before we went in the car,
because she didn't want the sand all over the car.
And she used to run...
And I said, errrrs.
They have their showers there,
but there's a line to use them,
and she just said,
let me whip that towel all over.
And you come on to mom?
So who would think when you say going to the beach?
Well, sand.
I mean, that is the cornerstone,
besides the water,
but sand, walking on it,
laying on it...
Yeah.
Getting rid of it at the end?
Mm-hmm.
Oh, well, then being the north cider,
there was the zoo beach.
Now, that was a little bit more...
A little bit more remote than the north beach,
so it was not as crowded,
but it had the same type of sand,
not rocks or anything like that,
the same beautiful fine sand.
There were steps to go down to the zoo beach,
and they were, of course,
right at the east of the zoo.
Now, if you were walking,
you could...
if you walked through the zoo,
which was free at the time,
and as kids, we think it was chock full of animals.
So if you entered on Gould Street or North Main,
I mean, just your walk to find the eastern steps.
If you walked...
If you entered on Gould Street,
there were the bears.
And little did we think that they were
in confined quarters at the time,
but it pains me to think
of they weren't like in shoe boxes.
And then monkey island,
you went by,
and the mountain goats,
and all the birds,
and you could hear a lion roar occasionally.
You can hear them in the morning.
I was going to walk my dog in the morning.
I was doing a lot.
Like Leo the Lion from MGM.
I just went to the zoo yesterday,
because my wife and I walk at the zoo,
so we brought a club, you know,
a membership just so we can walk.
And the bears there,
luckily they feed them,
little kids walking by,
and he's licking his lips, I mean.
You know what they're separating me,
who has a plexiglass with,
but yeah, with a kangaroos,
I just love that place.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
It's been a part of our city for,
I, for ever, I'll say.
That's right.
So, and there were lifeguards at Zoo Beach.
Again, those concrete steps, though,
I seem to well remember
by being it,
by the time I was a teen,
there would be the older teen guys
sitting casually on the black railings,
and they were just inspecting any female
that went by,
was like being on a runway or something.
And then your south side, though,
you were at the 14th Street Beach.
On occasion, yeah,
we can't forget about the old 14th Street Beach.
It's long gone now.
That was the smallest of our city beaches.
It had a few lifeguards there, too.
Now, there were also concrete stairs
going down from main and 14th
all the way down to the beach.
Now, remember, there was a bubbler on top of the stairs.
Don, you don't know the term bubbler, do you?
I know it now.
You know it now.
You know it now, right?
We're talking about bridge.
Yeah.
It's a Midwestern or Wisconsin thing, I guess,
but, and there was a sand bar
about halfway out to the breakwaters as well.
But it was mostly frequented by south ciders.
It was a lot less crowded.
If you didn't want to put up with crowds at North Beach,
you just went to either the zoo beach
or the 14th Street Beach.
It's gone now because the current was actually rerouted.
When the breakwater was not connected to Sam Myers Park,
it was an opening there.
The current flow through there.
But when the city extended the breakwater
to land that rerouted the current.
And when it came back to shore,
it completely devastated the sand or the North 14th Street Beach.
And it even started to erode some of that, you know,
the cliffs there too.
So what the city had to do was dump a bunch of huge rocks
where the 14th Street Beach used to be.
And they're still there, of course.
One advantage about going to the 14th Street Beach
besides not having to worry about crowds,
you had a great view of the reef lighthouse.
Yeah, that was really nice.
That still is a great photograph.
Well, that was half the fun of the day.
Getting to the beach.
Just like going to Washington Park Pool,
we talked there about walking for miles
and getting to the pool.
But now as kids, it would be very exciting
if our parents or neighbor moms on a week date
if they were going to drive us.
So we'd pile into one of those big station wagons, probably.
No seatbelts.
One of my friends K, one of her favorite places in the car,
was behind the back seat,
at the top of the back seats,
between the back top and the window.
So station wagons,
I would load it in.
And so...
Oh, you finished your thought.
Oh, okay, you're giving likes too, right?
Yeah, signals here.
Or we rode our bikes.
Safety, no worried about crime.
We could just drop our bikes there.
I think many boys rode their bikes.
The good old days, no seatbelts,
flying through the front windshield,
when we stopped short landing on the hood of a car.
We missed that.
Oh, the good old bro.
We take quick break.
Now, what you're hearing this morning is
talking about the pools, the beaches,
summertime, summertime,
and we're seen in the 50s and 60s.
Carol G and Fort H.
Ambassador here.
And this is going to be a complete presentation,
and a video presentation as well,
at the living faith turn on...
Right Avenue.
On right Avenue,
this coming Monday night, seven o'clock.
Yes, sir.
And it should be a lot of fun.
You'll have videos,
you'll have slides,
you'll have everything,
because right now we're just on radio doing it.
And this will be a full-blown presentation.
We're going forward to that.
I don't know about that.
But before we drove,
we took the bus,
or our parents dropped this off,
or whatever,
and sometimes we walked.
But for me,
the green line went right in front of my house,
so I just simply hop on the bus.
Got a transfer to the white line.
The transfer was always down by the dime stores,
heading south,
and pennies heading north.
So I would get off the green line,
race to the white line,
while breathing those nasty fumes.
And then we'd get dropped off,
near the beach,
right on Main Street.
But that was probably the best way to get to the beach
before you had your own car.
How'd you get there, Carol?
Well, I was going to ask,
how long did it take you on that bus
right overall, then, Jim, would you say?
You know, I think it probably took about a half hour
altogether,
when all the stops and transfer.
That's what you get.
Yeah.
Well worth it.
And it had a lot of fun along the way.
Absolutely.
Well, I'm my story about,
we walked to the beach.
Now, thinking about walking
and getting ready for this program,
do you know, Jim,
I don't think we ever as kids
said, well, how many miles is that?
Or, well, we better hurry up
because we've only got five minutes.
It was much more carefree than that.
Sure.
Just walking.
So my route was down Carlisle Avenue
to High Street where
Horlick Athletic Field is on that corner.
And there we would start picking up friends
who lived along the way down
going straight east on High Street.
Now, this was our junior high walk anyway,
because we went to Washington,
junior high.
But first stop could have been
a north side drugstore
in case we needed some extra
sea and ski or something.
Then we walked past Stroath Funeral Home.
We were almost on that side of the street.
Almost a little mysterious.
We could see our junior high over the side.
Then we went past derangles
with our, that was our hangout
after basketball games.
And finally down to Derry's drugstore.
And at last,
at last to the,
to the stairway going down to the beach.
And all that, all the while,
very exciting because we were anticipating
a great afternoon at the beach.
Now, as young teens and adults,
we drove ourselves, of course.
We'd use our own cars or our parents' car.
At that time, I was driving a red 54 Chevy convertible.
I had it for about four years.
And would you believe after the 1968 summer season,
I sold that thing for $100.
Biggest mistake I ever made in my life.
Oh.
But there's so many stories about being at the beach, right, Carol?
Well, yes.
And I think when you boil it right down,
the sand is a lot of the basis of our memories.
Believe it or not.
The hot, hot days, the hot sand.
So even with our flip pops,
or our converse or kids' shoes, sandals,
we had to walk fast.
Sometimes we walked,
we decided to walk to the water's edge,
where it was cooler.
We had to plan sometimes
should we walk to the snack bar.
There was drumsticks, ice cream bars.
So the hot, hot sand was a big part,
was a big part of our memory.
Of course, we had the snack bar there,
which we all went to, right?
We sure did.
Yeah, that's right.
Drumsticks.
Yep, yep.
Now all the beaches were packed on Sundays.
The families went there,
and it was really just jam packed.
Families usually went to North Beach.
I know as kids, my mother would take
my sister Kathy and me to North Beach
almost every day during the week.
She packed a lunch
and then a large jug of Kool-Aid.
And my sister and I would wait in the water
and build sand castles
or dig in the sand.
Like you mentioned, we were digging to China,
as she would say.
We could do that for hours.
Oh, my gosh, yeah.
Another memory would be the cold water.
Oh, yeah.
So yes, in the low to mid-60s.
But then again, as children,
we were braver about it, waiting in it.
But as teens, now,
if we went in the water out to the sand bar fine,
but often what happened is teens,
because we had a new purpose now.
We rely on the phrase
looking for members of the opposite sex.
But we would walk at the water's edge.
Cooler sand wet, but we would walk north,
we'd walk south.
In groups, two, three, four girls at a time,
maybe looking for friends and especially guys.
But now we also had another purpose at the beach,
the memory of getting a suntan.
Now this was serious business.
Fun as it was, this took planning
and this took hours.
We would lie on our stomachs,
then we would have to turn over.
And then we would maybe take the edge of our swimming suit strap
and check every once in a while.
Was it wider than the rest of our skin?
How was the tan going?
Now rumor had it that the zoo beach
was known for having many attractive single girls there.
That's why a lot of us guys would go to the zoo beach.
So we learned that one thing.
Yeah, we're a horn dog.
All these things are based on you being attracted to girls
at the beach at the pool.
And wow, that's right.
We learned something.
Your lifeguard stations were tall wooden chairs.
That's what they really were, just tall wooden chairs.
And had a robot chain to the chair.
There was a sign which displayed the water temperature,
I remember.
And the sign also says,
do not talk to the lifeguard.
I don't think that sign is there anymore.
And most lifeguards were young guys
who were physically fit with great tans.
Carol, that's what I remember.
Well, I guess I looked at a few of those lifeguards.
I agree with you.
I agree with you.
Now, there were necessities we had to bring to the beach, right?
There were necessities.
So you could not be at the beach without your suntan lotion.
At least gals.
I don't know if guys brought suntan lotion.
I don't think you bothered me.
You just burned.
But we gals, we wanted to, little did we know about UV lights.
But we wanted to get that deep, dark, even bronze tent.
And we were looking at magazines like 17
and photo play, Matamazelle.
And so they had all these ads to make us think about our tanning.
So some of these brands,
we had a lot of brands to pick from.
Right.
Now, I still have trouble seeing this one.
Bannosale.
Bannosale.
But in practicing that.
Oh, they had a great radio commercial, Bannosale.
Yeah.
I remember that, Don.
Did you?
Yeah.
I have a love affair with the sun or something like that.
Yeah, really?
Bannosale.
Bannosale.
Well, anyway, when, and looking this up for this great research that I do,
this also said, you know, this was for a French tan, whatever that is.
And that was also a central pay tan.
And then I had to laugh because I pronounced central pay,
Saint Tropez, until I was in my 30s.
Well, you get to look like a Bridget Bardot with a French tan.
Yeah.
Yeah.
And Bannosale was real simple.
It was Bann the Sun.
Yeah.
Bannom the Sun.
Oh.
Well, you're, you're a researcher with us, Don.
We appreciate your extra help here.
Coppertone.
That was the most popular.
Get a coppertone tan.
Oh, that famous photo.
Yeah.
The girl in that photo.
I have to look it up.
She's a famous actress.
No kidding.
Hmm.
I'll look it up.
I'll look it up a second.
Okay.
Okay.
Now, the next necessity for the bronze tan happened to be our own concoction.
Johnson Baby Oil and iodine.
A lot of girls did that.
Now, I looked that up recently.
And do you know what?
It's scary to read about.
We not only didn't know about the UV lights, but we raised,
but with the iodine and all, we were attracting them.
Hmm.
Can you imagine?
Well.
School and Gabby.
That was a tan gloriously.
Tartan, let's, let's you tan and never burn.
But then, I think, a competitor of coppertone became sea and ski.
And that was best of the Sun, but, but sea and ski, that broke through being waterproof.
Now, if you did burn, well, you know what I'm going to say next.
The blue jar, the blue round jar, open it up,
menthol, camphor, eucalyptus, that white cream, cooling, cooling.
We've, I can't imagine the millions of jars of Naxima that were sold to treat sunburn.
And solar cane, stop sunburn pain with solar cane.
All that's going to be avoided if you didn't sit out in the sun.
By the way, the little girl was Sherry Irwin in the ad in the TV commercial.
The little girl was three-year-old Jody Foster.
Really?
That was in the TV ad, yeah.
Oh, okay.
Yeah, so I knew where somebody famous.
That was very famous.
But that she was in the TV spot, not the print ad.
Yeah.
Okay.
The print ad was very, very famous and popular.
Yes.
Yes.
And we're going to be showing that ad at our program.
Right.
In person.
So if you want to see that ad, you must come to the program.
It's not ex-rated, though, is it?
Yeah.
Okay.
Another necessity for girls.
Do you believe this?
The white bathing cap.
In those days, it was all white with that chin strap that would be tight under your chin.
But those bathing caps, you know, they never really worked.
I mean, I'd say a gal had a flip hairdo.
That was hairspray.
And now you have a bathing cap that lets in water.
It was quite a mess.
And some girls use sun in to make their hair look lighter.
And then sun glasses.
Now, we had a role model, Jackie Kennedy, who wore sun glasses.
So whether we knew it or not, maybe down deep, we knew that sun glasses could make a statement for us.
We're going to take a quick break.
We're talking to Jim and Carol.
And we're talking about the beaches, the pools, all the great memories of growing up in Racine in the 50s and 60s.
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All right, let's continue with Jim and Carol, and we're talking about growing up at the beaches,
the pools, and getting sunburned and received in the 1950s and 60s.
When you didn't know if you got sunburned, you were on the Sun all summer long.
You got possibility of skin cancer.
Nobody even gave it a sunburn.
No, no, no.
And now they're thinking about it all the time, but back then it was let the sunburn.
That's two things I mentioned.
I mentioned, first of all, the sand was always on me, and when I got back from the beach,
and we had to take a shower to get all the rest of the stuff off of us,
it was just horrible that sunburn.
I was walking around, remember when Lucy had that sunburn that time?
That's what I was walking around, Mike.
We suffered for the challenge.
Yeah.
All the products that Carol mentioned for Sun10, there was one for guys.
It was called Man10.
I don't know if any guys remember that.
It was like a shave lotion.
You would just apply it to your face, or the only place on your body that you could get a Sun10 was your face.
But that was exclusively for guys.
There was another product on the market called QT, and that was for an instant Sun10.
And if you ever remember people who their skin turned like an orange, that's because they use QT.
A little too much QT.
Yes, and you could always spot the fake Sun10.
You knew right away because their skin was orange.
Of course, another necessity at the beach, of course, was transistor radios.
That was a must for every beach blanket.
I mean, we tuned into the popular stations back then, the rock stations, WLS, WKY, WCFL for rock and roll.
Now, of course, we tuned into WRJN.
But we listened to, oh my gosh, I can go on forever.
Bob Berry, Dick Beyondy, Clark Weber, Jim Dunbar, Art Roberts, and so many more.
And some of the more popular summer songs, I remember, were Woolly Bully, Sam The Shaman of Ferals, California Girls,
helped me Ronda, Hard Day's Night, and so many more.
We also had fun tossing the Frisbee and beach balls around.
Beach balls were, if you remember those Don, those huge airfield, just plastica.
We had them where I lived. I didn't live in the, you know, the medieval era.
And we have them.
Yeah, right.
Also Frisbee's.
And the original name for a Frisbee, Carol found this out, was called the Pluto Platter.
The Pluto Platter.
When WAMO took over in 1964, they changed it to the term Frisbee.
And can you imagine going to the beach and say, hey, let's throw the Pluto Platter around a little bit.
I don't think so.
You know, some of those originals are worth quite a bit.
Carol found one on eBay for $350, one of the original ones.
I thought you needed that for your collection.
I didn't get on it.
Yeah, and nothing to do with Racine. Otherwise, I wouldn't.
So, yeah.
A volleyball really had not been invented, so to speak, for the sand.
It wasn't sand volleyball, no?
Right, yeah, yeah.
That's right.
Well, one last thing for Gales, a necessity we've been talking about, was the rights for me suit.
Now, if you didn't care, you were lucky.
But if some of us thought, well, we need a suit that would be accentuating what might be okay and hiding what wasn't okay,
that took hours of trying on.
But one piece is, we're generally what we were, finally the two piece came in.
But during our era, very few bikinis, even though we have that as our theme song here, it really hadn't hit Racine yet.
That's right.
So, we were lucky to have all these wonderful memories and places, Jim.
Oh, my gosh, yeah, it seems like just a couple years ago, we were down at the beach, you know, looking for girls or guys in your case.
And just getting a nice suntan and enjoying your friends there and the weather and everything.
And now it's, you know, it's like, it's still there, but we aren't.
Yeah, that's right.
Yeah, I don't think we fit in anywhere.
No, we wouldn't fit in anywhere.
No, that was tied in with our youth.
So let's talk about that.
Everything you heard here will be expanded.
Plus, there'll be video and stills pictures and so forth.
And this will be this coming Monday, 7 p.m.
Living Faith Church on right Avenue.
It starts at 7 o'clock sharp.
And it should be a lot of fun.
I know your son, Mark, has been putting together the video presentation.
Yeah, so is in the past.
Very good.
But, Dan, we're awfully glad that you're joining us.
Yeah, Dan, we'll be there too.
We'll see.
My agent's still working on it.
Okay.
We're lucky.
Yeah, so looking forward to it.
And this will bring back a lot of memories for a lot of people.
And Dan, wait.
Now, let's talk about what you're doing in the future.
Right.
Sure.
Jim, take it away.
Carol, take it away.
No.
For September, we're going to be talking about the summer of 1965.
My class at St. Cass just had a reunion.
And I gave a little presentation or a little talk about what we did in summer of 65.
So we're going to recap a lot of the activities that we used to enjoy back in, like I say,
to summer of 65.
And that would include the outdoor theaters, of course, the Venetian and Realtto scooping the
loop.
What else?
I read your talk and it just summarized.
Yeah.
So much of what was what we experienced in 65.
Yeah.
The dance venues, the Ivan Ho, Niddy Gritty, the Y dances.
I don't know how we're going to fit it all in there.
I don't know either.
So you'll read a part of your talk and then we'll just embellish that a little bit.
Yeah.
And then we'll go on.
So the summer of 65.
So the summer of 65, right.
Do you remember the, what songs did you say for your reunion talk?
I remember.
Willie Bulley, I think, came out in June of 65.
I just saw a picture of Sam, the sham recently.
Oh, yeah.
He still has to say that I'm a turban, but he got gray hair, but he looks exactly the same.
Yeah.
And change at all.
That's right.
Yeah.
Do you guys feel really bad when you drive past the Y and it's gone?
Oh, yeah.
Yeah.
I mean, that's sad.
Yeah.
The Y dances and learning how to swim there for some kids.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Someday they'll just be a plaque there if that.
Well, they could have built something else there.
But I mean, there'll be a plaque that you and Terry can go and find.
Well, I'm thinking that the Carol J. and Forte film andthropic foundation for the preservation
of historical things in Racine is going to put a plaque there.
I know.
That's what I was thinking.
There's a dollar in our treasury.
Yeah.
Right, right, right.
Thank you guys for coming in.
It was great.
You always make a great time.
Now, people missed anything.
We had a podcast this late tonight or early tomorrow morning.
You'll be able to find it.
And it will be at WRJN.com.
And wherever you get your podcast.
And thank you guys very much.
We appreciate it.
Thank you, Don.
Thank you.
Glad to be here.
