I really liked  pops skating rink, i went to the other 1 , just a few times. seen the Kingamen out there when they had bands...pops was like riding a roller coaster, the floor was so wavy.....but a hole lota fun..igot to the point of being able to go around the rink on shates, but but when some of the real little kids came flying sround me on 1 lsg and backwards... well i felt pretty silly , cause i was down more than up..i always went for the bands..seen REO SPEEDWAGON, most every weekend, $1.00 cover , at the Res Lion Inn....Champaign..seen a lot of big bands get their start there...they had a 40 year reuion 2 or 3 years ago. they had a bunch of bands come back for it , i still got a flyer telling who all was gonna play...some real gooooood times there..

I didnt have to walk to school barefooted in the snow, i just tell my grankids that..but i hardly wore shoes when i was a kid...   they sent a big yeller bus for us ..didnt have to walk to school till i went to Douglas, and then southview, i think they had a bus for southview , but i just walked across the railroad bridge by Davies packing plant...i  had a fishin pole hid down by the river that the bridge crossed.....Yeah, sometimes we didnt make it to school...Went to southview the 1st. year it was open...

Well it was around the early to mid fifties,  the root beer stand sat almost on the corner , on the south side of hungry hollow road.,,, my DejaVu , ur still a kid. i was born and lived out that way  for about 9 or 10 years i reckin. im thinkin i was 7 or 8  at that time    ( jus kiddin about the kid  )..

Does anybody remember that root beer stand that sat on w. hungry hollow road, almost at the corner of henning road..boy i fell in LOVE with a curb hop there. musta been about 7 then. They wasnt open long, root beer was 2 or 5 cents for a big ol mug,,hungry hollow road used to go straight into Kickapoo..whoa, dam that was along time ago.. Then there was Flossies little store at the top of the hill acroos  from Kockapoo rd. now..hell im gettin older by the minute, but great ol good time day"s back then. really enjoy talkin bout them.sonds like a lot of you know what im talkin about

I thot it was a joke. it shud be..Gosh i got my fingers crossed that it will have an off ramp for WallyWorld..are the politicions gone MAD...they want to spend that money like it "s theirs...i dont go to Duckville any more than i have to,..why dont they keep changing the streets back and forth, taking down stop lights---signs  and putting them up in other places....or,,,,,,,,, they cud maybe fix some of the streets  OR are they are saying          where"s the PORK?

Well DejaVu, Thanks for setting up this forum..lots better than C  N  ....forum. you are doing a good job , keep it up.. i"l try and behave lol.. i will just stay in the memories.........politic"s..................PHEW !!!!!

To hear all the trustees , none of them were guilty, Flipper Quinn asked them all to step down , most did, does that make them  guilty, besides he was gonna fire them if they didnt step down..WOW ...wonder why he flipped again...im thinlin he"s about as bad as Blogo, i think all politicians are only there for what they can gain,and thats all of them.us older folks will be alright ...but the kids and grandkids, are in a heep ol trouble if we dont get the tea bags..

Yeah DejaVu , we had plenty of parties out in Fonners old land...60"s, went in right off weat oakwood ave.  also went to the blue pond in Catlin.Hell used to swim in Kickapoo. i reckin i am gettin old...Never seen a deer unless you went to Kickapoo and seen them in a pen, if you happened to see 1 in the wild, you had braggin rights for a good long while. well those were the good ol days, i went to  Diamond  school for a minute, i lived on Mauck Lane until I- 74 was built.....in fact it took our house ,had some fun times out there..     Everybody back then were real nice, the ladies came around and brought  cakes and all kinds of  food....Welcomed us to the neighborhood...Dont hear about that anymore i reckin

I think Bill Black should just retire, and go away...but i think Flpper Quinn will give the trustee"s seat to him...I thot the Gov. would fire the 2 last trutees if they didnt resign...he should give the 1"s that step down their jobs back..they need to start clean and let them all go.

SORRY DejaVU, now ya know why i had so much trouble getting logged in here

Well i i finally got on here. Thank you, DegaVu very much for helping me through it. I too lived out west and swam in Ed Fonners ponds. we hac some great parties out there. I used to get a kick out of Ed, we would sit in the Nugget and drink a couple beers and Ed told me i could fish in them ponds, he let almost everyone fish there., but Vernon his son would catch me in there and always try an run me out .....i always told him to go ask his dad...he would dtill be at the Nugget.. great memories...........Then moved to Rabbit town..really liked it down there,had a lot of fun.