Muscatine

Yeah, I'm familiar with both places. I used to hunt and fish the big timber and breaks until I got so I couldn't walk much anymore. One of my sons hunts that area now.

Someone was killed in whisky hollow awhile back.

We used to play under the RR bridge that crossed the slough below the little league diamonds. Sometimes they parked trains on the siding there and we would climb on them.

When I was a wee snot some people still used the old fashioned ice boxes. The kind that cooled with a big block of ice. If they needed ice they put a big sign in their front window that read "ICE". A truck loaded with blocks of ice would slowley drive up the street stopping when the driver saw a sign. They let us kids have any chunks that broke off. A treat on hot summer days.

Did you ever pi$$ off the old high bridge? For a nickle you could walk across. Sometimes at night, some of us would buy quart bottlesof beer, hide them under our jackets and walk over to the Illinois side. Then start back to Iowa. somewhere over the channel we would be out of beer and in need of relief. In the dark, when no traffic was coming, we would let fly over the side.

When we got to the toll house, we would jumpover the side and run to avoid paying another nickle.

I remember the Palace and Uptown Theaters very well.  They never should have torn down the Uptown Theater as it would have been a perfect place for the Performing Arts.

I remember when bubble gum first came out.  Woolworths had counter after counter laden with it.  That was good gum in those days, not like the stuff you buy now.