Age-Activated Attention Deficit Disorder

A.A.A.D.D.- KNOW THE SYMPTOMS! 

Thank goodness there's a name for this disorder.
Age-Activated Attention Deficit Disorder
This is how it manifests: 

I decide to water my garden.
As I turn on the hose in the driveway, I look over at my car and decide it needs washing. 

As I start toward the garage, I notice mail on the porch table that
I brought up from the mail box earlier. 

I decide to go through the mail before I wash the car.
I lay my car keys on the table, Put the junk mail in the garbage can under the table,
And notice that the can is full. 

So, I decide to put the bills back On the table and take out the garbage first... 

But then I think, Since I'm going to be near the mailbox
When I take out the garbage anyway,
I may as well pay the bills first. 

I take my check book off the table, And see that there is only one check left.

My extra checks are in my desk in the study, So I go inside the house to my desk where
I find the can of Pepsi I'd been drinking. 

I'm going to look for my checks, But first I need to push the Pepsi aside
So that I don't accidentally knock it over.

The Pepsi is getting warm, and I decide to put it in the

refrigerator to keep it cold.As I head toward the kitchen with the Pepsi,
A vase of flowers on the counter
Catches my eye--they need water. 

I put the Pepsi on the counter and
discover my reading glasses that
I've been searching for all morning. I decide I better put them back on my desk,
But first I'm going to water the flowers.

I set the glasses back down on the counter , Fill a container with water and suddenly spot the TV remote.
Someone left it on the kitchen table. 

I realize that tonight when we go to watch TV,I'll be looking for the remote,
But I won't remember that it's on the kitchen table,
So I decide to put it back in the den where it belongs,
But first I'll water the flowers. 

I pour some water in the flowers, But quite a bit of it spills on the floor. 

So, I set the remote back on the table, Get some towels and wipe up the spill. 

Then, I head down the hall trying to 

remember what I was planning to do.
At the end of the day:
The car isn't washed,
The bills aren't paid,
There is a warm can of
Pepsi sitting on the counter,
The flowers don't have enough water,
There is still only 1 check in my check book,
I can't find the remote,
I can't find my glasses,
And I don't remember what I did with the car keys.
Then, when I try to figure out why nothing got done today,
I'm really baffled because I know I was busy all day,
And I'm really tired.

I realize this is a serious problem, and

I'll try to get some help for it,

but first I'll check my e-mail....

Do me a favor. Forward this message to everyone you know,
Because I don't remember who I've sent it to.

Don't laugh -- if this isn't you yet, your day is coming! 

P.S. I don't remember who sent it to me, so if it was you, I'm sorry

Many of us have fond memories of the old Starlite Drive-In.

Located in the Oak Lawn district, the Starlite Drive-In had one screen and was opened prior to 1955. The original screen was blown down by the tornado of April, 1967. It had a playground at the base of the screen. It also was open year round and had propane beehive type heaters, but you used your drivers license as collateral. They also owned the giant fiberglass slide out by the marquee along with a go-kart track. For a couple of years they rented snowmobiles in the winter to run up and down the long driveway.

I worked at the Starlite Drive-In from 1967 to 1971 on the weekends. My uncle was the assistant manager for the Starlite Drive-In and the indoor Studio Theater next door. My pay was $1.25 per hour. I have a million memories and not enough space here to tell all.

Contributed by Todd Hill

Starlite Drive-In

6551 95th Street,

 Chicago Ridge, IL 60415

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They paved paradise

And put up a parking lot

Joni Mitchell Big Yellow Taxi - YouTube

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They paved paradise And put up a parking lot With a pink hotel, a boutique And a swinging hot spot Don't it ...

Counting Crows Big Yellow Taxi Lyrics

Artist: Counting Crows Lyrics 
Popularity : 5683 users have visited this page. 
Producer : Steve Lilywhite 
Genre : Pop rock 
Format : CD single 
Length : 3:47 
Recorded : 2002 
Cover recording of: Big Yellow Taxi 
Label : Geffen 
Lyricist: Joni Mitchell 
Composer: Joni Mitchell 
Guest performer: Vanessa Carlton 
Released : March 2003 
Conductor: Ron Fair 
Performer: Vanessa Carlton 


They paved paradise
And put up a parking lot
With a pink hotel, a boutique
And a swinging hot spot

Don't it always seem to go
That you don't know what you've got til its gone
They paved paradise 
And put up a parking lot

They took all the trees
And put 'em in a tree museum
And they charged the people
A dollar and a half to seem 'em

Don't it always seem to go,
That you don't know what you've got
Til its gone
They paved paradise 
And put up a parking lot

Hey farmer farmer
Put away the DDT 
I don't care about spots on my apples
Leave me the birds and the bees
Please!

Don't it always seem to go
That you don't know what you've got
Til its gone
They paved paradise 

And put up a parking lot
Hey, now they paved paradise
To put up a parking lot
Why not?

Listenin' late last night
I heard the screen door slam
And a big yellow taxi
Took my girl away
Now, don't it always seem to go
That you don't know what you've got
Til its gone
They paved paradise
And put up a parking lot

Hey now, now
Don't it always seem to go
That you don't know what you got 
Til its gone
They paved paradise
To put up a parking lot

I don't want give it
Why you want give,
Why you want give it all away?
Hey hey hey
Now you want give it,
Ah she want to give it 
Cause she givin' it all away
Now now now

Hey pave paradise
Put up a parking lot

Janson's Drive In

Taking Your Pet For a Walk

Taking Your Pet For a Walk

 

Chicago - A Film from the Chicago Board Of Education

from Fading Dyes 

This is a film I found at an estate sale on the south side of Chicago. It merely said "Chicago" and "Print 1" on the canister. I bought it because I was intrigued as to what might live inside.

Well, its hard to say exactly what this is. Its a film by the Chicago Board Of Education, produced sometime in the 1940s. I only know this because the narrator died in a horrible plane wreck around that time. Its hard to say the purpose of the film; it could be geared towards tourism or to entice companies to come to Chicago. This film could have just been used in the classroom. I'm not entirely sure.

The great thing about this film reel, is all the different views of the city they give. If you have any more info on this, I would love to know!

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Motorbikes Back in the Day

When we were in our early teens we began to build motorbikes. We added a small Briggs and Stratton lawn mower engine to our bikes. The engine was mounted on the right center side of the bike with a belt going straight back to a large pulley on the back wheel.

The bikes typically had no clutch - straight drive - you simply lifted up the back wheel, ran down the street, and slammed the wheel down. This would turn the engine and hopefully start it. We would then jump on board, being careful not to let our legs contact the sparkplug.  Usually the brakes did not work and you worked the throttle by reaching down to the engine. You stopped the bike by stopping the engine.

They were unsafe at any speed but we loved them.  When the police caught us they would order us to take them home and take them apart. This we never did.

None of us thought to ever take a photo of our fine machines. If anyone has a photo send them to me and I will post them on this blog.   morganparkhigh@gmail.com

The photo above is a fancier version of the ones we built. Most of ours did not have the chrome gas tank. 

Factory made Motorbikes at MPHS

Whizzer Motorbike - Classic Mt Greenwood Chopper - Photo from Bob Glines. 

Many of us owned motorbikes back in the Hood. Bob Glines, Pete Terry, Don Martensen, Tom Schildhouse, Craig Hullinger and many others terrorized the neighborhood with these awsome machines.

We started off our motorbike careers by adding lawn mower engines to our bikes when we were 12 or 13.  The old Briggs and Stratton Engines were bolted to the bikes, with a pully belt that ran straight back to the rear wheel.  

These motorbikes were unsafe at any speed.  The engine was off balance on the right side of the bike. They were straight drive with no clutch, so you had to lift up the rear wheel, run down the street, then set the wheel down. This caused the engine to turn and hopefully to start. Then you leaped on the bike, being careful to keep your right leg high so that you would not get a shock from the spark plug.

In most cases the brakes no longer worked, so you stopped the bike by stopping the engine. Most of us received some minor injuries from these awesome machines. Tom Schildhouse managed to fly through a car windshield.

Unfortunately I do not have a photo of these homemade motorbikes. If anyone has one please send and I will post it on the blog.

As we got older we managed to trade up to Whizzer and Supertwin factory made motorbikes. These machines had clutches and brakes and were a big improvement from our homemade bikes. They were old by the time we got them, however.

This is a photo of a Monarch Supertwin. It was not quite as fast or prestigious as a Whizzer. It had a two cylinder two cycle engine. Don Martenson, Pete Terry, and Craig Hullinger owned Supertwins.


I mounted my Supertwin Engine on a English Racer and put a very small pulley on the rear wheel. I also mounted a front wheel drive engine on the bike, so I had a very light bike with two engines. I calculated it would go 90 miles per hour. Fortunately I could never get both engines running at once or it might have been an early end for me.

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The beauty of the lawn mower engine bikes was that filling-up the gas tank cost about $0.07 back then. Very affordable.

But mine was much more sophisticated. I actually had a centrifiugal clutch. Started it by pulling the starter rope.

I didn't get into the hair-raising adventures Craig described until I bought a used SuperTwin from Craig, which was, sadly, lacking a twist grip throttle, and a handle bar lever to disengage the clutch.
 

I tied a string to a carburator lever to adjust the speed and had to start it by having someone push me. It all worked swell until a hot cylinder head burnt through the string and I was stuck on that monster running wide open with no clutch, until it the gas ran out.  That was a wild ride!

Sorry. I have  no photos of any of those bikes.

Don Martensen
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The photo at the top of this post is a duplicate of one the one I had along time ago...Dont have any of the original. I also had a mini-bike with a chainsaw engine that I put on it. It was 8 horsepower and went too fast for the brakes I had on it. 

I do have a photo below of me on my Norton. Of course this was a big motorcycle, not a motorbike.

My Norton Commando Interstate approx 1975 ish, with dunstall pipes,very fast for1975

Bob Glines

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Margaret Glines advised us that she and Bob have purchased E-Moto Bikes

Margaret Glines

I am so excited after much debate Bob and 

I bought E-moto electric bikes .

 

What a joy to ride. You can ride with full power; 

power assisted; or the good old fashioned way-pedal.

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