DATING

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Always great dates and movies at the drive-in!
And of course they had those high fidelity speakers!




 

Riverside Amusment Park

Oh, yes!! Twin Drive-In!

Rustic Gardens, on Arlington Ave., was a good place to go to play miniature golf.   We usually went on Saturday night, or Sunday afternoon, as Friday nights were spent at football games during football season and basketball games during basketball season.   We would  "double"  with another couple to have lots of fun.  Rustic Gardens is still in business  -  one of the few  "dating spots"  still around.  Miniature golf anyone?  

    

I had not thought about Rustic Gardens in a long time. I googled it and came across this page which says it may be the oldest mini golf course in america. Click here to see some Rustic Gardens Photos It doesn't look like it has changed much. What do you think?

I found it on a longer page here: http://www.roadarch.com/minigolf/in.html

Rustic Gardens was so much fun.  I have been there in my "adult" life, but it's been a lot of years.  Maybe a good outing for our class now?

The most I remembered about dating in high school were the coke dates that took us to the TeePee, Steak-n-Shake and cruising back and forth between the two.  My steady boyfriend went to Ben Davis and we would go to Weir Cook Airport to watch the planes on the observation deck. Also my friend and I would sneek out to the Pole on 16th St. or to the Whiteland Barn on Sundays if we could find gas money.

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I have some old videos of the Indianapolis Zoo. Not the greatest place for a date but we had one. Do you remember this...

        

By today's standard it was pretty lame.

                                           
During high school I worked three years at Crescent Pharmacy at Prospect and Laurel. One of my jobs each February was to setup a 4x8 sheet of pegboard to display the Heart shaped boxes of candy we had for sale. There were red, pink, yellow and white boxes of all sizes, many with ribbons and roses. I guess they were pretty expensive because people actually put them in lay-a-way (remember that pre-credit card sales scheme?). So then I had to box and label those that were to be set aside.

I never really had a girl friend around Valentines day. A money saving strategy I guess. The only present I ever received from a girl friend was an electric shaver just before Christmas in 1962. Soon after our gift exchange we broke up when she and her mother began to push for us to get married. The breakup wasn't pretty and we didn't return our gifts to each other.

Well, I was a "no beard yet" 16 year-old kid who certainly didn't need an electric razor. So I asked the Drug store owner if I could sell my new razor at the store. "Sure", he said. So I put the shiny new razor in the display case. Ironically when it sold it was my ex-girl friend's brother (who also worked at the store) who made the sale for me. $30-$35 in my pocket as I recall. No candy - just cash! Nice!

Remember  the steady shirts, the Gant shirt loops, the Angora fluffed up around the class ring, carrying your girl friend's books yada yada yada.... Love was in the air!

So much so that the #1 song in America all of February 1964 was --- I Want to Hold Your Hand. Click here to enjoy that screaming Ed Sullivan moment > I Want to Hold Your Hand

Anyway - Happy Valentine's Day to you all! 

Bill Byrd