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Hangin' Out with Bob (and his two brothers, Dave and Tom) · Hangin' Out with Bob

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All right, hello and welcome to "Hangin' Out with
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Bob," a podcast hosted by me, Bob Edholm. Thanks
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for joining and let's get started. "Hangin' Out
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with Bob" is a podcast where guests tell us their
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stories, where they grew up, what they're doing
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now, which shows they stream, which books they
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read, which teams they cheer for, and yada, yada,
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yada. And the more laughs we can have telling
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stories and hanging out together, the better.
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That said, let me introduce my two guests today.
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Maybe I should call this episode "All in the Family,"
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because these two guys just happen to be my brothers,
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Dave Edholm and Tom Edholm. Same last name,
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same parents. And all three of us are Boomers.
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Boomers with Millennials for kids and Generation
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Alphas for grandkids. Thanks for being here,
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guys. Appreciate it. Can't think of a better
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way to begin my broadcast than with my two brothers
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as guests. So for the next few minutes, we're
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just going to be telling each other a little
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bit about ourselves. I'll go first, and I promise
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none of us will go for more than two minutes.
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So let us know if we're getting long in the tooth.
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Again, my name is Bob Edholm. I'm a Boomer.
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Like I said, I turned 71 in April. Whoa. I live
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in Columbia Heights, Minnesota, which is also
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where my brothers and I grew up, I was born
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in Minneapolis, but then when we were nine years
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old, we moved up to Columbia Heights, and that's
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where I ended up going to school and you know
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went to a Highland Elementary and then Columbia
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Junior High School and then Columbia Heights
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Senior High School and then afterward we went
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to college, went to Anoka-Ramsey for a couple
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years, and then we also went to the University
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of Minnesota where I graduated with a degree
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in journalism. I worked on a newspaper for three
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years after college and then I came back to the
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Twin Cities and got a job in communications and
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public relations for about 16 years and then
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stayed in insurance at that company as Prudential
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for 24 years total. I started over a few times
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in different jobs and then I got a job with the
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Voya Financial Insurance Company. I was there
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for almost 10 years and I was there till just
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this past April. My job was eliminated. So right
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now, I'm just getting into the podcast thing
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that was recommended by a few people to try that.
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And if I can find work as a proofreader, I'll
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do that as well. But I'm enjoying retirement,
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so to speak, and doing a lot of reading and streaming
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and spending time with my daughter and son -in
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-law and granddaughter and my brothers. Okay,
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Dave, you can go next. And we've got a quick
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joke for you. What do you call a monk with a
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podcast? An "air friar." Thank you very much. Go
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ahead, Dave. And with that, anyway, so I'm Dave.
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Yeah, Bob and Tom are my brothers from the Heights,
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from northeast Minneapolis. Actually, that's
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where I lived my first seven years. Yeah, fond
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memories of growing up when I did. Obviously
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I'm a boomer as well. I taught for 42 years.
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Have a family, have lots of kids. Still very
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busy with them. Still actually sub -teaching
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on occasion and currently just staying real busy
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with like remodeled stuff and so forth. Yeah,
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what you've been working on this year? Just...
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Kind of, I'm doing a bathroom, doing a whole
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bunch of landscaping. So, but obviously I don't
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recover like I used to, so the projects are taking
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considerably longer. But yeah, looking forward
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to doing this and talking about some of the old
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days growing up in Heights. Good for now? Okay,
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good. And Tom, here's another bad joke. Why don't
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boomers like to use AC or DC? They hate anything that
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is current. Wrong one. Okay. All right, and Tom,
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you take it away. You get you get two minutes,
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two-minute warning with no timeouts. Well, I'm
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Tom, and I'm the younger and better-looking of
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the three brothers. But yeah, same background,
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same schools and everything. As my brothers mentioned
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before, I grew up in the Heights until I was
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about 22 or 24, actually. And then I moved out
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to the northwest subarbs and have been there ever since.
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I spent 38 years in the heating and air conditioning
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business. This is a contract versus a contractor
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the last 15 years as on the sales side, distribution
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sales after I got too beat up to do the work
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anymore. I have, as Bob mentioned, I have some
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kids in their 30s and a bunch of grandkids and...
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Just still do a lot of work around the house
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and we do a lot more traveling now. Love Florida
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and we've been all over the place the last few
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years so we enjoy doing that and look forward
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to doing more. I still have a few years left
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before I retire. But we're empty nesters now.
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We've always had dogs and we... we started taking
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in rescue dogs a few years ago. So we're we enjoy
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that. That's the challenge, obviously, but but
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yeah, have a good time with that. And yeah, looking
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forward to looking forward to talking about the
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old hood. We just drove through it on the way
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here, actually. So just to clarify time, did
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you indicate which suburb you're in? No, I didn't.
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Okay. I'm in the northwest suburb. No, I'm up
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in the Anoka area. Okay. Okay. And then Dave's
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also in there. Andover and Ramsey. Okay, again,
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the name of this podcast is "Hangin' Out with
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Bob." I'm your host, Bob Edholm. And my two guests
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are my brothers, Dave and Tom Edholm. And now
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that you've heard a little bit about us, the
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three of us, we're all going to talk a little
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bit about the house where we grew up in in Columbia
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Heights. It was on a street called Chatham Road.
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Just arbitrarily, Tom, I'm gonna ask you first.
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Just kind of tell us about the house as you remember
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it, on Chatham. Well, a lot of fine memories
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of that place. It was a small house, but I, you
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know, I... still marvel at the fact that the
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three of us shared a bedroom that was about eight
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by 10. It was just a your typical late 50s rambler
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track home detached garage. Yep. We had an unfinished
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basement for years and years. And like I said,
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it's flooded every time it rains. So there wasn't
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much we could do with that. But yeah, it was
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it was small. One thing I do miss about it is
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the house I have now, I mow about an acre and
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that lawn I could mow in about three and a half
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minutes. You know, it's just a postage stamp
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compared to what I've had my whole adult life.
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But no, it was awesome. The only thing that was
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funnier than the three of us sharing that bedroom
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was the fact that we'd all eat around all five
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of us a kitchen table and even a smaller area.
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Yeah, it was it was crazy. You know, different
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times now. And it was nice having a neighbor
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literally eight feet from you on each side. You
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know, you hear their arguments and stuff. Yeah,
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a lot of fun memories in that house, obviously.
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Spent most of my life there, right? For 20 years
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of my life, I stayed in that house. Right, you
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never did live in Minneapolis. Dave and I, we
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were northeast to when we were little boys. I
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was nine and Dave was seven when we moved up
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the Heights. Yeah, you did everything in the
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Heights. You even got married in the Heights.
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Yeah, well, my wife's from the Heights, so. Okay,
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go ahead, Dave. One thing I remember about that
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house, you know, I was just talking to some people
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from Heights who I golfed with this last week,
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but I thought this was always pretty funny. None
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of us had air conditioning. And at least I think
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my parents may have gotten air conditioning when
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I was like 20. And when I would go over there,
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I thought it just felt great. So we were talking
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about the fact that if there was a heat wave,
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what would end up happening usually is that you
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wouldn't sleep for like three nights, even as
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a kid. And you'd be like just super exhausted.
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You'd wake up and just sweat like a pig. And
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so you'd go about three or four nights without
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sleeping but then about the fifth night you'd
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be so exhausted and kind of used to it that you'd
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actually fall asleep but by that time the heat
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wave had actually broken so it started to get
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cooler again. The other thing that I'll never
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forget about that house is that we lived on Chatham
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and there was a time when there wasn't a stop
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sign on Chatham. They put a stop sign on Golf
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Place in Chatham which is I want to say probably
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about a couple hundred yards, maybe an eighth
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of a mile from Fairway Drive. And what would
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happen, because you'd have to have the windows
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open in the summertime, what would always happen
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is that guys who were older than us who had hot
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rods would take a right on Fairway and they would
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literally drag race. Going on Chatham Road and
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I mean you absolutely could hear it It was impossible
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not to because all the windows in the house were
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open but and then eventually they ended up putting
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the stops on I think that that Helped it cut
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yet it cut down considerably on the number of
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drag races But I can't imagine what would have
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happened to those cars when they would have been
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going up that hill after Golf Place, because
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there was a slight incline, it wouldn't surprise
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me if some of those cars probably got air, because
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they would really wind it up. I'll share a couple
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things about the house, too. Actually, this is
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before you were born, Tom, just before you were
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born, but that house did not have a garage. It
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had a gravel driveway, and it was just a three
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-bedroom rambler. I remember I think it was painted
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green with, you know, white trim. Shakes. Yeah,
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shakes. Yeah, shakes. Yeah. And yeah, obviously
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no air conditioning until I was like 21 or so
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before I put that in the base in the house, which
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was great. But I can remember. Do you remember
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we had no fences? You were talking about the
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no fence. Right, and we could burn trash. Yes.
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And I can remember, I remember one time, I don't
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know if it happened more than once, but I remember
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one time where, you know, I can remember dad
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telling us never to put aerosol cans in the,
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you know, like a right guard deodorant, spray
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deodorant. I remember I accidentally emptied
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out the trash and put it in, it was burning.
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And I go, dad, I think, uh, There's an aerosol
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can in there. He took that really well. And he
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says, get away from that trash burner. And we
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were by the house. And about 10 minutes after
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the fire was going on, I was sitting here to
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boom. And then it did pop. It wasn't going to
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tear. Did we throw a cherry bomb in there? No,
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I think that there were some people behind us
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that had cherry bombs. And we thought it'd be
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kind of cool to see what would happen. And I
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think we put the lid on after we threw the cherry.
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bomb in and it soon ignited and I don't know
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if it blew the lid off but it was it was created
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quite a ruckus. Oh, that's funny. But I remember
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that house and I remember it was, it was, it
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was, Chatham Road was a busy street in our neighborhood
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or in Columbia Heights because a lot of times
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kids that would drive to high school would go
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up Chatham Road. It was kind of a main drag.
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I got a lot of traffic, so a lot of people would
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end up going by our house that we knew from school
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or whatever. Well, it was a shortcut for people
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to get to Apache, too. Oh, yeah. Apache Plaza
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was a shopping mall not far from my house. It
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was very, very popular. Exactly. And Silver Lake.
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Okay, well, I'm going to go on to the next topic
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now guys. We talked about the house we grew up
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in, but let's just leave the house in the yard
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for a little bit and just talk about our neighborhood
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where we actually live, that part of Columbia
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Heights. I was going to start with the fact that
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our whole neighborhood there, you know, for blocks
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and blocks, was once a golf course. It was called
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Hilltop Golf Course. It was gone before any of
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us were born. I think it was there till about
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the mid -40s. But it was an 18 -hole golf course,
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and it had 18 holes. And I've shared with my
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brothers just some maps of the course, hand -drawn
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maps. It kind of shows how the course is laid
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out. And it went as far west as almost like where
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the high school was, and up to kind of the neighborhood
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known as Innsbruck, all the way to Stinson Boulevard,
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where the seminary. was in it so it took up a
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lot of area and I've often wondered but what
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how cool that would have been if you could somehow
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walk those 18 holes right you know I've heard
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it said that our house we were kind of at the
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bottom of Chatham Road or level part that was
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like a green to a hole or something you know
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the first hole it was it was it was close to
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the clubhouse but that was it was a It was right
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down the fairway or a hole where we were. So,
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do you guys have any other? Well, speaking of
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the clubhouse, the clubhouse was actually on
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45th. Yes. In Chatham. Yes, still there. And
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several families that we knew, at least a couple
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of families that we knew fairly well, because
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the Philippi's lived there for a time. Yep.
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And the Lahti's lived there for quite a while
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as well. So, that was actually the old clubhouse,
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right? It would be the... northeast corner of
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45th and Chatham. I don't believe our dad ever
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played that course either because I know he played
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like Columbia and Gross I think when he was growing
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up but I would have just loved to talk to somebody
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that I remember. Doug Latawiec told us his dad,
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Chet, who was a golfer really enjoyed golfing.
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I think he caddied or played that course. Fore!
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Well, anything you have to remember, like that
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course has been gone for like eighty years. Yeah.
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I mean, so anybody that had played it would be,
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you know, a hundred or more now, so there's no...
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There was a developer who developed all the land.
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Wasn't his name Jessup? He was the guy that built
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our house. Yeah, there was about 10 or 11 houses
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on our street. I think he built, well, the floor
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plan, I think, was the same for half the houses
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on the block. Well, all the ramblers had essentially
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the same layout. There were a couple of one and
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a half stories, weren't there? Yeah, and those
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were built earlier. Grant's house was, I think,
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one of them. Yeah, right. Ours was, I think,
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the first one, or at least at that end. And then
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the second or third house from the corner also
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had that same, they all had that same look to
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it. Yeah, they were identical. But let's talk
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about some other memories that you guys can think
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of. I mean, there was that park. Yeah. It was
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a huge part of growing up there. That's where
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everybody hung out. It was a great place to take
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your bike and jumps and wipe out. And you didn't
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have far to go home crying after that. But remember
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the baseball games down there? Sandlot baseball?
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It's disappeared. It doesn't exist anymore. I
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don't see anybody using it. There was no hockey
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rink, but in the winter you get the skaters.
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It would be packed. Do you guys remember that
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it would be east of Hilltop Park? So that would
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be Upland Crest. But one of the families, it
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was a very steep hill. I mean, really steep and
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they had they tried to grow lawns on that hill,
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but there was a I remember one time we were up
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there playing baseball and there was a guy who
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had his lawnmower on a rope. And he was like
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he was gently letting the lawnmower down down
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down the rope and then he pull it back up. But.
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Anyway, yeah, just to give you some indication,
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the other thing that I remember is that there
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was a path where there wasn't, there weren't
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any homes, and that path ran from up on that
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little hill on Chatham all the way up to the
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water tower. That was obviously some kind of
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a water main. Well they had pipes, there were
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these giant pipes. They had these gigantic pipes,
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and that was the place where I swear that...
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John Ellison probably saved my life there because
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we'd get these pipes that weighed like several
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tons and because it was hilly you could you could
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push them down a hill and I thought it was I
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thought it would be kind of fun to just kind
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of jump jump on the pipe as it was rolling and
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luckily he grabbed me by the belt because I think
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if I would have gone over that pipe I just would
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have been crushed but anyway but yeah and then
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over where Roddy's lived that was an opening
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there, but that went all the way to the water
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tower, which was the coolest water tower ever,
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because you could bang rocks off of it. The old
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one. It almost sounded like bullets. It did,
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yes. The rock would hit it. And you knew you
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could really throw it. throw a ball far if you
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could throw a rock on top of that water tower.
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I couldn't tell you what year I could finally
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do that, but that was always the goal. Do you
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remember that hill, speaking of that hill? I
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can remember for a couple of winters, at least
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when the skating rink was open, they turned it
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into kind of almost like a ski track. They got
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the snow to harden and guys would go up on their
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skates up that hill and then to ski down the
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hill on their skates. And I remember one time
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our Uncle Joe did that. I don't remember that.
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He came skating with us up at the rink. Yeah.
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And then he went over with all the teenagers
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and they were going down the hill. You know,
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if I did, I'd always wipe out or something. because
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it was one of those things where it was kind
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of a daredevil thing. Yes, yeah. The other thing
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that you can't forget about that skating rink
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is that first of all, the bullies. I mean, there
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were bullies like everywhere and it was absolutely
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commonplace to just get your head just stuffed
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into a snowbank for no apparent reason at all,
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but you just kind of shook it off and that's
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just kind of what you did. And the other thing
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too is that there were a lot of kids that were
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smoking when they were about eight. Oh yeah.
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If you weren't playing pull away, you were smoking
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until Clayton came out and chewed you away. And
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then while he was out shooting you away, you
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go and steal candy out of his little office there.
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I can still smell that. Tom Moore soda. Yeah, they
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had the old pop machines. And then it was before
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our time, even before we even moved up there.
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But I remember mom telling us that our grandpa
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was one of those warming house guys. Right. He
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was yelling at the kids all the time. But this
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was like in the 50s or, you know. and there was
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some dude named Ambrose who had a very strong
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either northeast or Polish accent and he kept
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he'd always tell people to close the door closed
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the door yeah because if he kept it open he was
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he had a chair right by that door and it's freezing
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out you know it's like close zero and he'd be
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wondering about that so yeah good memories oh
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and one last place i'm going to bring up and
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and Tom he probably spent that time there too
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because it was still open was the area we called
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the "Tabletop" right across the street from over
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the water tower It was great for toboggans. It
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was great. And then in the summertime, it was
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taken over by motorcycles. I mean, there were
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just guys that were going up that hill because
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it was laid out perfectly. It was very steep.
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It's like a plateau on top that you could take
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these steep hills up and it got a lot of use.
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So the "Tabletop," I just remember calling it.
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Yes. Yeah. Yeah. Good memories. Okay. Again,
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the name of this podcast is "Hangin' Out with
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Bob." I'm your host, Bob Edholm. And I'm with
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my two guests and my brothers, Dave and Tom Edholm
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And the last topic I want to bring up,
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um, I think it's be kind of fun. Well, we're
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all Boomers. Um, Dave and I are pretty close
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in age. I'm 71 and Dave will be 70 in November.
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Whoa. Uh, but Tom was, he's a, he's a younger,
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he's a BABY Baby Boomer. He was born in 62.
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Whoa. So there's nine and a half years between
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him and I. So we might have different favorite
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memories of growing up, or favorite things, I
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guess. What I wanted to ask, and we don't have
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to go in order, we can just bring up stuff like
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favorite places to hang out, favorite teams,
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favorite bands, favorite TV shows, radio stations,
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the kinds of things that we remember while we
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were growing up. I think you might have mentioned
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already, Dave, or Tom did, Apache Plaza was a
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real popular place for kids. It was in an area
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where you had kids from Heights, Northeast Minneapolis,
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St. Anthony, New Brighton, so you'd see a lot
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of kids there on weekends. It was a good place
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to go and see people and you could just, you
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know, walk around and try to stay out of trouble,
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I guess. It was always fun to have special events
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there like trailers, you know, you could hitch
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your cars and people would go in there and sit
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down inside those trailers and people would kick
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you out until you get lost and have special events.
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But that's one place I thought of, Apache was
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a great place. There weren't places in Heights
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that I remember specifically hanging out until
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I got older. Like, McDonald's was fun, but I
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didn't really drive until I was in high school.
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So it's not, you just, I needed to walk there
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and hang out, but. And Chatham Road, cause we
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ended up going to Columbia. It seemed like, I
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don't know, you know, we lived a long distance
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from any place on, like, Central, you know, which
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was obviously. I think a lot of kids hung out
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at places on Central, but we were a long distance
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from there. Apache was probably even closer.
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Yep. Yeah, Apache and Silver Lake Beach, obviously,
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was, at least when I was growing up, was real
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popular. I think the beach got more, you know,
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the beach wasn't always open when we were kids.
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I don't think it became a beach till I was like
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about a freshman in high school in 1968 or something.
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It wasn't, but once the public beach was there, then
23:39
it got pretty popular. How about, what do you
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remember for TV shows. What were the shows you
23:44
remember growing up looking forward to? Because
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we didn't have cable. We couldn't stream shows.
23:49
We had to watch them when they were on or we
23:51
didn't see them. What were things that must see?
23:53
What popped into my mind immediately was at lunch.
23:57
"Lunch with Casey" and then "Felix the Cat." That
24:02
was playing when we lived on Chatham. Wasn't
24:07
there a "Hercules" cartoon? I think there was.
24:11
"Davey and Goliath." What were some of the cartoons,
24:15
Tom? "Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids." That was
24:19
a little later. I mean, I obviously remember
24:23
"Looney Tunes," obviously it was very popular.
24:27
What I remember, I was pretty young. I don't
24:29
even know if I was in school yet, but the "Mel
24:32
Jass Matinee." Oh, sure, after Casey. After Casey
24:35
Jones. I think it was always on. with the folks,
24:39
but I also remember seeing "Star Trek" when I first
24:44
came into syndication. It was on every day at
24:47
five o 'clock. I watched that before dinner.
24:49
Yes, I do remember that. 68-ish or something.
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something like that. And still watch that occasionally.
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Today you know yeah it's uh it's still all over
25:04
the place which is we watch it every night when
25:06
you think about it you know yeah um and then
25:09
the variety shows "Smothers Brothers" and "Sonny
25:12
and Cher" and stuff like that laughter remember
25:14
laughing all the bands all the bands would come
25:16
on it's all of it the beat is that's how i got
25:19
into music yeah "Batman" was huge because
25:23
every, you know, there weren't choices. So every,
25:26
I swear every kid in your class watched "Batman."
25:30
So you all had a point of reference. You'd all
25:33
discuss the latest "Batman" episode. Sure. And
25:36
also growing up, one of my, one of the things
25:38
I remember most would be going to sleep and the
25:40
old man was always up late, you know, and you
25:44
know, you'd just be dozing off and tonight you
25:46
would start. Yes. Yep, our dad was a bit of an
25:52
insomniac. He didn't sleep much, but yeah, that
25:58
was also obviously big back in the day. I remember
26:00
watching "I Spy" with him too. That was like a
26:04
late night drama or whatever. I remember watching
26:07
that with dad. The one TV memory that I have
26:11
of that house is very real to me. I was absent
26:15
the day that John F. Kennedy got shot. Oh, I
26:17
didn't know that. I was literally watching. Because
26:20
I was laying on the couch I was watching as the
26:22
world turns with mom when Walter Cronkite actually
26:25
broke in and that was yeah, that's I mean that's
26:29
always I remember that day just vividly and then
26:32
we watched TV for like four days. Yeah, Tom your
26:36
birthday was just a couple days before that.
26:39
I remember seeing Bobby Kennedy's stuff on TV.
26:44
I was actually in school at Highland. We got
26:46
sent home. I remember they played the Each room
26:50
had a speaker above the teacher's desk and they
26:52
just put in like CCO radio or CBS News. And I
26:56
remember the look on my teacher's face when they
26:58
talked about Kennedy being assassinated. It was
27:02
something, it was something. Definitely. This
27:06
might depend on our age difference too, but what
27:09
was your favorite radio station, Tom, when you
27:11
were listening? Oh boy, probably KDWB back in
27:14
the day. We didn't have FM early at all. What
27:17
was KQ? like when you were a teenager? I remember
27:20
listening to it occasionally, but not as much
27:25
as, you know, KDWB. That and WDGY,
27:31
I think, was a rock star back then, too. KQ
27:35
was KQRS. don't remember that but um and
27:39
then KSTP had some Top 40 for a while and right
27:42
there were three or four I think top 40s days
27:44
and it was all am yes i mean fm was slowly coming
27:48
into but you know car radios only had yeah so
27:51
that's one thing i remember too growing up a
27:53
lot was the on as far as radio goes was uh Dad
27:58
always had the Twins. Oh, sure. Oh, yeah. Yeah.
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Yeah. No TV. Well, they would. They did televise
28:08
more games. But yeah, I remember the radio. WCCO
28:13
had virtually every team that we would follow.
28:15
The Gophers. Yes. Football and basketball. I
28:19
don't know if hockey was on WCCO. I don't remember
28:21
that. Right. But football and basketball for
28:23
sure. And the Twins and the Vikings and. Yep.
28:26
Yep. Stars. We didn't have NBA growing up. It
28:31
didn't come till much later. Well, but I do remember
28:35
watching the Lakers and the Celtics a lot. ABC
28:40
would show Sunday games. That was different back
28:47
then. And then Tommy, well, Tommy would remember,
28:50
we didn't even have a color TV until like the
28:54
maybe 72 or 73. That's how we got by. And our
29:00
TVs didn't have remotes. Boomers can remember
29:05
this, but I can remember, you know, you have
29:06
to get up and turn and click it to a certain
29:08
channel and hit, you had to worry about antennas.
29:11
You know, your reception wasn't always good.
29:13
The picture would suck and you just. We had not
29:15
an uncle, Aunt Barbara and Uncle Dan had color
29:18
TV. Yeah. And I remember it was I remember watching
29:21
a hockey game and I thought it was really cool
29:24
to see this. But as I recall, it was like everything
29:27
was kind of washed out. The color wasn't real.
29:29
It wasn't high def. It wasn't exactly high def,
29:32
but it was still. You didn't know any better.
29:34
It was still really, really cool to see. Well,
29:36
that was dad's rationale. He said that they still
29:38
haven't really perfected the color to the tube
29:40
yet, so I'm not going to spend money on it. Yeah.
29:42
That was his story. He stuck to it until the
29:44
early 70s. So, yep. But yeah, it was. Bob, I
29:49
remember you would sneak. Did you have a transistor
29:52
radio? Oh, sure sneak that into the bedroom and
29:56
I remember hearing "Mr. Tambourine Man" by the
29:59
Byrds. Yeah thinking that was the coolest thing
30:01
ever I was probably in about fourth grade fifth
30:04
grade or something. So we're about the size of
30:06
a cell phone now, maybe a little thicker. Yeah,
30:10
but about same dimensions and you had to have
30:13
batteries in their batteries and it was strictly
30:15
AM no FM stations You could hear your Top
30:18
40 stuff. So right Uh, yes. Well, the transistor
30:23
radio is, um, you know, I had that paper route
30:26
for years, you know, so it was about 10, but,
30:29
um, you know, Star Tribune bags, they would have
30:31
a pouch in the front for your collection. Yes,
30:35
collect. It was the perfect size for, I collect
30:38
210 or whatever it was, you know, for a month
30:41
of paper. But, um, it was perfect size for a
30:44
transistor radio. So when I go do my paper audit
30:47
four in the morning, you know, I'd have it. In
30:50
fact, I had that radio going and left on my paper
30:54
out at, I don't know what it was, five in the
30:55
morning or something like that and turned it
30:58
on and that was the break of news was that Elvis
31:03
died. Oh, wow. I remember. Wow. It's just weird.
31:06
So that would have been 77. So that was towards
31:10
the end of my career. I was like 14 then, so
31:12
I was getting ready to wash dishes somewhere
31:14
or something. So that was the end of my paper
31:16
on career. I'll never forget that. And that same
31:20
radio, a few years later, still listening to
31:24
that stinkin' transistor radio was when Lenin
31:28
got shot. While I was 80. I think I graduated
31:34
to a better radio after that. vividly remember
31:37
those two stories coming over. That's interesting.
31:40
I just thinking about that. Do you think anybody
31:41
still has a transistor radio from that era? You
31:45
know, if you're a collector, maybe you do. You
31:46
probably find one on eBay. And two, would they
31:48
even work? Yeah. I mean, you can put a battery
31:51
in it, but I would think they would. Those parts
31:53
would still work. Sure. Car radio still work.
31:57
As before. Yeah. Long before digital, so. Yes.
32:01
Oh, crazy, crazy. Okay, again, the name of this
32:04
podcast is "Hangin' Out with Bob." I'm your host,
32:06
Bob Edholm, and my two guests are my brothers,
32:08
Dave and Tom Edholm. This is fun, guys. It's
32:15
fun to reminisce. It's always fun to do this.
32:17
And I thought, you know, if I'm going to start
32:18
doing podcasts, I couldn't think of two other
32:21
guys I'd rather have with me the first time.
32:23
So I appreciate your being with me today. So
32:25
thanks for coming by. It's fun. Again, the name
32:28
of this podcast is "Hangin' Out with Bob." I think
32:31
everybody has a story to tell. And I believe
32:33
most people like to tell stories and talk about
32:35
the things that they like to do and the things
32:37
that interest them. And when you ask people the
32:40
right questions, you're going to learn a lot
32:41
of things about them. So I've got a lot of people
32:44
in mind that I like to have on my podcast as
32:46
future guests. So people that family, friends.
32:50
people that I grew up with, people I worked with,
32:53
people I've drunk beer with. It'd be fun just
32:55
to connect with some of those people. And I think
32:57
they're already aware that I'm going to be getting
32:58
in touch with them. But again, to listeners out
33:00
there, thank you for hanging with us. I'm Bob
33:03
Edholm. And thanks for listening. And we hope
33:06
to have you back for the next episode we have.
33:12
Take care.