Topic: Video: Albert Lea in 1967
started by: alcitizens
Posted by alcitizens on Apr. 18 2016,1:21 am
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Posted by Self-Banished on Apr. 18 2016,4:23 am
Wow! Great vid!
Posted by Glad I Left on Apr. 18 2016,11:24 am
WOW.Two things that struck me being that this was made 7 years before I was born.
1. Corn fields out by Hammer Filed
2. Parking meters downtown
Posted by alcitizens on Apr. 19 2016,1:13 am
Top 20 Shows on TV in 19671. Andy Griffith Show
2. The Lucy Show
3. Gomer Pyle, USMC
4. (tie) Gunsmoke
Family Affair
Bonanza
7. Red Skelton Show
8. Dean Martin Show
9. Jackie Gleason Show
10. NBC Saturday Night at the Movies
11. Bewitched
12. Beverly Hillbillies
13. Ed Sullivan
14. The Virginian
15. (Tie) Friday Night Movies
Green Acres
17. Lawrence Welk Show
18. Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour
19. Gentle Ben
20. Tuesday Night Movies
Posted by alcitizens on Apr. 19 2016,1:32 am
(Glad I Left @ Apr. 18 2016,11:24 am)
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WOW.
Two things that struck me being that this was made 7 years before I was born.
1. Corn fields out by Hammer Filed
2. Parking meters downtown
Two things that struck me being that this was made 7 years before I was born.
1. Corn fields out by Hammer Filed
2. Parking meters downtown
I liked KFC on 5th St and Broadway, Hotel Albert, Boyd and Jacks with the Wilson's smoke stack in the background and all the classic cars..
Posted by Glad I Left on Apr. 19 2016,8:19 am
I remember as a kid going with my mom to Boyd n Jacks and Bonanza.Speaking on Bonanza, what a weird business model they had. Wax pens and the customers write the price on the food cans/boxes.
Try that nowadays and see how long you are in business.
Maybe in the really small towns where everyone knows everyone...I digress...
Posted by alcitizens on Apr. 19 2016,8:50 am
I liked riding the flat bed carts at Bonanza.. 
Posted by Glad I Left on Apr. 19 2016,9:08 am
we did too!
Posted by Expatriate on Apr. 20 2016,10:08 am
Excellent..I was 17 in 67, brings back memories...
Posted by Botto 82 on Apr. 20 2016,3:08 pm
I would have been around four. Things I remember from back then:
Boyd & Jack's
Spaghetti at The Pizza Cellar
The jukebox at Jake's
King's Food Host
That little Vickers gas station across from Dairy Queen
Incredibly good french fries at the truck stop
Riding the elevator at Herbergers
The smell of the foundry and Wilson's
Norge Village
Waiting for trains on Broadway
Bob's Lanes
The demolition of The Hotel Albert
Strips of scrambled egg in the fried rice at The Canton Café
What a great time to be alive. Now the town is a dead husk.
Posted by lifecomm on Sep. 23 2016,1:24 pm
Wow! Really great video.I guess this must have been during the Lea College era when they used the Hotel Albert as a dorm?