20th Hour - Your Favorite Summer Memory

In this 20th hour of the week, Dan wants to hear about your favorite summer memory from when you were a kid.

Episode Transcript

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we're going to spend some time talking about your favorite

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memory of your childhood summers. I have one I'm going
to share with you, folks, and I hope you have
some that you'll share with me. Really quickly. Let me
talk to you about some of the issues we've dealt
with this week, just some of the issues. Monday night,

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actually cover during a week of Nightside. We're going to
go now to the we're kind of a little bit
past the halfway point of summer. July is over, it's August. First.
What is your best childhood memory. I'll tell you what
mine was. We used to go to York Beach Main
when we were kids with my parents. That was we

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would get a week's vacation in York Beach Main, maybe
if you were lucky, two weeks. And there was a
great amusement park in New York Beach Main. You might
remember it. It's called Animal Forest, I believe, and they
had the bumper cars. Yeah, that was a highlight of
the summer to go to that amusement park. In retrospect,

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it wasn't all that big. It was in Disney World,
but it sure seemed like disney World at the time.
Six one, seven, ten, thirty six, one, seven, nine, three, one, ten, thirty.
The lines were full. We're just looking for your one memory,
your most favorite memory, summer memory from when you were
a child. We do have lines full. We'll get to everybody.

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I promise we'll get to as many people as possible.
This idea was suggested to me while we did Nightside
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Dan Ray. Uh. This was suggested to us by one
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Speaker 1 (09:07):
Night Side with Dan Ray on WBZ, Boston's news radio, it's.

Speaker 2 (09:13):
Gonna go right to the phones and again, remember everybody
has a hall pass in the twentieth hour. We like
you to keep the calls to one a week, but
everybody gets a hall pass in the twentieth hour. Let's
get going here. We're going to start it off with Lola.
She is from San Diego, but she's calling in from Watertown, Massachusetts, Lola,
how are you tonight.

Speaker 3 (09:35):
Cleaning out the house and finding.

Speaker 2 (09:37):
What's your best summertime memory?

Speaker 1 (09:40):
Lola?

Speaker 4 (09:41):
So the best one?

Speaker 5 (09:43):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (09:43):
So I was real little, and we went to Pleasure Island,
we went to non Bega Park.

Speaker 4 (09:50):
But it's back to WBZ.

Speaker 3 (09:53):
And boom boom Boomtown, Boomtown.

Speaker 2 (09:56):
I like that.

Speaker 3 (10:00):
Rex trailer. I was so excited. We did it outside
across the street from the original WBZ studios and there
was no restroom over there, and I peed my pans.

Speaker 2 (10:12):
Now that's a sign of happiness, you know.

Speaker 3 (10:18):
Could you see him on TV? And then now you're
there and now this is in the fifties, so this
was a real big deal.

Speaker 6 (10:25):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (10:26):
I was like six, maybe six, so you know, going
and seeing it live versus on the TV was totally different.

Speaker 2 (10:36):
Then Oh yeah, was Trigger the horse there?

Speaker 4 (10:39):
Yes?

Speaker 2 (10:40):
All right? Well that Sergeant Billy, Yes, all.

Speaker 3 (10:44):
Right, WBZ like it's back to WBZ.

Speaker 2 (10:50):
Well, let me tell you, you know, I mean I
sort of inherited their legacy. I feel that way that
the big brother of the Bob Emory and Jack, Chase
and Donk, so some of those guys I worked with. Lola,
great memory, great, great memory.

Speaker 4 (11:06):
Let's talk to you, Dan, my pleasure, great weekend.

Speaker 2 (11:10):
Much all right, let me go Linda and Waymouth. Linda
your best childhood summertime memory.

Speaker 7 (11:18):
Okay, I'm glad you pick up some of these ideas.
I left a couple with the manager there.

Speaker 2 (11:25):
With Rob my manager. Okay, well you can, yeah, you
can always send me a suggestion, real simple, Dan Rayant,
iHeartMedia dot com. So what is your best summertime memory, Linda.

Speaker 7 (11:39):
From your child Well, my sister and I were minus
five months. The family went to they were present with
us to Standy Island in Lake Winnipesak, New Hampshire, and
we've been going as a child all the way through

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to our teen years and just having a good time.
They had craft days and what.

Speaker 2 (12:06):
Was the name of the island against Sandy Island?

Speaker 7 (12:09):
Sandy Island.

Speaker 2 (12:10):
Wow. And when you said you and your sister were
minus five months, were you suggesting that your mom was
four months pregnant with you and your sister. Yes, so
you made your first trip to see the island in
what's called in uter row.

Speaker 7 (12:27):
I guess yes, you'll get so.

Speaker 2 (12:29):
Yep. Well, there's a little Latin lingo for you there.

Speaker 7 (12:32):
Okay, Yeah, and we enjoyed it. Was a lot of
it was boat trips and there was talent night and
craft program.

Speaker 2 (12:41):
When you got older, you enjoyed all of that.

Speaker 6 (12:43):
When you got a little loved it.

Speaker 7 (12:45):
I miss it. And well, my sister in memory of
my parents, put up a bench in one of the
in the Chapel area.

Speaker 4 (12:55):
Good now, I was a memory of there.

Speaker 2 (12:58):
That's great, Linda, thank you so much. Great call.

Speaker 7 (13:01):
Help you get back up to visit the area.

Speaker 2 (13:05):
Yeah there, put that on your bucket list, Linda, come on,
got to do it. Thank you so much.

Speaker 7 (13:10):
Get it.

Speaker 2 (13:10):
Have a great weekend. Let me go next to Georgian Bridgewater. George,
your best summer memory from your childhood?

Speaker 8 (13:18):
Yeah, Dan, I really love sports, and you know I
grew up in Rebuilt just like you did. But I
moved when I was thirteen years old to Denham and
only one hundred or two hundred yards from the park,
so I liked the organized baseball. Every summer they would
have the organized baseball and there's five sections of Denham

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and I'm sad that you would play one of those sections.
And then the winter time it was hockey my whole
life until I went into the Army. Of the eighteen
was sports.

Speaker 1 (13:52):
I didn't want to be home.

Speaker 8 (13:54):
I wanted to just be out playing baseball, and I
went to time hockey.

Speaker 1 (13:58):
That was it.

Speaker 2 (13:59):
Yeah, we played out of baseball at Migsfield for Little League,
and then we played at places like Rossfield and Reville Field. Uh.
And yeah, I used to play hockey down in what
we called the swamp.

Speaker 8 (14:12):
That's what I learned. I didn't learn to skate down
there at eight or nine years old. And and then
I took it on to Denim and I get a
little bit better. But I wasn't really good at either sports.
But that that's I still think about it, so it
must be important to me.

Speaker 2 (14:27):
Absolutely. So your summertime memory was playing baseball. That's perfect.

Speaker 8 (14:32):
And yeah, yeah, yeah, baseball absolutely sir.

Speaker 2 (14:35):
All right, George, thank you.

Speaker 1 (14:37):
You have a good night, you too.

Speaker 2 (14:38):
My friend, have a great night. All right again. Now,
all of a sudden, a couple of lines opened six one, seven, two,
four to ten thirty six one seven, nine three one
ten thirty. Your best summertime memory, that's what we're looking for.
Let me go next to II Leen in Cambridge. Your
summertime memory as a child, I Leen, go right ahead.

Speaker 9 (15:00):
There, I grew I grew up in upstate New York,
outside of Utica, and I don't know if anybody else
listening out there would remember Slayton Bush Pond. It was
a community swimming pond and it was in New Hartford,

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New York, and we used to I understand, it's not
there anymore because they built so many houses there and
there are too many cesspools around it.

Speaker 4 (15:37):
So but it was. It was.

Speaker 9 (15:39):
It was a beautiful spring fed, spring fed pond. And
we used to like to play a game called dibble
dabble uh. And I don't know if anybody else ever
played this game.

Speaker 7 (15:52):
Never.

Speaker 9 (15:55):
Well, somebody had to get a cat tail. Do you
know what a cat tail is?

Speaker 2 (16:00):
Yes?

Speaker 4 (16:00):
They do, yes, they do kind of read and.

Speaker 9 (16:06):
The person, the person who was it would dive off
the raft with the cattail and swim as far as
possible underwater, leave the cattail, and then swim somewhere else.
And it takes a little while for the cattail to
float to the service surface, so as as soon as

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somebody saw the cattail, we'd all dive off the raft
and swim to try to catch it.

Speaker 2 (16:37):
Well, you must have been good swimmers, that's for sure.
We do have listeners in a lot of listeners in
upstate New York. What was the name of the pond again,
Maybe someone's listening.

Speaker 9 (16:49):
Slayton Bush in New Hartford, New York, which is just
south of Utica.

Speaker 2 (16:57):
All right, so we got it in there, that's for sure. Thanks,
that was a great suggestion, Thank you much.

Speaker 4 (17:04):
From someone.

Speaker 9 (17:08):
Yep, Okay, thank you much.

Speaker 2 (17:10):
Let me go to Larry and out of the Cape.
Larry your favorite summertime memory as a as a kid?

Speaker 4 (17:18):
Well, when I was a kid, I lived in Chelsea
and my mother came from a family of seven, and
one summer we rented a whole bunch of my aunts
and uncles and my cousins. We rented a cottages up
in bill Ricca. I didn't even know if they were
highways back then. I thought I was going up to
Canada or in New Hampshire or Somewhereah.

Speaker 2 (17:40):
I know, I know the feeling.

Speaker 4 (17:43):
Yeah, And we would go swimming in the Shasheen River. Wow,
God knows if it's even swimmool these days.

Speaker 2 (17:51):
A little different from Chelsea up there, wouldn't you say?

Speaker 4 (17:55):
The Chelsea Creek? That's right, you need doctor Miller on
you need doctor Miller for a whole night. I wore
my phone out trying to get through.

Speaker 2 (18:03):
Well again. You can contact them by Gmail. It's d R. A. L. L.
Doctor al Miller at gmail dot com and he answers people.
He's an incredible human being.

Speaker 4 (18:15):
Absolutely, thank you Dan.

Speaker 2 (18:17):
All right, Larry, thank you for calling in. I appreciate it.
Maybe some folks will remember those cottages and Bill Ricca,
I know, I believe me I can identify with that.
We stayed at some cottages in York Beach Main. They
were called Gray Gull College Cottages and they were like,
they were very you know, I don't think they were heated.

(18:37):
You didn't need him in August, but there was a
very different part of the world for us who grew
up in a part of Boston called Redfield. The George
from Bridgewater just alluded to Larry is always I appreciate
your lawyer. People talk soon. Thank you so much, Good
good night, goodnight. Six line there, Larry just dropped six.

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Well up that filled six. You got to here's the
line for you. Six one, seven, nine, three, one, ten thirty.
Your best childhood memory, your best childhood summer memory. I
had another summer memory I was gonna mention. I mean
the best one was going to York Beach Main and
to the Animal Forest. Was what the If there's anyone

(19:22):
out there who remembers the Animal Forest, I think it
might still be in existence. It seemed like a huge,
huge park to me at the time. The best was
with the bumper cars. Get in the bumper cars and
you try to run people off the road and you couldn't.
But uh, it was it was pretty It was pretty interesting.

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So if anybody remembers Slayton Bush Pond in New Hartford,
New York, or remembers the bumper cars at Animal Forest
in New York Beach Main during the conversation, we now
have full lines. Here's the news coming right back.

Speaker 1 (19:58):
You're on night Side with Dan Boston's news radio.

Speaker 2 (20:03):
Yes you are. Let's keep rolling. You're gonna go to
Christine and Denim. Christine your favorite summertime memory as.

Speaker 10 (20:11):
A child, Nantastic Beach. That's where we always summit, and
also Hampton Beach.

Speaker 2 (20:20):
So you're the beach person. So was nantask At the
favorite it.

Speaker 10 (20:25):
Was we had a house down there in the summer.
Summer down there every summer it was No, it really was. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (20:32):
Wow, you had a place on the beach, you mean
or near the.

Speaker 10 (20:36):
Beach, between the beach and the bag. Yeah, a lot
of summer memories there really was.

Speaker 2 (20:45):
Wow.

Speaker 10 (20:46):
And after Mane it's now called York Wild Animal Kingdom.

Speaker 2 (20:53):
It's called York What Animal Kingdom? What York a wild
animal right? Right?

Speaker 9 (21:00):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (21:00):
I think it was called Animal Forest at some point.
But it was great. I loved the bumper cars.

Speaker 10 (21:08):
If they're still there.

Speaker 2 (21:10):
They really Yeah, they will labor electric or something because
they had they they were on a they were connected
and they were a lot of fun.

Speaker 10 (21:20):
Well, you had to bring the grandkids up there.

Speaker 2 (21:24):
You know something. I thought about that a few minutes ago,
and I think I will. I think that will be
a really nice, a nice memory. I loved York Beach,
Long Sands and Short Sands back.

Speaker 10 (21:36):
In the day, right, I loved God is my favorite.

Speaker 2 (21:41):
Okay, a little further north. Yeah, but you had the
Agonquit Playhouse there. Yeah.

Speaker 4 (21:45):
Oh wow.

Speaker 10 (21:47):
I like your also though too. Yeah, those are those
towns there.

Speaker 2 (21:52):
Well, you know, when I when I think, when I
think about that part of Maine when I was a kid,
I I don't know if the Bush family had settled
up there. But I guarantee you that you know in
our travels up and around there, that I'm sure that
as a as a kid, I probably bumped into George

(22:13):
Bush and had no idea that that was a future
president of the United States. Family was that the Bush
family and the Walker family? And yeah, I just never knew.
You never knew, Christine, great memory. Thank you so much
for the correction. Pegs wild animal king. The only wild
animals were like the eight in the nine year old

(22:34):
boys who were playing bumper cars. Right.

Speaker 10 (22:38):
Did you know the Dollings in Revel?

Speaker 2 (22:40):
Oh? Sure, yep, absolutely lived in the same street.

Speaker 10 (22:43):
Okay, law family, she passed away.

Speaker 2 (22:47):
Her family Frank Frank Dowling was a firefighter in Boston
and his wife Ellen, Yeah, sure, oh absolutely, and their
kids were kind of in our age a little bit younger,
Anthony Darling and Jackie Dowling. Yeah absolutely.

Speaker 4 (23:09):
You know, Chris, uh, I don't think at that.

Speaker 2 (23:13):
I think that I probably was gone by then.

Speaker 3 (23:17):
Yeah, yeah, that was that was that St.

Speaker 2 (23:22):
Anne's parish you're talking about.

Speaker 10 (23:25):
Anon, I saw the Christmas St Mary's and that was
at Saint Mary's and Hanover got yeah, all right.

Speaker 2 (23:32):
Thanks Christine. Great memories you too. Right, let's keep rolling here,
We've got to go to Bill in Pennsylvania. Bill, your
favorite summertime memory?

Speaker 4 (23:45):
Yeah, I was playing baseball and and where I lived
down out in the kind of help from town.

Speaker 2 (23:53):
Uh.

Speaker 4 (23:54):
During the winter time, I was the only kid out there.
And in the summer there was three or four cottage
is close by. The people came to from Philadelphia, another
family from Baltimore. And I couldn't wait till those families
came because then I had some kids to play with.
And and the other thing was my aunt that raised me.

Speaker 6 (24:14):
Uh.

Speaker 4 (24:15):
I just all the good food that you always put
on the table in the summertime, you know, corn on
the cobs and oh yeahsh beans and the ham and
beans and potatoes and uh. And then and then the
the best thing was my uncle had this old Studebaker
truck pickup truck, and and maybe once every couple of

(24:36):
weeks he'd load all the kids in the back of
the truck. It'd be like six seven, eight kids in
the back of the truck and he'd drive us in
town to the frozen custard stand.

Speaker 2 (24:46):
Those those are the memories you have, I mean, they
probably in those days, you know, cost three bucks and
everybody got a you know, got a treat. But those
are the memories that.

Speaker 4 (24:59):
You have for me ale to it. And then we slept.
We slept on the porch. There was a big porch,
screened in porch and the river was down about four
hundred yards down.

Speaker 2 (25:09):
And no mosquitoes got on that porch. I'm sure was
good and tight.

Speaker 4 (25:14):
My aunt kept everything really clean. But damn, we slept
on that porch starting in April. Okay, there are four
beds out there, and we sleep out on the porch
from April and sometimes Rachel Rachel November.

Speaker 2 (25:27):
Wow, well you probably had with all the fresh air,
great night sleeps when you sleep, when you think about it,
that's great, great stories, Bill, Thank you much. Gives me
some insight in how you grew up. Thank you, Bill.
All Right, talk to have a good weekend. Okay, we're
gonna go next here. Yeah, we're gonna get everybody the

(25:49):
why's our humming? Right now? Let me tell you. Let's
go to Tim and Boston. Timm, you're next on Nightside.

Speaker 11 (25:57):
Thank Dan, How are you? One of my favorite places
ago from the time I was probably five until I
was ten, was Benson's Animal Farm in New Hampshire.

Speaker 2 (26:06):
Yeah, oh yeah, that's very famous spot. So what were
your favorite animals up there?

Speaker 11 (26:13):
Well, I don't remember any of the animals other than
the elephants, which I got to ride on once. And
then they had the petting zoo, which consisted of you know,
anything in sea on any farm.

Speaker 2 (26:26):
Sure, when they brought anyone, how did you ride in
the elephant? And if you were five or ten years old, they.

Speaker 11 (26:32):
Know the baby elephant?

Speaker 2 (26:33):
Oh baby elephant? Okay, perfect?

Speaker 11 (26:36):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, they had animals, and they had the
train ride that went through the park in the back
of it, and then they brought in a kitty roller
coaster at some point right before they closed.

Speaker 2 (26:52):
But yeah, I don't think we ever got to Benson's
Animal Farm, but I remember it being advertised on TV
and it sounded like a pretty cool place. So now
I've talked to someone who who visited Benson's Animal Farm.

Speaker 11 (27:07):
Well, you know, when you're little, it was great, but
I can't imagine it being exciting for anybody over a
ten or eleven.

Speaker 2 (27:15):
Well, that's true, and of course times have changed now
probably they would view it as Peter would be calling
it cruelty to animals that are five year old, ten
year old kid elephant. But it was part of growing
up in America.

Speaker 11 (27:28):
Oh yeah, yeah it wasn't. That's the memory of the
little last for sure.

Speaker 2 (27:32):
Will sure will thank you. Tim, appreciate your calling. I
appreciate your calling. I have a great weekend. Good night.
I'm going to keep rolling here. Let me go next
to my pal Dennis and Lowell. Dennis your best memory
growing up as a child, So.

Speaker 4 (27:49):
Of course you know it's got to be baseball, but
especially since you had Dan shaughnessy and Sean mcdonnaugh on
this week.

Speaker 2 (27:57):
Yeah, we had a good week in terms of sports.

Speaker 4 (28:00):
All right. I got to say the whole summer of
nineteen sixty seven in the Red Sox.

Speaker 2 (28:05):
Now, what happened in nineteen sixty seven? Did the Red
Sox have a good Did they have a good year
that year?

Speaker 4 (28:11):
Uh? Yeah, I think so. It was decided on the
last day of the season.

Speaker 2 (28:17):
Who made the fun Let me ask you who made
the final out?

Speaker 4 (28:24):
And I remember Rico Petricelli catching, He.

Speaker 2 (28:28):
Caught the ball. But who was the Twins batter? Do
you remember?

Speaker 4 (28:32):
Was it Killer Brew? It was Rich Rawlins, Rich Raw okay,
all right, Yeah, I remember catching it. Yeah, I remember
Rico catching it. But I can still remember Yastremsky catching
that ball when Billy Row you know, pitched the game
and he had a no hitter till two outs in
the ninth and Elson Howard got a single off of them. Yeah,

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and oh there's so many memories, poor Tony Canigliaro, you know,
getting by the.

Speaker 2 (28:59):
Way, Billy bib went on to become a very successful
lawyer in California. And I've talked to Billy a couple
of times, and as a matter of fact, we had
him in our house about oh, ten years fifteen years ago.

Speaker 4 (29:15):
And then when they got the red source got Elson Howard.
What a great catch from Jose Toddabold who threw him
a pop up the home but they got Ken Barry
at home play pretty.

Speaker 2 (29:30):
Good, pretty fast runner. Absolutely, Yeah, all those all those games,
do you remember, I'll just yeah, sixth game of the
World Series, who started.

Speaker 4 (29:41):
Well, give a long bog on two days rest?

Speaker 2 (29:44):
No, No, not sixth game, sixth game.

Speaker 4 (29:47):
Oh oh, the seventh game was long bog.

Speaker 2 (29:49):
Yeah, with two days sixth game, Gary was Lusky okay, yes, yeah,
one of those names that you know, he's kind of
a spots starter or whatever, and.

Speaker 4 (30:00):
Uh, yeah, I was gonna say Jose Santiago, but Jose
had a good game too or whatever.

Speaker 2 (30:07):
He was here, he was the he was the the
He pitched in game one. Uh and Lomberg was Game two,
and then they could have used Santiago in Game three.

Speaker 4 (30:20):
But yeah, yeah, I'll finished up with yeah, yeah, I
was gonna finish up with Yastremsky. What a year, triple crown,
forty four home runs, one hundred and twenty one, one
hundred and twelve runs, and he had one hundred and
eighty nine hits. I got all the statue. It was
just unbelievable. And of course they picked well.

Speaker 2 (30:40):
He won the batting title, and I think I think
he beat out Alex Johnson and the Angels for like
and with an average of like three oh two or something.

Speaker 4 (30:51):
No, that year he actually batted three twenty one. It said, okay, okay, yeah,
but yeah, but there was another year at a very
low batting average type of thing. Yeah, I think I'm correct.
You know, you look up all these stats quickly. It
did this in the last half out, but that was it.
The summer of sixty seven.

Speaker 2 (31:10):
Yeah, I'm going to check it out here in one second. Okay,
al batting champion. Let's see what we come up with.
For some reason, I thought that they had a great season. Uh,
and then they we'll see in the second. Here we
got it. We got it for you right here. Yeah. No,
this is the wrong year. That's the wrong year. I

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think you're I think you're right. He did hit sixty seven.
He won it with three twenty six, so he that
was good. That was a good season. But it was
one year with it was like he was the batting.

Speaker 4 (31:42):
Champion, was very low.

Speaker 2 (31:43):
Three oh one, great one, great one. Dennis, talk soon, Okay,
thank you, thank you.

Speaker 4 (31:48):
Ddy.

Speaker 2 (31:48):
All right, I got one line in six one seven
two ten thirty right now, and got one line at
six one seven nine three ten thirty, and we got
BC the guy who gave us this idea. Yeah, he's
going to come up on the other side. Got Maria
and Plymouth, Janet in North Reading and want a couple
more from you. Fill up these lines your best summertime

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memory as a child from wherever. We'll be back on
Nightside right after the break.

Speaker 1 (32:18):
It's night Side with Dan ray On Boston's news radio.

Speaker 2 (32:24):
Let's get break back to the calls. We got the
full lines. We're going to get everybody in. Next up
is Maria in Plymouth. Maria, appreciate your patience. Next on Nightside,
go right ahead, Hi, Dan.

Speaker 12 (32:38):
Childhood memory, Well, when you mentioned that, the first thing
that popped into my head. Maybe I don't know if
it was my favorite thing, but the first thing that
popped into my head was sitting on the front porch
watching a thunderstorm breakout. It was being a really hot
day and the steam would be coming off the pavement

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and the rain would be falling down, and we would
my mom would bring out watermelon and we'd sit there
and spit the seeds, see how far we could go
with them. That's what that was the first thing that
popped into my head. It was just I don't know, nostalgic.

Speaker 2 (33:15):
I guess absolutely absolutely. I'm sure a lot of people
can identify with that. Just sitting on the front porch,
no pressure, just perfect, right, perfect, perfect way to spend
it a summer day.

Speaker 12 (33:31):
Yeah, it's kind of funny. My kids too, they all
grew up like loving to go. They stand out in
the porch with their dad watching a thunderstorm.

Speaker 2 (33:39):
Oh yeah, storm too in the summer. Again, there was
a time there was no stress. You had nothing to do,
no homework, school was out, you didn't have to work,
don't work or anything. All right, Maria, that's a great one,
Thank you much.

Speaker 13 (33:54):
Gotta keep rolling, honey.

Speaker 2 (33:56):
All right, let me go to BC. The man who
came up with this idea of tonight, BC, who was
up at the BC bar ed.

Speaker 6 (34:03):
Chumpshire h B, Yes we are dam just wrapped it up. Anyways.
One of the memories I have as a kid growing
up is, uh, we had a cottage on Lake Erie
and you we'd spend time out there in the summer
and as we say in western Pennsylvania, we'd walk the
creek and fish so like that. That to me is

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just and we would be gone all day. You know,
my buddies and I and and and parents wouldn't come
looking for you. There was no cell phones, you weren't
attached to anything.

Speaker 4 (34:33):
Yeah, you know, you pack a.

Speaker 6 (34:35):
Bloney sandwich and as we say in Western Pa, to
a pop he said, we'd spend the whole day just
doing that.

Speaker 2 (34:42):
Yeah. Well again, no pressure, no uh no, what you
go through now? You got pressure you have to perform. Yeah,
whatever your job is. You didn't realize how lucky you
were when you were about ten or twelve years old.
You didn't have to earn any money. It was all there.
Maybe it wasn't elegant, but it was fine.

Speaker 6 (35:04):
The biggest worry is that if you broke a lamp
in your mom's or grandma's house and a grief, you
touch from that and on the opposite end of that
the end of summer. We always knew it was the
end of summer. When the Jerry Lewis telephone came on,
that was the end?

Speaker 2 (35:17):
Was it? Labor Day weekend? You got it? You got it. VC.
Thank you for the call and thank you for the
idea tonight. It was great.

Speaker 4 (35:24):
It was one of my best so far.

Speaker 2 (35:26):
Brothers, Thank you, buddy. Enjoy have one from me. Will
you talk to you later? We'll do all right, Let's
keep rolling here. We have next Janet in North Reading. Janet,
you are next on nights. I go ahead.

Speaker 14 (35:37):
Thanks a lot, Dan. So we have a beach house
in situate that my grandfather bought with his World War
One bonus money. That's still in our family and when
we were younger, Labor Day ended with Saturday a trip
to Harsan Pak, which I think somebody else already mentioned.
And Sunday was a dinner from Marshfield in the Turkey Pomb.

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We did that year after year, and right now at
our beach house, we have third and fourth generations joining it.

Speaker 2 (36:05):
You know, isn't that fabulous? You're you're so lucky and
you're lucky to remember it and lucky to pass it on.

Speaker 14 (36:11):
That's a great And then the minute you mentioned it,
that's the first thing I thought, Oh, that's that's why.

Speaker 2 (36:16):
This is a successful idea that that the caller before you,
BC Carry suggested. It's it's one that makes you think, uh.
And you know, we can ask what your favorite pizza place,
what's your favorite this? What's your favorite that? But this
is one that takes you back. So everybody tonight who's
called has had a trip back in time. That's so
important than you really neat.

Speaker 14 (36:38):
It's really neat. My family is we have new people
enjoying new generation and making new memories.

Speaker 2 (36:43):
How about that? How about that and sharing memories? Thanks
Jan and I got three more I got to get to,
so I'm going to let you run. Thank you, much.
All right, let me go to David in San Francisco. David,
your favorite summer memory.

Speaker 5 (36:56):
Oh, I get the best. Now you're doing right, Thank you, Dame.

Speaker 13 (37:00):
I call.

Speaker 5 (37:01):
First of all, I get up like it'd be like
any month. It would be like seventy degrees in the morning.
You get up at the hour early, and you go
and you mow the lawn, the front lawn with the
bricks and Stratton lawnmower. Okay, and then either your mom
or dad would pay you off like two dollars.

Speaker 2 (37:20):
That's good.

Speaker 5 (37:21):
You would go hunt down some baseball cards and some
clothes finds and strap them onto your bicycle holds the
wheel and the cars would strap up against the spokes
in the wheel.

Speaker 2 (37:36):
And do you know how those cards would be today
if you kept them, David, huh, pardon? Imagine how much
those cards would be worth today if you kept them.

Speaker 5 (37:45):
Oh, I had complete collections. I knew my mom threw
them out, and I knew there was a rookie Maky
Mantle in there somewhere. You put the cards onto your
cycle and then you'd have two dollars in your pocket
and you would tear out of the driveway up to

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a place called the field at the local elementary school
to meet your friends and then just play baseball or
volleyball or or whatever.

Speaker 2 (38:21):
And Dave, I got, I got to get to great
great memories. Thanks thanks for walking us down memory lane.
Thank you, my friend. Have a good weekend. Okay, thanks sir,
thank you very much. Let me get quick too quick
in here Karen and limitster. Karen, you got to be
quick for me because they got to make me well.

Speaker 15 (38:38):
Yeah. I have a couple of memories. Some of the
memories going and swimming I lived in Weymouth at the time,
going swimming at Witton's Pond okay, and going Teulton's Pond
up in Milton. And also another memory I have when
I got older. It's a place in Weymouth, I know
if it's still around to not but welcome farms. It

(39:02):
was a nice ice cream your place, so you could
get ice cream.

Speaker 2 (39:06):
Perfect, perfect those.

Speaker 15 (39:09):
Memory all right, that's the paragun Park right a New
England institution.

Speaker 2 (39:16):
Thanks Carroll to get one more in have a great weekend.

Speaker 1 (39:19):
You do.

Speaker 2 (39:19):
Talk to you soon, Eric and Atamborough. Eric, gonna wrap
it with you. Your favorite childhood memory, yep, I.

Speaker 13 (39:26):
Grew up in Canton, Massachusetts. And the best memory was
just simply in nineteen ninety at eleven years old, me
and all my friends and our neighbors and sisters and cousins,
just everyone and hung out. We weren't at the mercy
of battery power to have a good time to hang
out as kids are today.

Speaker 11 (39:48):
There was no such thing as mobile devices.

Speaker 4 (39:51):
I mean, we had bikes, skateboards.

Speaker 13 (39:53):
Jokes, yeah, we just you know, it was seamless.

Speaker 2 (39:59):
Yeah, perfect, Eric, Thank you. A lot of people going
to identify with what everyone said tonight and us was
great as well. Thank you so much and have a
great weekend you too.

Speaker 4 (40:10):
God bless you again.

Speaker 2 (40:11):
Right back at you. Done for the week. Been an
interesting week, lots of ups and downs, but it was
a good week, Rob Brooks, great week, Thank you very
much for all your hard work. Want to thank Karen
Pussemi who produced the programs this week. My name is
Dan ray and this is Nightside and we're going to
wrap it up as always, all dogs, all cats, all
pets going to happen. That's my pelle, Charlie ray Is,
who passed fifteen years ago in February. That's all your

(40:32):
pets are who have passed. They loved you and you
love them. I do believe you'll see them again. Hope
see again. Next week on Monday, we'll be back at eight.
I'll be on Nightside on Facebook right now, Nightside with
Dan Ray and we'll do a postgame. Thanks everybody, have
a great weekend, Enjoy the weekend, Enjoy this summer. Summer
goes much too fast.