Friday, April 27, 2007

Nickels & Dimes at Tarnow's Resort


Popsicle…. ......5 cents
........Banana
........Orange
........Lime
........Cherry
Fudgsicle..........5 cents
Dreamsicle.......5 cents
Drumstick.......10 cents
Ice Cream Sandwich.....10 cents
Bubble Up.............10 oz,10 cents
Sunny Sky............10 oz,10 cents

Hires Rootbeer
.....8 oz, 10 cents
Coke… 6 oz, but don’t buy because it rots your teeth
Baby Ruth............. 5 cents
Nut Goodie............10 cents
Mr. Goodbar...........5 cents
Planter’s peanuts, bag, 5 cents
Almond Joy...........10 cents
Mounds...................10 cents
Salted Nut Roll ...5 cents
Bazooka Bubble Gum with comic.. . 1 cent
Lucky Strike, Pall Mall candy cigarettes, 5 cents a pack

The convenience store at the Tarnow's Resort is no longer in this Lake Andrew cottage. The store and office is now located in a building much closer to our old house. This change would have saved us quite a few barefoot steps for our daily trip down the gravel resort road to buy cool treats during hot summers in the 50s.

Another part of those summers was Paul and Helen Tarnowski's nephew, Tom Lempka, or Tommy Lambchop is we cleverly nicked-named our summer playmate, in honor of the Shari Lewis puppet. Tom would be dropped off at the resort by his father, Roman, in his black and white '55 Ford. Shortly, Tom would call "Eee---Ahhh---Key" through the trees to signal his arrival and his availability for good times.

Tom now lives in Alexandria with his wife, according to Karen Westby. I copied his photo off of her Class of 1967 web site.