[or-roots] Do you remember punch boards?

[Harguess, Dale]

Now you're talking.  Do I remember the movies?  I spent every weekend at
the matinees my favorite was Flash Gordon because he was also in the
funny papers and my mom named me after his girlfriend Dale Arden.
That's me.  I also remember Red Rider (also in the funny papers) and
cartoons after every feature.  I really loved Heckle and Jeckle and Chip
and Dale.

Dale in California

 

 

 

I remember Punch boards....  There was a cafe that had a punch board in
the town where I grew up.  We ate there quite a bit..... I  was  young
enough to believe in Santa Claus.  I had seen the punch board and the
prizes that could be won.   On Christmas morning one of my gifts was a
great big plastic piggy bank  ( I had seen it in the cafe among the
punch board prizes).  My comment was Santa must  have won this on the
punch board.............actually 50 some plus  years later I think I
still have it some where around here.

 

Anyone remember the Saturday afternoon cowboy matinees at the
theater......Roy Rogers, Gene Autrey, Whip Wilson, Lash Larue, Rex
Allen, Gabby Hayes, etc. etc.  I saw a lot of the matinees just about
every Saturday  

 

Carol

 

	From: Jacqueline <mailto:jacroing67 at ev1.net>  

	To: or-roots at sosinet.sos.state.or.us 

	Sent: Wednesday, September 28, 2005 9:10 PM

	Subject: Re: [or-roots] Do you remember punch boards?

	 

	The little Jiffy Way in Barlow had the punch boards.......so it
wasn't just Taverns that had them

	 

	Jacqueline

	 

		----- Original Message ----- 

		From: E V Barnes <mailto:evbarnes at earthlink.net>  

		To: or-roots at sosinet.sos.state.or.us 

		Sent: Tuesday, September 27, 2005 9:48 AM

		Subject: Re: [or-roots] Do you remember punch boards?

		 

		It seemed every beer tavern in Oregon had one of the
Punch Boards. I do not

		recall the cost of the use of the punch

		tool.  Seems it may have been around

		$1.00.

			----- Original Message ----- 

			From: Dorothy Wogh <mailto:dorothy at napanet.net>


			To: or-roots at sosinet.sos.state.or.us 

			Sent: Monday, September 26, 2005 9:22 PM

			Subject: Re: [or-roots] Do you remember punch
boards?

			 

			Yes I remember the punch boards, also the slot
machines, and how each time they came out to collect the money the
settings was changed.

			 

			Dorothy Wogh

				----- Original Message ----- 

				From: Cecil Houk <mailto:cchouk at cox.net>


				To: or-roots
<mailto:or-roots at sosinet.sos.state.or.us>  

				Sent: Monday, September 26, 2005 6:40 PM

				Subject: [or-roots] Do you remember
punch boards?

				 

				Do you remember punch bords?  I do.
They were a a form of gambling I remember in the Sweet Home, OR area in
the 1940's.  They were a bit less than a foot square, with a zillion
holes drilled through them.  The bottom side was covered by a plain
piece of paper.  The holes were filled with rolled up slips of paper
with a win/no win message.  The top of the board was covered by a
printed sheet that named the board, and indicated where the holes were.
You pay your money; you "punch" out a hole.  Mostly you won nothing,
BUT...

				 

				One night we stopped at a cafe in Foster
(I think the building is still there, but was vacant the last times I
saw it 1998 & 2000), located on the NE corner of HWY 20 and Wiley Creek
Road.  My dad won a stuffed animal on their punch board.  It was a white
horse about a foot long, and not quite as high.  This is one of the few
things my dad ever won.

				 

				Now why do I remember this?  My mother
named the horse Dobbin; why I do not know, but I do know that she would
not allow Doug or me to play with it - Dobbin became a part of our
Christmas decorations.  He spent 11 months a year carefully packed away.

				 

				Long story short: my mother gave Dobbin
to Doug's kids, and I kidnapped him from them in 1973.  I still have
Dobbin, but he's far from white today.  :-(

				 

				The trigger for this memory came from a
WW II map of Germany that I saw on the History Channel today (9-26-05),
showing the town of Dobbin!

				 

				Yes.  My Houks/Haucks came from Germany.

				 

				Cecil

				 

				 

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