Congratulations to the winners. I had the opportunity to read all of the entries and to be honest, every one deserved to make the top three. Good competition. Good response from members.

Well, I see there are now 4 entries, so that puts me out of the money. lol. Some serious authors here for sure.

Where are all of the writers? I'm not seeing any poems for this competition. Am I missing something?

Stories Space is a friendly place to meet nice people.

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Congatulations on your achievement, Anna. I deleted all my posts.

What do you mean, Larry, and why?

Congatulations on your achievement, Anna. I deleted all my posts.

My comments at this point are mostly conceptual and theme based.

It seems that the current concept is to spread everything out across the page in over-sized type and images. It seems to be a waste of space to have large images in addition to descriptors. Are images even needed? IMHO, condensing the page into "eye-sight" information would be preferable.

That being said, why aren't there any sidebars? It is much preferable to be able to cursor to a point as opposed to scrolling to a point. I honestly feel like I went to a restaurant with one of those 20-page menus with 300 different options when all I really wanted was a hamburger.

Lastly, just so I'm clear. I'm grateful that SS is still here and will work with whatever options are available in the final format.

I find jumping all around the page to find what used to be at my fingertips a bit convoluted. Is there some reason why the blue site could look more like the red site format?  Just asking.

I don't mind change at all. It will take time to review the changes. So far it appears I have lost badges. Still checking everything else.

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I had this quiz on SS several years ago and thought maybe new members would like a try.


Count all the ones that you remember not the ones you were told about. Ratings at the bottom.

1. Blackjack chewing gum
2. Wax Coke-shaped bottles with colored sugar water
3. Candy cigarettes
4. Soda pop machines that dispensed glass bottles
5. Coffee shops or diners with tableside jukeboxes
6. Home milk delivery in glass bottles with cardboard stoppers
7. Party lines on the telephone
8. Newsreels before the movie
9. P.F. Flyers
10. Butch wax
11. TV test patterns that came on at night after the last show and were there until TV shows started again in the morning. (there were only 3 channels... if you were fortunate)
12. Peashooters
13. Howdy Doody
14. 45 RPM records
15. S&H green stamps
16. Hi-fi's
17. Metal ice trays with lever
18. Mimeograph paper
19. Blue flashbulb
20. Packards
21. Roller skate keys
22. Cork popguns
23. Drive-ins
24. Studebakers
25. Wash tub wringers


If you remember 0-5 = You're still young
If you remember 6-10 = You are getting older
If you remember 11-15 = Don't tell your age,
If you remember 16-25 = You're older than dirt!

I might be older than dirt but those memories are some of the best parts of my life.

I had 18!

Meredith (James) added a few more, but I do not know how to change the scoring.

26. 8-track tape players
27. Under the dash Record players
28. Duck tail haircuts
29. Poodle Skirts
30. Cloverine salve ointment
31. Henry J cars
32. Sock hop dances
33. Outhouses
34. Redball Jets
35. Shoe repair shops
36. Alleys behind houses
37. Waiting for a Radio to Warm-up
38. Cherry Cokes that had real bits of cherries in them
39. Black Cow floats
40. Car hops