You Know You're An Old-Timer If...

...you remember when Simle Middle School was Hillside Park Junior High.

...you can recite the original poem created to help remember the colors of the weather beacon.

...if you remember when Tesoro was Amoco Standard Oil.

...you went to Saint Mary's Central High when it was still new.

...you remember when the first Dairy Queen opened.

...you remember waking up to farm reports by Al Gustin on KFYR.

...you bought a car at Fleck's Motors.

...you know someone who worked for Gold Seal.

...you remember when Governor Langer was forced from office following 2 felony convictions.

...you remember when J.C. Penney had a location in Mandan.

...you attended school at Wachter School (not Wachter Middle School).

...you remember visiting Bonnie and Clyde at the Dakota Zoo (no, not the gangsters).

...you remember when Sertoma Park was called Riverside Park.

...you remember when shopping for electronics at Best didn't mean going to Best Buy.

...you graduated from Bismarck High before it adopted the Demon Mascot (any idea what year that was).

...you remember checking out a book at Carnegie Library.

...you shopped at Woolworth's when the store was managed by Robert Kirkwood.

...you remember the International Harvestor Company.

...you remember when the only funeral parlor was at Webb Brothers Department Store.

...you remember when the steel cage of the Northern Pacific Railroad was square rather than circular.

...you remember eating at Jade Garden or Sergio's Restaurants.

...you remember when the railroad company was called Northern Pacific.

...you remember Skipper's Seafood Restaurant.

...you remember when the Liberty Memorial Bridge made that cool noise.

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