Post #160295 by johntiki on Fri, May 20, 2005 7:36 AM

My parents used to take my sister and I to a place called Stewart's Root beer and they used to do curbside service with the trays that hung on the car windows. This was in the late 70's/early 80's and it had a vintage feel to it even then. They used to serve their made on the premises rootbeer in frosted glass mugs and I loved it as a kid! Stewart's was real close to the boat yard where my parents kept their Chris Craft and we would always beg to stop there on the way home! There still is a remaining Stewart's in Baltimore but they don't do curb service and the rootbeer just doesn't taste as sweet as it did on sticky nights in July.

I've had my time with illegal fireworks as well. One summer a bunch of my neighborhood pals decided to make a movie that called for a pick-up truck to explode. I dug through my Dad's stash of taboo fireworks imported from exotic Pennsylvania and decided to use an M-80. Now this wasn't a stick the M-80 inside the window, light it and watch it blow up deal... we actually bought a model and assembled it around the explosive. Next we built a base so the truck would remain stationary when it blew up - hoping it would appear more realistic. Anyway, when it came time to shoot the "scene" it came off surprisingly well though I think my ears were ringing for a couple hours afterwards. I’m probably lucky I didn’t get a shard of Revell model imbedded in my forehead.