Subject: Re: more Broad Ripple nostalgia

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: Ever wonder why frisbees were called Whamo! frisbees? : About 1949, Dad took me to the sporting goods store on : the north side of Broad Ripple Avenue where, with money saved out of my quarter-a-week allowance and from leaf raking and such, I bought myself a Whamo! : slingshot, the frame sawn out of a seven-plywood stock by a little company in California. That was their product. No one had heard of a frisbee yet, except at the pie company in New Haven. I still have : the 57-year-old slingshot but have not accidentally : broken any garage windows with it for some time. : I think my blue Schwinn english racer three-speed : came from that store, too. I rode it all over the north side..to the Rivie in summer, in the fall on : Saturdays up North Oxford to 62nd..west past the corn-field soon to become Glendale..past the canoe livery : across from Flanner & Buchanan..past the chevy dealer : across Compton from BRHS..past Borky's and the bowling alley and the A&P and the Broad Ripple Lumber : Company and over the Monon tracks and right to that : young boy's holy-of-holies: The Hobby Shop!