Everyone always says how boring our towns are but in reality they are a lot better then we think they are. 1) You know what schools are rivals with other schools.
2) You spend Friday nights Rock n' Bowling.
3) You spend Saturday nights Jackpot Bowling.
4) You know what Manderach Playground is and you have been there at least once.
5) You have been to the Limerick Flea Market and saw it change into
a strip mall.
6) You have been to Zerns.
7) You have been to Grandview Speedway.
8) You know who Two Bill Jill is.
9) You remember Allens the candy store in Royersford.
10) You go to Anna Maries just for their huge pancakes.
11) You hang out at 7 Eleven and WaWa just for fun.
12) You have found at least one foreign object in the Schuylkill River.
13) You know exactly who the old guy is that smokes cigars on the bench in Spring-City.
14) You honk your horn at random people while driving past them.
15) You can easily walk to a friends house but chose to drive.
16) You go to Waltzs Golf Course every year for the fourth of July fireworks.
17) You have snuck into Pennhurst or Fricks Lock before and seen some crazy things.
18) You spent way to much of your life at Waltzs Golf Course, Regal in Oaks, the Coventry Mall and/or Limerick Bowling.
19) You remember Magic Jungle in Collegeville.
20) You can't go ANYWHERE without running into somebody you know.
21) The most exciting thing you do is go on a roadtrip, but somehow you always end up on the same dam road.
22) You have taken a field trip to the Limerick Power Plant.
23) You know you can get anywhere by 422 or 100.
24) You’ve memorized the 422 exits
25) You visit a WaWa at least once a day.
26) You’ll drive into Douglassville just to get cheap gas.
27) 24 hour diners are your life because that’s all there is to do anymore.
28) The name homeless joe sounds familiar to you and you know exactly where his hut was.
29) Your typical teen night life included a walk around the Coventry Mall, a movie at the Carmike, then food at the diner, and finally a walk around Bechtelsville Wal*Mart.
30) Your cause of death will be the cancer you gained from Limerick Power Plant.
31) You went roller skating every weekend back in the day at the Sanatoga Roller Skating Rink.
32) You go to Phoenixville Hospital (this one explains itself)
33) You go to the Dogwood Fair and the Kimberton Fair just for the hell of it. Especially because it never changes…like ever.
34) You go to Valley Forge Park when there is nothing left to do and yet its actually fun.
35) If you are bored enough you even try to chase after the deer.
36) You have been to all the malls...Coventry, King of Prussia, Exton, Plymouth Meeting...
37) You know all the best spots to get good stuff for Halloween, for example the hot dog guy in Limerick or the soda lady in Royersford.
38) You know how Limerick Bowl is like gossip central.
39) You play on playgrounds for the hell of it.
40) You watched the movie Lovely Bones get filmed right in our little town of Rofo.
41) You hate when people screw up town names, for example people always say Royersferd instead of Royersford.
42) You know all the street names within a 20 mile radius.
43) You go to Nelsons Ice Cream in the summer to get the best dam ice cream.
44) You have gone to at least one egg hunt at Victory Park.
45) You go/ have gone to the best school ever, WCTS!!
46) You have rode your bike on either the Perkiomen Trail or the Schuylkill River Trail....and realized the path never ends.
47) You know where hobbit land is and what it is all about.
48) You have been to a Reading Phillies game, and this is considered a night out on the town.
49) You went to Spring-Ford School District at some point.
50) You hang out at Tom's Bar & know it's a little whole in the wall bar, that's always a sf reunion.
51) You know what happens on the first Monday of the month at 2:00.
52) You have been to St Pete's before...when it was actually cool.
53) After school you would stop at the barber shop on Washington Street to get a Soda.
54) You remember all the fights at Victory Park.
55) You have gotten pumpkins from Renninger's Farm.
56) You remember the old guy in Royersford that stopped at every corner to wave to people.
57) You know what happens on the first Friday of every month in Phoenixville.
58) You have heard of the Firebird Festival, maybe even been to one.
59) You swim at WaterWorld because its the only half decent pool around. Plus they have that awesome rope swing.
60) You know how people call Spring-City Sh*t city...its the new pottstown.
61) You know how Spring-Fords football team sucks but their marching band is amazing!
62) You know that the honking fog horn is Human Fire Companys fire whistle.
63) You remember when Lakeview Amusement Park was where the Giant supermarket now stands, and maybe you even survived riding the rides.
64) You remember going to the library in elementary school to hear "Creepy Cromley" read children's stories to your class.
65) You and your friends spent Friday nights during football season walking the track at Spring-Ford High School, and only checked the score at the end so you could prove to your parents that you were really there. (SFHS)
66) You remember that the DJ played "Happy Trails" as the last song at EVERY S-F Middle School dance.
67) You played soccer on the fields where the new high school is. (SFHS)
68) You remember all of the fights after school at 7-11 and how the guy behind that counter always had his kids sleeping in the back. (SFHS)
69) You wished like hell that could join all your friends at Spring Ford, but you were stuck going to Pius.
70) You went trestle jumping at blackrock.
71) You went all the way under the damn.
72) You have been to sunshine café.
73) You remember the 2-2-2 for $2.
74) You remember going to parties outside behind the 7-11 in the woods.
75) You know all about Nine Oaks.
76) You remember going to Dairy Queen after the SFHS football games.
77) You remember Ben Franklin the craft store.
78) You remember Gary’s Drugstore (where sly fox is now) which turned into Drug Emporium.
79) You know how Genaurdis always used to give away free cookies to kids.
80) You always go sledding at WCTS in Limerick.
81) You all know where all the cops hide because its always the same spot.
82) You remember a certain science teachers breath in 6th grade...not sure about naming names here.
83) You and you friends have raced each other down a grocery store isle, one person in the cart and one pushing.
84) You remember the REAL Popeye's on Ridge Pike. Even before it was Gary's it was Donzy's.
85) You swam at the Spring City Pool because you couldn't afford Nine Oaks.
86) You went to Spring-Ford and remember listening to "Froggy Went A Courtin'" in science class, while you were dissecting a frog.
87) You were forced to endure Mr. "Pinky" Omrod's art class and listened to him ranting about the miniature Victorian houses that he made out of junk.
88) You remember getting the world's best ice cream (and petting the cows) at Wallaby Farms in Collegeville, which is now a housing development.
89) You know someone who was in the original version of The Blob(in phoenixville) as an extra, because they just happened to be around while they were filming it.
90) You remember when Spring-Ford had a winning football team.
91) You remember the "spider" at Limerick Elementary.
92) You remember POPEYE the official senior citizen mascot of all of Spring-Ford's sports team. You also remember some of his advice that at the time made no sense but as you age you realize he was right.
93) You have been to the dog park in Mont Clare.
94) You know who this specific teacher is if I say "Jesus" or "Moses", cause he looked exactly like him.
95) You went to Bible school every summer at Herstein's Mennonite Church and you most likely got there by the school bus.
96) You remember the Spring-Ford teachers strike of 1988 when we went to school until June 30th to make up for missing the entire month of October.
97) You remember Berlin Splain in the Collegeville Shopping Center right next to McD's. It was where Annie Sez is now. It was a BIG craft and junk store that was always the hang out.
98) You know that kids always get busted for smoking pot outside the limerick bowling alley even though there is a police station RIGHT across the street.
99) You remember the fire in the art room at the old Spring-Ford High School.
100) You remember when the Coventry Mall actually had an arcade.
101) You have to deal with all the teenagers and youngers who WALK down Laurelwood and River Rd.
102) You remember the spot and their hot dogs with everything.
103) You remember when Dairy Queen in Rofo was Brooks store.
104) You still remember your school's number (S-F was 308) and how hard you prayed to hear it called on KYW in the morning whenever it snowed!
105) You remember when Amelia's grocery outlet on Lewis Road in Royersford was the A&P and it was really the only grocery store in town.
106) You know how theres absolutely NOTHING to do after 9:30 PM...because these towns are sooo lame, everything closes early!
107) You remember Teeters on 2nd ave in Rofo.
108) You know about Chic Snyder's but remember when Chic Snyder's was Famous Pizza.
109) You've been to abbey downs at least once, half of SF lived there at some point.
110) You remember when Allens Variety was actually an old movie theatre before it was knocked down, Wa-Wa was next to Plotts Oil, the post office was on the corner, there was nothing past walnut street but corn fields, 422 wasn't built yet, washington street had really big old oak trees.
111) You remember making junk robots with Mr. Omrod.
112) You remember watching old movies in teh SF middle school and now it's the 8th grade center.
113) You remember playing video games at the arcade on Main Street, in Rofo.
114) You knew how two bill jill was giving discounts of $1.99; cause $.01 was all its worth!!!
115) You remember the penny candy store in spring city.
116) You remember schmidts stationery store in spring city.
117) You went to the drive in movie theater in Limerick.
118) You watched the eclipse in 1991 on the back lawn at the high school.
119) You've gone swimming in the schukille river, even though you knew it was dirtier than all hell.
120) You remember jumping off the trussel in spring-city and then one day the one kid missed the deep spot and an ambulance had to come and they made it illegal to go back along the trails but people still went anyway.
121) You know that H&R block on Main St in Royersford used to be WaWa and the italian place used to be the post office.
122) Don't forget the house (on 4th st, I think) in Royersford with the tiny front lawn so filled with Christmas decorations-plastic nativity, Santa CLaus- that there wasn't a space behind the fence left.
123) You go down behind grubers knitting mill rummage thru the old trailers for sand rocks.
124) You have snuck under the fence at the rear of the SF football field by the tennis courts.
125) You have walked around the track at a SF football game, never once watched the game and Waited under the bleachers for the little footballs to fall through.
126) You have walked the trails from the end of first ave all the way down to the "black desert".
127) You acquired large sheets of styrofoam from diamond glass, made rafts and floated down to Phoenixville only to have to walk all the way back up again.
128) You were apart of The Voyage of the Mimi in 6th grade science.
129) You have disected flowers in 7th grade science.
130) You remember the electrostatic magnetic generator in Mr. Rowes class and how he made us listen to "Total Eclipse of the Heart" in order to explain what an eclipse was.
131) But If you went to S-F you know how easy it was to walk out the back door and across the parking lot to skip classes.
132) You know your from Spring Ford if you remember Senior Slip Day.
133) You went to"The Best Spot" in town when it was where the "Reporter" is now.
134) You broke into the warehouses on chestnut, I believe, to go skateboarding.
135) You have and still go to Spring Ford Pharmacy.
136) You used to jump off the bleachers at SF onto the track mats before they moved them.
137) You have partied overnight at the "Island" in Linfield at least once.
138) You have been in the tunnel going under 422 by Yeager Rd.
139) You remember typing classes at limerick elem. during recesses until you finished ALL the lessons.
140) You remember roller skating at Kimberton rink across from the Kimberton Fair Grounds.
141) You went to egg hunts at Limerick Elementary school.
142) You know that Famous Pizza created the “grinder”.
143) You know how before Gary's was Donzy's, it was Acme. and before that Jerry's Butcher. And the blob was filmed there, too.
144) You know about the science teacher who rants on about spandex, biking, and his smart car….Dr Dabback.
145) You remember the Bicentennial parade.
146) You remember when Nelson's was Penn Supreme.
147) You know someone who washed dishes at the country club.
148) You know that Elmer's is Sunoco. You always get your gas at Elmer's Sunoco, even if you have to pay more because they still pump the gas for you.
149) You know where to find a giant apple with a worm that reminds you to live happy.
150) You remember skating at Sanatoga Roller Rink on Wednesday Nights for S-F Family night and where it was.
151) You entered the Royersford Halloween parade, remember hearing your number called, and winning a silver dollar prize.
152) You remember the Haunted House on Rt. 724, next to the Garden Place.
153) You remember the SKAT gas station right cross the street, it was the only place open during the gas crisis back in 73. Cars lined up all the way back to spring-city just to get some.
154) You remember sledding on the hill next to royersford elementary till dark, watching fireworks launched from lakeview park, in the A&P parking lot, and riding the "wild mouse" ride at lakeview park.
155) You remember the teacher we called "Flash" and how he was the manager of the 724 Wawa in Coventry.
156) You remember specks by the trailer park because you and your friends went there for breakfast saturday morings and later for icecream.
157) You know everyone in this group, or at least heard of them because thats how small our towns are.
158) You remember when they were excavating for the power plant and they found dinosaur fossils which were displayed at your elementary school.
159) The apple and the worm near the corner of Church and Lewis. It was the Buckwalter's house.
160) You have gone to Canal Day at Lock 60 in Mont Clare.
161) You remember the high school in Trappe and now refer to the Graterford campus of Perkiomen Valley as the new school.
162) You remember all of the floods the river caused over the years.
163) You went to Consolidated until it closed and played house around the Big tree.
164) You've been to the Black Rock Boat docks and laughed your ass off watching people try to put their boats in the water without a plug.
165) You went to Ott's as a kid.
166) You know that the traffic light at 4th and Main in Royersford (the intersection near the jewelry store that used to be a bank, and the pizza place that used to be the post office) always changed to blinking yellow at 9:00 PM.
167) Either you were caught out after curfew in Royersford (10:00 PM) by Officer Long, or you know someone who was.
168) You remember driving up and down that High St in P-town every weekend because there wasn't anything else to do in Rofo!
169) You remember the dances at the Grace Lutheran church and the lock-ins. Those were crazy, fighting and making out and general mahem---were the adults in charge on crack?
170) You remember Penny's Pizza in Limerick and how good their pizza and stromboli's were.
171) You remember when Kolbs farm had cows in their fields on Mennonite Road.
172) It never fails....whenever you are late for something, you have to wait for the train to go by in Royersford. Sometimes if you'd catch it on Main Street, you'd try to beat it down by Diamond Glass.
173) You remember sledding at Cann & Sal.
174) You remember taking your glass to Diamond Glass for pennies for the pound before mandatory recycling.
175) You remember when the Springford Pharmacy had a great gift/cosmetic area with the clerks in the bull pen who would gift wrap any purchase for free even all those little bity stocking stuffers on Christmas Eve!
176) You had your hair cut by jack white at whites barbershop.
177) You know who Johnny & Loretta are. RIP Johnny.
178) You remember having off school for a hurricane and a huge snow storm that never happened.
179) You remember the exact night that the tornado came through Rofo and then into Limerick killing a family of three in the Hamlet.
180) You can remember the SF band marching a victory parade up main street and third ave all the way to the high school no matter how late at night it was.
181) You know who "Mr. D" is..taught forever at Spring-Ford and is STILL the track coach.
182) You remember buying your pumpkins and real Christmas trees at the Village Garden Center when it was the holiday season.
183) You remember fun summer days spent swimming in Swamp Creek at the Bridge to no where.
184) You have been to Victory Park and have been tossed out of that hamster-like wooden barrel.
185) You remember filling out those idiotic nuclear evacuation forms in elementary school, even though your school was 2 miles down the street from the plant and you would most certainly be the first to perish.
186) Anyone from SF will remember Mr Miller telling them to get off the grass.
187) You knew about the REAL trustle and the swimming hole down by the railroad station in Rofo and actually went on the rope/tire swing there.
188) You always knew someone who worked at the Limerick Diner.
189) You remember Bankers Bar and Cunninghams TV and that there was actually an arcade right down from Cunninghams.
190) You also remember that NEXT DOOR resteraunt used to be right next door to the bowling alley and actually ate there.
191) You leave town and go to a Lazer Light show in Philly on the weekends when bored.
192) You remember the creepy guy at Zerns with the ladies leg glasses.
193) You remember the haunted silo on country club road.
194) You remember when limerick was almost all farmland.
195) You know how 10 demerits meant a 3 day (school endorsed) vacation.
196) You were late for school 3+Xs to get a day off of school.
197) You spent your senior year in the 9th grade center.
198) You have been on a country drive, before during or after school.
199) You have gone to the "Red Church" because you thought they sacrifised sheep or somthing like that.
200) You remember the woman with the fiery red hair at Sanatoga Roller Rink.
201) You remember Olympic Day at Limerick :).
202) You remember the blizzard of '96.
203) You remember dressing up in colonial wear for the bicentenial.
204) You remember when Oscars carnival was in Limerick and it burnt down.
205) You went to Becthel's Dairy for Ice Cream now it's a School!!
206) You remember the "Spring Fling" fairs held for a couple years in the S-F high school parking lot.
207) You know what "boot-hopping" is and did it at least once when the snow was just right.
208) You spent huge amounts of coin at georges #1 on main streeet in spring city on music equipment, and loved every minute of the time you spent there. Hey Tom!
209) You played little league baseball @ Ron Nettles field next to Hookies fire House on 3rd avenue (I think) and skated on the impomptu ice rink they made on the basketball court next to the baseball field.
210) You went sledding on the hill next to Royersford Elementary from early morning until night. Freezing but didn't care a bit.
211) You played street hockey on the playground at royersford elementary on sunday afternoon when the flyers were a stanley cup team.
212) You kicked the streetlights out on Walnut and Washington streets in Royersford all the way from Lewis rd down to 5th avenue.
213) You went to Ringing Rocks rink to go roller skating, but never stayed around long enough to actually look at THE Ringing Rocks.
214) You knew the shortest route to Speck's from any back country or dirt road in the Township.
215) You remember looking for the pheasants in the cages along Game Farm Road.
216) You remember going to Boy Scout meetings in the basement of the old Limerick Fire House (the one that's not there any more...).
217) You remember when Smitty's Garage had an airplane on the roof.
218) You hiked back to "Wolf Rock" for some killer parties.
219) You know where "Bluberry Hill" is and made out there after prom.
220) You know that Royersford Elementary had a tree where all the kids thought Dobbie from Harry Potter lived because the trunk looked like a door.
221) You remember people going for night swims at Nine-Oaks and sending those old lounge chairs with the rubber tube webbing up the flagpole!
222) You remember "walking around the village" in Mingo to fight the summer boredom.
223) Before it was Nelson's Ice Cream Store it was a Getty station with a mini mart.
224) Having to make ornaments to put on the town christmas tree and going to the Golden Age Manor to sing carols.
225) You remember when the Sacred Heart church bells went off at 6 A.M.
226) You know about the Ring Of Happiness
227) You know of or went in to the old house across from the Femino's- Holcombs.
228) You saw the VFW catch on fire and knew who did.
229) You went that hill above Maggio's Bakery and the chinese place in Pottstown to watch fireworks from the roof of your car.
230) You remember life before the Route 422 bypass was built. had like, three cars driving down it every day. This kid, Teddy, and his friends used to play street hockey on it. Also, you had to drive to Kmart down 724 or Ridge Pike.
231) You remember when Coventry Mall was called Norco Mall.
232) You used to go to the Nelson's Ice Cream factory down the street to get the slightly messed-up ice cream bars because they were way cheaper.
233) You know where 6th Avenue crosses 5th Avenue in Royersford. Twilight Zone?
234) You or someone very close to you either lived in, or knew someone who lived at Reed's 4th & Main, above the 2nd floor.
235) You have had Mr Salamone as a teacher at SFHS.
236) You know what fezstock was and was there.
237) You remember Mrs. Harrops music class.
238) You knew some or all of the people who worked at Center City Steaks in Spring City.
239) You remember how Chuck Bearden used to taunt Mrs. Shields.
240) You remember when Randy's Mini Mart in Linfield was Tavio's?
241) You went to the Vo-Tech school on Graterford Road before they has demolished it in the expansion of the school. You probably went sledding there too.
242) You knew about township line road and graterford/wartman road before and after the light was put up. Now people can actually make a left hand turn.
243) You have been to colonial gardens.
244) You know about the house with the garage with the apple and the worm sign actually says "live appley".
245) You remember when the supermarket in Trappe was still Clemen's Market.
246) You went to Perkiomen Valley High School when 8th grade was still there, and it looked like a prison.
247) You went to see a movie in Coventry when the Carmike Cinema was still FOX.
248) You remember when the Valley Forge Mall was actually indoors and it had the store AMES (Where the Staples is in Phoenixville is now).
249) You remember the Acme in Collegeville (now closed) used to have a giant ditch called 'The Black Hole' where everyone threw trash in front of it.
250) You went to Arnolds Go-Karts in Oaks before they slowed them down.
...and its still going....
