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[QUOTE="Aweart23, post: 146085, member: 6"]
Born in Rochester in 69.  Mom grew up on the North Side and went to North High.  We moved back to Liverpool in 1978.  I went to CBA and then Syracuse for my undergrad degree. 
 
Fondest memories
 
My father, like many in Syracuse, had a life long hatred of road salt.  Growing up, he owned many "winter rats" but my favorite was the 1963 Red VW beetle that he drove for about four years in the early 80's. 
 
That Beetle may have had heat at one time, but at that point in its life, heat was just a distant memory.  The only heat that car produced was from a vacuum cleaner hose someone had run from the firewall in a failed attempt to warm the car.  When you lifted the floor mats, you could see the road through the rusted out holes in the floor boards.  It was the only car I could remember where you had to scrape the ice off the [B]inside[/B] of the windsheild before you could drive it.
 
His boss was a season ticket holder, and he would give my father tickets to SU Basketball games that the bossman was not using.  They were never the really good game tickets, usually it was someone like Iona or Fordham.   Bossman always kept G'Town and the Big East games for himself. 
 
My father would drive us in that 63 Beetle, with no heat, in zero degree weather to see Fordham or Iona or St. Bonnie's, park down the hill by E. Genesee Street.  We would walk up the hill to see Gene Waldron, Raf Addison, Wendall Alexis and Leo Ruatins play in the Dome.  We'd stop for a dog at Heids on the way home...Best times of my life
 
As a side note, prior to moving south, my old man personally delivered a large envelope of road salt, sand and rocks to the Town of Clay supervisor's office after the Town has "salted" his street one afternoon.  Ahhh Winter...I miss it so...
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