10 Things People Who Grew Up in Canton in the ’90s Will Understand

Before school, after school, weekends, and pretty much whenever you were bored. Everyone knew the "cruise strip" from Niemann's lot to Ayerco Oil Company. I mean I would drive that strip so many times I probably could drive it with my eyes closed.

This course doesn't exists anymore, but as a student there was so much you could get away in Mrs. Howe's class. She loved all her students like her own children and every time I see her, to this day, I give her a giant hug and thank her for showing me how to sew (even though I'm not great at it). She was my favorite teacher and the favorite of many others as well.

Maybe this is where my fear of clowns comes from. Before all fraternities were on Culver-Stockton's campus they were downtown. And every Halloween, the ATO would put on a haunted house where kids like me went for a good scare.

My graduating class had 33 members. When I tell when I tell people it was 33, they often ask for clarification? 3,300? Nope. Just 33. I could probably name every one of them too.

Everyone knew where to hang out and not "get in trouble" (hey, we were teenagers).

With Canton being a small town, there's not a whole heck of a lot to do in the summer if you're a kid, so your parents would get you a membership to the pool. And when you got old enough, you became a lifeguard (even short people like me).

You know the ones I'm talking about; the ones with the hats that resembled cotton balls. It was my junior or senior year where we finally saved enough money to buy brand new ones.

CSC has the best hills for sledding. Every time it snowed and school was cancelled, you could find a ton of people sledding down the concourse.

Canton seemed to be the only town with a levee that actually held. We were all pretty lucky.

If you haven't heard, the rubber gym floor is no more. I'm not exactly sure when the new wood floor was put in the "big" gym, but I remember the maroon rubber gym. It definitely hurt when you'd fall and skin your knees though. I had so many burns on my arms and legs from that floor. Yeah, I fell a lot.