Candy cigarettes.
Wax Coke-shaped bottles with colored sugar water inside.
Soda pop machines that dispensed glass bottles.
Coffee shops with tableside jukeboxes.
Blackjack, Clove and Teaberry chewing gum.
Home milk delivery in glass bottles with cardboard stoppers.
Newsreels before the movie.
P.F. Fliers.
Telephone numbers with a word prefix....(Raymond 4-601).
Party lines.
Peashooters.
Howdy Dowdy.
45 RPM records.
Green Stamps.
Hi-Fi's.
Metal ice cubes trays with levers.
Mimeograph paper.
Beanie and Cecil.
Roller-skate keys.
Cork pop guns.
Drive ins.
Studebakers.
Washtub wringers.
The Fuller Brush Man.
Reel-To-Reel tape recorders.
Tinkertoys.
Erector Sets.
The Fort Apache Play Set.
Lincoln Logs.
15 cent McDonald hamburgers.
5 cent packs of baseball cards - with that awful pink slab of bubble gum.
Penny candy.
35 cent a gallon gasoline.
Jiffy Pop popcorn.
Do you remember a time when...
Decisions were made by going "eeny-meeny-miney-moe"? Mistakes were corrected by simply exclaiming, "Do Over!"? "Race issue" meant arguing about who ran the fastest? Catching the fireflies could happily occupy an entire evening? It wasn't odd to have two or three "Best Friends"?
The worst thing you could catch from the opposite sex was "cooties"? Having a weapon in school meant being caught with a slingshot? A foot of snow was a dream come true?
Saturday morning cartoons weren't 30-minute commercials for action figures? "Oly-oly-oxen-free" made perfect sense? Spinning around, getting dizzy, and falling down was cause for giggles?
The worst embarrassment was being picked last for a team?
War was a card game?
Baseball cards in the spokes transformed any bike into a motorcycle? Taking drugs meant orange-flavored chewable aspirin? Water balloons were the ultimate weapon?
If you can remember most or all of these, then you have lived!!!!!!!
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O...M...G...!!!
I remember EVERY SINGLE ONE of those...at length!
And the stories I could tell about them. (especially when Mom got her arm caught in that damn WRINGER on TOP of her Maytag!)
Our telephone number was Devonshire 8-9958
I will always remember that one.
I actually preferred P.F.s to KEDS.
What?
No mention of "5 cent grab bags"???
(for shame)
Fantastic list...kept a lot of kids from killing one anohter (unlike today)
Thanks for that nice walk through time.
:)
What wonderful memories...I sure do remember everything...I have a beautiful hurricane type lamp I got with yellow{top value} stamps 40 yrs ago...My grandkids would not agree with me, but i wish those days were back!
What great memories you brought back. Also were Clutch Cargo, Spinner and Paddlefoot, putting tacks in the heels of your shoes to sound cool walking down school halls, Woolworths 5 and dime. Wow good times, no hustle and bustle.
RB
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