Do You Remember These??

dieseldiva

Veteran Expediter
>
> Always remember that the perfect age is somewhere between
> old enough to know better and young enough not to care.
>
> How many do you remember?
> 1. Candy cigarettes.
> 2. Wax coke-shaped bottles with colored sugar water inside.
> 3. Soda pop machines that dispensed glass bottles.
> 4. Coffee shops with tableside juke boxes.
> 5. Blackjack, Clove and Teaberry chewing gum.
> 6. Home milk delivery in glass bottles, with cardboard stoppers.
> 7. Party lines.
> 8. Newsreels before the movie.
> 9. P. F. Flyers.
> 10. Butch wax.
> 11. Telephone numbers with a word prefix, (Drexel-5505).
> 12. Peashooters.
> 13. Howdy.
> 14. 45-RPM Records.
> 15. Green Stamps.
> 16. Hi-fi's.
> 17. Metal ice cube trays-with levers.
> 18. Mimeograph paper.
> 19. Blue flash Bulbs.
> 20. Beanie and Cecil.
> 21. Roller skate keys.
> 22. Cork pop guns.
> 23. Drive ins.
> 24. Studebakers.
> 25. Wash tub wringers.
> 26. The Fuller Brush man.
> 27. Reel-to-reel tape recorders.
> 28. Tinkertoys.
> 29. The Erector Set.
> 30. The Fort Apache Playset.
> 31. Lincoln Logs.
> 32. 15 cent McDonald hamburgers.
> 33. 5 cent packs of baseball cards...with that awful pink slab of
>bubblegum.
> 34. Penny candy.
> 35. 35 cent-a-gallon gasoline.
>
> AND A TIME WHEN ....................
> Decisions were made by going "eeny-meeny-miney-mo."
> 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 ads 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.
> Water balloons were the ultimate weapon.
> Baseball cards in the spokes transformed any bike into a motorcycle.
> Taking drugs meant orange-flavored chewable aspirin.
> If you can remember most or all of these, then you have lived!!!!
>
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Weave

Veteran Expediter
Charter Member
Just too damned wierd- I was laughing to myself earlier in the week about candy cigarettes and how well they would go over these days. #1 on your list - too funny:7
-Weave-
I quit smoking a while back. Started sniffing glue!
For you history buffs- Studebaker lives on as Cooper Industries. If any of you have delivered to AM General, home of the HumVee, that facility is on Studebaker's old proving grounds- I am a HUGE history fanatic!
 

Dreamer

Administrator Emeritus
Charter Member
Wow DD, those were great... brought back TOO many memories, and made me realize how long some of it has been. I loved the old Saturday Morning cartoons... when they were funny, instead of everyone about the new action figure/trading card character/videogame whatever...

Heh.. my kids still roll their eyes and shake their heads when I go "Pu-pu-pu-PUPPY POWER!!!" or how bout "RUT RO RAGGY!" :D :D :D C'mon now, some of you are old enough to know what I'm talkin bout!


Here's one for ya, I was talkin about records the other day, and was talkin about my collection of 45's. Neighbor kid had NO idea what I was talkin bout... my daughter explained to him that they were kind of like "big plastic CD's"... then we got into a discussion of 8-tracks... they laughed their hineys off.. that that concept was TOO funny.

[font color="blue"] **sigh** "Feelin older than ever now...anybody got any Pop Rocks?" [/font]
:'( :'(
 

teacel

Veteran Expediter
Charter Member
38. chum gum
39. 25 cents for a pack of cigarettes and got 2 cents change in the pack
40. the street car
41. the Mickey Mouse Club
42. Flash Gordon
43. silent movies
44. asking dad for the car
45. pin ball machine
46. THE GOOD OLD DAYS
 
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