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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!!!!
>
>
> 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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