How many do you remember?
01. Candy cigarettes
02. Wax coke-shaped bottles with colored sugar water inside.
03. Soda pop machines that dispensed glass bottles.
04. Coffee shops with tableside juke boxes
05. Blackjack, Clove and Teaberry chewing gum
06. Home milk delivery in glass bottles, with Cardboard stoppers.
07. Party lines.
08. Newsreels before the movie.
09. P. F. Flyers
10. Butch wax
11. Telephone numbers with a word prefix ... (Drexel-5505)
12. Peashooters.
13. Howdy Dowdy
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
36. Decisions were made by going "eeny-meeny-miney-mo."
37. Mistakes were corrected by simply exclaiming "do over!"
38. "Race issue" meant arguing about who ran the fastest.
39. Money issues were handled by whoever was the banker in "Monopoly."
40. Catching the fireflies could happily occupy an entire evening.
41. It wasn't odd to have two or three "best" friends.
42. Being old referred to anyone over 20.
43. The net on a tennis court was the perfect height to play volleyball and
rules didn't matter.
44. The worst thing you could catch from the opposite sex was
"cooties"......or head lice.
45. It was magic when dad would "remove" his thumb.
46. It was unbelievable that dodgeball wasn't an Olympic event.
47. Having a weapon in school meant being caught with a slingshot.
48. Nobody was prettier than Mom.
49. Scrapes and bruises were kissed and made better.
50. It was a big deal to finally be tall enough to ride the "big people"
rides at the amusement park.
51. A foot of snow was a dream come true.
52. Abilities were discovered because of a "double-dog-dare."
53. Saturday morning cartoons weren't 30-minute ads for action figures.
54. No shopping trip was complete unless a new toy was brought home.
55. "Oly-oly-oxen-all-in-free" made perfect sense.
56. Spinning around, getting dizzy, and falling down was cause for
giggles.
57. The worst embarrassment was being picked last for a team.
58. War was a card game.
59. Water balloons were the ultimate weapon.
60. Baseball cards in the spokes transformed any bike into a motorcycle.
61. Taking drugs meant orange-flavored chewable aspirin.
62. Ice cream was considered a basic food group.
63. Older siblings were the worst tormentors, but also the fiercest
protectors.
If you can remember most or all of these, then you have lived!!!!
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