I'm remembering 'em all, and it's pissin' me off.
I'm old, but trying to stay well-preserved (beats takin's a dirt nap...)
WST
----- Original Message -----
From "Dave" <lbc at littlebitcountry.com>
To: "Spridgets" <spridgets@autox.team.net>
Sent: Tuesday, February 05, 2002 12:48 PM
Subject: Showing your age (No LBC)
> 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.
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