Have you lived?

[Mike_Dumond]

If 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 table side 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. Pea shooters.

13. Howdy Doody

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. Tinker toys

29. The Erector Set

30. The Fort Apache Play set

31. Lincoln Logs

32. 15 cent McDonald hamburgers

33. 5 cent packs of baseball cards... with that awful pink slab of bubble gum

34. Penny candy

35. 35 cent-a-gallon gasoline

OR IF YOU REMEMBER 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 *** 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!!!!



Keep the greasy side down.
Mike

 

[Andyfr]

Yes Mike, I've lived. Even growing up here in the UK I can relate to lots of things on the list. A few other things I can think of:

* Sales assistants who assisted the customer rather than talking to a collegue.

* When holding a door open for a female wasn't considered sexist.

* When Sunday Drivers only drove on Sundays.

 

[BWa]

Yes I can remember a lot of that list ......just hope it means I am an old ? kid , and not just getting old , always said I will never get old ........

 

[jimmoore]

Mike, you forgot =
RC Cola and Moon Pies
Double Bubble
Grapette
Orange Crush
kerosene lamps
rubboards
kick start washing machines
the first day that you had rural electric
hog killing the first cold frosty morning in the winter
rabbit gums (traps)
killing and cleaning a couple of fat chickens for supper
Stage Planks
I must be an old f@rt too!

jim

 

[MossRoad]

What about Chocola in the ice box?

<font color=green> MossRoad </font color=green>

 

[cowboydoc]

I remember most of those things but then again I grew up where we were 30 years behind the times for the most part. Always a simpler time it seems. I wonder if our kids will look back at the past with the same fond memories?

 

[AndyR]

Uhoh - I do remember most of that...

How about watching Modern Farmer around 5:30 am on Saturdays?

Andy in NH

 

[gws]

6. Home milk delivery in glass bottles, with cardboard stoppers.
Didnt have glass bottles but did have home delivery of dairy products.

10. Butch wax
YOu got me on this one. What is it?

12. Pea shooters.
Now a days you would be suspended from school, required to have counsoling if you had one.

14. 45 RPM Records
My Son saw an old LP on the wall at a restruant and called it a big CDROM!!!

15. Green Stamps
And with enough swiped from you mom's pile you could get that BB gun.

18. Mimeograph paper
Everyone take a deep breath and smell the memo paper.

27. Reel-to-reel tape recorders
The only way to record something.

28. Tinker toys
Now available at your friendly toy store for only $35/tube.

29. The Erector Set
Only $50 a box now a days.

30. The Fort Apache Play set
Red indians, blue cavary, red teepees and brown fort walls. Now made by chineese slaves -

31. Lincoln Logs
Also making a come back for $49.95 for a small set. They now have cheap plastic red chimneys and plastic green roofs at least they kept the logs wood.

32. 15 cent McDonald hamburgers
It was 10 cent white castle for me. (crystals for you southerns).

34. Penny candy
that actually cost a penny...



Gary.

 

[RichZ]

Wow! I remember all of that. Great memories!

And Modern Farmer!!! I think that's where I originally got the dream of owning a farm!!! I think that's where I also got my love of vintage tractors, only they weren't exactly vintage then!!!/w3tcompact/icons/laugh.gif

Rich

 

[HMD]

Or when homogenized milk meant shaking the jug up really good before pouring a glass... The sad part is I still shake the milk in the container before drinking it - my husband laughs at me but I think it is permenantly ingrained in my behaviour.

 

[GlueGuy]

I remember ALL of those! In fact, I remember during "gas wars" paying as little as 18 cents per gallon! /w3tcompact/icons/shocked.gif. Imagine having a 20 gallon tank filled for only $3.60. Sheesh.

The GlueGuy

 

[MikePA]

How about the little milk bottles with the metal caps that a teacher had to use a special device to puncture so you could get the straw in?

 

[TerryinMD]

Cigarette machines!! With a pack under 30 cents. I remember that some machines would have pennies in the cigarette packs. Now that is when a penny was worth something.

Terry

 

[pdxman]

Yeah, remember many of those things. How about TV and Radio that went off the air during the night? First thing that played in the morning at signon was the national anthem.

One issue with the top list - baseball card bubble gum...I personally LOVED the stuff and to this day can recognize that special smell.

 

[TWINKLE_TOES]

Fun thread Mike/w3tcompact/icons/smile.gif

add Oleo Margerine in the plastic bag with the dot you had to squeeze to turn it yellow

45 and 67 volt batteries for plate supply

CC camps.

AL

 

[Knight9]

<font color=blue>* Mistakes were corrected! by simply exclaiming "do over!" </font color=blue>

Umm....I thought that was just part of a sport called golf!!!

Kevin

 

[TonyC]

You hit the list of my memories pretty good, Mike. Don't forget Pixie Stix, wax lips and Mary Janes...and none of my friends were on Ridlin!

 

[scruffy]

I remember MOST of those, but some are area specific. Here in the local area, you can still buy the candy cigerettes!
Do you remember buying margerine that was white lard (looking) and had the little yellow color packets to add to it, so that it would look LIKE butter?
Sorry Al, missed your post! Have to admit, our butter came out a 'faucet' with four squeeze/pull spigots! (and the ol' 'fight over getting out of' butter churn that is)

<P ID="edit"><FONT SIZE=-1>Edited by scruffy on 11/15/01 05:03 PM (server time).</FONT></P>

 

[TonyC]

I don't remember the butter thing Scruffy. It must have been area related too. Thank goodness too...it sounds gross!!!!

 

[scruffy]

Tony, I really don't know on the 'gross' part, cause we made our own. I would've gladly give those 30+ milk cows to anybody that would take them, but higher authority than my own prevented that! /w3tcompact/icons/laugh.gif
I remember seeing that stuff in the stores, and asking my Dad (the higher authority) what the heck it was. Didn't look apetizing thats for sure! /w3tcompact/icons/tongue.gif