[Janet]

How many of these do you remember?


Candy cigarettes Use to buy them in a neighborhood store with a wooden floor and they were 5 cents.

Wax Coke-shaped bottles with colored sugar water inside That store had those too, they were in the penny jar

Soda pop machines that dispensed glass bottles Yes, I bought many

Coffee shops with tableside jukeboxes Our old Woolworths had a little diner in it and the little juke boxes at the table

Black Jack, Clove, and Beemans chewing gum Those I don't remember

Home milk delivery in glass bottles with cardboard stoppers Yes, we had a metal container for the milkman to put the bottles w/cardboard stoppers and then they went to foil. Our milkman was soooo cute and his name was Larry.

Newsreels before the movie You bet at the downtown Roxy Theater

P.F. Flyers Remember them, but don't think I had any

Telephone numbers with a word prefix...(Raymond 4-601). Before my time, I think, but we did have a party-line

Party lines Yes

Peashooters Yes all us kids had them, even when we weren't suppose to..Ha

Howdy Doody Oh boy, how fun it was to watch. I had a marianette of Howdy Doody

45 RPM records/78 RPM, too I still have some and the 33 rpms but know player

Green Stamps I do remember them, but mom saved the "Top Value" stamps.

Hi-Fi's Yup!

Metal ice cubes trays with levers Yes, we have some tucked away

Mimeograph paper When I was in grade school, I had to use an old mimeograph machine...talk about messy if you weren't careful. Just keep cranking the machine to make the copies.

Beanie and Cecil Yes, boy I'm feeling older by the minute

Roller-skate keys Yes and our skates had wooden wheels

Cork pop guns loved those little things, I got in trouble once for shooting mom in the butt and scareing her.

Drive ins Still have one outside of town

Studebakers OMG, we had a green one that was shaped like a torpedo

Washtub wringers we didn't have one of those, mom used a washboard in the sink until we could afford a washer and then just the washer, she hung the clothes outside.

The Fuller Brush Man Yea, but I forget what other stuff he sold too

Reel-To-Reel tape recorders I had a toy one that me and my grade school friend would use to "interview" each other

Tinkertoys Still have them in mom's attic

Erector Sets Didn't have those, brothers weren't into building things

The Fort Apache Play Set Nope

Lincoln Logs Still in mom's attic

15 cent McDonald hamburgers No but I remember a 50 cent Burger Chef hamburger

5 cent packs of baseball cards -with that awful pink slab of bubble gum Yes wasn't that stuff hard and it cracked. My brothers collect those.

Penny candy lots of it at the neighborhood store

35 cent a gallon gasoline I remember when I rode my bike to get a gallon of gas to mow the yard and it cost 25 cents, but about threw a gasket when they started charging tax for it and it cost 26 cents

Jiffy Pop popcorn Yup

Do you remember a time when...

Decisions were made by going "eeny-meeny-miney-moe"?

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 commercials 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?

Baseball cards in the spokes transformed any bike into a motorcycle?

Taking drugs meant orange-flavored chewable aspirin?

Water balloons were the ultimate weapon?

oh yes oh yes oh yes....I remember them all!!!!!