09-19-2006, 11:08 AM | #1 |
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How Many do you remember?
Careful, you'll show your age!!! I remember almost all of them!!!
How many of these do you remember? Candy cigarettes Wax Coke-shaped bottles with colored sugar water inside Soda pop machines that dispensed glass bottles Coffee shops with tableside jukeboxes Black Jack, Clove, and Beemans chewing gum Home milk delivery in glass bottles with cardboard stoppers Newsreels before the movie P.F. Flyers Telephone numbers with a word prefix...(Raymond 4-601). Party lines Peashooters Howdy Doody 45 RPM records/78 RPM, too Green Stamps Hi-Fi's Metal ice cubes trays with levers Mimeograph paper Beanie and Cecil Roller-skate keys Cork pop guns Drive ins Studebakers Washtub wringers The Fuller Brush Man Reel-To-Reel tape recorders Tinkertoys Erector Sets The Fort Apache Play Set Lincoln Logs 15 cent McDonald hamburgers 5 cent packs of baseball cards -with that awful pink slab of bubble gum Penny candy 35 cent a gallon gasoline Jiffy Pop popcorn 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?
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09-19-2006, 11:16 AM | #2 |
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Oh my...I had to pause and reflect for a moment reading all these. I miss those days on many of the items I am familiar with.
Also....Just last week I used water balloons as weapons of choice. LMAO!!!! (Thanks to Mandy on this one!!)
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09-19-2006, 11:23 AM | #3 |
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Well, I'm only 22 (23 in a month) and I remember a lot of those. But, they are from when I was VEEEEEERY young...like under 10 years old. Ahhhhhh, the good ole' days.
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09-19-2006, 11:27 AM | #4 |
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yep i know a few to lol
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09-19-2006, 11:41 AM | #5 |
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I think I know what one of those were...the ice cube trays with the levers!!! LOL!!!
I am 28, and I haven't heard of 99.5% of the above!!!!!!!
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09-19-2006, 03:35 PM | #6 |
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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!!!!!
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09-19-2006, 03:49 PM | #7 |
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Wow Janet i bet you have a lot of great memories that stuff seemed like it was a lot of fun!
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09-19-2006, 03:58 PM | #8 |
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It was, and we still have some of the things in my mothers' attic. I use to love going to that neighborhood store and buy the parafene (sp) lips and orange harmonica. The store had a wooden floor and the candy counter looked a lot like the meat counters do today only they had shelves in them. Then there were wooden benches in front of them with all the penny candy in different jars. Oh life was so fun!!!!
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09-19-2006, 06:18 PM | #9 |
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I remember not quite half, but pretty close!
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09-19-2006, 07:55 PM | #10 |
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I'm 37 and have a knowledge of most of these. Although I may not have actually experienced all that I have a knowledge of.
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