Do you remember.....

[24thMED]

1. Blackjack chewing gum
2. Wax Coke-shaped bottles with colored sugar water
3. Candy cigarettes
4. Soda pop machines that dispensed bottles
5. Coffee shops with tableside jukeboxes
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 (Olive - 6933)
12. Peashooters
13. Howdy Doody
14. 45 RPM records
15. S&H Green Stamps
16. Hi-fi's
17. Metal ice trays with levers.
18. Mimeograph paper
19. Blue flashbulbs
20. Beanie and Cecil
21. Roller skate keys
22. Cork popguns
23. Drive-ins
24. Studebakers
25. Wash tub wringers

If you remembered 0-5 You're still young
If you remembered 6-10 You are getting older
If you remembered 11-15 Don't tell your age
If you remembered 16-25 You're older than dirt!

[Clydetz]

I remember every single one of those... but I'm young at heart!

[Umberto]

Yes i remember all those new-fangled things.

Doesn't mean that young ladies, like LMD for example, wouldn't still find me fascinating.

Butch wax! For that flat-top.

pea-shooters----cheap fun!

Now newsreels at the movies, that was a bit before my time.

Got my first knife/axe set w/ Green Stamps. or was it Plaid Stamps?

Wash tub wringers, well my grandmother had one maybe.

Blackjack Gum, not sure about that one.

Ah the smell of the mimeograph....

Seems like I remember someone saying i looked a lot like our milkman....

[24thMED]

Newsreels and phone numbers that begin with a name were a bit before me but I remember everything else. My grandmother did have a wringer washer and a party line(it was fun to listen). Much simpler times.... miss it, I do.

[txkaratedude]

I don't remember none of those things, but then I also don't remember where I laid my car keys, or what I had for breakfast.

[Rozz]

Drive-ins (saw E.T. in a drive in)

Blue flashbulbs (Always thought those were wierd lookin')

45 RPM records (Had an Elvis record)

Party lines (My Older Brothers, could'nt get em off the phone, Mom was pissed)

Candy cigarettes (Who did'nt pretend?)





5 huh?

Barley still young, but getting up there!

[Big John aka Mod 12]

Of course I remember all of those things. You can still get Blackjack, Beeman's, and Clove Gum through the Vermont Country Store. Butch Wax is still around but under a different name. The was a web site I saw awhile back. There are still a couple of drive in restaurants around here and a big drive in movie theatre up in Auburn. I saw candy cigarettes in a store in Ohio two summers ago.

[TPyke]

I remember blackjack gum! We use to chew it and place it over ourr top front teeth and it looked like we had no teeth!

candy cigarettes was too easy though....my son got a shitload of those on halloween. He likes to pretend to take a haul, pretend to caugh up a lung and say "like Grandma!".

[MJ]

I remeber 4 of them.....

-Candy Ciggies
-Wax coke shaped/sugar water candy- :jdvomit: I ate one once as a kid and threw up, I still to this day don't like those things.
-Drive-ins (still go to those!)
-45RPM Storybooks on record!!! I used to love those!!! that ladys voice that would say *turn the page now*

[e3ck]

I remember 14, that's all I need to say:soupy:

[IWantThatKnife]

I remember all of them, including these:

The Pledge of Allegience in school
.05 cent cokes in the 6-7/8 ounce bottles that had the bottler's city and state on the bottom - hey here's a coke bottle from Los Angeles (I lived in small town Ohio)
Duck and cover
Casey Jones
The Adventures of Rin Tin Tin (YO RINNY)
Electronic Tube TV Repairs
Tax Stamps (sales tax)
farmers driving a horse and wagon selling their fresh produce in the neighbor hoods
Sputnik
real penny candy
5 cent candy bars; Heath Bars were a dime
live TV - no reruns

etc.

[Matches]

I remember that stuff, but we didn't have a party line. There was also a popular tv show (early 60's) about skydiving...every kid in my neighborhood had a parachute with a little plastic figure attached...we'd spend hours chucking those in the air.:spin:

[zzjake]

I remember that stuff, but we didn't have a party line. There was also a popular tv show (early 60's) about skydiving...every kid in my neighborhood had a parachute with a little plastic figure attached...we'd spend hours chucking those in the air.:spin:

RIPCORD!

[Matches]

RIPCORD!

Thanks zzjake, I can picture the actor too but don't remember his name...I should google it.:thefinger

[Umberto]

Ripcord!!!

Oh yeah.

[Matches]

Larry Pennell (also played Dash Riprock on Beverly Hillbillies) is the actor I remember from Ripcord.:ronl:

[Semper708]

:semper: I remember all of those things. I also remember losing my virginity at the "Drive Inn", couldn't see a darn thing because of the windows being so fogged...............:firedevil 998........closer

[ded i]

I remember all that stuff - plus :

... when a peacock appeared on the tv screen if the following program was going to be in color ...

... When elementary and high schools didn't allow girls to wear trousers ...

... my father taking us out to watch Sputnik travel across the night sky ...

When our courthouse had "colored" & "white" drinking fountains ...

[Umberto]

I remember all that stuff - plus :

... when a peacock appeared on the tv screen if the following program was going to be in color ...

... When elementary and high schools didn't allow girls to wear trousers ...

... my father taking us out to watch Sputnik travel across the night sky ...

When our courthouse had "colored" & "white" drinking fountains ...

Yep, yep, and yep.

[Guillermo]

I like panty lines, oh party lines. Oh, the eyes are going as well.

[24thMED]

Yep, yep, and yep.

me too.....

[xrayzebra]

all but newsreels before movies, older than dirt

[Mike Stewart]

All 25 for me and all the ones Deadeye added.

I'm not old--I'm just gettin' Started.

Mike

[ded i]

There was no "middle school" - after 6th grade you went to high school ...

the Interstate system wasn't built ...

If you had canned food it was something you did yourself

- no microwave -

milk didn't last 3 weeks :jdvomit:

Wood floors had to be hand waxed - no plastic finishes

Cakes and pies didn't come out of a box

whipping cream was skimmed off the top of fresh milk ...

fresh churned butter!

standard transmissions only - in cars :yesman: and cars were built like tanks

[Komodo]

13. Howdy Doody
Not only do I remember Howdy Doody, I was ON it once.
:kneel:

My mother dragged me to several different shows, Bozo the Clown, Soupy Sales, Wonderama, and Capt Jack. Guess she thought I'd be "discovered" and become a superstar. Guess she was wrong! :bobert: :bobert: :bobert:

[JIMMY_MAC]

Shit, I must be older than dirt.....

How old is dirt anyway?????

Jimbo

[jersey89yj]

[QUOTE=Deadeye Dick;208163]I remember all that stuff - plus :


... my father taking us out to watch Spufnik travel across the night sky ...


I did not know Spufnik could fly.

and yes... I remember all of those things.

[mack1]

Larry Pennell (also played Dash Riprock on Beverly Hillbillies) is the actor I remember from Ripcord.:ronl:

There's also the guy that played "Festus" on Gunsmoke that was on Ripcord. Yeah, I remember most of that stuff, including the extras listed after. God I'm fuckin' OLD!!!:ssad: :ssad: :ssad: How the fuck did that happen???

[Big John aka Mod 12]

We used to have a party line, growing up in Cresco. It used to drive my mother nuts because the Bohemie neighbor ladies would listen in and then ask questions in the middle of a conversation. I can remember the big deal it was to get a dial phone and wished I had one now. I keep looking for one at garage sales. I used to go out behind the telephone company where they had a huge pile of old wooden phones and we'd break open the boxes to get the horse shoe magnets in them. They had another pile of insulators and when we were in high school, would get a bushel basket of them and drive down the road throwing them at people's mailboxes. I remember when telephone numbers started with a word.... Give me EMpire 20449, please.... that was my Grandmother's number in Cedar Rapids.