What began as a simple conversation on the Breakfast Club about things we grew up with turned in to a wonderful list of things we remember that our kids won’t likely see. Here’s the list…ENJOY!!!
45’s and 78’s
Drive-In Movie Theatres
Manuel Typewriters
Telegrams
Roller Skates with Keys
Rotary Telephones
Live Operators that asked “What Number Please?”
Party Lines
Ice Boxes and the Ice Man who came with blocks of ice on his wagon
Regular Gasoline
Drug Stores with Soda Fountains
Boyfriends Class Ring around your neck
Hot Rodding on 16th St.
Doctors who make house calls
Coal Stoves
Writing a check
Butter Churn
Margarine in a plastic bag with yellow color tab
Dancing Cigarette boxes and “Call for Phillip Morris”
TV’s with no Remote
Beanie Caps
Berma Shave Billboards
Eight Tracks
Fender Skirts
Suicide Knobs
Carbon Paper
Theatre Newsreels
Combing your hair into a ducktail
Annie-Annie Over and other childhood OUTDOOR games
Rumble Seats
Washboards
American Bandstand
Church key bottle and can openers
Coon Skin Caps
Saddle Shoes and Poodle Skirts
Big Chief Pads
Drinking out of the Garden Hose
Sunday Drives
Playing Cowboys and Indians
Trading Comic Books
Full Service Gas Stations with Free Gifts
Chemistry Sets
Erector Sets
S&H Green Stamps
Howdy Doody with Buffalo Bob
Movie serials for ten cents
Tiddly Winks
White Buck Shoes with Powder Puff bags for the scuffs
Slide Rule
V-Mail
Gifts in boxes of detergent
Cap Guns
Real Cash Registers with numbers you punched
Elevator attendant
TV Test Pattern
Wood burning set
Coffee Percolators
Car window mounted air conditioner
Metal ice cube trays
Star Spangled Banner at start of TV broadcast day
Wringer Washing Machines
Tang and Space Food Sticks
Drivers Side Vent Windows
Dimmer switch on the floorboard
Backyard Incinerators
Wax Bottles filled with soda
Kick The Can
Mimeograph Machine
Plastic pin-on Wings on Airplanes
Folding Yardsticks
Dickies
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