Remember
ARE YOU OLD ENOUGH TO REMEMBER...
- Candy cigarettes
- Wax coke-shaped bottles with colored sugar water inside.
- Soda pop machines that dispensed glass bottles.
- Coffee shops with table side juke boxes
- Home milk delivery in glass bottles.
- Party lines.
- Newsreels before the movie.
- P.F. Flyers
- Butch wax
- Telephone numbers with a word prefix ...(Drexel-5505)
- Pea shooters.
- Howdy Doody
- 45 RPM Records
- Green Stamps
- Hi-fi's
- Metal ice cube trays-with levers
- Mimeograph paper
- Blue Flash Bulbs
- Beanie and Cecil
- Roller skate keys
- Cork pop guns
- Drive ins
- Studebakers
- Wash tub wringers
- The Fuller Brush man
- Reel-to-reel tape recorders
- Tinker toys
- The Erector Set
- 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
AND A TIME WHEN....
- Decisions were made by going "eeny-meeny-miney-mo."
- Mistakes were corrected! by simply exclaiming "do over!"
- 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 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
of these, then you have LIVED!!!!