Trips down memory lane

[silverthorne]

Ganked from Indy



Candy cigarettes

Wax coke-shaped bottles with colored sugar water inside

Soda pop machines that dispensed glass bottles

Hoola hoop contests

Buying milk from a vending machine for a quarter, with your penny change taped to the side

Coffee shops with tableside juke boxes

Blackjack, Clove and Teaberry chewing gum

Home milk delivery in glass bottles, with cardboard stoppers

Party lines

Newsreels before the movie

P. F. Flyers

Butch wax

Telephone numbers with a word prefix

Peashooters

Howdy Doody

45/78 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--New Jersey. Need I say more?

Studebakers

Wash Tub wringers

The Fuller Brush man

Reel-to-reel tape recorders

Phonographs

The "twist", "mashed potatoes", and "funky-chicken"

Tinkertoys

The Erector Set

The Fort Apache Playset

Lincoln Logs

15 cent McDonald hamburgers & 10 cent fries

5 cent packs of baseball cards..... with that slab of pink bubblegum

penny candy

35 cent-a-gallon gasoline

When the first man walked on the moon--I was born right smack dab in the middle of this! Go me!

When Elvis Presley first appeared on the Ed Sullivan show

When the Beatles arrived

When the Barbie doll hit the scene

Detergent boxes with a free towel inside

Cap guns with red strips of black powder dots

View-Master 3-D Stereo Viewers

Sale Searchlights - They would light up the night sky to announce a big sale going on at places like Montgomery Wards.

Brylcreem hair cream – “A Little Dab'll Do Ya”, at least until we all went to “the dry look”.

The Huntley–Brinkley Report on NBC - Featuring Chet Huntley and David Brinkley.

TV stations signing off overnight – Around 1:00am they would show some stock footage of a flag rippling in the wind with the national anthem playing in the background, then switch over to a test pattern all night until they resumed their broadcast day with "The Farm Report" around 6:00am.

Big button remotes - they didn't work like today's. If you misplaced your remote control, you could jingle your bracelets or your keys and the TV would turn on and/or change channel.


Weird thing is, I think I remember some things Indy doesn't--likely because of the stuff my grandparents kept around their house. ^^

Comments

[paradisacorbasi.livejournal.com]

Entirely possible. My great grandmother and grandmother both didn't live very far into my childhood, so I didn't get exposed to most of their belongings.

I'm surprised the list didn't also have great big heavy dial phones. Because those are considered real old school now too. Phones with dials are considered novelties now, and are not heavy enough to use as a weapon if someone comes into your house.