HOW MANY DO YOU REMEMBER???????

[krly]

Ah...the good ole days....Think I'm gonna cry......
krly

 

[420fiend]

HOW MANY DO YOU REMEMBER????

2. Wax Coke-shaped bottles with colored sugar water

Those wax sodas were called "Nickel Nips".

Also
2 for a penny candy.
10 cent comic books.
those strips of paper with candy dots on them.
Wax lips
Lik-M-Aid

(and a loaf of bread was a nickel and I had to walk 10 miles in the rain and snow to get to school... blah, blah, blah. Yeah, I'm an old fart!))

 

[kmk420kali]

I remember everything except #11--

 

[gwod]

The real Dr. Pepper...

The real Dr. Pepper...

Great thread yall' I used to liver in Ft.Worth Texas and they(Dr.Pepper)stiill make the original Dr.Pepper and Grape soda's and Orange too.And the will send it to you,(a little costly)I can't remember the website but I will look it up and post it.My wife every year for my birthday gets me a case of Dr.Pepper and a case of assorted others.Gwod

 

[Guest]

Got 100%

Oh well...

Could you get a whole Bubs Daddy into your mouth at once?

 

[gwod]

Bubs Daddy Gum..

Bubs Daddy Gum..

Yes,I could get a whole bubsdaddy stick in my mouth at once,but man,my jaws were sore from chewing that thing!Ah! The memories!..he..he..gwod

 

[SeldomSeenSmith]

Old as dirt, yeah but I already knew that.
My first 45 was dizzy by tommy roe.

One of my buds reminded my a few days ago that we were just a few years from being eligible for the aarp. Oh shit!

 

[Bud Meister]

Ohhhhh Nooooooo I remember almost all of them. LOL

Do y'all remember the green dinasaur soap they used to sell or give away at the old Sinclare Gas Stations?

 

[flubnutz]

Johnny Quest, Soupy Sales, wrestling with Dick the Bruiser, the Shiek; Thunderbirds, Fireball XL5; collecting glass pop bottles to return & get stuff at the variety store; steel pipe monkey bars held in place with concrete footings; singing "God Save the Queen" and saying the Lord's Prayer every morning at school; the Red Ensign; sniffin the mimeographs; the introduction of mini skirts, see-through blouses; the breakup of the Beatles; Whole Lotta Love and Mississippi Queen on a tube AM radio; rollin joints of schwag with 2 papers, always; Chuck Taylors; baggy pants; my first pinner of Maui Wowie; 25 cent draft; ahh, memories.

 

[OldDeadHead]

Hey, I scored 100% on this memory test. Is there a prize?
I can't remember..............
Seems like a less complicated world back then.
My favorite was the bottles in the soda machine. Growing up in the desert, we used to go to the bottling plant and pay 5 cents for a coke in a glass bottle. Man that was cool.
Did anyone mention gas wars & green stamps?
Cheapest gas I ever bought - 5 cents a gallon(during a 3 week gas war, two stations on one corner), with stamps.
Great thread, thanks for the memories!

 

[Wait...What?]

funny foam
spinwelder
model car kits made of metal
model kits with no pre-made pieces, just some balsa wood
ditto ink
carbon paper
hard copy terminals printing on green bar paper, with acoustic coupler modems (at 110 baud, half duplex)
DEC PDP-8
the little adapter they sold so you could put a regular gas nozzle in your unleaded gas fuel filler neck
gas rationing/price wars/a gas station on every corner/gas lines
18% prime lending rate
the nightly Viet Nam body count
vertibird
cable tv 'remote control' that was still tethered to the tv
black and white tv
tv that you actually had to get up and touch to change the channel
shure cartridges for your phono
telephones you leased from the one phone company PROPERTY OF BELL SYSTEM
party lines
carburetors
distributors
lawnmowers without safety devices
olympia
hamm's
meister brau
toys with small parts you could choke on
toys that shoot things
playing cowboys and indians
steel playground equipment on asphalt (especially the big tower with the chain ladder)
kick the can
ghost in the graveyard
leaving the house as a child, at 10am on a saturday and not returning until 9pm, and nobody thinking anything of it.

 

[Guest]

HOW MANY DO YOU REMEMBER????
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 table side 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 stencils

19. Blue flashbulbs

20. Beanie and Cecil

21. Roller skate keys

22. Cork popguns

23. Drive-ins

24. Studebakers

25. Wash tub wringers

26. Kazoos

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!

You gotta be super high to post that!

 

[herb weedmen]

i remember them all as well.
as i sit and take a hit to remember all those things,,cough,gag,choke, oops i think i just pooped myslf..i guess i keep my soil in my pants.....i grow hydro anyways.



milk deliverd in glass bottles..we used to chase the milk man down and he would always throw us kids a couple chocolate milks..

herb weedmen

 

[Pinball Wizard]

Oh my, I remember those and many, many more. How about . . .

Fleers bubble gum

Toni home permanents

3-cent stamps

and I bet you don't remember . . .

rationing stamps

...I always wanted to grow up...and be able to buy Air Mail stamps....

 

[HempHut]

Ooh, I scored 16. Hehe, I'm older than dirt.

How about test patterns when t.v. was "done" for the day?

Or "tuning in" t.v. stations via an aerial either on top of the t.v. or erected on a pole outside the house (used a circular dial thingy to rotate the aerial)?