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hissy

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If you don't remember this, you're too young anyway.

This is a time we can feel good about remembering so much!

I am sharing this with you today because it ends with a "double dog dare" to pass it on.

Always remember that the perfect age is somewhere between
old enough to know better and young enough not to care.

How many do you remember?
1. Candy cigarettes.
2. Wax coke-shaped bottles with colored sugar water inside.
3. Soda pop machines that dispensed glass bottles.
4. Coffee shops with tableside juke boxes.
5. Blackjack, Clove and Teaberry chewing gum.
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, (Drexel-5505).
12. Peashooters.
13. Howdy.
14. 45-RPM Records.
15. Green Stamps.
16. Hi-fi's.
17. Metal ice cube trays-with levers.
18. Mimeograph paper.
19. Blue flash Bulbs.
20. Beanie and Cecil.
21. Roller skate keys.
22. Cork pop guns.
23. Drive ins.
24. Studebakers.
25. Wash tub wringers.
26. The Fuller Brush man.
27. Reel-to-reel tape recorders.
28. Tinkertoys.
29. The Erector Set.
30. The Fort Apache Playset.
31. Lincoln Logs.
32. 15 cent McDonald hamburgers.
33. 5 cent packs of baseball cards...with that awful pink slab of bubblegum.
34. Penny candy.
35. 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!"
"Race issue" meant arguing about who ran the fastest.
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 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 or all of these, then you have lived!!!!

Pass this on to anyone who may need a break from their "grown up life"....

I double dog dare ya!
 

melissa

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Heres the ones I remember-

Candy cigarettes
45-RPM Records
Blue flash Bulbs

yep...thats it :laughing: Welllll I was born in the late 70s after all
 

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I remember most of those and here"s another one: "crown" style bottle caps, with cork liners. You needed an opener for them.
 

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I remember almost all of those! The candy cigarets that I liked best were the licorice ones. They didn't have a "light" on the end, but you could suck your milk up with them or blow bubbles in it. I remember celebrity cutouts were my favorite thing to play with, and books reminiscent of Nancy Drew with young movie stars as the heros. Did anyone step on empty Lucky Strike Tobacco packs, and say,"1 2 3, good luck to me!"?
Does anyone remember small stores with a huge penny candy selection under glass? If you had a quarter, you could take forever to decide what you wanted, and the poor lady behind the counter never seemed to get upset! I used to change my mind quite a bit, but not if they had licorice pipes, my very favorite! I'm still looking for them.
 

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Here are the ones I remember



1. Candy cigarettes.
2. Wax coke-shaped bottles with colored sugar water inside.
14. 45-RPM Records.
16. Hi-fi's.
17. Metal ice cube trays-with levers.
19. Blue flash Bulbs.
22. Cork pop guns.
23. Drive-ins.
28. Tinkertoys.
31. Lincoln Logs.
33. 5 cent packs of baseball cards...with that awful pink slab of bubblegum. (25 cents is what I remember with the gum)
34. Penny candy.
 
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