I remember.....

[unsure]

Remember the Pet Rock...yeah my idea which was stolen.

Ok maybe not my idea exactly. I thought of the "Sex Stone". My idea was to get stones from the quarry and paint sex stone on one side and when you filpped it over it would say "Just a F#&%ing Rock"...kinda the same thing.

 

[nerak]

Black and White Poloroid Swinger Camera! I was so proud to get one! Still have some pics!

Taco Bell charged .25 for anything on the menu.

Water cooled air conditioners!

Wearing black and white oxfords with my roller skates!

Watching the news when Lee Harvey Oswald as was shot.

My first little portable reel to reel tape recorder.

 

[boilednuts]

I remember my dad having a '52 Chevy that used a roll of toilet paper as an oil filter. Remember when people trusted govt (pre - Johnson) and the USS Arizona had no memorial. Surfboards over 9 ft long, "mosquito trucks" that used DDT to kill dem skeeters, milk home delivery, ice delivery for the non electrical fridge (ice box), 5 digit phone numbers, no more than 2 lanes in either direction, 20 cent movies (double feature w/ news and toons), 3 sticks of gum for a penny, kids playing outside, Beatle Boots, more fish than fishermen, and Santa Claus was too young to shave

 

[house mouse]

Baby oil and Iodine mixtures for tanning.

Gunne Sax dresses

 

[ancient puffer]

7 p.m. ONE night a week, laying on the floor in front of the waist high tube radio to LISTEN to the Lone Ranger. Small drawstring bags full of marbles to take to school, and if you were lucky, one or two "cat's eye" marbles. Fulsom's grocery store, where there was a big cast iron heating stove the "old guys" used to crowd around in winter to play checkers (with spittoon, of course). 5 cent cokes. 18 cent packs of cigarettes with no filter, outside wells with genuine hand operated pumps to get your water.

 

[bushmaster]

I remember the days before designer dogfood. The rich dogs ate Alpo.

 

[_more_]

Woolworths 5 and 10 cents store!

 

[debzcf]

Playing Jax for hours.

 

[house mouse]

Cokes with the cherry syrup squirted in at the soda fountain.

 

[unsure]

Clean gas station bathrooms....Service Stations they were called!!

 

[JC Okie]

Hula hoops -- when they first came out (I know they're still around)

 

[bushmaster]

Clean gas station bathrooms....Service Stations they were called!!

I think they had guys come out and pump the gas right into your car, didn't they? Imagine that.

 

[unsure]

Heck I remember sending Rob a PM to order a REO.

 

[house mouse]

Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom and Walt Disney movies every Sunday night.

 

[JC Okie]

$9.00/credit hour college tuition - at Okla. State. Univ. in the 60s

 

[unsure]

I think they had guys come out and pump the gas right into your car, didn't they? Imagine that.

I remember jumping up and down on the hose to ring the bell to get those guys to come out...then run like hell.

 

[FeistyAlice]

I remember those soda machines with glass bottles. The gas station had one where the top of the vending machine flipped up and the bottles were standing up in metal slots. You put your dime in and that allowed the bottle to slide to the opening and then lift it out. Enterprising young boys equiped with a bottle opener and a straw and covered by the darkness of night could open the lid, pop off a cap then use the straw to suck up the Nehi or Pepsi. Don't ask me how I know this.

My mother had on of those in her beauty shop. We were allowed only one cola a day but when the not most usual friends were over we would show off with bottle opener and straws. My Mom was pretty permissive so I don't remember getting into serious trouble. AND the cokes were five cents.

Great thread.

Feisty Alice

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[FeistyAlice]

The Post Office had a stand with big glass jars filled with peanuts in bags and such. Blocking on cola machine but big treat coming in from route was coke and dumping peanuts into coke.

Feisty Alice

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[boilednuts]

Davy Crockett ".... hat"
~Born on the mountaintop in Tennessee
Killed a bear when he was only 3~

Zorro mask and sword
~Out of the night
when the full moon is bright
Rides the horseman known as Zorro~

Boris Karloff was my movie idol

Jimmy Durante was hilarious

Bing was king

 

[bushmaster]

Lawrence Welk