Today I was thinking about how much has changed since I was growing up.
So I decided to make a list. Which got sort of long.
Take a big swig of Geritol
and
let's go back
waaay Back
Do You Remember?
1. Pedal Cars
2. S&H Green Stamps
3. Tether Ball
4. Hi Fi Consoles
5. Stick Ball
6. Romper Room
7. Little Red Sled
8. Inner Tubes in Tires
9. Hop Scotch
10. Milk Men
11. Party Line phones
12. Records -
33 1/3 rpm. 45's & 78's
13. Popcorn Balls
14. Slide Rules
15. The Five & Dime Store
16. Paper Straws
17. Paper Dolls
18. Charlie the Tuna
19. Jade East, English Leather, Aqua Velvet
20. Maypo Cereal
21. Swag Lamps
22. Dippity Do
23. Prell & Breck Shampoo
24. Atari
25. Dobie Gillis
26. Surfside 6
27. Lifebouy Soap
28. Little Lu Lu Cartoons
29. Ben Casey
30. Ice Cube Trays with handles
30. The Big Wheel
31. Flipper
32. Slime
33. Acid Washed Jeans
34. The Amazing Kreskin
35. P.F. Flyers
36. Schwinn & Sting Ray Bikes
37. The Corvair
38. Rabbit Ears (not the animal)
39. Roller Skates with keys
40. The Clothes lIne
41. Bubble Gum Cards
42. Dreamsicles & Fudgesicles
43. Shakey's
44. Ring Dings
45. Candy Necklace & Little Dots
46. Fizzies
47. Variety Pack Cereals
48. Nehi & a Moon Pie
49. Red Wax lips
50. Candy Cigarettes
How many do you remember?
hint: If you're under 40, you might have to ask your mommy
Did I leave anything out?
I'm Just Sayin
4 comments:
omg , I got a brand new pair of roller skates, you got a brand new key? Thanks for the trip down memory lane. I would say I knew most of them, so I must be over 40...
I remember paper dolls, and fudgesicles and slide rules! I had to google the rest.
Poor Ting, you missed out on some good times LOL
Some of these I DO remember. :)
1. S&H green stamps - my grandma had books of them in the drawer. I never knew what they were for until I became an adult.
2. Grandma also had a hi fi console in the basement.
3. I loved Romper Room and always wondered why Miss Sally didn't see ME when she did that funny wand thing.
4. We did the hop scotch layout in chalk in the alley behind grandma's house but didn't really know how to play.
5. I remember 45's and the albums. What size are albums?
6. We had a couple of five and dimes I think. Woolworth's and Kresge's.
7. I remember having paper dolls.
8. I remember Charlie the Tuna.
9. Aqua Velvet (Didn't they have a commercial that went "All my men wear Aqua Velvet or they wear nothing at all"?)
10. Dippity Do
11. Prell & Breck Shampoo
12. Atari though I never played
13. Lifebouy Soap
14. ice cube trays with handles! - at grandma's house of course. I miss those. :)
15. Big wheels though I never had one
16. Hated Slime!
17. Hated the acid washed jeans too.
18. Rabbit ears :)
19. Roller skates with keys :)
20. Still love clothes lines.
21. Dreamsicles were my faves. :)
22. We loved Shakey's in high school. (I think we still have one down here.)
28. Never liked the candy necklaces or the little dots but I remember them both.
29. I remember the variety pack cereals. (They don't make those any more??)
30. The red wax lips never did taste like they looked. (Yuck! LOL)
31. The candy cigarettes... I bet some of my friends who smoke today got started with those things.
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