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 .... (Drexel-5505 Peashooters Howdy Doody 45 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 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 When Elvis Presley first appeared on the Ed Sullivan show When the Beatles arrived When the Barbie doll hit the scene
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!!!