How many of these do you remember?
(keep track as you go along)
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 tableside 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. Phone 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 paper
19. Blue flashbulbs
20. Beanie and Cecil
21. Roller skate keys
22. Cork popguns
23. Drive-ins
24. the Studebaker
25. Wash tub wringers
If you remembered:
0-5—–you’re still young
6-10—you’re getting older
11-15–don’t tell your age
16-25–you’re older than dirt!
I remember all of them. Wasn’t too fond of Howdy Doody or Clara the clown. You didn’t mention Bozo either or those candy necklaces that made your neck turn colors after you chewed them off the elastic string. And what about Pez dispensers and getting a funnel cup of water complete with chipped ice and a metal ring to hold the funnel cup at the pharmacy counter seats. And while I am at it what about going to the drive in and those green mosquito coils that you light to keep bugs away and cracker jacks with a cheezy prize in them. Yep, I remember, Happy Mothers day!!