Nostalgia. Do You Remember...?

1. Blackjack chewing gum
   
   
2. Wax Coke-shaped candy with colored sugar water
   
   

To Remember...

3. Candy cigarettes
   
   
4. Coffee shops or diners with tableside juke boxes
   
   
5. Party lines
   
   
6. Newsreels before the movie
   
   
7. P.F. Flyers
   
   
8. Butch wax
   
   
9. Telephone numbers with a word prefix (COlonial - 6933)
   
   
10. Pea Shooters
    
    
11. Howdy Doody
    
    
12. 45 RPM records
    
    
13. S&H Green Stamps
    
    
14. Hi-Fi's
    
    
15. Metal ice trays with a lever
    
    
16. Mimeograph paper
    
    
17. Carbon copies
    
    
18. Blue flashbulbs
    
    
19. Packards
    
    
20. Roller skate keys
    
    
21. Cork popguns
    
    
22. Drive-ins
    
    
23. Studebakers
    
    
24. Wash tub wringers
    
    
25. Hop Scotch
    
    
26. Ring Around the Rosie
    
    
27. Hot potato
    
    
28. London Bridge
    
    
29. Red Rover, Red Rover
    
    
30. Red light, Green light
    
    
31. Mother May I ?
    
    
32. Playing dodge ball and kick ball until the streetlights came on
    
    
33. Jump rope
    
    
34. You're IT!!
    
    
35. Kick the Can
    
    
36. Duck, duck, GOOSE!!!
    
    
37. Getting an ice cream from the Good Humor Man
    
    
38. Cereal boxes with prizes at the bottom
    
    
39. Cracker Jacks with the same thing
    
    
40. Parents stood on the porch and whistled or yelled for you to come home
    
    
41. No air conditioning
    
    
42. Hula Hoops
    
    
43. Fat Albert, Tom & Jerry, Pink Panther, Road Runner, Richochet Rabbit, Heckle & Jeckle
    
    
44. Schoolhouse Rock
    
    
45. Saturday movies for 12 cents with HopAlong Cassidy
    
    
46. Watching Sunday morning oldies (Three Stooges, Abbott & Costello, Tarzan, Shirley Temple OR WONDERAMA!!)
    
    
47. Being sent to the principal's office was nothing compared to what awaited you when you got home
    
    
48. A quarter seemed like a fair allowance
    
    
49. Kool-Aid was the drink of the summer
    
    
50. Any parent could discipline any kid, or feed him, or use him to carry in the groceries...and nobody, not even the kid, thought anything thing of it
    
    
51. Almost everyone's mother was at home when the kids got there
    
    
52. A 13" black and white television in your room meant you were RICH
    
    
53. Rainy days at school meant playing "Hangman" or "Heads Up 7-UP" in the classroom
    
    
54. "Work" meant doing the dishes or taking out the garbage
    
    
55. "Race issues" meant arguing about who could run the fastest
    
    
56. Money issues were handled by the kid who was the banker in "monopoly"
    
    
57. Being old meant anyone over 20
    
    
58. I double-dog-dare you
    
    
59. Decisions were made by going "eeny-meeny-miney-mo"
    
    
60. Catching fireflies for the whole evening and not getting tired of it
    
    
61. Homemade ice cream from a hand cranked ice cream maker
    
    
62. Water balloons were the ultimate weapon
    
    

And If You're Really Old

63. Horses delivering milk
    
    
64. Tipping over the outhouse on Halloween
    
    
65. Kids missing a lot of school because of rheumatic fever, scarlet fever, pneumonia, mastoiditis (draining ears), polio and a host of other diseases before we had antibiotics
    
    
66. Extra, Extra! Read all about it!  (like in 1939 when WWII started)
    
    
67. CCC, PWA, WPA and a bunch of other Federal programs
    
    
68. Fireside chats form FDR
    
    
69. Tractors with huge iron lugs that would tear up farm roads
    
    
70. The steam train coming to town and the race to see if you could beat it, while trying to avoid the black cinders from the smoke that would fall on your Sunday School white shirt
    
    
71. The local Civil War vets
    
    
72. Memorial Day parades with the WWI veterans marching in their puttees
    
    
73. Outdoor silent movies
    
    
74. Black face minstrel shows

If you remembered 0-20 = You're still young
If you remembered 21-40 = You are getting older
If you remembered 41-60 = Don't tell your age
If you remembered 61-74 = You're older than dirt!

 

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