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[phosfate]

The old fart meme, from cocoajava.



Bold the ones you remember:

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 Paper cartons here.
Party lines
Newsreels before the movie -- No, but we got shorts and cartoons well into the 70s. Though the last full program I saw was Monty Python's Life of Brian in London in 1980.
P. F. Flyers
Butch wax -- My brothers remember it.
Telephone numbers with a word prefix
Peashooters
Howdy Doody
45 RPM Records
Green Stamps These were awesome. We also had Blue Stamps, which you could trade for actual cashola.
Hi-fi's
Metal ice cube trays with levers
Mimeograph paper
Blue flash bulbs
Beanie and Cecil Only the 80s remake.
Roller skate keys
Cork pop guns
Drive ins These were awesome. When I was 5 or so, my brother took me to see 2001 at one of the locals. I repaid him by throwing up in his car during the cavemen scene, then falling asleep during the lunar board meeting. The last drive-in movie I saw was a double feature of The Legend of the Lone Ranger, which sucked balls, and the sublime Flash Gordon.
Studebakers
Wash Tub wringers We had one in the basement. I was terrified of it.
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 -- They were just always there.
When the Barbie doll hit the scene -- Ditto

Comments

[theodicy.livejournal.com]

OH CHRIST I TOO AM OLD OLD OLD OLD AAAAGH

[dorothy1901]

I guess I'm a little older than you. In addition to your list, I remember "telephone numbers with a word prefix" and "when the Beatles arrived" (and what a change that made. Long hair on boys, OMG).

[nitasee.livejournal.com]

Okay, now I feel sufficiently old too. I'd bold the same lines as you except I remember the original Beanie and Cecil - at least I think I do but that could have been later syndication. I didn't know that there had been an 80's remake!

[hawkmoth.livejournal.com]

Not as old as I am yet, kid.

Will do meme tomorrow.

You can still find candy "cigarettes" (well, I can at the slightly scary variety store down the block) in boxes that still have the same artwork. Beeman's re-releases those gum flavors every so often, too. What's the other one...Pepsin?

[apoplexia.livejournal.com]

Oh come on! Remebering 45s does not make you old. 78s on the other hand...