The only one I can’t remember is twenty five cent gasoline. However I do remember twenty seven cent gasoline.

Candy cigarettes

Wax Coke-shaped bottles with colored sugar water inside

Soda pop machines that dispensed glass bottles

Coffee shops with tableside jukeboxes

Blackjack, Clove and Teaberry chewing gum ?&? The? Teaberry? Shuffle !

Home milk delivery in glass bottles with cardboard stoppers

P.F. Fliers

Telephone numbers with a word prefix…(Raymond 4-601). Party lines

Howdy Dowdy

Hi-Fi’s ?

45 RPM records

78 RPM records!

Green Stamps

Metal ice cubes trays with levers

Roller-skate keys

Cork pop guns

Drive ins

Studebakers

Washtub wringers

The Fuller Brush Man

Reel-To-Reel tape recorders

Tinkertoys

Erector Sets

The Fort Apache Play Set

Lincoln Logs

15 cent McDonald hamburgers

5 cent packs of baseball cards – with that awful pink slab of bubble gum

Penny candy

25 cent a gallon gasoline

Jiffy Pop popcorn

Do you remember a t ime when…

Decisions were made by going “eeny-meeny-miney-moe”?

Mistakes were corrected by simply exclaiming, “Do Over!”?

“Race issue” meant arguing about who ran the fastest?

Catching the fireflies could happily occupy an entire evening?

It wasn’t odd to have two or three “Best Friends”?

The worst thing you could catch from the opposite sex was “cooties”?

Having a weapon in school meant being caught with a slingshot?

Saturday morning cartoons weren’t 30-minute commercials for action figures?

“Oly-oly-oxen-free” made perfect sense?

Spinning around, getting dizzy, and falling down was cause for giggles?

The worst embarrassment was being picked last for a team?

War was a card game?

Baseball cards in the spokes transformed any bike into a motorcycle?

Taking drugs meant orange-flavored chewable aspirin?

Water balloons were the u ltimate weapon?

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!?

Yep. I remember almost everything on the list. We never owned a Studebaker, and growing up in a housing project in Brooklyn NY, we didn’t have home milk delivery (but there was a vending machine in the basement of our building that sold milk in quart containers), no McDonalds in our area of Brooklyn until much later. I remember when the first indoor shopping mall I’d ever seen opened in Brooklyn (Kings Plaza) in 1970 or so. Jahn’s Ice Cream Parlor in my neighborhood was THE PLACE for birthday parties and extra-special treats.

Good times…..

It’s Howdy Doody! and I was alive and kicking during all of this in fact I remember when the first McDonald’s was built in New Jersey and we thought it was so cool. I remember driving to New York City and seeing the World Trade Center with one of the towers not quite finished. I remember when my dad brought home a 45 rpm single of “She Loves You Yeah, Yeah, Yeah” on one side and “I Want to Hold Your Hand” on the flip side and my 4 siblings and I were bouncing off the walls cause we’d never heard anything like it before and I must have been about 5 and I remember saying to myself: “Now this is music, why haven’t they been playing this all along.”

I also remember watching Romper Room and Miss Louise was looking through her magic Mirror at all the kids at home in TV land and saying their names and I’m thinking “Yeah right, she’s just guessing” then she said my name and I was like “Woah, she CAN see me!!!” When the first color TV came out, we went and saw it in the store and one was on a static channel and I thought it was the most beautiful thing I ever saw.

i’ve got 8. but mostly because i’m a teen and i don’t even know what the majority of the stuff you listed is. but some of that isn’t accurate if it’s supposed to mean that times have changed. it’s not weird to have 2 or 3 best friends and they still sell bubble gum

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N we didn’t have drive ins. It was too friggin cold. now where was I.

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N Erection sets come naturally to young men or boys

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Y 4 a penny

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Yes enie meanie

Not here on the last one.

I am a little shltfaced at the moment so I hope I have got these right.

Friday Night OK LoL

Yep,

Great memories for us who

were kids in the Sixties

Oh Oh I think I am dating myself LOL But I DO remember all of the above… Great times weren’t they???

Yes, I remember all of them. I guess I just dated myself. Oh well, who cares? Ain’t none of us gettin’ any younger. This ain’t no dress rehearsal. Ain’t none of us gettin’ out of this shindig alive.

Other memories:

Pop rocks

The days when the milkman delivered milk in crates

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