LESS WE NOT FORGET THE MILK MACHINE ON THE CORNER THAT SPIT OUT HALF GALLONS IN CARDBOARD CONTAINERS. 2 PENNIES TAPED TO A PACK OF CIGS. BOTH WERE SOLD FOR LESS THEN .40 CENTS
> >> Double Dog Dare You
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> If you don't remember this, you're too young anyway.
> >>
> >> This is a time we can feel good about remembering so much!
> >>
> >>
> >> I am sharing this with you today because it ends with a "double
> >>
> >> dog dare" to pass it on.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> Always remember that the perfect age is somewhere between
> >>
> >> old enough to know better and young enough not to care.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> How many do you remember?
> >>
> >> 1. Candy cigarettes.
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> >> 2. Wax coke-shaped bottles with colored sugar water inside.
> >>
> >> 3. Soda pop machines that dispensed glass bottles.
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> >> 4. Coffee shops with tableside juke boxes.
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> >> 5. Blackjack, Clove and Teaberry chewing gum.
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> >> 6. Home milk delivery in glass bottles, with cardboard stoppers.
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> >> 7. Party lines.
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> >> 8. Newsreels before the movie.
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> >> 9. P. F. Flyers.
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> >> 10. Butch wax.
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> >> 11. Telephone numbers with a word prefix, (Drexel-5505).
> >>
> >> 12. Peashooters.
> >>
> >> 13. Howdy.
> >>
> >> 14. 45-RPM Records.
> >>
> >> 15. Green Stamps.
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> >> 16. Hi-! fi's.
> >>
> >> 17. Metal ice cube trays-with levers.
> >>
> >> 18. Mimeograph paper.
> >>
> >> 19. Blue flash Bulbs.
> >>
> >> 20. Beanie and Cecil.
> >>
> >> 21. Roller skate keys.
> >>
> >> 22. Cork pop guns.
> >>
> >> 23. Drive ins.
> >>
> >> 24. Studebakers.
> >>
> >> 25. Wash tub wringers.
> >>
> >> 26. The Fuller Brush man.
> >>
> >> 27. Reel-to-reel tape recorders.
> >>
> >> 28. Tinkertoys.
> >>
> >> 29. The Erector Set.
> >>
> >> 30. The Fort Apache Playset.
> >>
> >> 31. Lincoln Logs.
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> >> 32. 15 cent McDonald hamburgers.
> >>
> >> 33. 5 cent packs of baseball cards...with that awful pink slab of
> >> bubblegum.
> >>
> >> 34. Penny candy.
> >>
> >> 35. 35 cent-a-gallon gasoline.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> AND A TIME WHEN ....................
> >>
> >> Decisions were made by going "eeny-meeny-miney-mo."
> >>
> >> 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.
> >>
> >> A foot of snow was a dream come true.
> >>
> >> Saturday morning cartoons weren't 30-minute ads for action
> > figures.
> >>
> >> &n! bsp; "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.
> >>
> >> Water balloons were the ultimate weapon.
> >>
> >> Baseball cards in the spokes transformed any bike into a
> > motorcycle.
> >>
> >> Taking drugs meant orange-flavored chewable aspirin.
> >>
> >> 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!
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