Wyatt Earp SASS#1628L Posted August 1, 2020 Share Posted August 1, 2020 Fizznicks. A hollow plastic sphere cut in half around the equator that had a short tube coming out of each half. You put a scoop of ice cream in one half, snapped the two together and stuck one tube into a soft drink bottle of your choice, then turned it up and sucked on the other tube. Instant ice cream float. Bozo the Clown used to hock them on his tv show. In sixth grade it was the cool thing to do to ask a girl to go steady by giving her a St. Christopher's medal necklace. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Badger Mountain Charlie SASS #43172 Posted August 1, 2020 Share Posted August 1, 2020 Collecting empty pop bottles for the deposit. Walking a paper route twice a day. Thursday were the worst. All the ads came out on Thursday. I had three papers to deliver. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Linn Keller, SASS 27332, BOLD 103 Posted August 2, 2020 Share Posted August 2, 2020 Black & white Crosley TV, a wooden cube on a four legged platform. Three channels -- 4, 6 and 10, out of Columbus -- had to aim the TV antenna with a pipe wrench and little brother leaning out the window to relay commands from dear old Dad watching the TV picture. Wrapping aluminum foil cigarette wrapper around the ribbon wire lead-in, then slide it back and forth until the picture clears. McGuffey's Reader was an auxiliary text in the sixth grade library case (I used to borrow National Geographics from the case when I was in first grade. I went into first grade reading at a sixth grade level. See Dick, See Jane, See Baby Sally, see me throw up, I had to have something to actually read so I wouldn't go nuts!) Yellow tablets -- Goldenrod and Fast Mail -- for ten cents out of a vending machine beside that cold Coke dispenser (ten cents), school lunch was 35 cents and milk was two cents. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blackwater 53393 Posted August 2, 2020 Share Posted August 2, 2020 14 hours ago, Lawdog Dago Dom said: Or the busted toilets in the bus station and the high school!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doc X Posted August 2, 2020 Share Posted August 2, 2020 On 7/31/2020 at 7:34 PM, Michigan Slim said: Winston Cup was a cig sponsor was it not? And for flat track motorcycles it was the Camel Pro Series. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blackwater 53393 Posted August 2, 2020 Share Posted August 2, 2020 Raiding your parent’s liquor cabinet Trying your first chew of tobacco Sneaking into an adult movie Girly magazines Your first cigarette Your first traffic ticket That first date/first kiss Your first real job Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Smokin Gator SASS #29736 Posted August 2, 2020 Share Posted August 2, 2020 Margarine that came in a bag with a dye packet. You broke the dye and kneaded the bag to mix the color to make it yellow like butter. I looked this up and found some info. There were different laws in states allowing the sale of white margarine but not yellow. Big battle with the dairy industry. Some of it is like some of the modern gun control laws in restricted states. Here's the part that surprised me. In some states yellow margarine was legal to possess, but illegal to buy. Hence the development of these bags with the dye pack. Crazy. Another thing I remember is when the cartons of milk were first replacing glass bottles, when you opened the carton flakes of wax would fall off until they finally improved the process. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Forty Rod SASS 3935 Posted August 2, 2020 Share Posted August 2, 2020 On 7/31/2020 at 6:28 PM, J-BAR #18287 said: Fresh milk in glass bottles delivered on your front doorstep twice a week; a layer of cream under the cap. Fountain drinks at the corner drug store, 5 cents and 10 cents sizes, served by high school girls who were the stuff dreams are made of. Phosphates. Used to get a double vanilla phosphate every chance I got. No body seems to make them any more. Probably cause the galloping gomboouie or something. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Forty Rod SASS 3935 Posted August 2, 2020 Share Posted August 2, 2020 On 7/31/2020 at 7:00 PM, Blackwater 53393 said: Beatniks Sputnik Wolfman Jack The Dinah Shore Chevy Show One Eyed One Horned Flyin’ Purple People Eater Chuck Berry Buddy Holley ’55 T-bird Mabeline Audrey Hepburn Bogey and Bacall 45 rpm records Sock Hops Roller skate keys ”I like Ike!” The very first show we ever watched on out own TV when they brought three channels (4, 5 and 7) over the mountain from Salt Lake City. That was about 1952. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Red Gauntlet , SASS 60619 Posted August 2, 2020 Share Posted August 2, 2020 "Plunk your magic twanger, Froggy!" Hiya kids, hiya hiya... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Forty Rod SASS 3935 Posted August 2, 2020 Share Posted August 2, 2020 On 8/1/2020 at 12:53 PM, DeaconKC said: Mowing the older lady's lawn because your Dad said it was "the right thing to do" Getting a drink from the neighbor's garden hose Cleaning windows with vinegar water and newspaper Making sure the Sunday paper had coupons Vinegar water and newspapers still work. I use i to get hard water stains off my shower door. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
largo casey #19191 Posted August 4, 2020 Share Posted August 4, 2020 Kids Say The Darndist Things Largo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J.D. Daily Posted August 4, 2020 Share Posted August 4, 2020 On 8/2/2020 at 1:18 PM, Red Gauntlet , SASS 60619 said: "Plunk your magic twanger, Froggy!" Hiya kids, hiya hiya... You beat me to it! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Badger Mountain Charlie SASS #43172 Posted August 4, 2020 Share Posted August 4, 2020 On 8/2/2020 at 1:19 PM, Forty Rod SASS 3935 said: Vinegar water and newspapers still work. I use i to get hard water stains off my shower door. That is the best use of newspapers I have heard of recently, Tom. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Forty Rod SASS 3935 Posted August 4, 2020 Share Posted August 4, 2020 If it weren't for the comics, puzzles, and want ads I'd have no other use for one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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