Saturday, January 26, 2008

These photographs bring back many memories from childhood.

Let's go back in time and reminisce with images we may have forgotten...


Aluminum Christmas Trees Washtub wringers



45-rpm records and spindles

Green Stamps

Metal ice cubes trays with levers

15-cent McDonald hamburgers

5-cent packs of baseball cards

Penny candy

Roller-skate keys

Cigarettes for Christmas

Cork pop guns

Plastic Army Men

Studebakers

Wax Coke-shaped bottles with colored sugar water inside

Soda pop machines that dispensed glass bottles

Blackjack, Clove and Teaberry chewing gum

Coffee shops with table side jukeboxes

Home milk delivery in glass bottles with cardboard stoppers

Candy cigarettes

Chief Pontiac signs

P.F. Fliers

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

Howdy Dowdy

Drive-in movies

Drive-in restaurants

Car Hops


The Fuller Brush Man

Sky King

Reel-to-reel tape recorders

Tinker toys

Erector sets

25-cent a gallon gasoline -------even 17-cent gasoline

Jiffy Pop popcorn

5-cent stamps ----darn! I remember TWO CENT STAMPS

Gum wrapper chains (#1 study hall activity)

5-cent Cokes

Speedy Alka-Seltzer

Falstaff beer

Burma Shave signs

Brownie camera

Flash bulbs

TV test patterns

Old Yeller

Chef Boy-AR-Dee

Fire escape tubes -----nope, not in my world

Timmy and Lassie

Ding Dong Avon calling!

Chatty Cathy dolls

Brylcreem

Topo Gigio

I f 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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