- Candy cigarettes.
- Wax Coke-shaped bottles with colored sugar
water inside.
- Coke machines that dispensed glass bottles.
- Coffee shops with tableside jukeboxes.
- Blackjack, Clove and Teaberry chewing gum.
- Home milk delivery in glass bottles with
cardboard stoppers.
- Newsreels before the movie.
- PF Fliers.
- Telephone numbers with a word prefix....(mine
was TAylor 7-0935).
- Party lines.
- Pea shooters.
- Howdy Dowdy.
- 45 RPM records. (We didn't have a 45 RPM
player but my cousins Nina & Mary had one connected to their TV that I
envied!)
- Green Stamps.
- Hi-Fi's.
- Metal ice cubes trays with levers.
- Mimeograph paper.
- Beanie and Cecil.
- Roller-skate keys.
- Cork pop guns.
- Drive Ins.
- Studebakers.
- Washtub wringers.
- The Fuller Brush Man.
- Reel-To-Reel tape recorders.
- Tinkertoys.
- Erector Sets (I loved mine; I wish I still had
it).
- The Fort Apache Play Set.
- Lincoln Logs.
- 5 cent packs of baseball cards - with that
awful pink slab of bubble gum.
- Penny candy.
- 25 cents for a gallon gasoline.
- Jiffy Pop popcorn.
Submitted by Dennis Chiocco (Class of
1956)
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