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.
2. Wax coke-shaped bottles with colored sugar water inside.
3. Soda pop machines that dispensed glass bottles.
4. Coffee shops with tableside juke boxes.
5. Blackjack, Clove and Teaberry chewing gum.
6. Home milk delivery in glass bottles, with cardboard stoppers.
7. Party lines.
8. Newsreels before the movie.
9. P. F. Flyers.
10. Butch wax.
11. Telephone numbers with a word prefix, (Drexel-5505).
12. Peashooters.
13. Howdy.
14. 45-RPM Records.
15. Green Stamps.
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.
32. 15 cent McDonald hamburgers.
33. 5 cent packs of baseball cards...with that awful pink slab of bubblegum.
34. Penny candy.
35. 10 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.
"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!

5. Blackjack, Clove and Teaberry chewing gum.


YUMMY!!!!!:p:p Sometimes you can still find these....Teaberry my fav:p

TY Scotz I am old too:D:D:D

Here in Europe we have had different things, but I think we´re around the same age then. I found a book that was a collection of online posts of people being born in the same year 68. Lots of great rememberings. Somehow a good time.

I'm 28 and remember nine of those . . . reel-to-reel tape because I was in journalism school and they made you learn editing on one in case the digital system crashed, though!

Steph gotcha beat, I'm 18 and have seen and experianced 10 of em..... heheheh

Scotz---I remember everything except the Fort Apache playset!
I don't remember gas for less than $.15per gal.Also;a slingshot in
school was a jackknife.(multi-blade)Does that make me old?When
I was in school;if you smoked a joint;you were a drug addict!Only
;a few;kids;drank alcohol.I was mad when gas went to $.25 a gal.
;because it came out of my grass cutting profits. Irish

well a lot of those things we never had in Australia but there are 12 on the list I remember

How about No TV
Black and white TV
Pounds shillings and pence as currency
the beatles, elvis presley, rolling stones bringing out new songs
all day suckers
long sideburns
flared trousers for men
pointy toed shoes
brylcream to plaster down your hair or even worse, Californian poppy, a raspberry coloured liquid that did the same thing
the mess it used to make on the pillow cases.
two shillings (20 cents) was a lot of money for a kid
yo yo's
Annette Funiccello in the Mickey mouse club - I think she gave me my first erection :) i think she would be well into her 50's now.

What are you talking about?
 

“P. F. Flyers” that had nothing to do with me.
or
1. City zone numbers instead of zip codes.
2. Drug stores that didn’t sell car part but had soda fountains.
3. Davey Crockett caps with the real imitation raccoon tail.
4. 78 rpm records that broke when you looked at them wrong.
5. Air Raid drills at school.
6. Eagle Stamps were the Green ones and S&H were yellow.
7. Before Hi-Fi, you always had a little envelope with record
player needles that you changed about every 20 plays.
8. Captain Video
9. Carbon paper and Fountain Pens.
10. Hudson and Rambler
11. The milk mans truck that you stole the ice with the hole in it from.
12. Radio shows like Fibber McGee & Molly, Sargent Perston & King,
Tarzan and Gildersleve.
13. Movie series like Charlie Chan and Sherlock Holmes.
14. Wax teeth, lips and mustache, Candy dots on the paper strip and
Penny pretzels that cost a penny.
15. Lead soldiers you made and painted.


Nop! Don’t remember any of that. I just read a lot. :rolleyes:

Grumbleguts---You bring back;forgotten;memories.You mentioned
Brylcream.I remember;getting out of bed one morning(I was in the Armed Forces)I was still 1/2 drunk and was almost late for role call!I staggered over to the sink,grabbed my toothpaste;and
started to brush my teeth.I almost puked.In my haste;I had grabbed;a tube of Brylcream;instead of toothpaste.I didn't even look.I never used anything on my hair.The haircream was a Christmas Present.Always the cheapskate;I put it in my medicine
cabinet;instead of throwing it away.Don't try it!It doesn't taste
good.I had forgotten that;it was a long time ago. Irish

I remember WAY too many of those things!!:redghost:


I remember the milkman very clearly!!!:D :D

















And speaking of aging......;) :D :D :p :p

Diva---How did you get that picture of me? Irish

Are milkman had a horse drawen cart and the horse knew the next stop and all the kids who had sugar for it. I hate to admit it but I can remeber all of it but for the 10cent gas. Used to own a Nash Rambler.

I read about this too.
 

Diva, is it true that the only milk route east of the Canadian Rockies now is your street?:confused:

(if you want them to deliver every day, you have to keep that drive shoveled.);)

Irish I loved the brylcream memories
The supermarkets have just about killed the milko :(
Sometimes progress isnt all that good