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candy cigarettes
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wax coke-shaped bottles
with colored sugar water
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soda pop machines that
dispensed bottles
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coffee shops with
tableside jukeboxes
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blackjack chewing gum
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home milk delivery in
glass bottles with cardboard stoppers
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party lines
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newsreels before the
movie
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drive-in movies
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P.F. Flyers
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butch wax
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duck tails (hair style)
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telephone numbers with a
word prefix (Murray Hill 7-7000)
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peashooters
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Howdy Doody
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45 RPM records
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S & H Green Stamps
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hi-fi's
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metal ice trays with
levers
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mimeograph paper
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blue flashbulbs
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Beanie and Cecil
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Crusader Rabbit
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roller skate keys
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necklaces braided from
vinyl for putting skate keys around neck
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cork pop guns
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Studebakers
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wash tub wringers
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Junior Frolics
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jaw breakers
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Charlotte Rouses
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penny candy
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drive-in fast food where
they serve on roller skates
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an awful-awful
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movies were 25 cents
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scooters
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chartreuse and shocking
pink jackets
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poodle skirts
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punks (not wise guys)
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hop scotch
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flip hairdos
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softies (ballet shoes)
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pencil boxes
-
keeping school supplies
in cigar boxes
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the Good Humor man
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jacks
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Mother May I
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Red Rover
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Roly Poly
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hula hoops
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wax lips and mustaches
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Three Stooges
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Captain Kangaroo
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Romper Room
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catching lightning bugs
in a jar
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fresh lime Dr. Pepper
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sitting on the curb
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eating kool-aid powder
with sugar
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blue gym suits that
everyone had to wear
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nylons that came in two
pieces
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nylons with seams up the
back
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laundry detergent with
free glasses, dishes or towels hidden inside
-
getting free glassware
or trading stamps with a fill-up of gas
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bazooka bubble gum
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getting 50 cents an hour
for babysitting
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saddle shoes
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penny loafers with
pennies in them
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bobby socks
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bubbly handwriting and
dotting i's with hearts
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slam books
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Dixie peach and Bonnie
Doon socks
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Woolworth's
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eating at the soda
fountain in the drug store
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and reading comic books
off the rack while you ate
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Mary Janes
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Mickey Mouse club
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Fran & Ollie
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Spin & Marty
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slumber parties &
staying up all night and having bean dip for breakfast
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Mary Martin as Peter Pan
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Jackie Gleason as
"the poor soul"
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step on a crack &
you'll break your mother's back
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buck bags
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bucket purses
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Evening in Paris
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English Leather
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Bob parties
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The Stroll
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sock hops
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hay rides
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proms in the gym where
the girls wore pastel gowns and the guys wore white dinner jackets
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combs in the back pocket
with the handle sticking out
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cruising the drag
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exchanging disks with
your steady
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charm bracelets
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girls wearing a class
ring with an inch of wrapped dental floss coated with pastel frost
nail polish so it would fit their finger
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burma shave signs
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petticoats that stuck
out a mile
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four square
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decorated boxes on your
desk for valentines
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The Lone Ranger
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Roy & Dale
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Nellie Belle
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Trigger and Buttermilk
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Laurel & Hardy
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Nancy Drew
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the Hardy Boys
*****
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$.05
cokes , $.25 a gallon gas , And Buck Roger's series at the movie....
(submitted by the
Carters)
*****
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Dippity
- Do...for your hair...and Prell
(submitted by suzyq)
*****
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playing
cards pinned to your bike so they flap against the spokes when you
ride
*****
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clackers
(submitted by
OldFan)
*****
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ON
RADIO
For Kids----(65 years ago)
Jack Armstrong --The All American Boy
Little Orphan Annie
Morning
For Adults---(50 years ago)
Dorothy Killgallen
The Fitzgeralds
Mike and Buffy Wallace (his first? wife & LONG before 60
Minutes)
Bob
Hope
Fibber Mcgee and Molly
The Goldbergs
Amos and Andy
GOOD
MOVIES, with character delineation and great stories
(submitted by louvitrunk)
*****
baling
hay
pulling weeds by hand
picking up rocks by hand
having/using an outhouse
black & white TV with almost zero reception
no running water in the house
milking cows by hand
slopping pigs
(submitted by Marilyn ,
Rochester, NY, age 61)
*****