Here I am going into the past once again. I guess when you reach a certain age it is just something that happens. Anyway, I came upon a list of things that were popular in their day. I am sad to say that I remember most of these. How about you? Were any of these in your past?
- Candy cigarettes?
- Wax Coke-shaped bottles with colored sugar water inside?
- Soda pop machines that dispensed glass bottles?
- Blackjack, Clove and Teaberry chewing gum?
- Home milk delivery in glass bottles with cardboard stoppers with the cream floating on top?
- Newsreels before the movie?
- Telephone party lines?
- Peashooters?
- Howdy Dowdy?
- Hi-Fi, 45, 33 1/3 and 78 RPM records?
- Green Stamps?
- Metal ice cube trays with levers?
- Mimeograph paper and fluid?
- Beanie and Cecil?
- Roller-skate keys?
- Drive-ins?
- Washtub wringers?
- Reel-to-reel tape recorders?
- Tinkertoys?
- Erector sets?
- Lincoln Logs?
- Five-cent packs of baseball cards with that awful pink slab of bubble gum?
- Penny candy?
Please tell me that there is someone out there besides me who remembers at least some of these. Check out http://doyouremember.com/ for thigs from your past. More remembrances next week.
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All were part of my life except for the newsreels before movies. But then I wouldn’t know because we could not afford to go to a movie. Drive-ins were the only way we saw movies. Sound of Music was the first movie I ever saw in a theater. I particularly disliked the ice trays with levers. They never worked for me. Thanks for the flash to the past. 🙂
Newsreels, cartoons, and previews…all shown before the feature presentation.
Awesome list! I remember using a wringer washer to wash siblings diapers!
The only two I am not familiar with are:
Home milk delivery in glass bottles with cardboard stoppers with the cream floating on top? – We milked our own cows!
Beanie and Cecil? – guessing this was a TV show but we were very limited.
And I have to add, my mom still had a party line on the farm five years ago because it was down to two households left and neither would pay for the new wiring . . . thrifty farm families!!!
Beanie and Cecil was a cartoon show. Beanie was a boy and his friend Cecil was a sea sick sea serpent.
Underdog and Popeye are the only (black and white) cartoons I remember.
I do remember some of them although I feel some are very country-related.
But here we had in my child hood erector sets, candy cigarettes,vinyl records. I even saw a 78 once :D. You might have added the first floppy disks in your list.
Dare we say “these were the good old days”? I too remember the majority of them, especially the party line. One time the lines were down, but I picked up the phone and cranked, It Rang. Imagine the expression on my Dad’s face when he heard it!. I hung it up real quick!
Don’t worry, yes, I remember them well. How about when telephone numbers were words, like Beachwood 45789?
Yep, every one. My husband and I felt fortunate to start out our marriage with an old ringer washer, and we had the old refrigerator too with those ice trays. In fact I just sold them in my estate sale-antiques! Love the list.
Some of these might have been before my time. However, I do remember some: candy cigarettes, Howdy Doody, wax bottles, drive-ins. I’m actually sad my girls won’t know what these were. Life was so much simpler for me as a child than it is for them.
I do remember Teaberry gum, the wax Coke bottles, and candy cigarettes. Some of those cigarettes had sugary powder that would puff into the air like smoke. We still have a drive-in theater only about 15 miles from our house. My sons love to go see a double feature!
I haven’t heard of most of these, but not so much because of age, rather because of cultural background. if I made a list of my soviet childhood, it would be new vocabulary for many people.
Oh, I remember these! And especially miss this:Home milk delivery in glass bottles with cardboard stoppers with the cream floating on top.
I remember all of them…and miss some of them!
Yes, I remember. Is there still “penny” ANYTHING these days?
Like Dana, some of these were before my time. However, I do remember:
Candy cigarettes — YUCK!
Home milk delivery — YES! I had a milkman when I lived in Manhattan.
Howdy Dowdy — My mom was in the Peanut Gallery when she was a kid.
Drive-ins — Does Sonic count? 😉
Reel-to-reel tape recorders – Sure!
Tinkertoys – My daughter has some.
Lincoln Logs – ABSOLUTELY!
Five-cent packs of baseball cards with that awful pink slab of bubble gum – I’m sure we have some in our basement since my hubby collected baseball cards as a kid.
Penny candy — Does Bazooka count?
My mom had a ringer washer into the late 70’s and swore it got her clothes cleaner than the new one that replaced it!
Bob–I am younger than you and I remember 90% of these things, so now this means I am old too! Thanks for sharing!