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RICKAMAVEN Offline
#1 Posted: Tue, Apr 13 2004, 6:26 AM EST
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do any of these words bring back a fond memory. if so, tell us about it.

good humor man
mellowroll
charlotte russe
musterd in yellow wax paper
devil dogs
milk bottles
fuller brush man
my-t-fine
spark arrestor
bread man
spauldeen
bosco
white pizza
marble season
10ยข movies (thanks tony)
bungalow bar
milk man
fox's u-bet
monkey bars
good health seltzer
Buddha Daddy Offline
#2 Posted: Tue, Apr 13 2004, 6:36 AM EST
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1. Virgins
2. Pocket change
3. Safe sex (I remember when this meant not giving your real name)
4. Single, claiming one
5. "No really, I'll call you"
6. Where are we going to drink tonight?
7. "Of course I remember your name"
MACS Offline
#3 Posted: Tue, Apr 13 2004, 7:34 AM EST
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Monkey bars at recess... that was the hot spot on the playground.

Girls chase boys or boys chase girls today?

Devil dogs were awesome. Why don't they make those anymore?

Who remembers running like hell when you heard the ice cream truck? MMMMMMM - Italian ice.
xibbumbero Offline
#4 Posted: Tue, Apr 13 2004, 7:52 AM EST
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I was the fastest guy in the neighborhood...why you ask..cause I had....PF FLYERS. X
DrMaddVibe Offline
#5 Posted: Tue, Apr 13 2004, 8:03 AM EST
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My local place serves white pizza...if you ask nice they'll garnish with thin sliced tomatoes and extra thick mozarell. All you gots to do is mosey up and give 'em a "Hey, how's ya doin'?"
uncleb Offline
#6 Posted: Tue, Apr 13 2004, 9:06 AM EST
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Anyone remeber the Helm's Bakery Truck?
eleltea Offline
#7 Posted: Tue, Apr 13 2004, 9:09 AM EST
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Toddy chocolate malt in a can
Moxie
Choc-O-Stix
Blackjack Gum
Grapette (Thirsty or Not)
Cinnamon toothpicks
lukin Offline
#8 Posted: Tue, Apr 13 2004, 9:10 AM EST
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I'm pretty young still so I don't really have fond memories of these words, but I wish I did. My wife and I were born about thirty years too late. This list does make me think of a couple of words from my childhood...
old fogies
Buddha Daddy Offline
#9 Posted: Tue, Apr 13 2004, 9:28 AM EST
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I just saw a Helm's truck hot rod a few months ago.
TrishS@CigarBid Offline
#10 Posted: Tue, Apr 13 2004, 9:51 AM EST
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LLT -

There's a store around here (can't remember where it is now) that sells blackjack and clove gum!! Don't forget twinscicles in vanilla and rootbeer.

Does that make me an FOG too?? :(

Trish
fritzthetiger Offline
#11 Posted: Tue, Apr 13 2004, 10:02 AM EST
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Lawn Darts
Those Water Rockets
M-80s
Ah yes the days of innocence and going to the emergency room.
drnos Offline
#12 Posted: Tue, Apr 13 2004, 10:08 AM EST
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Fuller Brush Man: I used to be one. For a short time, I was still in H.S. Still remember the demo of the chrysanthemum-based insect spray: spray it onto the back of my hand and lick it to show how non-toxic it was. A lotta you are thinking "well that explains it..."
jackconrad Offline
#13 Posted: Tue, Apr 13 2004, 10:08 AM EST
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They still make Devil Dogs !!!!!!!!!!!When i was 14 i worked as a Fuller Brush Man I used to go door to door with a ukelalie and sing Im the fuller brush, the fuller brush man bringin you products for your house and yer hands , man dfid i make some dough in 70 .plus it was a great way to meet girls especially young housewifes who were home alone wayyyyyy tooooo much.
THL Offline
#14 Posted: Tue, Apr 13 2004, 10:09 AM EST
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How about.....
Charles Chips
Ipana
Frostee
Cat's Paw
Shinola
Doeskins
single cigarettes
DrMaddVibe Offline
#15 Posted: Tue, Apr 13 2004, 10:12 AM EST
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Cinnamon Red Hots

Marathon bars

Picnic lunches(bring your own cooler!) under the palm trees in centerfield at Dodger stadium

Wiffle Ball

Skateboards without trucks or urathane wheels

Schwinn Sting-Ray & Krate bikes

TrishS@CigarBid Offline
#16 Posted: Tue, Apr 13 2004, 10:46 AM EST
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THL -

We still have a Charles Chips in my town. The guy does a HUGE business!
xibbumbero Offline
#17 Posted: Tue, Apr 13 2004, 11:06 AM EST
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Fizzies,Flavrstraws,Grapette soda,and White Rock soda,sold at Safeway. X
Cavallo Offline
#18 Posted: Tue, Apr 13 2004, 11:09 AM EST
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www.vermontcountrystore.com has Charles Chips and ALL kinds of "blasts from the past.

they've got a big "old fashioned" candy store with all the old hard candies and stuff like REAL licorice pipes and scottie dogs, walnettos, fruit stripes, beemans, teaberry and black jack gum, horlicks tablets, moon pies, and old-name candy bars like skybar and cherry mash.

they have all kinds of products like "evening in paris" perfume and "1411" cologne, fire king jadette bake ware, buster brown socks, dippity do, life bouy soap and lava soaps, and things like heavy flat irons like mom used to use, old big ben alarm clocks... really just like turning back the clock by decades... just all kinds of stuff that's not been seen in ages. i've been a patron for years and never had a bad deal with them.
eleltea Offline
#19 Posted: Tue, Apr 13 2004, 11:37 AM EST
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Sorry, Trish, you are too young. However, you may qualify to become an Honorary FOG. Ask about the secret initiation ceremony. ;o)

BTW, there's a store at the Stockyards in Fort Worth that carries most of the old candies and stuff. Moxie is still sold in Maine and elsewhere and there's a website devoted to it.
penzt8 Offline
#20 Posted: Tue, Apr 13 2004, 11:40 AM EST
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Birch beer (it's a Pennsylvania thing) I still get some everytime I go home
teaberries and teaberry ice cream
kick the can
RICKAMAVEN Offline
#21 Posted: Tue, Apr 13 2004, 12:03 PM EST
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lukin

we mock the things we are to be.
RICKAMAVEN Offline
#22 Posted: Tue, Apr 13 2004, 12:08 PM EST
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Cavallo

that's where i have been getting my horlicks malted from.. i will look at the site more to see what else i have been missing. thanks.
Schmitty22 Offline
#23 Posted: Tue, Apr 13 2004, 12:21 PM EST
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http://www.groovycandies.com/
JonR Offline
#24 Posted: Tue, Apr 13 2004, 3:02 PM EST
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Flag Flyer box toe shoes ( zip their open-snap their shut...ten cent movies...Pez dispensers...Yankee and Confederate caps and hats... motorcycle jackets with at least 7 zippers...MaryJane candy ( not to be confused with the smokable MaryJane )...but the best was all the songs of the 50s, some of the best makeout songs ever written. JonR
xibbumbero Offline
#25 Posted: Tue, Apr 13 2004, 7:45 PM EST
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Davey Crockett hats. X
pabloescabar Offline
#26 Posted: Wed, Apr 14 2004, 12:48 AM EST
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drink a 40 of colt45 than play spin the bottle...
rastusmcnair Offline
#27 Posted: Wed, Apr 14 2004, 7:52 AM EST
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Hey X-Man! I've been trying to explain fizzies and flavrstraws to folks here on the East Coast and they look at Me like I'm nuts. ( Well, maybe.) Must be a West Coast thing. They still have Bubble-Up out there?
THL Offline
#28 Posted: Wed, Apr 14 2004, 8:31 AM EST
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I was raised in Baltimore and we had Fizzies and Flav-Stix-Straws and Bubble-Up. Try talking to chicks your own age, you lech. lol
EI Offline
#29 Posted: Wed, Apr 14 2004, 8:38 AM EST
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THL... being an old boy from Dundalk myself. I remember flaverstraws fizzies Geotezs carmel creams and nik-a-liks, The White Jug and Rices bakery 5 loafs for a dollar, Read's drug store and H.L.Greens
EI Offline
#30 Posted: Wed, Apr 14 2004, 8:39 AM EST
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Anyone remember Frostie's Root beer and Upper 10 soda?
jd1 Offline
#31 Posted: Wed, Apr 14 2004, 2:50 PM EST
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sigh...

A&W root beer stands
Heydeys
Tres Flores
metal wheel skates
banana seats
black;white stripe "track shoes"
dingo boots
JonR Offline
#32 Posted: Wed, Apr 14 2004, 2:59 PM EST
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Yo jd1: Mi-b a dingo ate chur boots. JonR
jd1 Offline
#33 Posted: Wed, Apr 14 2004, 3:08 PM EST
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LOL! ...had to cut and edge three yards, do the flower beds and move some bricks to get those boots! LOL! but maaaan was I stylin in the 5th grade!
CulleyJC52 Offline
#34 Posted: Wed, Apr 14 2004, 3:54 PM EST
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In today's world this may be taken differently:

"Gas Wars"

and my favorite as a kid:

"Hamburger Wars"

remember two places competing, highest was 12 for a dollar.
RICKAMAVEN Offline
#35 Posted: Wed, Apr 14 2004, 4:00 PM EST
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CulleyJC52

white castle?
CulleyJC52 Offline
#36 Posted: Wed, Apr 14 2004, 4:32 PM EST
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Rick,

drool

Call me Homer
hat Offline
#37 Posted: Wed, Apr 14 2004, 5:46 PM EST
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I'm not sure which, but I'm pretty sure one of those guys is my Dad. Ex: milkman, good humor man, etc.
eleltea Offline
#38 Posted: Thu, Apr 15 2004, 4:37 AM EST
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Pepsi Cola hits the spot.
12 Full Ounces, That's a lot!
Twice as much for a nickle, too.
Pepsi-Cola is the drink for you!
penzt8 Offline
#39 Posted: Thu, Apr 15 2004, 5:03 AM EST
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the 3 big stores in town were:
Woolworths, Grants, and Newberry's

I remember sitting at the lunch counter at Newberry's. They had the best sodas. mmmmmmm chocolate cokes
EI Offline
#40 Posted: Thu, Apr 15 2004, 6:34 AM EST
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Pepsi Cola hits the spot.
12 Full Ounces, That's a lot!
Twice as much for a nickle, too.
Pepsi-Cola is the drink for you!

My dads favorite jingle, used to sing it all the time
Cavallo Offline
#41 Posted: Thu, Apr 15 2004, 8:33 AM EST
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pablo wrote: "drink a 40 of colt45 than play spin the bottle..."

lol pablo grew up in my neighborhood!

let's see...

yeah, metal strap-on skates

chuck taylor all-star converse hi-tops

putting baseball cards in the spokes of you bike with wooden clothespins so it would sound like a "motorcycle."

a piece of scrap plywood over a concrete block to make a ramp and play "evil knievel."

a leather biker jacket you could live in. it was your coat, your pillow, your blanket, whatever.

switchblades and your first pocket knife.

wax coke bottles with different color syrup inside.

packs of CANDY CIGARETTES! bubblegum cigars! oh my! :O

skateboards MADE of board (wood)

ahhhhh yeah
Buddha Daddy Offline
#42 Posted: Thu, Apr 15 2004, 9:01 AM EST
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Cavallo wrote;
skateboards MADE of board (wood)

Do you remember the clay wheels that came on these babies?
If you hit a grain of sand they would launch you like a human cannonball.

Nobody mentioned the good old pogo stick.
JonR Offline
#43 Posted: Thu, Apr 15 2004, 9:05 AM EST
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How many of you remember " Pusho ". Hint: you had to build it. JonR
pabloescabar Offline
#44 Posted: Thu, Apr 15 2004, 10:03 AM EST
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not only clay wheels but they also had steel wheels as well not to fun when you hit the grain of sand and do a face plant on the black top...
Cavallo Offline
#45 Posted: Thu, Apr 15 2004, 10:27 PM EST
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buddha daddy: huh... don't remember those. the one i had came with metal wheels of some kind -- hit a pebble and they'd launch you like a rocket. :P

JonR: yeah, we had a pusho in our neighborhood. when he wore the red hat, he had heroin to sell that day. don't know about building it, except that you had to build your street cred before he'd even sell you any herb. :) oh wait... that was a pushER.
pabloescabar Offline
#46 Posted: Sat, Apr 17 2004, 3:20 AM EST
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see Tony you do remember me. ah ha...
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