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RICKAMAVEN Offline
#1 Posted: Sat, Jan 12 2002, 11:13 AM EST
Joined: 10-01-2000
Posts: 33,248
first cigar of the day, an evelio and feeling the birsk wind of winter (we have a fan going) and waiting for the kickoff for the first of the playoffs brought back memories:
Double dog dare....If you remember what that means, you
understand. If you don't know what that means, read on and see what you missed.And 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 table side 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. Pea shooters.
13. Howdy Doody
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. Tinker toys
29. The Erector Set
30. The Fort Apache Play set
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. 35 cent-a-gallon gasoline

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 forgiggles.
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!!!!!!!!!!!!!
ClancyDaBulldog Offline
#2 Posted: Sat, Jan 12 2002, 12:55 PM EST
Joined: 12-31-2001
Posts: 78
...my cool AM transistor pocket radio with the earphone.
redneck1 Offline
#3 Posted: Sat, Jan 12 2002, 1:32 PM EST
Joined: 11-15-2000
Posts: 813
How soon we forget. To add to the list - What about Duncan Yo-Yo season? Or that wax candy you got at Halloween? SST Racers? (Smash Up Derby just being one of many. How many did I break?). Major Mat Mason. (60's figure and cool 4wd jeep) All METAL Tonka Trucks? Metal robots from the 60's? Hoola-hoop? Pogo sticks? Dirt clods? Mud balls? Slush balls? Ragtime jeans? Daisy model 1894? Crossman Model 760 Powermaster? Kawasaki 100, Yamaha 100, Honda Trail 50, Honda trail 70? Stick Horses? Pitchback (baseball fav)? Hotwheels - Beatnick Bandit, Boss Mustang, etc.? 1972 Dolphins? ******, Jane and Tip? (Run ****** run. See ****** run.) If you've got the time, we've got the beer? Mcdonalds is my kind of place ---? Shakeys Pizza? Pong? 410 shotgun? All this coming from a 39 year old that still flies a kite (a big one), shoots fireworks Independence and New Years Days(class A proffesional stuff from the backyard) and got an Xbox for christmas. Go Figure!!!!!! Man, I'm gonna have another brew (for Dave) and cigar?
ClancyDaBulldog Offline
#4 Posted: Sat, Jan 12 2002, 2:10 PM EST
Joined: 12-31-2001
Posts: 78
my glow-in-the-dark profesional frisbee...
mmay Offline
#5 Posted: Sat, Jan 12 2002, 3:20 PM EST
Joined: 06-10-2001
Posts: 121
Great list, Rick. Growing up in the late 40's and 50's, I am 100% on your list. Good memories, all.
delarob Offline
#6 Posted: Sat, Jan 12 2002, 6:03 PM EST
Joined: 06-28-2001
Posts: 5,318
Sing it with me now. " Shaeffer...is the...one beer to have, when you're having, more than one"
ceo Offline
#7 Posted: Sun, Jan 13 2002, 5:55 AM EST
Joined: 09-11-2010
Posts: 150
Ice cold Moxie, Hires Root Beer, Yohoo in bottles.
AW Drive-ins. When soda was called tonic. Saturday nite was home made baked beans hot dogs and brown bread. Damn!
Charlie Offline
#8 Posted: Sun, Jan 13 2002, 12:56 PM EST
Joined: 06-16-2002
Posts: 39,751
Call for Phillip Morris and the Dancing Cigarette Pack (Old Golds-I believe) and radio shows like "The Shadow" and "Marshall Dillon"! Charlie
gdurfor Offline
#9 Posted: Sun, Jan 13 2002, 6:02 PM EST
Joined: 01-24-2001
Posts: 288
Great list Rick. It brings back a simpler time. It was great being a kid back in the 50's & 60's.
larrym Offline
#10 Posted: Mon, Jan 14 2002, 6:18 AM EST
Joined: 11-19-2001
Posts: 15
How about the deed for a "square inch of the Yukon" that came with Quaker Oats when they sponsord Sergeant Preston?
larrym Offline
#11 Posted: Mon, Jan 14 2002, 6:18 AM EST
Joined: 11-19-2001
Posts: 15
How about the deed for a "square inch of the Yukon" that came with Quaker Oats when they sponsord Sergeant Preston?
rleaverton Offline
#12 Posted: Mon, Jan 14 2002, 6:59 AM EST
Joined: 09-11-2010
Posts: 273
The flexible flyer (flexi), silver aluminum Christmas tree, the smell of spilled beer and cigars at a baseball game. The Pacific Coast League Padres at Lane Field or Westgate Park. Hand saws.
sellnmony Offline
#13 Posted: Mon, Jan 14 2002, 8:33 AM EST
Joined: 01-24-2000
Posts: 243
Great lsit... Kick the can until curfew, Mexican jumping beans, sneaking out meant to go play with freinds, marbles, red rover, playing army, digging caves in the back yard, hours and hours playing baseball in the vaccant lot or school yard, selling lemonade for 5 cents, matinees at the movies...
redneck1 Offline
#14 Posted: Mon, Jan 14 2002, 10:33 AM EST
Joined: 11-15-2000
Posts: 813
I still use a handsaw sometimes!! An old Disston with engravings in the handle.
ephawkeye Offline
#15 Posted: Mon, Jan 14 2002, 12:16 PM EST
Joined: 06-29-2001
Posts: 17
silly putty, slinkies, super balls
pdbenz Offline
#16 Posted: Mon, Jan 14 2002, 4:13 PM EST
Joined: 01-09-2001
Posts: 94
#2 was called Nick-L-Nip. It was the best - drink the juice and chew the wax. Best gum was Chum-Gum - came in a 2-pack for 1 penny.
donutboy2000 Offline
#17 Posted: Mon, Jan 14 2002, 8:32 PM EST
Joined: 11-20-2001
Posts: 25,000
What memories will our kids have? Video games? They still make Erector Sets, Lincoln Logs, and Tinker Toys and my 5 year old has each one.
ClancyDaBulldog Offline
#18 Posted: Tue, Jan 15 2002, 3:21 PM EST
Joined: 12-31-2001
Posts: 78
my x-ray glasses that i bought out of my comic book...
engletl Offline
#19 Posted: Tue, Jan 15 2002, 4:52 PM EST
Joined: 12-26-2000
Posts: 26,493
I have passed on my Tinker Toys Lincoln Logs and Legos(the old ones with no directions on what to build...just imagination) to my 3 kids. What is surprising to me is I am only 32 and I remember most of the stuff in Rick's post too. Todd
jefffrane Offline
#20 Posted: Wed, Jan 16 2002, 6:54 AM EST
Joined: 01-02-2002
Posts: 6
I remember all that stuff. All that means is that I AM OLD! I remember paying 25 cents for a pack of cigarettes or a gallon of gas.

I can even remember when I could still... er, never mind.
billmerit Offline
#21 Posted: Wed, Jan 16 2002, 9:35 AM EST
Joined: 07-27-2001
Posts: 214
Rick, I think I would remember all this stuff. But, some guy named Al Szimers told me to 'forget it'.
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