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09-27-2010 11:36 AM #1
Old
Do you remember:
• Department stores with creaky wooden floors
• Lifting the phone to see if anyone is on the party line
• Televisions in wooden cabinets
• Floating down the river on an inner tube
• Turkey shoots, right next to the road
• RFD addresses
• Screw in fuses for the house
• Movie seats with ash trays
• McDonalds sign with less than “1million sold”
• Typing on a typewriter
• PF Flyers
• Slide rules
• S&H Green Stamps (and the Green Stamp Redemption store)
• Knowing your doctor’s home phone number
• Wringer washing machines
• Ice boxes with real ice
• An ice pick with advertising on the handle
• Pop boxes with ice and water in them
• Big boxes of Life Savers candy
• Floor furnaces with a pilot light
• Filling a fountain pen
• Trying to figure out the Dewey Decimal System
• Burma Shave signs
• Talking about Saturday Night Live the next day
• Steel beer cans with opener
• Tube testers at the drug store
• Career as a computer punch card operator
• Liquid starch for clothes
• Ladies nylons with a line up the back
• Fuller brush salesmen
• Buying a dollar’s worth of gas and getting 4 gallons
• Starter button on the floor of the car
• Chemistry sets
• Burlap feed sacks
• Getting chased by the rooster
• Burning leaves in the front yard
• Woolworth’s displays that were horizontal and had glass dividers
• Buying candy from a big glass jar
• Playing “Red Rover”
• Keys to open coffee cans
• Getting the “bologna ends”
• .22 shorts
• 4 track tapes
• Sniffing mimeograph paper
• Double features at the movies
• Big Chief tablets
• Hand crank tractors
• Grindstones with foot pedals
• Sears catalog in the outhouse
• Buying kerosene
• Air mail envelopes
• Irons on the stove (instead of electric)
• 45 record adapters
• Designated smoking area at high school
• Annette and Cubby
• Flash bulbs
• Corsages for your date
• DA’s
• Baptized in the river
• Buying cigarettes for your parents
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