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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

Are you old?

I remember them all, including listening to dramas on the radio before TV.

Mom giving us our vitamins in a spoon. I can taste it now. YUCK!!

i remember all of them. especially mytilaid for knee scrapes that you cried before it was put on and none of the cough syrup tasted like candy. it tasted more like turpentine. and castor oil to keep me regular.

yep I am OLD, heck I remember the first seat belt................I would be standing in the front seat and when the light turned red my Mom slinging her arm to the right across my chest to keep me from going through the windshield when she slammed the non anti lock brakes.
those were the good old day's

OUCH, don't get me started

My first car as a kid had a vacum shift tranny, non-pressurized cooling system and babbit rods which I quickly slung thru the pan and block.

Originally Posted by green34ford

yep I am OLD, heck I remember the first seat belt................I would be standing in the front seat and when the light turned red my Mom slinging her arm to the right across my chest to keep me from going through the windshield when she slammed the non anti lock brakes.
those were the good old day's

My same reaction except it was my girlfriend as I was trying to avoid hitting some idiot that pulled out in front of my 52 Ford convertible on wet pavement.

I remember those days well,no doubt we were a better America in those times we have lost so much in the "name of progress" most of all the respect folks had for one another and those good core values.

I agree Jeff but i still believe that the good people out weigh the bad. It is just that the bad news sells more commercials. our core values are still here. though i also believe that the internet allows people to be less civil to each other. our people skills have gone to hell.

Uh-huh!! Thanks for the memories.

Ben met Anna
Made a hit
Neglected beard
Ben Anna Split
Burma-Shave

I remember all of them!!

Thanks for the memories

Originally Posted by Geezer2

Ben met Anna
Made a hit
Neglected beard
Ben Anna Split
Burma-Shave

I remember all of them!!

Thanks for the memories

You are older than dirt.
BTW, who was the radio voice of Matt Dillon?

Sadly I have to say I remember who was the voice of Matt Dillon on the radio. That would be "William Conrad" never will forget that voice.

RS

We had no problem entertaining ourselves. Did you ever make a popsicle stick airplane or a clothes pin wooden match stick gun. Button on a string, Jacobs Ladder, yoyo, Mud bug hunting. Remember making skateboards with metal skates and 2x4's.

and tying june bugs on a string and letting them fly. or taking race track cars and playing in the dirt. or kick the can. kids today do not know what fun is.