Remember...
I keep getting these emails dealing with what one remembers, based upon their age. I’ve decided in a fit of boredom to come up with my own list. I suspect most of the items will be at least somewhat familiar to those of you over 55 years of age, with a decrease as we go down the years. Virtually everything here would date from at least 1955* to 1969. For those of you under 30, this might be an amusing test. And yes, everything here I remember and have witnessed or experienced. Feel free to suggest additions, as long as they're realistic for this time period.
(*To be fair, a couple of these things would have been going out by ’55…)
Have you ever used/owned/had knowledge of the following:
1. Dimmer switch on an auto
2. A party line
3. A dial telephone
4. A telephone exchange number
5. A manual typewriter
6. An electric typewriter
7. Carbon paper
8. Correction fluid
9. A mimeograph machine
10. Old Xerox paper (when it was waxy)
11. Anything powered by tubes
12. A transistor radio
13. Reel to reel tape recorder
14. 8-track player
15. Cassette recorder
16. Record player/vinyl records/45 spindles, etc.
17. Black and white TV
18. Avon Calling!
19. Any vehicle without automatic windows
20. Gas station attendants who fill your tank, check the oil and clean the windshield
21. An outhouse
22. Jacks, marbles, tiddly winks, hopscotch
23. Mr. Potatohead kits where you had to supply a real potato (no plastic body)
24. Frisbees molded to look like flying saucers (with planetary names on the rim)
25. The teaberry shuffle
26. Cigarette commercials on TV
27. Cars without seatbelts
28. A fuse box
29. Cars with real metal bumpers
30. Polaroid cameras
31. 8mm cameras and projectors
32. Milk and egg deliveries
33. Elevator operators
34. The Fuller Brush salesman
35. Encyclopedia salesmen
36. Playground equipment made out of iron and steel
37. Wind-up clocks
38. Car hops
39. Music broadcast on AM radio
40. Rabbit ear antennas
41. Car record turntables
42. Drive-ins
43. Duckpin bowling (only in the greater Maryland region…)
44. Telegrams
45. Penny candy
46. Polio scares
47. Clothes wringer
48. Car water bag (only out West)
49. Dime stores
50. Underground newspapers
51. Burma shave signs
52. Mah jong
53. Score sheets for bowling
54. Walking to school
55. Slot cars
56. Maypoles
57. Coffee can hair rollers
58. Pop top cans
59. Bottle caps with cork
60. Colas made with cane sugar
61. Screaming yellow zonkers
62. Inner tubes
63. Snow chains for tires
64. Greenie stickum caps
65. M-80’s & cherry bombs
66. Quad stereo
67. Skateboards made from roller skates
68. Slide rule
69. Air raid sirens
70. Blackout curtains at the school
71. Muscular dystrophy carnivals (in the greater DC area)
72. Caged go-go girls
73. Hootenannies
74. Pop guns
75. Poodle skirts, Beatle boots, go-go boots, collarless jackets, bleached jeans, Nehru jackets
76. Playing with mercury
77. Travelers checks
78. Soap box cars
79. Burning leaves in the autumn
80. A TV set without a remote
81. Fountain pens
82. Carrying pocket knives to school
83. Jarts (lawn darts)
84. Dictaphones
85. Boxed popcorn at movies
86. Savings passbooks
87. Chewing gum wrapper chains
88. Penny loafers (with pennies)
89. TV stamps (aka Trading Stamps)
(Thanks to Ed, Peter and Edmund for their suggestions!)
(*To be fair, a couple of these things would have been going out by ’55…)
Have you ever used/owned/had knowledge of the following:
1. Dimmer switch on an auto
2. A party line
3. A dial telephone
4. A telephone exchange number
5. A manual typewriter
6. An electric typewriter
7. Carbon paper
8. Correction fluid
9. A mimeograph machine
10. Old Xerox paper (when it was waxy)
11. Anything powered by tubes
12. A transistor radio
13. Reel to reel tape recorder
14. 8-track player
15. Cassette recorder
16. Record player/vinyl records/45 spindles, etc.
17. Black and white TV
18. Avon Calling!
19. Any vehicle without automatic windows
20. Gas station attendants who fill your tank, check the oil and clean the windshield
21. An outhouse
22. Jacks, marbles, tiddly winks, hopscotch
23. Mr. Potatohead kits where you had to supply a real potato (no plastic body)
24. Frisbees molded to look like flying saucers (with planetary names on the rim)
25. The teaberry shuffle
26. Cigarette commercials on TV
27. Cars without seatbelts
28. A fuse box
29. Cars with real metal bumpers
30. Polaroid cameras
31. 8mm cameras and projectors
32. Milk and egg deliveries
33. Elevator operators
34. The Fuller Brush salesman
35. Encyclopedia salesmen
36. Playground equipment made out of iron and steel
37. Wind-up clocks
38. Car hops
39. Music broadcast on AM radio
40. Rabbit ear antennas
41. Car record turntables
42. Drive-ins
43. Duckpin bowling (only in the greater Maryland region…)
44. Telegrams
45. Penny candy
46. Polio scares
47. Clothes wringer
48. Car water bag (only out West)
49. Dime stores
50. Underground newspapers
51. Burma shave signs
52. Mah jong
53. Score sheets for bowling
54. Walking to school
55. Slot cars
56. Maypoles
57. Coffee can hair rollers
58. Pop top cans
59. Bottle caps with cork
60. Colas made with cane sugar
61. Screaming yellow zonkers
62. Inner tubes
63. Snow chains for tires
64. Greenie stickum caps
65. M-80’s & cherry bombs
66. Quad stereo
67. Skateboards made from roller skates
68. Slide rule
69. Air raid sirens
70. Blackout curtains at the school
71. Muscular dystrophy carnivals (in the greater DC area)
72. Caged go-go girls
73. Hootenannies
74. Pop guns
75. Poodle skirts, Beatle boots, go-go boots, collarless jackets, bleached jeans, Nehru jackets
76. Playing with mercury
77. Travelers checks
78. Soap box cars
79. Burning leaves in the autumn
80. A TV set without a remote
81. Fountain pens
82. Carrying pocket knives to school
83. Jarts (lawn darts)
84. Dictaphones
85. Boxed popcorn at movies
86. Savings passbooks
87. Chewing gum wrapper chains
88. Penny loafers (with pennies)
89. TV stamps (aka Trading Stamps)
(Thanks to Ed, Peter and Edmund for their suggestions!)
posted by mendip at
5:37 PM
2 Comments:
Jesus F'n Christ! I dont think there is anything on there I dont recall! I turned 53 in january. And much of that,it's been year's since I even thought about them. You certainly have a better damn memory than I do. I liked the old "Twilight Zone" episodes as a kid. I hated f'n 8 track's...evryone I knew loved them...but I thought they were so big and bulky...I was using cassetes instead...and looked at as an oddball for doing so. I actually still have alot of music on cassette...alot of old school stuff, like punk,industrial and such. And I still hate f'n seat belt's!
By
Ranch Chimp, at 6:00 PM
Another thing...when you mentioned "air raid siren's" I remember when we had school's where we sat in neat row's and we had alert's as such...where they had us hide under the desk...I never thought about it then, but looking back...I wonder...what the hell good would that have done if we were getting bombed?! Some folk's had them shelter's in the basement where they ratholed all kind's of stuf if we got bombed.
By
Ranch Chimp, at 6:05 PM
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