A few more thoughts
Do you remember?
Sugar bags with a sown top you had to rip and unlace to open.
Dimmer switches on the left floorboards in cars.
The triangular vent windows in cars.
Windowpane polish used at Christmas to stencil on windows,
Sanding and waxing the runners on your sled
Warming up the tv
Green and plaid stamps
Your mom waxing the kitchen floor
A burning barrel
The tv had a dial to select the channel and it had a fine tune ring around it.
The tv had to “Warm up”.
The “ROTARY” phone was basic black and on the kitchen wall.
Ice forming on the inside of the windows in winter.
Shoe horns.
“Children should be seen and not heard”.
Making book covers for text books from brown paper bags.
TV commercials were 1 minute long
Playing with gyroscopes.
Home remedies for all kinds of ailments i.e. a physic /castor oil.
The school physical in the school.
Cat’s cradle played with string.
The thick rubber strap with metal hooks that you used to hold your text books while you walked.
“Pegged” pants.
“Duck’s ass” hairdo.
Girl’s sewing bells on their slip during Christmastime in school.
Always being a shepherd in the Christmas play.
PF Flyers ( you always ran faster)
Those great ads in the back of your favorite comic books. X-Ray glasses, getting a Charles Atlas body.
3-D comic books
Playing outside in summer til it got dark.
You had to have a bike and were really groovy if it was an English Racer with 3 or more speeds.
32.Playing Mumblety-peg
33. A rain barrel.
34. Playing cigarette tag.
35. Choosing “eenie meenie miney mo”
36. Blowing on dandelion puffs.
37. Peeling an apple in ONE peel and throwing it to learn who you would marry.
38. Your classroom had a cloakroom
39. Playing “war” with cards.
40. Mercurochrome NOT Iodine please
41. Putting metal taps on your ‘school shoes”
42. Girls who wore short skirts were made to kneel by a school official and her skirt didn’t touch the floor she was sent home.
43. Blue violet used for a mouth ailment.
44. Snow days
45. The whole family sat down to dinner or supper depending on what you called it.
46. The “advent” of UHF that was supposed to give you many more channels on your aerial linked tv.
Last but not least: “your crummy” brother/sister.
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Plato
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