Do you remember?

[LI SNOWBIRD]

I was just getting nostalgic-- going down memory lane (always a dead end) and had a few memories I'd like to share. Feel free to add some of your own.

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.
Window wax used at Christmas to stencil on windows,
Sanding and waxing the runners on your sled
Warming up the tv
Green and plaid stamps

[Boomer]

fender skirts

Carhoppin' Boomer

[Mikeod]

Steak knives with a fill-up at the gas station.

Encyclopedias at the grocery store. One volume per week.

[otherbruddaDarrell]

100 octane purple martin gas.
fizzies
"the land of sky blue waters".............hamms
church keys and steel beer cans
glass packs and curb finders
a reverb for under the dash

[Bill-n-Brillo]

Car engines that a common person could work on.
Roller skates.......that had skate keys.
Skate boards - if you wanted one, you made it yourself.
Sunoco 260
The "gas wars" - 19.9 cents/gal.
Then later.....waiting in line to buy gas "forever" during the energy crisis.
Fuzzy dice.
Everyone got dressed up to go to an indoor theater.
Drive-in movies.
Most all men wore hats (my dad always did!).
Women's stockings had the seam up the back of the legs.
The local dairy delivered to your door.

Bill

[PR1234]

Book Mobiles....the best:clap2::clap2::clap2:

[downeaster]

Anybody remember "Big Little Books"? They were little fat books with the story on one page and an illustration on the facing page. I think comic books put them out of business.

[Pturner]

Car engines that a common person could work on.
Roller skates.......that had skate keys.
Skate boards - if you wanted one, you made it yourself.
Sunoco 260
The "gas wars" - 19.9 cents/gal.
Then later.....waiting in line to buy gas "forever" during the energy crisis.
Fuzzy dice.
Everyone got dressed up to go to an indoor theater.
Drive-in movies.
Most all men wore hats (my dad always did!).
Women's stockings had the seam up the back of the legs.
The local dairy delivered to your door.

Bill

Esso gas stations
Velvet Elvis
Everyone dressed up to fly
Women wore stockings

also...
Victrola's then vinyl albums then cassettes
color TVs before color programming
party line phones, rotary phones and "Princess" phones

[Bill-n-Brillo]

.....Victrola's then vinyl albums then cassettes
......

Don't forget 8-tracks!! :coolsmiley:

Bill

[dmiller51]

Beatle boots,gogo boots ,
platform shoes and penny candy at the movies

[ducati1974]

In-ground garbage pails

Pantries... oh wait...they came back!

Root cellars

Phone booths

Hopscotch

Playboy bikes

Plastic bathroom tiles

Bathtub stoppers

Girdles

Milk delivery

[Whalen]

Don't forget 8-tracks!! :coolsmiley:

Bill

LOL
Aren't we all trying to forget 8-tracks?:cus:

[LI SNOWBIRD]

Thank you all for those wonderful memories (sigh) those were the days and so are these.
Now we're making new memories-- but then again remembering 4 days ago is harder than 30 years ago sigh again.
:spoken::bowdown:

[bandsdavis]

Lots of fun to reminisce. But I wonder what we will be remembering fondly in 15 - 20 years that will be obsolete? Here are a few that I would add:

CD's
Newspapers and printed books
"2-D" movies and TV!
Watches (almost there now!)
$3.00 Gas (Ouch!)
Radios actually built into cars

B.

[LI SNOWBIRD]

I just thought about having a cloakroom in school.Who wore cloaks?
Drive in movies and movie theaters with a balcony.

[jblum8156]

People dressed up to fly, to go to church (even children), to go to the movies and defniitely to go out to dinner.

[Pturner]

Oh, floppy disks. Remember those?

[waynet]

when kids(like me)would knock on your door and ask if they could shovel your driveway.

[downeaster]

Outside visors over car windshields. Anyone mention running boards?

[PR1234]

The thing I remember and WISH they would bring back is gas station attendants!!! I HATE to pump gas.....rain or shine (or snow!) It would seem as the population ages someone would start doing this again:shrug::shrug:

[Whalen]

I just thought about having a cloakroom in school.Who wore cloaks?
Drive in movies and movie theaters with a balcony.


:a20:

We had cloakrooms too!
BTW what the hell are cloaks?

:shrug:

[golfnut]

pt you forgot 4 tracks and don't forget the record players (yes vinyl) that they put in cars in the mid sixties....gn

[skyc6]

My husband still has an 8 trach set up and working! What am I going to do with him!!

[chuckinca]

:a20:

We had cloakrooms too!
BTW what the hell are cloaks?

:shrug:


Ditto

2 cent bottles of milk at school

A&W root beer in an icy mug for 5 cents

Going to the Loop on the EL at Christmas time to sit on Santa's knee

Howdy Doody

Dot candy on paper strips

Hiding under your chair at school during a practice air raid

etc


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[Bill-n-Brillo]

:a20:

We had cloakrooms too!
BTW what the hell are cloaks?

:shrug:


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloak

Bill