First car, '58 Ford Fairlane (police interceptor special), guess dad never looked under the hood. First new car '66 Mustang coupe, still have a '66 Mustang (not the same one).
Screw in fuses (a true fuse box), knob and tube wiring sometimes on the outside of the wall. American Flyer trains, Lincoln logs, metal erector sets (motorized if you were lucky), tinker toys, and Sputnik.
Just some fond memories................

Our code:

Person to Person: I'm just checking in, safe and sound, no need to call back or respond.

Person to Person COLLECT: I'm checking in, but want to actually talk to you. You can either accept the charges or call me back so you can pay the normal long distance fees, not the additional collect charges (which were insanely expensive).

This was at college, where most of us didn't have our own phones and used the dorm's pay phone at the end of the hall.

Thank god my mother thought it was too expensive to call me at college. Free at last!

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Bomb shelter signs near subway stops.

OMG, I forgot about those..........

Not me; the town I grew up in (population 714) had relatively little subway system, other than the moles.

This is a great thread. I remember none of these things you all talk about... since I wasn't born until almost 1970... but fun to read about them anyway!

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I grew up in London during WW2, and we had ours at the bottom of our garden.
Nothing more exiting to a five year old to come out of it in the morning and find half your house gone.
Mum was a bit p****d off though!

“ penny candy”. And sometimes you could get 2 for a penny

Ginger snaps and sharp (blue) cheese.

Car Floor Mounted Headlight Dimmer Switches? What year did they take the High Beam/ Low Beam button off the floor and put it on the steering wheel? :shrug:

....and vacuum windscreen wipers. Faster you went, the slower they worked!
Foot hard down on gas pedal, they stopped, lift off gas, they worked, foot hard down, they stopped, lift off gas, ad infinitum.

:icon_wink: I just came up with another idea for a new thread after reading your reply. I will start it.... Please jump in. :)

Many of the public schools in our state had fallout shelters in the basements. Many of those schools are still standing and in use as either schools or other education/municipal buildings. The yellow and black bomb shelter signs are still there on the corner next to the emergency entrance. I don't know if those shelters still have in them what was put in them, or if they were ever converted into storage or other kinds of rooms. But the rooms are definitely still there!

Dumping nickle bag of peanuts into a nickle bottle of Coke.

:popcorn: Another post on a different thread made me think of this.... Did any of the guys out there have BB gun fights with your friends as kids. My friends and I did this all the time. It's amazing we never lost an eye. We had a rule you could only shoot from the neck down. Like we hit what we aimed at! :laugh:

:) In Florida while in the USMC more than 50 years ago.

29 cent per gallon of gas. Vacuum tube testers at the corner store. The egg man, the ragman, Louie the peddler selling fruits and vegetables from a truck.