I remember

towels or glasses in clothes detergent boxes

blue starch to soak our nurses caps in (stuck them to the mirror until dry)

sitting in long rows at school (desks attached to the floor)

waiting for a turn to use the phone (many sisters)

paying a penny for a seltser at the luncheon counter in Woloworths

parades with lots of marching bands and service men

church on Sunday and the bakery afterward

good times and occasionally bad times.

I have learned from all of them; I hope.

Remembering
 

These are so much fun to read and bring back memories....some of them I don't remember because I was too young. Yipee for me!

I remember:
 

Tax stamps given for some purchases and collected at school for credits for something :).

A visiting nurse at school checking for your vaccination scar. (Girls who had one on their thighs had to be checked in the cloakroom).

Speaking of cloakrooms, every classroom had one. They were great for soggy rain wear, mittens, and kids who misbehaved. One day one kid ate several other children's lunches while he was incarcerated there!

Remember Tom and Betty, Dick and Jane, and their dog named Flip?

Elementary schools without carpool lanes.

Lik-Em-Aid that turned your hands green and red.

Air raid drills.

Trying to decide how I was going to deal with being the outcast of the sophomore class because my mother thought that $16.99 for a pair of Weejuns sounded outrageous! She did relent and you actually couldn't wear those shoes out!

Andy's Gang
S&H Green Stamps
Lime Rickeys
Egg Creams
stickball
Bikes with baseball cards stuck in the spokes with clothespins
Having to change out of your "school clothes" when you got home
milk delivery
johnnie on the pony
mumblypeg
ebbetts field
the polo grounds
girls wearing girdles (frustrating)
girls wearing stockings (much better)
25 cent hot dogs and 35 cent burgers
10 cent soft pretzels (three for a quarter)
stoopball
boxball
chinese handball
Murray the K
Cousin Brucie
Bob Sheppard, the voice of the Yankees

In my family's house we had one rotary dial phone in the kitchen. If you wanted privacy, you had to drag the phone into my parents' bedroom and close the door.

"Brick" or "bag" car phones -- couldn't put those in a purse.

Using a manual typewriter to type papers in high school and college

We had one black and white TV shared by 5 people until I was 10. And if you missed your TV show, there were no DVR's or watching the show a few days/weeks later on the internet or a cable's "on demand" service.

At my Catholic elementary school, we had lunch tickets that we bought every week, and the lunch ladies would punch the lunch ticket every day that a student bought a hot lunch.

Blackboards and chalk -- do they still exist in elementary or high schools?

Pay phones...not obsolete yet, but will there be any left in 5 years? It's pretty hard to find one now.

"Trying to decide how I was going to deal with being the outcast of the sophomore class because my mother thought that $16.99 for a pair of Weejuns sounded outrageous!"

Weejuns!!!!!! If they looked worn out; a friend told me, that just meant you've been cool for a long time.

[QUOTE=Jim 9922;446261]
The blizzard of 1047 (if you lived in Wisconsin)

Now even I don't remember that one. 1947 maybe, but not 1047.

So true...
 

Weejuns!!!!!! If they looked worn out; a friend told me, that just meant you've been cool for a long time.[/QUOTE]

:bigbow:

And remember when everything came in madras?

And how about those green canvasy coats with the hood?

At my high school slacks (let alone jeans) were a no-no.

Jim 9922,

The blizzard of 1047? Boy, you are old.

And if the knob broke off you kept a pair of pliers on top of the TV so you could change channels (maybe that was just at my house?)

:bigbow:

And remember when everything came in madras?

And how about those green canvasy coats with the hood?

At my high school slacks (let alone jeans) were a no-no.[/QUOTE]

The madras would bleed :o .... loved the ties, sport coats and shorts.

Pliers for the Philco radio too. Also my Grandfather would turn the TV antenna (or have us) a little this way or that way with a pipe wrench to get the Phillies game.

50's decorating
 

Luckily, they weren't noticed next to those lovely rabbit ears!

And, for years there were really only three channels. The evening news was 15 minutes long. Any Cincinnati area people remember Peter Grant? Paul Dixon? Ruth Lyons? Uncle Al? Ding Dong School?

Memories of years gone by...
 

Lux Radio Theatre
Amos 'n Andy
roller skates with a key
4 party phone lines
trolly cars (in Boston)
food stamps during WW2
mixing the color in oleo
pin curls (to curl hair)
rag curls (to curl hair)
Sears & Roebuck Catalog

"See Rock City" painted on the roof of every barn in the country.

Dial "0" for operator and actually getting one personally that will put your call through.

Directory Assistance that actually looked up the number for you at no charge.

All phones owned by the phone company.

"Henry J" automobile.