[coralway]

The Good Humor man.

http://gothamist.com/attachments/nyc...8goodhumor.jpg

[downeaster]

Anybody remember the "big little books"? They predated comic books.

And then there were WPA, CCC, and ration books.

Knickers? I believe the Brits call them "plus fours".

[2BNTV]

Originally Posted by ladydoc

The neighborhood candy store by your grammar school. Remember those strips of little dot candies and the bulls eyes?

Penny candies.

[Bill-n-Brillo]

'Rabbit ears' for television reception, complete with tin foil! (My dad was the best at it!)

Bill

[villages07]

Yellow Top Value or green S&H stamps. Got stamps for your purchases, pasted them into a book, and once you accumulate so many you could trade them in for a prize. Maybe even had to send away for the prize?

Remember ordering stuff by mail from catalogs and waiting six weeks or more for it to arrive?

[Bill-n-Brillo]

Originally Posted by villages07

Yellow Top Value or green S&H stamps. Got stamps for your purchases, pasted them into a book, and once you accumulate so many you could trade them in for a prize. Maybe even had to send away for the prize?.......

I remember going to local Top Value and/or S&H stores - actual brick-and-mortar stores! - with my mom when she'd redeem her full stamp books. She got TONS of stuff!!!

I think you might be right - after a while, the stores went away and I believe you then had to send away for things.

Bill

[Bonny]

Playing Red Rover, Tag & Hide & Seek. Saturday afternoons at the Roller Skating Rink.

[batman911]

$.25 movie, $.10 grape sodas, watching the World Series on a B&W TV at the local VFW with my Dad and his friends on a Saturday afternoon, my first portable transistor radio, roller skates with keys, riding our bicycles with cane fishing poles to a stream for some fish'in on a lazy summer day.

[coralway]

ace, king, queen

[jblum315]

Trolley cars. I believe Richmond, Va., where I grew up, had the first commercial electric tram lines in the entire country. They lasted from 1888 to 1949.

[Posh 08]

Originally Posted by jblum315

Trolley cars. I believe Richmond, Va., where I grew up, had the first commercial electric tram lines in the entire country. They lasted from 1888 to 1949.

Do you remember the RF&P Railroad?

[angiefox10]

Naw.... It was all before my time!

[2BNTV]

I remember a coal delivery man shoveling coal onto a chute going into the basement of a house so it be used for the furnace.

[mrfixit]

Originally Posted by 2BNTV

I remember a coal delivery man shoveling coal onto a chute going into the basement of a house so it be used for the furnace.

...ME too. OUR coal-man had a Dray-wagon with a BIG sign that read........ " C. COLE and BE WARM " "Ph. 9-6055". That IS right ...only 5 digits in the Phone number in our town. The owner was Mrs. C. COLE and she sold COAL. The Dray was pulled by 2 giant (to me) horses. YUP...then my job was to shovel the coal to the furnace (as needed) ...and...haul out the "clinkers" after the coal was burned...I would smash the clinkers to dust--in the garden. DANG things grew big where the clinkers went. I THOUGHT I was a "BIG SHOT" because I was responsible to keep the house warm. When I was 11 we switched to natural gas. ......Today it would probably be considered "child abuse" to have a "little-shaver" like me open the "hot pot" and shovel in the coal. ....ME.....from 6 to 11 yo ....I thought i was "THE MAN"

[2BNTV]

Originally Posted by mrfixit

...ME too. OUR coal-man had a Dray-wagon with a BIG sign that read........ " C. COLE and BE WARM " "Ph. 9-6055". That IS right ...only 5 digits in the Phone number in our town. The owner was Mrs. C. COLE and she sold COAL. The Dray was pulled by 2 giant (to me) horses. YUP...then my job was to shovel the coal to the furnace (as needed) ...and...haul out the "clinkers" after the coal was burned...I would smash the clinkers to dust--in the garden. DANG things grew big where the clinkers went. I THOUGHT I was a "BIG SHOT" because I was responsible to keep the house warm. When I was 11 we switched to natural gas. ......Today it would probably be considered "child abuse" to have a "little-shaver" like me open the "hot pot" and shovel in the coal. ....ME.....from 6 to 11 yo ....I thought i was "THE MAN"

You are da man!!!!

I thought I would be the only who remembered the coal man when I posted.

I remember my grandmother being the first one to have a refrigerator instead of an ice box. I remember telling her I was thirsty and she got a glass of water that she stored in the frig.

Funny how I still do the same thing today. [/B]

Kids today's reaction would be, "what do you mean there were no refrigerators".