09-30-2001, 09:39 PM
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I am sharing this with you today because it ended with a "dog dare" to pass it on. To remember what a "double dog dare" is, read on. And remember that the perfect age is somewhere between old enough to know better and young enough not to care. How many do you remember? 1. Candy cigarettes 2. Wax coke-shaped bottles with colored sugar water inside. 3. Soda pop machines that dispensed glass bottles. 4. Coffee shops with tableside juke boxes 5. Blackjack, Clove and Teaberry chewing gum 6. Home milk delivery in glass bottles, with cardboard stoppers 7.Party lines 8. Newsreels before the movie 9. P. F. Flyers 10. Butch wax 11. Telephone numbers with a word prefix ...(Drexel-5505) 12.Peashooters 13. Howdy 14. 45 RPM Records 15. Green Stamps 16. Hi-fi's 17. Metal ice cube trays-with levers 18. Mimeograph paper 19.Blue flash Bulbs 20. Beanie and Cecil 21. Roller skate keys 22. Cork pop guns 23. Drive ins 24. Studebakers 25. Wash tub wringers 26. The Fuller Brush man 27. Reel-to-reel tape recorders 28. Tinkertoys 29. The Erector Set 30. The Fort Apache Playset 31. Lincoln Logs 32. 15 cent McDonald hamburgers 33. 5 cent packs of baseball cards...with that awful pink slab of bubblegum 34. Penny candy 35. 35 cent-a-gallon gasoline A TIME WHEN ... Decisions were made by going 'eeny-meeny-miney-mo.' Mistakes were corrected by simply exclaiming "do it over!" "Race issue" meant arguing about who ran the fastest. Catching the fireflies could happily occupy an entire evening. It wasn't odd to have two or three "best" friends. The worst thing you could catch from the opposite sex was " cooties". Having a weapon in school meant being caught with a slingshot. A foot of snow was a dream come true. Saturday morning cartoons weren't 30-minute ads for action figures. "Oly-oly-oxen-free" made perfect sense. Spinning around, getting dizzy, and falling down was cause for giggles. The worst embarrassment was being picked last for a team. War was a card game. Water balloons were the ultimate weapon. Baseball cards in the spokes transformed any bike into a motorcycle. Taking drugs meant orange-flavored chewable aspirin. If you can remember most or all of these, then you have lived!!!! Pass this on to anyone who may need a break from their grown up "life.... I double dog dare ya.  |
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09-30-2001, 10:14 PM
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I remember more of them than I care to admit!!!!! LOL! 
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09-30-2001, 10:36 PM
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09-30-2001, 10:38 PM
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Out here in the boonies, we just got off party lines about 5 years ago. Long about that same time, the phone company changed it to where we had to dial the prefix. Previously, we could just dial the last 4 digits. As far as the rest of it, yes, I also remember far more than I'd like to admit Oh, and water balloons are STILL the ultimate weapon
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10-01-2001, 12:00 AM
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Well...by this.."I HAVE LIVED"..hee hee..you know you're getting older when you can't remember if you lived it or if it was a story your Mom told you of "her remember whens"..LMAO! Thanks tasker! Proud to have passed on the secret of making a "Huffy" sound like a Harley
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10-01-2001, 12:11 AM
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LOL! Hubby & I remembered most of this stuff on the list. Now he's complaining again about the loss of his raisin biscuits - I don't think they've made these things for at least 25 years & he still wants more!
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10-01-2001, 12:19 AM
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I can "just remember" { lol} 15 of the 35... I still have a nice collection of 45's and 33's...And a stereo with a turntable to play them on...And the one's not numbered, I got to have the "distinguised honor" of being included in most of them... They were fast fading, but I got to experience them... "Ahhh... Those were the days..." 
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10-01-2001, 08:33 PM
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Thanks Tasker, I remember a lot of them! Thankfully, there were some that I didn't, so I'm feeling pretty good...lol! Speaking of 45's, do you guys remember cereal boxes would sometimes have a record cutout on the back as a prize. I remember cutting them out and it took forever to get it round! Then if they didn't play well, we would put a penny on it to hold it down so it wouldn't skip!!! Actually, I did that to a lot of my real records as well! Lori |
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10-01-2001, 08:42 PM
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OMG!!! I had forgotten about the cutout records! They were sooo frustrating, and usually on the crappiest cereal. But we pestered mom to buy it. And she FORCED us to eat the cereal...lmao.
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10-01-2001, 08:51 PM
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Cash: You mean you didn't just mangle the box with the cereal in it, and then get screamed at??? LOL! You know it's funny, I watch my daughter like a hawk and I'm always nervous that she'll hurt herself somehow, and yet I can remember being really little weilding a large knife and trying to saw those things out!!! Where was my mom??? LOL!!! Lori |
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10-01-2001, 09:22 PM
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My gosh...I remember most of them myself...and the rest I remember because I have 7 older brothers & sisters and THEY'RE old enough to remember the rest What lovely memories that list brings back...thanks for the walk down Memory Lane! I think I'll print this list out and hang it up and smile every time I read it
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10-01-2001, 11:48 PM
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Oh goodness!!! I must be getting old......LOL I remember almost all of them. Thanks.......this brought back very good memories. dlabrie708,,,oh do I remember the record cutouts! Used to try to get it before my brother could get to it. LOL
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10-02-2001, 08:31 AM
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23. Drive ins still have one down the road.......... 1. Candy cigarettes 2. Wax coke-shaped bottles with colored sugar water inside. 3. Soda pop machines that dispensed glass bottles one and two are still around here....... 3 there is a little old repair shop (fixes tires) that still has one of these...... I think the soda is probably from the 50's or so LOL 4. Coffee shops with tableside juke boxes believe it or not there is also one of these in town too....... 5. Blackjack, Clove and Teaberry chewing gum Oh man i wish i could find this!!!! 6. Home milk delivery in glass bottles, with cardboard stoppers there is a new dairy here called memory lane that does this (not the cardboard stoppers though.......... 7.Party lines Hate these! still have them (my hubbies aunt still has one) 8. Newsreels before the movie get my fix of these on TMC or AMC still i won't go on............... i could list alot of this as still here........... I believe where i live we are still stuck in 1960 or 70 maybe......... the only big difference is that gs isn't 35 cents a gallon *sigh* lol
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