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Being sent to the drugstore to test vacuum
tubes for the TV.
When Kool-Aid was the only other drink for
kids, other than milk and sodas.
When there were two types of sneakers for
boys High top and Low top.
When boys couldn't wear anything but leather
shoes to school.
When it took five minutes for the TV to warm
up.
When all your friends got their hair cut at
the kitchen table.
When nearly everyone's mom was at home when
the kids got there.
When nobody owned a pure-bred dog.
When a dime was a decent allowance, and a
quarter a huge bonus.
When you'd reach into a muddy gutter for a
penny.
When girls neither dated nor kissed until
late high school, if then.
When your mom wore nylons that came in two
pieces.
When all your teachers wore either neckties
or had their hair done, everyday.
When you got your windshield cleaned, oil
checked, and gas pumped, without asking, free, every time.
And you got trading stamps to boot!
When laundry detergent had free glasses,
dishes or towels hidden inside the box.
When any parent could discipline any kid, or
feed him, or use him to carry groceries, and nobody, not
even the kid, thought a thing of it.
When it was considered a great privilege to
be taken out to dinner at a real restaurant with your
parents.
When they threatened to keep kids back a
grade if they failed--and did!
When being sent to the principal's office was
nothing compared to the fate that awaited a misbehaving
student at home.
When women were called, "Mrs. John Smith,"
instead of their own name.
Friends are those rare people who ask how you are and then
wait to hear the answer.
THE
WAFFLEMAN WANTS TO KNOW DO YOU REMEMBER . . .?
Blackjack chewing gum
Wax Coke-shaped
bottles with colored sugar water
Candy cigarettes
Soda pop machines
that dispensed bottles
Coffee shops with
table side jukeboxes
Home milk delivery in
glass bottles with cardboard stoppers
Party lines
Newsreels before the
movie
P.F. Flyers
Butch wax
Telephone numbers
with a word prefix (FUlton-9-6933)
Peashooters
Howdy Doody
45 RPM records
S&H Green Stamps
Hi-fi's
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Metal ice trays with
levers
Mimeograph paper
Blue flashbulbs
Beanie and Cecil
Roller skate keys
Cork popguns
Drive-ins movies
Studebakers
Wash tub wringers
What were the four
flavors of Bonomo's Turkish Taffy?
Why did your Grandma
have a button box?
What was a Parker 51
used for?
Did that get your
memory stirred up?
GOOD !
If you don't remember
any of these and need an explanation - contact me.
I would love to share my memories
with you.
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