Double Dog Dare

[Sarah99GXE]

Ready to feel old guys?

 

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 ...Empire 3-2701)

      12. Peashooters.

      13. Howdy Doody

      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

      31. Lincoln Logs

      32. 15 cent McDonald hamburgers

      33. 5 cent packs of baseball cards...with that awful pink slab

      of bubble gum

      34. Penny candy

      35. Gasoline at 25 cents-a-gallon

 

      A TIME WHEN.....................

 

      1. Decisions were made by going "eeny-meeny-miney-Mo

      2. Mistakes were corrected by simply exclaiming "do over! 3."Race

      issue" meant arguing about who ran the fastest.

      4. Catching the fireflies in a jar could happily occupy an

      entire

      evening.

      5. It wasn't odd to have two or three "best" friends.

      6. The worst thing you could catch from the opposite sex was

      "cooties."

      7. Having a weapon in school meant being caught with a slingshot.

      8. A foot of snow was a dream come true.

      9.Saturday morning cartoons weren't 30-minute ads for action

      figures.

      10. "Oly-oly-oxen-free" made perfect sense.

      11. Spinning around, getting dizzy, and falling down was cause

      for giggles.

      12. The worst embarrassment was being picked last for a team.

      13. War was a card game.

      14. Water balloons were the ultimate weapon.

      15. Baseball cards in the spokes transformed any bike into a

      motorcycle.

      16. Taking drugs meant orange-flavored chewable aspirin.

[bassdog]

Those are good, I remember most of those  

 

bassdog

[MountaineerTom]

Ready to feel old guys?

 

How many do you remember?

 

      1. Candy cigarettes

 

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      3."Race issue" meant arguing about who ran the fastest.

     

LOL.  I remember most of them.

 

1.  I was just thinking about that the other day when I seen a cigarette ad in a magazine.

 

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3.  My son does the same thing as I did when he gets a new pair of shoes.  Tests them out to see how much faster he can run!  

 

 

[Jpshostr]

On the first list, 3, 28, 31, and just about all of the second list.  Can you tell I'm just a young buck?

[Greg]

OK, I remember all but one - Butch Wax???

 

Good list.  Lots of good memories.

[gandolphxx]

Go Sahra! - those are great - If I remember correct, Butch Wax was for the DA that "those types wore".

 

Check out: http://www.butchwax.net/Index2.htm

 

and this classic:

 

http://www.moniz.org/images/Family/butch_wax/butch_wax.jpg

[doverarjim]

I covered em all, I guess we all know "I'm old"  but those were the days my friends, how about minibikes? Or subdivision capture the flag, our only rule was we could not cross any major streets.  Or how about .02 deposit on glass pop bottles? I can't think of many more now but I'll come up with some more.  Cheapest I ever saw gas was .179 a gallon.  How about 8-track tapes or even better my best 4-tracks!

[General Lee 01]

Ha! I just did #2 (on the first list)the other day!

[burgundyz71]

I remember almost all of them, butch wax ? , and I have Teaberry gum in my truck now.

[NewbieZ71]

No 7, 10 or 13...the rest YES.......

[sincityZ71]

I remember a few from the first list, but pretty much all of the send list.  Some of the things on the first list are much before my time, I am just a young 20...

[chevy4x4trucks]

so I see this was an evil ploy to flush out all of the old guys by bringing back child hood memories.

[NewbieZ71]

so I see this was an evil ploy to flush out all of the old guys by bringing back child hood memories.

something had to flush us out.  the bran isnt working too well.