Meme Time

[etumukutenyak]

Stolen freely from fledgist


These things supposedly aren't around any more-- bold the ones you remember!

1 Blackjack chewing gum
2.Wax Coke-shaped bottles with colored sugar water
3.Candy cigarettes
4.Soda pop machines that dispensed glass bottles
5. Coffee shops or diners with tableside juke boxes There's still a local chain with these.
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 LA8-8355, still in the memory banks even forty mumble years later!
12. Peashooters
13. Howdy Doody
14. 45 RPM records
15. S&H greenstamps
16 Hi-fi's
17. Metal ice trays with lever Might still have one or two in the basement...
18. Mimeograph paper Oh, yeah!
19. Blue flashbulbs
20. Packards
21. Roller skate keys
22. Cork popguns
23. Drive-ins Still have these in various locations, depending on the state.
24. Studebakers
25. Wash tub wringers (Mangles, we called those)
26. "Big, little" books.
27. Using hand signals for cars without turn signals.
28. Soldering irons you heat on a gas burner.
29. Pant leg clips for bicycles without chain guards.
30. Real ice boxes.
31. Head lights dimmer switches on the floor The Ford Pinto had this too.
32. Heaters mounted on the inside of the fire wall. ??? Is this supposed to be the fireplace wall?
33. Ignition switches on the dashboard.

Comments

[mjlayman.livejournal.com]

There were 50 things in the list I saw earlier in my list.