To remember what a "double dog dare" is, read on. Remember that
the perfect age is somewhere between old enough to know better and young
enough not to care. How many do you remember?
Candy cigarettes
Wax coke-shaped bottles with colored sugar water inside.
Soda pop machines that dispensed glass bottles.
Coffee shops with table side juke boxes
Blackjack, Clove and Teaberry chewing gum
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 ..(RIngling 9-5505)
Peashooters.
Howdy Doody
45 RPM Records
Green Stamps
Hi-fi's
Metal ice cube trays-with levers
Mimeograph paper
Blue flash Bulbs
Beanie and Cecil
Roller skate keys
Cork pop guns
Drive ins
Studebakers
Wash tub wringers
The Fuller Brush man
Reel-to-reel tape recorders
Tinkertoys
The Erector Set
The Fort Apache Playset
Lincoln Logs
15 cent McDonald hamburgers
5 cent packs of baseball cards... with that awful pink slab of bubblegum
Penny candy
25 cent-a-gallon gasoline
If you can remember most or all of these, then you have lived! |