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Posted: 8/17/2006 2:38:34 AM | If you ever wore ....Go Go Boots .....Maxi skirts....leather headbands,beads, flowers in your hair .......on a daily basis you would use the terms, groovey...far out...cool...radical....oh man. The days of & ................... | |
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Posted: 8/21/2006 11:35:03 PM | | anyone remember mexican jumping beans? the orange, wax, music things, like whisles, but had about 5 put togather....like the red lips were chewable? when coke, lunch cakes, chips, gum, ice cream and candy bars were a nickle each? I got 50 cents a week allowence so I could buy 4 cokes, candy bar, chips, pk of gum, ice cream bar, lunch cake, anddd the orange thing (also 5 cents). How much would all that be today? | |
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Posted: 8/22/2006 9:09:31 AM | I remember: teased hair styles, wearing short, tight skirts with black stockings since pantyhose wasn't out there yet. I remember cigarettes at 25 cents a pack and smoking was allowed on trains and buses.
I remember train fare at 10 cents.
I remember cartons of cigarettes being sold from the aisle shelves of supermarkets.
I remember when sneakers were worn ONLY in gym class. | |
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Posted: 8/22/2006 9:58:48 AM | how about this: You remember when penny-candies actually cost A PENNY!
(they're all 5 cents now!)
and
the phrase "I'm never drinking that much again, dude" is replaced by "Man, I can't drink like I used to" | |
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| You Might Be Older Than Dirt.........IF.........
Posted: 9/12/2006 7:38:59 AM | You might be older then dirt if;
-you never had a bicycle helmet groing up
-if you could lie douwn in the back window of your dad's car...while his driving
-if lawn dart were stil legal
-if there was no unleaded gas at the gas station
-if you could drive around all week end on $5.00 of gas
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Posted: 9/13/2006 7:29:02 AM |
-if lawn dart were stil legal
-if there was no unleaded gas at the gas station
Oh my, I forgot about lawn darts. We played those all the time when I was about 18.
Unleaded Gas.......oh yeah....forgot gas did use to be leaded. I remember driving around in my 69 mustang and running out of gas. Back then I think gas was around .35 cents a gallon.
Those were the days for sure toutou. | |
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Joined: 8/21/2006
Msg: 60 | |
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8463
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Joined: 8/21/2006
Msg: 61 | |
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Posted: 9/17/2006 6:05:47 AM | | Safety pins up your jeans,bell bottoms,striped bobbi socks with the toes in them,disco,black and white tv,courting,earth shoes,clackers,listening to the everly brothers ,records lol,going to the 5 to cent store and getting 10 bags of candy for a quarter | |
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Posted: 9/17/2006 11:01:27 AM | I sure do. It was called BONOMO turkish taffy. To eat it, the first thing you did was slam it on a counter to break it into bite sized pieces. Enjoy the memories.
Larry | |
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Posted: 2/3/2007 4:47:04 AM | I remember double feature movies, with cartoons, 3 stooges and NEWSREELS in them. And a drawing on Saturday matinee day for prizes!
I remember gas stations giving away drinking glasses and having my folks go to the same station so we could collect a set, gradually with our fillups.
I remember full service stations where a guy came out of the little building or hut and washed your windows while he filled up your car.
I remember gas wars- when stations competed by lowering their prices! In one of these, I remember gas dropping to 24 cents a gallon and this was in the early 70s.
Heck, I remember the gas crisis of 73-74 and lining up for gas early in the morning before the stations would run out and shut down; and you could only do this on alternate days.
I remember roller skates with a key, that you put OVER your shoes; and I remember sharing a pair with a buddy. We each wore one and basically presaged skateboards.
I remember the day after the election of 1968 and my Jr. High history teacher saying: Well, Nixon won; I'm going to Canada; who's with me? | |
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Posted: 2/3/2007 4:51:32 AM | Oh yes! I remember Mexican jumping beans! I used to beg for trips to Tiajuana just to buy those!
And little turtles with painted backs - how many of those did my mother flush down the toilet??
-and chameleons that you would try to wear to school on your shoulder until the teacher would notice and point, insistently at the door. | |
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Posted: 2/3/2007 4:53:38 AM | OK, pre pantyhose- how about fishnet stockings; two and three pair in contrasting colors so your legs could be psychadelic? Anyone else do that?
And those awful garter belts with the snaps to hold up your stockings? And how one would always slip open and then your stockings would slide down on just one side? | |
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Posted: 2/3/2007 6:46:26 AM |
You Might Be Older Than Dirt.........IF.........
1) You remember candy cigarettes
2) Blackjack chewing gum
3) Watched black&white TV
4) Owned a pair of P.F. Flyers
Guilty as charged....
I also remember "gas wars" meaning the 4 filling stations on the corners of one intersection competing and getting gasoline for $0.22 a gallon. (in a gallon can for the lawnmower because I wasn't driving yet) | |
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Posted: 2/3/2007 8:48:19 AM | I lived next door to the electrical engineer working on the first television to the city.
One day we all got to come in and see it.
The screen might have been like 10 inches, on top of a pretty tall box.
It was showing a test pattern on channel 2
So I asked 'what about channel 1?'
'There is only channel 2'
So I concluded they were pretty dumb to start counting with 2.
And also the screen was so tiny all we would be able to see would be talking heads.
I was right on one count. | |
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Posted: 2/3/2007 10:44:46 AM | When all there was were out houses
candles for lights in the house, are oil lamps was all there was
splitting a rank are more of fire wood with a ax
when anyone could buy smokes out of a machine in the landry matt
When you didn't have to have insurance to drive a car
When a car only cost a few 100 and it ran perfect
When you could have sex and not risk getting anything but pregant
A big bottle of soda pop was 50 cents in the machine, and you rember when it use to be 35 cents, and you complain about the 50 cents
When a penny bought a few peices of candy in the store, and a dollar meant you had money when you were a kid.
You had to walk a long way to shcool in the snow, and rain bare foot. O.k. holes in your shoes. | |
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Posted: 2/3/2007 11:05:33 AM | im only 28 and i remember popeye candy cigarettes. in fact they still make them. you can buy them at the dollar store or candy store. but they are no longer called candy cigarettes they are now called popeye candy sticks. i also remember blackjack chewing gum. and drinking pop out of a glass bottle instead of a can. i remember when a buck would get you a chocolate bar, a bag of chips and a bottle of pop. wow i must be old...lmao. | |
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Posted: 2/3/2007 1:44:12 PM | | you know you're gettin old when they start to make the "time life best of the (fill in decade here) for me it's the 80's....... or when you get excited listening to it on the radio......LOL or if your kids ask you if you had radios when you were growing up (sheeesh how old do you think I am????........LOL) | |
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Posted: 2/3/2007 6:23:39 PM | I always thought it was BlackBart chewing gum.
Playing Nicky Nicky Nine Doors was tonnes of fun and no one really cared that we did.
Prank phone calls about refridgerators running was hilarious.
We climbed the bluffs for fun and jumped into Lake Ontario in March on a dare.
We caught frogs even though we lived in the city.
We buried our pets in the back yard.
Olly Olly Oxen Free was a real word.
Yelling CAR meant move the nets over, but the car would wait if someone was scoring a goal.
Our parents let us play with Ouija boards in the basement in the dark.
We left the house before lunch on our bikes or rollerskates and returned when the streetlights came on and no one had to worry.
We slept in the backyard in tents we made out of old curtains and the only worry we had were skunks and coons.
Thrills were soapy tasting gum but we ate em anyway.
There was always one kid getting his/her mouth washed with soap for saying a bad word.
Bad words were Bad words.
Oh and Polka Dot Door, songs and stories an so much more..it still irritates me | |
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