Past memories

[pokahottie]

Koogle & Abba (anytime I hear "Fernando" or eat peanut butter and banana, I'm 8 again.)
8 Track's
Crazy Carpets & sliding on inner tubes
Drive In's
Waterbeds
Rugby pants
Telephone party lines
Star Wars
James Bond
Hogans Hero's
I Dream of Jeanie
Battlestar Galactica
Buck Rogers
Space 1999 and all because we got....
Satellite TV & WGN Chicago.
Boni Am
AMC Jeep Cherokee





oh, and my very first computer,
Sinclair 1000, which I still have today.

http://www.spacious-mind.com/html/timex ... _1000.html

[Gaybutton]

[lvdkeyes]

What products?

"What a chunk of chocolate!"
"I can't believe I ate the whole thing."
"That's a spicy speecy meatball."
"You'll wonder where the yellow went when you-----------."

[Gaybutton]

What products?

"What a chunk of chocolate!"
"I can't believe I ate the whole thing."
"That's a spicy speecy meatball."
"You'll wonder where the yellow went when you-----------."

1. Chunky
2. Alka Seltzer
3. Alka Seltzer
4. brush your teeth with Pepsodent

[DeE]

Ah yes...those were the days.

Anyone from the southern California area will remember:

KHJ AM Boss radio with DJ's Robert W. Morgan / The Real Don's Steel

Wolf-man Jack pumping out the oldies on Pirate radio stations

KFWB AM before they changed their format to all news all the time

The Engineer Bill TV show-channel 9 (I was on that show hahaha)

I remember my parents always watching The Lawrence Welk show on Saturday nights

Slinkys (spring loaded coils)

Barbie dolls and all the crap you could buy....and of course Ken entered the scene but was straight

The Edsel automobile

Etch-a-sketch

A & W Root Beer drive in's

Cracker Jacks

105 octane gasoline for 18 cents a gallon

Oh my, I'm getting depressed.......

[Jomtienbob]

As long as you are getting depressed,

Segregation

Lynchings

Mc Carthy hearings

Korea and Vietnam

And on the brighter side,

The merry pranksters

LSD

Reefer Madness( I resembled that remark)

Uppers and Downers

Rent in New York $70. Family income $280 per month.

Pickles from a barrel

Store made Knishes (ok, I'm from New York)

Chow Chow Cups (more New York)

New York skyline before it was marred by the World Trade Center.

Janis and Hendrix

Beatles vs Dave Clark Five

Hula Hoops

Pez

Bell Bottoms and Tie Dyes

Roller Skates with a key

Risk and Monopoly

Stick Ball on the street. Game on, Game off

Jets vs Sharks

Mantle vs Maris

Gee, I can play this too.

[lvdkeyes]

A few more:
Parcheesi
Roller rinks with live organ music
Cracker Jacks
Yo yos
Sock hops
D A haircuts
Pegged jeans
Home milk delivery in glass bottles with the cardboard cap.
Ice boxes with a drip pan

[Gaybutton]

And more:

Ipana toothpaste
Speedy Alka Seltzer
The Frito Bandito
Speedy Gonzales
Shari Lewis and Lambchop
Kukla, Fran, and Ollie
Teaberry gum
Bubble gum with baseball cards
Wagon wheel shaped pasta
Tiparillos
Cigarette machines
College degree ads on the backs of matchbook covers
5.5 inch floppy disks
Turkish Taffy
Saturday kiddie matinees
Circular dial telephones
Telephones that do nothing other than place and receive calls
The milkman
slide rules
Veg-o-matic

"You know something else you never see anymore? The sacking of a city. I miss that."
- George Carlin

[Gaybutton]

Here's some more nostalgia: Grocery prices in August, 1957

[bao-bao]

Wow.

I printed that one out to share with a couple of folks who were grocery shopping in August 1957. I was still asking for pennies (yes, pennies) to ride the mechanical horse in front of the store that summer.

One of them was trying to remember what the minimum wage was that year and I looked it up for them: here in the US it was 75 cents an hour. It went to $1/hr the next year.