Past memories

[lvdkeyes]

Things from my childhood:

45 rpm spindles
S & H Green Stamps
Metal Ice cube trays
Beanie and Cecil
Roller-skate keys
Cork pop guns
Marlin Perkins
Drive in Movies
Drive in restaurants
Car Hops
Studebakers
Topo Gigio
Washtub wringers
The Fuller Brush Man
Sky King
Reel-To-Reel tape recorders
Tinkertoys
Erector Sets
Lincoln Logs
15 cent hamburgers
5 cent packs of baseball cards
Penny candy
25 cent a gallon gasoline
Jiffy Pop popcorn
5 cent stamps
Gum wrapper chains
Chatty Cathy dolls
5 cent Cokes
Speedy Alka-Seltzer
Giving Cigarettes for Christmas gifts
Falstaff Beer
Burma Shave signs
Brownie camera
Flash bulbs
TV Test patterns
Old Yeller
Chef Boy-AR-Dee
Fire escape tubes
Timmy and Lassie
Ding Dong Avon calling
Brylcreem
Aluminum Christmas Trees


If you can remember most or all of these, Then you have lived!!!!!!!
Pass this on to anyone who may need a break from their 'grown-up' life .. . ......
And if some or all of these are unknown to you, I'm so sorry! You missed
out on the "good stuff"!

[Bob]

Beanie and Cecil? Don't have a clue there (but I did recognize every other entry in your list). Had you mentioned Howdy Doodie, you'd have fully taken me back to the 50's....hehe.

[bao-bao]

Yup, they all sparked a memory. My sister had the Chatty Cathy, but I was fascinated by the little records you put into the mechanism to make it talk.

If you remember things on this list you probably also remember Telly Savalas in the Twilight Zone episode about Talking Tina.

[RichLB]

Beanie and Cecil? Don't have a clue there (but I did recognize every other entry in your list). Had you mentioned Howdy Doodie, you'd have fully taken me back to the 50's....hehe.

How could you forget the Leakin Lena and Dishonest John (from the Beanie and Cecil Show)

[lvdkeyes]

More:
Newspaper drives
Collecting bottle caps
Collecting old Popsicle sticks
Collecting foil from gum and cigarette packs and making a ball out of it
Playing street games like kick the can, hide and seek, relievio (sp), hop scotch and rolly poly

[Bob]

Beanie and Cecil? Don't have a clue there (but I did recognize every other entry in your list). Had you mentioned Howdy Doodie, you'd have fully taken me back to the 50's....hehe.

How could you forget the Leakin Lena and Dishonest John (from the Beanie and Cecil Show)

I must have had a gap in my youth as (even having just watched a YouTube video of that cartoon show) I have zero recollection of ever seeing it. Maybe it was before my time.....

[windwalker]

Marbles, Yo-Yos, Kites, Knickers. Prancing around the May Pole, and even outdoor toilets at the Buck Street School.

[lvdkeyes]

Tying a board to the front of a fire hydrant and opening the hydrant causing a nice cooling spray to play in. That is, until the police came and turned it off.

Living without air conditioning.

Movies were the place to go to cool off spending about 5 hours watching previews, cartoons, newsreel and two movies. Best 14 cents value of a lifetime.

[Jomtienbob]

You guys make me feel so young. You make me feel like spring has sprung.

[lvdkeyes]

Come on, you don't remember any of these things?