Clipping a baseball card to your bicycles rear spokes with a clothespin to make it sound like a motorcycle.
Watching the Ted Mack Amateur Hour.
Singer sewing machines with floor treadles.
Playing with your Duncan Yo-Yo.
Mini-skirts - Oh Yeah!
Gas Station pumps with glass globes on top of them.
Erector sets.
When laundry detergent had free glasses or dishes inside the box.
Chasing the ice cream truck through your neighborhood and getting a big chunk of ice from the driver on a hot day.
Watching the 3 Stooges on TV after school.
Getting your butt paddled by the school principal with a big board that had holes drilled it, so you could hear it coming.
Transistor radios.
Going to the A&W restaurant and getting a large frosted mug of root beer.
Tinker toys.
Vehicle headlight high-low beam dimmer switch's on the floorboard.
Watching the Mickey Mouse Club with Annette Funicello and the other Mouseketeers.
78 RPM records.
Walking to school no matter what the weather.
Bordon's mascott, Elsie the cow.
Buck night at the local drive-in theaters.
Vargas playing cards with pin up girls.
Bell-bottom pants & Nehru shirts.
Radio shows - The Shadow, Abbott & Costello, Arthur Godfrey and his talent scouts, Red Skelton, Hopalong Cassidy, Charlie Chan, Buck Rogers and Red Rider,
Drinking Cherry cokes and Green rivers at the drive-in restaurants & the car hops who waited on you wore roller skates with 4 wheels.
When you were young , wanting to be older - What a hoot, I wish I were young again.
Black and white TV’s with rabbit ear antennas that only received 3 broadcasting stations, ABC, NBC and CBS.
Your grandmother’s bathroom with all of those pills and medicines – Look familiar?
Listening to Make-it or Break-it on the radio.
Rin Tin Tin the famous German Shepard dog.
When school teachers held students back a grade if they failed.
Fizzies, candy braclets, wax bottles with juice inside, pixy stix (paper sticks with flavored powder inside), Candy buttons (Paper with candy dots on it), shoestring licorice, sen-sens, teaberry gum, blackjack gum, and cinnamon toothpicks.
PF Flyer tennis shoes that made you run faster and jump higher.
Cruzin’ though town.
Laying on your back, staring up at the night sky trying to count all of the stars.
Wide neck-ties.
Kilroy was here!
Playing 45 RPM records on your phonograph.
Pick-up sticks.
My Friend Flicka, the show about a boy and his mare stallion.
Cars with spotlights.
When President John F. Kennedy was assassinated - I was in school and the principal announced it over the PA system.
Wax lips.
Automobile running boards.
Catching lightening bugs and putting them in a jar.
Watching Playhouse 90 on TV.
Gas station price wars. I remember gas at .19¢ a gallon – you could fill your tank for less than five dollars.
Tin-Type pictures.
Remember gas stations that checked your tires and oil, washed your windows, pumped your gas – then gave you stamps that were redeemable for gifts.
Woolworth’s five and dime store.
Wooden outhouse's.
Cars with big chrome bumpers, tail fins and big whitewall tires.
Milk in glass bottles with the flat cardboard caps being delivered to your house.
Laughing so hard your stomach hurt.
Soda fountains at the local drug store.
Cushman scooters and mo-peds.
Cokes in drink machines were just a nickel.
Muscle cars.
All telephones were connected to the wall, and they were black with rotary dials.
Working problems out with a pencil and paper in school - We didn’t have calculators and computers back then.
The Ford Edsel, Nash Rambler, Buick’s with port holes on the fenders.
8-track tapes.
This one is a guy thing…..Writing your name in the snow while peeing – dotting the i was the hardest to do.
When Alaska and Hawaii became U.S. states.
Lassie the famous Collie dog.
When your friends would come over and ask your parents if you could come out and play?
Watching Highway Patrol on TV with Brodrick Crawford as the star.
Where you were when the radio announced that Elvis had died? I remember exactly where I was – I was shocked. And yes, he's really dead! Thank you, thank you very much...
TV westerns - Wagon Train, Rawhide, Cheyenne, Sugarfoot, Wyatt Earp, Wild Bill Hickok, Gunsmoke, Maverick, The Rifleman and Bat Masterson.
Playing with and having toys that are now antiques.
The first McDonald’s restaurant.
Jack Webb in Dragnet.
Going out to see movies at a theater, and a cartoon was shown before the movie.
The Beatles arrival to the United States.
Cartoons - Yogi Bear and his sidekick Boo Boo, Heckle & Jeckle the 2 witty black magpies, Mighty Mouse, Deputy Dawg, Mr. Magoo the near-sighted crotcherty old man, Huckleberry Hound, Felix the Cat, Rocky & Bullwinkle, Woody Woodpecker, Casper the friendly ghost, Boris & Natasha, Dudley Do-Right who was with the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, Professor Peabody and his WayBack Machine, featuring Mr. Peabody as a smart dog and his boy Sherman.
Jukebox’s.
Telephones with party lines.
The NBC Peacock and the CBS Eye.
When the color TV set became available, they were so expensive that only a few could afford them.
McDonalds hamburgers were only .15¢
Watching Romper Room and being either a good Do-Bee or a bad Do-Bee.?
Large automobile hood ornaments – Shaped like airplanes, jets, lightening bolts, birds, spaceships, women with wings, rockets, Indian chiefs. Many of them even lit up at night when you turned on your lights.
One and two cent candy.
The stapleless stapler, (It would cut a tiny flap, bend it, and then weave it back through a notch to bind pages together).
Being able to leave your house unlocked when you went out - and nobody would bother or steal your things.
When you picked up your photos, they had white boarders around the picture.
Your butcher cutting up your meat and then wrapping it up in heavy paper tied with string.
Stick horses.
Charles potato chips in the tin cans.
Wooden spools that sewing thread was wound around.
Charles Atlas muscleman ads in magazines.
