Add to the Boomer Things List
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I have started the list for you.
Think of words, phrases, things....
Things that you don't hear or think about much anymore...
Let's see how big we can make this list
without duplicates.
To you DORKS who think it's funny to post
your rants here.
First learn to spell, then go to the yahoo clubs with your stupidness..
Get a LIFE .... then GET A JOB....Cheez
sinatra
swell
whistling
superman
hamburger stands
technicolor
jukeboxe's
cars w/ fins
marilyn
the yank's
ricky nelson
early elvis
buddy holly
poodle skirts
james dean
truman
segregation
white-wall tires
macarthyism
cubans (cigar)
schwinn bikes
radio flyer
soap box derby's
martini's
dean martin & jerry lewis
john wayne
the drive-in
the twist
lounges
coca-cola
the paper
the circus
Henry Mancini
"Ike"
the Cold War
the "space race"
zippos
money clips
smokey joe
looney tunes
diners
jump ropes
high-waisted pants
live commercials
bomb shelters
wingtips
hoola-hoops
grace kelly
leave it to beaver
milkmen
pool
bowling
sunday afternoon drives
good service
flippin' coins
beat poetry
tops
marbles
capri pants
the midway
loose change
3
real nylons
pointy bras
cheap gas
no one knew the word ecology
made in japan meant cheap
foreign cars were unusual
ike
red scare
bomb shelters
4
2 BEDROOM HOMES
MOMS DID NOT WORK
RECORD PLAYER
WOLFMAN JACK
CRUISING
FRIENDS MADE VISITS ON SUNDAYS WITHOUT CALLING FIRST 5
fat socks
cartigan sweaters worn backwards
loafers with pennies or dimes
bermudas with knee socks
fats domino blueberry hill
pink and black
strait skirts
cushman eagle
shethes{tight dresses] 6
bobby socks
cherry smash
a&w rootbeer
the bop
45's
vinella coke
malts
come again[say it over}
going steady[ring around neck]
see you later alligator 7
Hair style for males a DA 8
Tacos (that car looks like a Tiajuana taco wagon)
Balsa surfboards
Uncrowded surfing beachs
Flat tops with sides long enough for a DA
High school ROTC
Making out in the boonies (site of UCSD)
Saying "bitchin' " every third word
Weekly dances
Crinoline Petticoats
Beach parties
Outriggers (surfer shorts)
Checking out the new freeway
Smoke outs (something to do at the beach in a car)
Flexies down the WindanSea sewer
Setting pins at the bowling alley (now Hard Rock Cafe SD)
Beach wagons (take the back seat out of your taco)
Annoying the boys vice principal (art form)
Learning new words: Hodad, Kukai (origional form
of kook), Grommet
So. Not everyone went La Jolla High School.
9
No beaches closed by pollution 10
Drive-in movies 11
50cent meal @ McDonald's
letterman's sweaters
circle pins
Dance Band
the first mini-skirts
45s and hi-fi
Spike Jones
The Kingston Trio
12
CARS WITH FINS
LIME RICKIES
8MM HOME MOVIES
STICK BALL
SCULLY
JONNY ON THE PONNY
13
GETTING DRESSED-UP ON SUNDAY
FALL OUT SHELTERS
DUCK AND COVER 14
EGG CREAMS
CHOCOLATE SODAS
STOOP BALL
MR. ED
MY MOTHER THE CAR
MARY-JANES
DOTS CANDY (THE ONES ON THE PAPER)
SUBMARINE RACES
THE STROLL
CAR HOPS
THE BIG BOPPER
ALAN FRIED
ACCAPELLA
CONEY ISLAND
TROLLEY CARS
2 CENTS PLAIN
SODA JERKES
SADIE HAWKINS DAY
15
sock hops
makin' out
bummin' around 16
Black Jack candy
green canning jars
windshields that opened with a crank.
car heaters only on one side of the car.
cheese came in wooden boxes
babbo cleanser
peddle pusher pants
clamp on roller skates 17
brooklyn dodgers
cranking a car
out side toliets
handpumps
teachers wearing wearing dress clothes.
priests wearing cassacks
the railroad hour on the radio.
18
POGO STICKS
CARS WITH RUMBLE SEATS
DRIVE IN THEATERS
19
POGO STICKS
CARS WITH RUMBLE SEATS
DRIVE IN THEATERS
JACKS AND BALL
HOP SCOTCH
MAY DAY
20
The Stroll
peg leg dungarees
saddle shoes
bench seats in automobiles
juicy fruit gum
coca-cola in bottles
bowling shirts
21
The Ice Man
The Ice Box
Milk in bottles in first grade.
Penmanship.
Fountain Pens.
Slide rules.
"Isn't that ducky?"
Pomade
Brill Cream
Mumbly Peg
School Bank Club
Mickey Mouse Club
Annette Funicello!
22
BANDSTAND!!!
EC war and horror comic books
The first Mad magazine
Korean war trading cards
In SoCal: Luckey Lager Dance Time and the
Burgie (Burgermeister Beer) Music Box.
The first Playboy ;-)
Sandra Dee
Tuesday Weld
Surfing Tressels and San Onofre after sneaking
past the Marines.
Field trips to Tiajuana :-o
23
Chuck Berry and Elvis Presley
24
TV dinners and I Love Lucy! 25
Beatniks 26
Bakersfield Sound ( Buck Owens)
Bakersfield, CA. Studio's 27
Bazooka Bubble Gum
Penny Candy
Candy Cigarettes
Helmes Bakery Wagon
Black and White TV
AM Radio
Cecil and Beanie
Capt.Kangaroo
spankings at school 28
Jack Armstrong (All American Boy)
Terry and the Pirates
Captain Midnight
Pepper Youngs Family
Lux Radio Theater
Damon Runion theater (guys and dolls)
Saturday Cartoons at the theater.
Buck Rogers movie serials
Rin-tin-tin
War Bonds
"air raid" sirens
Full serve gas stations (they checked the oil and water every time)
Uno Candy bars
Green river (lime phospate)
balsa-wood models
Red Rider and Little Beaver
Blondie and Dagwood on Radio
Fred Allen - Steve Allen
Y A Tittle
Cruising through the drive-in
Rootbeer floats
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Nash Ramblers
the "little nash rambler" song
spin the bottle
Nylon tops and garters peeking out from under the girls skirts in high school
licorice ropes
Paneling
Moon boots
foot activated dimmer switches
TV trays
The "star spangled banner" (with jet flyover) at the end of the broadcasting day on TV
The original Popeye cartoons
BeetleBomb
Elvis the pelvis
Freedom
30
Packards
Hudsons
Studebakers
DeSotos
Cushman Scooters
Triumph Motor cycles
Indian Motor Cyles
BSA (Beezers) Motors
Willies Jeep
International Carry All
Hupmobile (except on the $20)
Corvairs
Nash Cosmopolitan
Leaded fuel
Intertubes
Steam train engines
Ford Tri-motor airplane
and.. Any Statesman 31
Flat head Fords
Vincent motor cycles
Aerial square fours
Whizzer engine for your Schwinn
Beemers - R51, R67, R68
.049 engines for your balsa models
Henry J.s
Space Patrol
DisneyLand opens in fall '55
School band plays at Main Street Pavilion in
fall of '55. :-)
Lionel trains
Daisy Red Ryder BB guns
'57 Ford hard top convertible (Omigod, it goes
right into the trunk!)
32
"Better Red Than Dead"
33
note you have brooklyn
dodgers. did you forget they
moved to los angeles in the
50' and we were all driving
t-birds on the new pasadena
freeway,CA's first. the santa
ana was also built in the 50's
but suburbia was moving faster
than the freeway. 34
Did you have... a Howdy Doody Doll?
Street Cars on Tracks in Chicago?
Pony Rides in your Neighborhood?
Three-Wheel Motorcycle Cops?
Erector Set?
All Aluminum Xmas Tree with; Color Wheel?
The First Transistor Radio (Hitachi)? 35
Heres a few and I can think of lots more.
Flexi-Flyers
Twice Pipes
Lake Pipes
Ducktail
Sox Hop
Dual Quads
Tuck & Roll
Madris shirts
bell bottoms
Butch wax
"Stacked"
"Eating out at the Y"!
Slicks (drag racing)
Hurst (shifters)
beaners
dingles balls
flat top (hair)
More later Jim 36
snapping fingers with a flick 37
Davy Crockett-coonskin hats 38
cuban heels
leather jackets with cars painted on them
black garrison (motorcycle) boots
wearing your belt buckle on the side
sling shots 39
Rama of the Jungle
Sheena
Bonomo Turkish Taffy
Pez
20 Mule Team Borax
Kookla, Fran and Ollie
Wonderama
Seersucker suits
Plymouth Fury
Ipana toothpaste
White rain shampoo
Mighty Mouse
Mr. Wizard
Jon Nagy's "Learn to Draw"
Nibs
Confucious Says game
Mr. Potato Head
Princess Summer-Fall-Winter-Spring
Roy Rogers and Dale Evans
My Little Margie
Private Secretary
You Asked for It
Winkie Dink
40
cigarette behind the ear
plastic cigarette box case
Perry Como
Rock Hudson&Doris Day
crin-o-line half slips
neck scarf(knot worn on the side)
lip prints on letters
41
Jerry Lee Lewis(singer)
Howdy Doody
Gabbey Hayes
Bucky Beaver
Lamb Chop
Cherry Phosphate
little deuce coupe
Jeep Wagoneer
First Corvette (1953)
Three dueces and a four speed 42
Angora worn on class rings.
Dice hanging from rear view mirror.
Nothing blouses.
Wrap around skirts. 43
Seahunt (Loyd Bridges)
Jimmy Wakley (Cowboy Star)
Lash Larue
Zorro
Bugs Bunny
Captain Kangaroo
Mr. Green Jeans
Hop a Long Cassidy
Gene Autrey
Edward R. Murrow 44
Hot Toddies (hot Choc. milk) at drive-in movies.
Cat-eye glasses, horned-rim glasses.
Rollos and Girrardelli flicks at Saturday faternoon matinee' movies
Slinkies
seams on the backs of nylon stockings
Mohair sweaters...stretch pants
35 cent packs of cigarettes...36 cents a gallon gasoline
putting playing cards in the spokes of bicycles with wooden clothes pins.
The Bicersons (Don Ameche and Francis Lagford)
Ben Franklin 5 & 10 cents stores (known as...the 5 and dime)
carhops on roller skates...Mel's Drive-in
Panty raids at local colleges or pajama parties.
girdles 2 piece bathing suits...then Mary Quants topless bathing suit for women.
The first sex-change operation of Christine Jorgenson.
Smiley Burnette
Buster Crabbe as Flash Gordon also known as Tarzan.
Johnny Weismuller..Tarzan
Ponytails tied with scarfs
45
Trivia question: Roy Rogers had a side kick named Pat Brady that drove a willys jeep...what was the name of the jeep...?
Answer?...Nellybell 46
garter belts,cleats,bread man,air raids, ,clearasil,wooden rings, 8 track tapes,candid camera,wing windows in cars,nuns who taught school,flipping baseball cards,cherry cokes,Barbie, Tiny Tears,Ipana Toothpaste,cigerette comercials. 47
Miss Francis' Ding Dong School
(CA kiddie show)
Murray the K (NY DJ)
Romper Room
Cousin Brucie (NY DJ)
Stewart's Root Beer Stands
The Dobie Gillis Show
(with Maynard G. Krebbs)
The local Roller Rink
(NOT for in-line skaters)
Paul Tripp's Birthday House
(CA kiddie show)
The original Gorgeous George the wrestler
Liberace
Jack Paar
The Garry Moore Show
Jack Benny & Rochester
Stan Laurel & Oliver Hardy
Bud Abbott & Lou Costello
Bob Hope & Bing Crosby
The Everly Brothers
Studebakers
Edsels
white lipstick
48
white bucks
clamdiggers
the county fair midway at
night
annette funicello
those silly striped pants
angel blouses
virginity pins
on the beach (the movie)
nikita and his shoe
the edsel
songs like last date, love hurts, judy's turn to cry...
going steady
"pinning" your girl
wearing his high school ring around your neck
wearing his letter jacket
or letter sweater
bobby sox
nehi sodas
sock hops
when dick clark's american bandstand came to town
and finally... when we all thought it would never end, and our generation would be the one to go out and do great and wonderul things...
49
Sputnik
Sky King
Pinky Lee 50
77 Sunset strip 51
Winky Dink TV Show
Howdy Doody Show
Rocky the Squirrel
Hula Hoops
Frisbees
Bazooka Bubble Gum
Double Bubble Gum
American Bandstand
Willie the Worm
Slam Books 52
The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
Flipper
Fuzzy Dice on the rear view mirror
Kookie from 77 Sunset Strip
25 cent movie (10cents to get in and 15 for a treat)
the "Brownie" camera
Blue spot Flash bulbs
Reel to reel home movies
Eve Arden as Our Miss Brooks
When "makin' out" meant "neckin"
53
The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
Flipper
Fuzzy Dice on the rear view mirror
Kookie from 77 Sunset Strip
25 cent movie (10cents to get in and 15 for a treat)
the "Brownie" camera
Blue spot Flash bulbs
Reel to reel home movies
Eve Arden as Our Miss Brooks
When "makin' out" meant "neckin"
54
Mood Rings
Wrigley Gum Wrapper chains 55
Reverberators (car radio echo chambers)
Steering wheel knobs - spinners
Suicide doors
Scavenger pipes
Horseshoe cleats on shoes
Floor vents in cars
Allstate/Vespa scooters
French Indo-China
Korea
Moon hubcaps
mini traffic lights in rear windows of cars
fender skirts
Pinball machines
Hires Root Beer
Frosty Old Fashioned Root Beer
Double Cola
Cott sodas
Dial telephones
TV remotes wired to the TV
Kaiser-Fraser cars
Dodge Power Wagons
Harley Topper scooter
Whizzer motorbikes
Dante cologne for men
Polio vaccine
Going Downtown to the movies
House Calls by doctors
Door to door vendors
Super Constellation airplane
Eastern Airlines
Victory at Sea TV show
Edward R. Murrow
You Are There TV show
You Asked For It TV show
Queen for a Day TV show
Capt. Midnight
American Flyer toy trains
Jeepster
56
Peter Pan collars worn on sweaters
Movie musicals
Double feature movies for less than a dollar 57
White Buck Shoes 58
Pat Boone 59
how about pink flamingos in every front yard 60
Drive-in burger joints with roller skate service 61
curb feelers
hulahoops
The Life of Riley
Sgt. Bilko
Paul Anka
Sputnik
62
wolf whistles on cars
burmuda bells
My Mother the Car (tv)
63
bögen i buren 64
blue eye shadow,
go-go boots,
.25 cents an hour for babysitting,
double that for sitting after midnight,
mood rings,
little Troll dolls with long colorful hair,
Johnny Quest,
Boonsefarm Strawberry wine,
"you bet your sweet bippy!",
the book "Valley Of The Dolls" sent you to the principal's office,
the soap opera "Dark Shadows"
Romper Room
Chatty Cathy & Betsy Wetsy,
Walter Kronkite,
Beatle haircuts
Nehru Jackets,
Tie dyed t-shirts
being a school crossing guard,
jello,
the game "Twister"
Absorbine Jr.,
Alka Seltzer,
wash machines with ringers
65
blue eye shadow,
go-go boots,
.25 cents an hour for babysitting,
double that for sitting after midnight,
mood rings,
little Troll dolls with long colorful hair,
Johnny Quest,
Boonsefarm Strawberry wine,
"you bet your sweet bippy!",
the book "Valley Of The Dolls" sent you to the principal's office,
the soap opera "Dark Shadows"
Romper Room
Chatty Cathy & Betsy Wetsy,
Walter Kronkite,
Beatle haircuts
Nehru Jackets,
Tie dyed t-shirts
being a school crossing guard,
jello,
the game "Twister"
Absorbine Jr.,
Alka Seltzer,
wash machines with ringers
66
Street Racing on Van Nuys Blvd. [So. Calif.] 67
Crusin' BOB'S BIG BOY [So. Calif.] 68
Who wears SHORT SHORTS. 69
THE REAL MCKOYS,PLUTO PLATTERS 70
Hmmmmm. SoCal. The Valley.
San Fernando Drag Strip.
Or illegal if you didn't like straight line dragging:
Mulholland Drive
Mulholland Hwy for motorcycles on Sunday
afternoon, also Decker Canyon and Encimal
Canyon. Latigo Canyon if you REALLY felt like
a cowboy.
Beer drinking in the Bronson
The Rock Store on Mulholland Hwy between
Malibu Canyon and Kanan/Dume Road. :-)
71
radio flyer
72
Grandma gonna smack you upside the head
73
TRANSISTOR RADIOS 74
stewarts root-beer
wetsons' hamburgers
twincity skating rink
olympic park in irvington and
seeing live do-ops 75
Boston Blackie (detective)
Ralph Bellomy (actor) 76
Daisy Red Ryder BB gun.
Cisco Kid
Hopalong Cassidy
William Boyd (actor)
Gabby Hayes
77
elmo lincoln (tarzan)
mighty joe young
paddle ball on rubber band
brown mule (ice cream)
snuff Made with coco & sugar
William Conrad as Lone ranger on the radio
amos & andy
I like Ike 78
nu-grape sodas
Essard Charles (Boxer)
Von Monroe (singer)
RC colas & moonpies
peanuts in soft drink
M-80s & Cherry Bombs
lady fingers 79
Hematite rings
Steady rings
1" wide neckties
1/2" wide belts
Buckles on back of pants
saddle shoes
white wool sox
deck pants for men
cigarettes in shirt sleeve
sideburns
flat top hair cuts
short sleeved sweaters
pocket savers
horned rimmed glasses
cuffs short sleeved shirts
turned up collars
Jade East Cologne for men
dads Mennen's Skin Bracer
Uncle Johnny Coons-Chicago TV
WLS Chicago Radio Station
Dick Biondi (Chicago DJ)
The Pony (Dance)
45rpm records
"Stereophonic recordings"
Spin the bottle
Drug store Cherry Cokes
rubberband powered planes
chopped & channeled cars
Automobile Static straps
Woody station wagons
Driving light (big in Ind.)
soapbox derby
ink wells in school
Burma Shave signs
Pez candy
P.F.Flyer tennis shoes
Captain Video
Commando Cody
Jackie Gleason as the original Chester A. Riley
Soupy Sales
White fang
Black tooth
Doris Day before she was a virgin.
slide rules
city chicken (on a stick)
church key's (can openers)
pop bottle openers
wet willie's
80
Hematite rings
Steady rings
1" wide neckties
1/2" wide belts
Buckles on back of pants
saddle shoes
white wool sox
deck pants for men
cigarettes in shirt sleeve
sideburns
flat top hair cuts
short sleeved sweaters
pocket savers
horned rimmed glasses
cuffs short sleeved shirts
turned up collars
Jade East Cologne for men
dads Mennen's Skin Bracer
Uncle Johnny Coons-Chicago TV
WLS Chicago Radio Station
Dick Biondi (Chicago DJ)
The Pony (Dance)
45rpm records
"Stereophonic recordings"
Spin the bottle
Drug store Cherry Cokes
rubberband powered planes
chopped & channeled cars
Automobile Static straps
Woody station wagons
Driving light (big in Ind.)
soapbox derby
ink wells in school
Burma Shave signs
Pez candy
P.F.Flyer tennis shoes
Captain Video
Commando Cody
Jackie Gleason as the original Chester A. Riley
Soupy Sales
White fang
Black tooth
Doris Day before she was a virgin.
slide rules
city chicken (on a stick)
church key's (can openers)
pop bottle openers
wet willie's
81
Wild root Creme Oil Charlie
Bay Rum (cologne)
"High Fidelity"
33 1/3 Rpm records
45 rpm records.
78 rmp recors
Andy Devine (gingles)
Wild Bill Hickock
The Shadow
Lone Ranger Mask for Halloween
Sock Hops 82
"The Shadow Knows"
"Kookie, Kookie, lend me your comb" 83
pop beads
pea jackets
car jackets
cinch belts
crinolins
dickies
page boy hair style
pony tails in one big curl
spit curls
head scarfs (babushka) with knot worn on chin,
Robert Hall clothes store,
rag man (also sharpened scissors)
ice man, milk man, Good Humor man,
record players for 45's,
Jack Scott
Johnnie Ray
Jan and Dean
Bill Haley and the Comets
summer camp,
autograph books,
melmac dishes,
push lawn mowers (no motor),
chocolate phosphates,
aluminum travel trailers,
toni dolls (by Toni Perm co... you could give doll a perm)
tin gas stations and doll houses with tabs you insert and then bend the tab down to assemble,
Kewpie Dolls
Red Rover, Red Rover (game)
Mother May I (game)
Crack the whip,(usually on ice skates)
skate keys,
Buster Brown (shoes) and his dog Tide,
white tornado,
round tv screen,
coal furnace and coal bins,
enamel topped kitchen table,
chiclets gum,
bazooka bubble gum,
A&W root beer,
taps on shoes,
wide white wall tires,
sweet sixteen parties,
Buying new Levi's, then sitting in a tub of HOT water to shrink them to skin tight,
48 stars on the American Flag,
84
coke was a drink
hang'n on the corner
Nuns wore habits
Pery Como sweaters
names painted on cars
85
FIZZIES (TABLETS THAT MADE FLAVORED DRINK - SIMILAR TO ALKA SELTZER)
BOSCO CHOCOLATE DRINK
SADDLE SHOES
NECCO WAFERS
CANADIAN MINTS
BURR CUTS (CREW CUTS)
ARNOLD PALMER SWEATERS
TWILIGHT ZONE
KAKI PANTS
HORNED RIMMED GLASSES
SHOESTRING LICORICE
RONNIES HAMBURGER JOINT IN N.E. PHILA.(15CENT HAMBURGERS 7 CENTS FOR FRYS.)
MAYFAIR MOVIES
MERBEN MOVIES
REGAL MOVIES
25CENT MATINAES ON SATURDAY
PETRICELLIS PHARMACY FOR CHOCOLATE AND CHERRY COKES(7
CENTS FOR A SMALL 11 CENTS FOR A LARGE)
12CENT COMIC BOOKS
GIMBLES DEPT STORE
LIT BROS. DEPT STORE
SKY BAR CANDY
CHOCOLATE SPONGES
5 PACKS OF CANDY BARS FOR A QUARTER AT THE A&P.
7CENT TASTYCAKES 10CENTS FOR PIES.
BEN HUR
CAR 54 WHERE ARE YOU?
WHEN HERMAN MUNSTER WAS A POLICE MAN.
root beer barrels
milk bottles candy
lik-a-made candy
pixie stix
kool aid without sugar
wearing burnt cork for holloween makeup.
57 chevy twotwenty
( my fathers first car.)
civil service hand books on
civil defense.(in case of a nuclear attack)
fallout shelters
chutes and ladders
candyland
monopoly
hand push lawn mowers without
motors.
getting 25cents for cutting lawns and shoveling snow.
public schools had dress code no jeans allowed no facial hair was permitted.
franks soda
shmidts beer
balantine beer
conny mack stadium in phila.
franklin field
bertie the bunyip show
davey and goliath cartoon
clutch cargo and pals cartoon show with paddlefoot his dog.
the philadelphia bulletin newspaper
35cent hoagies at browns deli
26 cents for a gallon of leaded gas.
20 cents for a pack of cigarettes.
going to the drive-in
in pjs.
going to steele pier in atlantic city.
watching the diving horse at steele pier.
going to atlantic city with no casinos.
fishing in pennypack park with live fish.
vaseline hair oil
brylcreem
wacky plack trading cards
jim bunting(phils pitcher)
tommy macdonald(eagles player)
roman gabriel
spring lake In New Jersey
krass bros. store of the stars
south street philadelphia
the boulevard pools
chuka boots
floaters (shoes)
mr. bubbles bubble bath
steve reeves the real hercules
no dual income, dad did bring home the bacon.
orange slices and spearmint leaves candy.
Kresske 5 and 10 store
bromo seltzer
double starched shirts with highboy collars
pants without permanent press
chuck taylor converse sneakers for $5.99.
lincoln logs
petes gang t.v. show with peter boyle.
pinkie lee
uncle miltie in drag
bonanza t.v. show
johnny yuma the rebel tv show
levis' hot dogs with a cherry
champ soda.
krazy cat with ignatz the rat
crusader rabbit
86
What happened to Fla-va Straws?
frosty root beer
crush orang soda
they still make fizzies
tiddly winks
real metal toy trucks
wooden tinker toys
wooden lincoln logs
i remember gasoline at 16cents a gallon
10 cent cokes
funny books, you could trade them in too
mint julip (the candy)
white gas at the Amoco station
sex was not OK before marriage
George Reeves as "Superman"
87
penny candy
five cent ice cream cones 88
Midnight In Paris cologne, getting dish towels in Duz soap 89
Mercury with push button transmission
Only colognes boys used were Old spice (their father's) and Aqua Velva (too strong!)
5 cent candy bars you could share with 2 friends
The Waffle truck that came around like an ice cream truck.
Ice bought at an icehouse and brought home in a wagon for the icebox.
Blonde furniture with dark walls.
Coming home from school for lunch.
Lassie (any version.
Cardigans thrown over your shoulder and held with sweater clip
Wide belts with tight skirts
Hair rollers or bobby pins that hurt your head all night
Captain Midnight and sidekick "Ichabod Mudd" with 2 "D's" and the secret decoder ring, sponsored by Ovaltine. 90
What ever happened to:
Gangbusters,Fibber Magee &
Molly, Randolph Scott,The Green Hornet, The Shadow, Red
Ryder, True Detective Myster-
ies,.... Sam Riddle-Robert W. Morgan-Johnny Williams-The Real Don Steele-Humble Harve..
ALL BOSS JOCKS @ BOSS RADIO
93 K H J>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> 91
Buster Brown's Dog's name was
Tige. He lived in the shoe too. Then there was Superman,
Seargent Preston of the Yukon
and his dog King,Captain Marvel, Sam Spade, The Whistler,Duffy's Tavern, Inner sanctum, Oh-Henry Candybars, Ju-JuBees Candy, Mars Bar,Malt Balls, Good & Plenty Licorice. Oh! & don't forget Rhythem & Blues (race music)....HAIL HAIL ROCK N' ROLL...................WJ.
92
The last dance of the night:
"When the deep purple falls,
over sleepy garden walls..."
Cheek to cheek in another world,
listening to the snap of her
bubble gum. ;) 93
Clutch Cargo
"For cryin' out loud!" 94
good humor ice cream (dispensed from good humor men from their white ice cream trucks) 95
Jerry Lee Lewis
"Let's go to the Hop(Oh Baby)"
Little Richard
Paul Anka and Annette Funicello
The Mickey Mouse club 96
i have a question, how do you make the bubble gum wrapper chains? 97
Victory gardens 98
Minnesota Senators
Boston Redstockings 99
Buddy Holly, Richie Valens and Sen. Joe McCarthy; Dr. Frederick Wertham and "The Seduction Of The Innocent". 100
leisure suits,knee hi socks, wolley segap, poodle skirts, fur coat, squirrel tails, ice cream soda, sock hop, cool man, kilroy was here, blue dot tail lights, 8 track tapes, free items with gas purchase, full service pumps. 101
REMEMBER THE DAY'S WHEN GIRLS
WORE THEIR DAD'S WHITE SHIRTS WITH THE LEG'S OF THEIR JEANS ROLLED UP? AND NO OUTFIT WAS COMPLETE WITHOUT POP BEADS, A SILK SCARF TIED AROUND YOUR PONYTAIL AND SADDLE OXFORD'S ON YOUR FEET
OH! THOSE WERE THE DAY'S 102
JINGLE JUMPS 103
WRAPPING YARN AROUND YOUR RINGS TO MAKE THEM FIT 104
Skateboards made from a skate
7th Grader called a scrub
Cheater Slicks
Vibrasonic
Crystal Radios
Sucrets wrapped in foil
Servel Refrigerators
Harvey's Drive-in, Downey CA
Loge Seats
Swap Meets
Eric Von Zipper
Penny Shine Spray Shoe Polish
Dumont TV Sets
Dime Stores
"Handy Hints" with Betty White on LA TV
Steve Allen
Klompen Kloggen
Sen Sens breath freshener
Mountain Bar Candy
EP (Extended Play) 45's
Rinny (Rin Tin Tin)
Lofty Craig (Annie Oakley)
Mexican Road Race
Chinese Fire Drills
Laggin'(Baseball Cards)
Double Bubble with Pud Comics
Baking Soda powered Submarine
Paper on a kite string
CO2 powered toy cars
Gerald McBoing Boing
Webster Webfoot
Squiggles
Sherrif John (LA TV)
Engineer Bill (LA TV)
Push Edgers with spiked wheel
Pneumatic bell at gas station
Chimes ringing in Sears
The smell of popcorn in Sears
Rattan Furniture
Fishbowl Lamps
Log Cabin Syrup
Nickle a play juke box
Heathkits
Go Aheads
Water Softeners delivered
Eskimo yo yo's
Butterfly nets
Campho Phenique
Thistle and Plaid Cologne
Paper Boys with a Wagon
105
Nose Picker Shoes
Penny Loafers
Bleeding Indian Madras
Near Beer
Porta Walls
Wolfman Jack
Metal Bumpers and Chrome
Nylons with lines up the back
Fairy Loops on shirt backs
Air Raid Sirens (practice)
New License Plates every year
Dogs not on leashes
Plastic Jesus on the dashboard
St. Christopher Medals
Howdy Doody
Ding Dong School
11.9c per gallon gasoline
106
Yancy Derringer
Zorror
Miss Linda
Magic Mirror
Roman Candy Wagon
58 Chevy Impala
parking
Drive-Inns
Godzilla
Snow Balls with lots of syrup
Dick Clark
Nick Adams
J. D.
55 T-Bird
The Stroll
"Going to the Chapel"
Kukla, Fran and Ollie 107
DA haircut
Lights on mud flaps
Fox tail on car antenna
Plastic seat covers on cars
The Bosonova
Little old lady from Pasadena
5 cent cigar
LSMFT
Tides in dirts out
Non detergent motor oil
Bob's Big Boy (California)
Boris Karlof
Car tires with inner tubes
Sucide doors
Wooden nickels
Candy cigarettes
Ringer washing machines
All day suckers
Clamp on roller skates with keys
Doctor NO (or how I learned to love the bomb)
Slim Pickens
Red Buttons
Two dollar bill
Twiggy
Barn Stormers
Midnight Auto Supply
Echo cans
Hoop skirts
Double header baseball games
108
dreamsicles, duck-tails, bunking parties, autograph shirts, snow ice cream, Kilroy was here. 109
homecoming parades and floats 110
kick the can
"olie, olie, ocean free"
hopscotch
"black cows" (or some say "brown cow")
lone ranger
white-wall tires
comic book reading
marbles
records printed on the back of cereal boxes: Bobby Sherman
pull strings on individual packages of pop tarts (what happened to that?)
sock hops
gas station attendants! in SERVICE stations
kids actually "picking up" pennies off the floor.
penny candy
Lassie
Father Knows best 111
Penny postcards
cherry cokes
Lash Larue (at the movies)
Black cows (icecream & rootbeer)
Coon tails on your whip antennae
Fender skirts
Lowering your car( in the rear)
lowering your car (in the front)
Moon hubcaps
Reverberators (before stereo)
Slicking the hood (of the car)
50 Mercury's (Lead sleds)
Duck tails ( boys hair do)
Pony tails (girls hair do)
Going steady
Sundays at Grandma's
Princes Hamburgers (fit for a King)
Family values 112
glass packs (car muffler), steel packs (car muffler), Circle 6 Ranch (TV Show),
zip guns, jeans w/ belt loops cut off, bleached blue jeans, basketball tank tops, PO'ed, scratching off & getting rubber (spin rear car tires), speed shifting (manual gear shift w/o letting off gas), thunder road, Lash LaRue (movies), Rocket Man (Movies), whistle britches (tight pants), j turn (when in motion lock emergency brake and turn wheel to spin car 180 degrees), party doll, j.c. higgins (sears brand of bicycle)
113
Gas wars
"Be there or be Square"
I Love Lucy wasn't a rerun
My Friend Flicka
Fury
Oh Susanna-Gale Storm, Zazu Pitts
Paladin-Have gun will travel
Spin and Marty
Ocean Park Pier with Lawrence Welk's bubble machine
Spade Cooley(western star- brother of Roy Rogers)
Captain Zoom
Streetcars & overhead wires in downtown L.A.
The Pike (amusement park in Long Beach)
Cruisin' Santa Monica Pier
Driving the ridge route to get to Bakersfield
Katy Keene the Fashion Queen
114
Autograph Hounds
Poor Pitful Pearl Doll
Elvis Presley trading cards
Tangee Lipstick
Woodhue&Tigress fragrances by Coty
Adorn Hairspray
Scotch coolers
Colorforms
Pick up sticks
Tiddly Winks
8-Ball that answered your questions
Birthday Bow Corsages with Life Savers attached
Bright colored plastic strips for end of bike handlebars that noisely whipped with movement
Capezio Shoes
Popcorn socks
Wedgy Loafers
Princess Phones
Parties on phone lines
Fan Tan Gum
Chuckles Candy
Squirrel penny candy
Mary Jane penny candy
Gold Bell Gift Stamps
Faygo Brand Sodas
Hudson's Dept. Store
Sagebrush Shorty TV show (MI)
Milky the Clown (magic word is Twin Pines) TV show (MI)
Shock Theatre (MI)
What's My Line TV Show
Hit Parade TV show w/Gisele McKenzie
Mary Hartline
Ford Rotunda at Christmas (MI)
115
TV Show - Winky Dink and You
Milt Grant Show (Washington, D.C.'s Bandstand-WTTG)
Pinky Lee Show
Scooters made out of old Orange crates and roller skates-Decorated by nailing on bottle caps.
Glen Echo Amusement Park
Moonlight Cruise down the Potomac River to Marshall Hall. 116
TV Show - Winky Dink and You
Milt Grant Show (Washington, D.C.'s Bandstand-WTTG)
Pinky Lee Show
Scooters made out of old Orange crates and roller skates-Decorated by nailing on bottle caps.
Glen Echo Amusement Park
Moonlight Cruise down the Potomac River to Marshall Hall. 117
Jean Kerr's PLEASE DON'T EAT THE DAISIES
and THE SNAKE HAS ALL THE LINES 118
BRENDA LEE AND ALL THOSE BEAUTIFULL SOSNGS........ 119
BRENDA LEE AND ALL THOSE BEAUTIFULL SONGS
SHE RECORDED...........
120
korean war
walking
red ryder bb gun
lead soldiers
dead soldiers
phosphates
121
balboa ballroom
aragon ballroom
trianon ballroom
riverview at chicago
stan kenton
vido musso
kai winding
arthur murray
mr peanut
122
The Bob Cummings Show (love that Bob)
Open Air theatres
"Hey, you still using that Greasy Kids stuff"
"Mother, PLEASE, I'd rather do it myself"
buy 5 candy bars at 5 cents a piece, get an extra candy bar free
Dry up and blow away
Chicken only on Sunday...Turkey at Thanksgiving, never ever any other time.
eating wild blackberries and wild raspberries
Ferriswheel rides on trucks
123
Playing Jacks with your girl friends
Baltimore Colts
Milwaukee Braves
Washington Senators
When there was only 1 car to a family
having your pic taken on a pony that came to your house
Greek Dodge
124
Giant sea monkies that tap dance for nickles and people that still chuckle every time they see a sock 125
Little dogs smacking wet globs of slime! 126
The edisel
single-wide trailers
Levi's rolled up at the bottom
jawbreakers the size of your fist
suicide doors *(the original)*
lover's lane
big floppy hats 127
RAT FINK, TROY DONAHUE, TAB HUNTER, OZZIE & HARRIET, 442s,PATRIOTISM, Tiny Tim, Ringo, ED SULLIVAN, LARGE PIZZAS that WERE LARGE, MANNERS 128
The song Um Pa Pa from the show Birthday House 129
sex
130
lion bars 131
brittany spears is a babe
132
looking at porn 133
........................................... 134
italian ices
frozen mars bars on ice cream sticks
dixie cups ice cream
Dugan's fresh milk delivery
the Commack Drive In
Commack, New York
Zorn Burgers
Crab Meadow Beach 135
Raggedy Ann Doll
Test Pattern 136
Hey I`m interested in voluntering at your station
my name is Tim Trout, please reply with a letter my address is 2726 Bremerton Rd. Brentwood Mo. I`m moving to Chicago soon and I`m going to school there for radio broadcasting, thank you very much. 137
Teaberry Gum
Teaberry Shuffle
Yoo Hoo Chocolate Drink
Brown Cow
Super Car
Fireball XL5
Diver Dan
The Chuck McAnn Show
Zachary show
The Big World of Little Atom
Real toy soldiers
Corgi Cars
Bonomo Turkish Taffy
Officer Joe Bollton
The Soupy Sales Show
The Millionaire
Brylcreem
Vitalis
My Three Sons
The'64 Worlds Fair
The Sinclair Dino
Car 54
The Duke of Earl
Creamsicles
Esso Gas
Coney Island aquarium
The Bronx Zoo
The Doom Patrol Comic
The Challengers of the Unknown Comic
Metamorpho Comic
Metal Men Comic
Sitting outside on hot summer nights
stoops in front of houses
Kenner's Give-A-Show Projector
Creepy Crawlers
Viewmasters
White Castle Hamburgers
Digging for gold and diamonds in the back yard with your friends
Squeeze Pops
Combat TV Show
Dondi comic strip
Steve Canyon comic strip
Pogo comic strip
Orphan Annie comic strip
Golden Books
The corner drug store
The corner newspaper store
Egg creams
Egg Nog
Davey and Goliath
Dodo the Kid from Outer Space
Crusader Rabbit and Rags
Silly Putty
Chiclets
Vacuum cleaners with runners instead of wheels
Genovese Drug Stores
Aurora Race Cars
Assembly in School with a Color Guard
Godzilla vz. King Kong
The Day the Earth Stood Still Movie
Rubber Knives
Playing cops and robbers
Playing soldier
Rubber vomit
TV Trays
Toy Cap Guns
Stickball
Woolworth 5 & Dime Stores
Woolworth 5 and Dime Banana Slit Balloon Prize
138
Space Food Sticks
UHF converters for tv sets
Prizes for selling seed packets
Gear and fab
Confectionery (candy) stores
Studebaker-Packard dealers
Tom Terrific and his dog, Manfred
Muskie and Vince, bane of Deputy Dawg
Radio Free Europe
Secret Storm
Army surplus ads: "Jeeps, typically from $50..." 139
Strawberry Shortcakes 140
Dick Dale and the Deltones (the band)
Surfer's Stomp (the dance)
the Shag (right coast dance)
Hobie (9'6 surfboard)
shore break (broken Hobie)
stoked (excited)
Date Night (Disneyland for $3.75)
Tuck and Roll (in my car)
Car Clubs
141
How about the 1950's television show Elmer the Elephant 142
9'4" Fox parallel rail surfboard
t-shirts, stencils and red paint at the beach.
Mac Meda Distruction Company. :-) 143
Dagmar
Jerry Lester
Fatima cigs
The Big Story
Texaco Star Theater 144
radar ranges
Saturday Matinees
Ovaltine
Tiki Dolls
"B" Movies
"a little dab will do ya"
Speedie Alka-Seltzer
Faygo kid & Black Bart
145
The Crest Test*
film strips in school*
"Boy oh boy it's a Remco toy!*
The midnight sermonette (end of the TV broadcast day)*
Goebbel Beer*
"(whistle)Mabel, Black Label, there goes that call again for Carling Black Label Beer!"*
The Idle Hour (first pizza parlor in town)*
Red Skelton as Clem Kadiddlehopper, Bolivar Shagnasty and San Fernando Red*
sucking on Fizzies until you couldn't contain the spit in your mouth anymore (a stupid Jr. Hi. stunt)*
Honda Motorcycles with square shock absorbers*
Fallout Shelter signs in the school basement*
Blue Laws--no stores open on Sunday*
chemistry sets*
Slot cars and HO train sets*
Swank--not the magazine, the toiletries*
Sgt. Rock and his combat happy GI's--a comic book about WWII*
Classics Illustrated Comic Books*
Jr. Hi Dances--boys on one side of the gym, girls on the other, never the twain did meet*
146
Three-tone paint jobs on '56 cars.
"The Forward Look"
Safety Belts.
Ivy League pants with leather trimmed pocket edges.
Air conditioned cars.
"Come in, it's KOOL inside".
Colonial is Good Bread door screens on grocery store doors.
Smitty's
DA's
Rolling your cuffs to the inside of your pants leg.
Grapette banks.
Wolf whistles on cars.
Simplex motorcycles.
Zundapps.
Mustangs, before Ford made them, and not the P-51 airplane.
Triumph Tiger Cub. 147
Carrol Levis, Lonnie Donegan, Vince Eager, Jack Jackson, Blackboard Jungle, Diana Dors, VistaVision, Rosemary Clooney, Vera Ellen, Holiday Inn, Coffee Bar, Frankie Lymmon & the Teenagers, The Coronation! 148
mini skirts 149
TROLL DOLLS 150
wheres the beef? 151
Buffalo Rock Ginger Ale
Tea Berry gum
Walking the whole neighborhood to trick or treat without any fear
152
Playing "Sling the biscuit" at dusk 153
Mustangs 154
Strike It Rich w/Warren Hull
Charley Wilde(WXYZ,Detroit)
Beanie & Cecil(Puppet-not cartoon-@1949-Sponsred by Hygrade)
Circles in Clay-(WWJ,Detroit)
Broadway Open House-(CBS/Dumont??-1950)
Reginald Van Gleason
155
Belle Isle Ferryboat(Detroit)
Fred Wolf & the Wandering Wigloo(Detroit)
Pat & Johnny(Detroit)
Michigan Outdoors W/Mort Neff
156
Kellogg Snap,Crackle,Pop hand puppet boxtop offer
Gabby Hayes/Quaker Oats camp stove
Omnibus
10 cent Comic books with title torn off selling for 2 cents
Spooky comic books for sale before the kids "protectors" got them banned for years
Election voter stations built onto covered trailers
157
Andy Griffith Show 158
I love you 159
"Yut uh uh" was the phrase that the bad guy (I remember his name) from the beany and cecil show would say when he was about to do something evil 160
"Yut uh uh" was the phrase that the bad guy (I dont remember his name) from the beany and cecil show would say when he was about to do something evil 161
I Found this on he net. Beany and Cecil's familiar arch foe was Dishonest John, whose sneering-laugh "Nya ha ha!" 162
OK. Try http://www.geocities.com/Hollywood/7762/timebean.htm. Yya ha ha! 163
an italian version of Happy Days 164
Neeco Wafers
Mary Janes 165
Upstairs balcony in the movie theater. 166
STEEL PIER 167
The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour
168
Paul Dixon Show with Fuzzy Wuzzy
Silvercup Bread
Post Sugar Rice Krinkles
Sun Rubber Company
Eddie Cantor's game- Tell It to the Judge
One-cent charm machines
electric buses
unpaved (junky) streets
cobblestones on West Side Highway in Manhattan
Yellow Shelter signs
Sugar Jets
One-cent Gum machines attached to subway posts
15 cent subway tokens
white shirts and red ties on assembly days
Dick & the Dutchess
Jungle Jim
Ramar of the Jungle
Schaefer Beer
Miss Rheingold
Ballantine Ale
Willys Jeep
Front windshields of cars in 2 sections
NY Daily Mirror
NY Journal American
NY World Telegram & Sun
Brooklyn Eagle
NY Herald Tribune
Dondi
Brenda Starr Star Reporter
Maw Green
Crax & Jax
Smoky Stover (Notary Sojac)
Abbie & Slats
Red Ryder & Little Beaver
Mark Trail
Dell Comics
Justice League of America
Winnie Winkle
Louie the Lawyer
Hanna's Louie
Kerry Drake
The Copa(cabana)
Adventures in Paradise
Hawaiian Eye
77 Sunset Strip
"I Like Ike" buttons
Lost cars:
Hudson
Hillman
Humber
Lancia
Sky King with Penny
Bringing Up Father- Jiggs & Maggie
Jimmy Fiedler's Hollywood Reports
Fabian
Frankie Avalon
Tommy Sands
One-Eyed One-Horned Flying Purple People Eater
Idlewild Airport
Ebinger's Bakery
"I take clothes" street hawker
Pennsy Pinky
Street Games:
Punch Ball
Chinese Handball
Pottsy
Officer Joe Bolton
Merry Mailman
Johnny Mac Brown
Fred Sayles
Rudy Kazootie with Polka Dotty
Princess Summerfallwinterspring
Chief Thunderthud
Bison Bill
169
Ming the Merciless
Mongo
170
aS ;JHe.kjh/. m;l sarah is satan
171
Pogo Comic Strip from the Sunday paper 172
"This is John Cameron Swayze saying,
More People Bye Timex...Than any other watch in the world."
Bosco Commercial
"I love Bosco, lots to drink for me. Bosco gives me iron and sunshine vitamin D....(don't know the rest). This was a singing commercial. We put Bosco in our milk and it was great. Then Ovaltine came along and it's still sold in the stores can you believe it? 173
Choo-choo Charlie was an engineer, Choo-choo Charlie was his name we hear, he had an engine and he sure had fun, he used Good n Plenty candy to make his train run.
CHARLIE SAYS:
Love my Good n Plenty!
CHARLIE SAYS:
Really rings the bell!
CHARLIE SAYS:
Love my Good n Plenty,
don't know any other candy that I love so well! 174
Skinny Dip cologne
Lemon-up shampoo
Tangee cosmetics
Tangee natural (lipstick)
Tigress cologne
Fabrege organic shampoo
Peter Max school notebooks
175
Baby boomers are those
born between
l946 and 1964, in case
y'all don't know.
This is also an
INTERNATIONAL EVENT
(baby boomers), not
just USA!
http://gurlpages.com/bunnyh/index.html 176
The TAMI Show (1964 Film) 177
Santa Fe Wabonnet F7A's on passenger trains 178
Santa Fe Wabonnet F7A's on passenger trains 179
Frisco High-Top U25B's 180
Little Boys in Panties 181
Stealing anything that is bolted down or welded on a railroad locomotive 182
Becoming the God of Tulsa Railfanning 183
Becoming the God of Tulsa Railfanning 184
The Chad Mitchell Trio
Captain Kangaroo
Tiger Beat
Doo Wop Harmonies 185
Zorro
Lone Ranger
Davey Crockett
Gene Autrey
The Cisco Kid
25 cents would get you a movie and a snack!
Flashlight Tag
Jumping Rope
"Fizzies"
Mickey Mantle 186
Hootenanny (Sing along folk music)
Video Village (TV Game show)
Granny dresses
187
Change - in coins - under cellophane wrapper of cigarettes sold in vending machines 188
National Shirt Shops 189
go fuck your self 190
High School classmates not coming home from Viet Nam 191
Neighbors didn't sue oneanother; common courtesy; kids were disciplined by parents, not pampered and spoiled by the government; cheating in school was not ignored by teachers... 192
care bears
captian kangaroo
"flip your bic" 193
vanilla egg cream 194
Question,
where can i get on the stewart rootbeer site, i want to buy a mobile unit for rooebeer, hotdags etc.
thanks,
don 195
The Beatles 196
Keen soft drink mix
Bonomo Banana Turkish Taffy
Choco Plenties
Jingle jumps
Bosco syrup with the metal toys under the lid
Diver Dan (Philly TV)
Gene London (Philly TV)
Happy the Clown (Philly TV)
Sally Star (Philly TV)
Bertie the Bunyap (Philly TV)
The mermaid in Brenda Starr comic
Sugar Mama (candy)
Pixanne (Philly TV)
Slicker Lipstick
Yardley Paintbox Make-up
Spoolies (curlers)
Tressy Doll
Thumbelina (Doll)
Skipper with growing breasts (doll)
Patty Play Pal (Walking Doll)
Tobor the Eighth Man (Cartoon)
Crusader Rabbit and Ragland T. Tiger (Philly TV)
Slip and Slide (Water Toy)
Tame (Creme Rinse)
Krazy Foam
Junket
197
Ruff & Ready, F troop, Mr. Ed,"Kookie,Kookie, lend me your comb!" Route 66, Wonda-Wonda (Seattle) Captain Puget (Seattle) J.P.Patches (Seattle) PF Flyers, BusterBrown, Paul Parrot, 198
gytjm gytui, 199
cosmic beanie caps 200
15cents pizza slice and 15cents subway token
Spills and Thrills (horse race game)
Pow Wow (the Indian boy cartoon)
Wonderama Sonny Fox
Quart of milk in square container with flat top
Mr. Machine toy
Cypress Pool
Slot Cars
29 cent models
2 cent Joya jelly bars
Hand me downs
pocket combs (breakable)
7 transister pocket radio
MU7-7500
WMCA Good Guys
FM Converter
5Star News
Jack LaLane (then...with the inhale/exhale organ note cues)
Saturday Night Movie
Sonny (walks fast down block with transister radio held to ear. sways side to side)
Sandy Becker (Catch Max, Norton Nork)
Terry Toon Circus
Topper
Captn Jack McCarthy (Popeye)
Shoe Shine parlor
Public Baths
Hardware store
PF Flyers
Amphibian car
Jiffy Pop, Jiffy Pop the magic treat..as much fun to make as it is to eat.
Step up to the Kool taste.
Step up to Dutch Masters and smile brother smile.
Made in the Kraft candy kitchen.
I'd walk a mile for a Camel.
Winston tastes good like ("as") a cigarette should.
Have a Lark, have a Lark, have a Lark today.
"When the doggies on the street get together and play." G.B.
That's All Folks. 201
Tangee Lipstick
Pop-it Beads
Charm Bracelets
Fake Fur Sweater Collers
Kick-pleat long Skirts
10" B&W Televisions
Uncle Miltie
Kresge Dime Store
Ice Trucks (Delivers ice for your ice-box,not refrigerator)
Walking to School
Back Porch Swings
Woolworths Soda Bar
Cruising at the "Ranchhouse"
The Donaldson Man (Home delivery of baked Goods)
Milk in a glass bottle with cream on top
Monopoly on Sunday
202
Brylcreme a little dab ull do ya, Brylcreme the girls will all persue ya, they love to run their fingers through your hair.
Cherry Smash.
Dixie Peach (men's hair balm).
little wax syrup bottles 203
woolworths pop the balloon and get a bananna split for one cent (maybe0 204
A mouth full of Fizzies and a black Juicy Fruit stuck to your foot after you left the Saturday Matinee 205
Hookers were cheap, and they didn't tell 206
You could drink beer while drving a car in Texas.. bbbuuuuuuurrrrrrrppppppppppp 207
Sex was just that: sex. None of that love bullshit! 208
Sticking any type of object that would fit in my ass!!! 209
Spanking little boys when they were naughty. It was socially acceptable, and quite stimulating too!!! 210
Fondling Skippers growing breasts.... 211
ROYAL FLUSH CANDY BARS IN SNACK DISPENSER AT SCHOOL
PEANUTS IN RC COLAS
GRAPETTE SODA
COMMODITIES CHEESE AND PEANUT BUTTER--NEVER BEEN ANY LIKE IT MADE SINCE.
DONKEY BASKETBALL 212
Church key 213
Church key 214
Tangee
Hemi
Evening in Paris
wig hats
raccoon collar coats (black and tan)
215
Flag Flyers-shoes with the flap that locked down instead of tying. 216
Uncle Johnny Coon's Show 217
Halo Everybody Halo -Halo shampoo.
Mum deodrant
Berma Shave road signs
Garter Belts
Hose with seam down the back
Blueberry Hill
See Ya Later Alligator
Amos & Andy
Stella Dallas
Bobby Benton and the B Bar B Ranch
Cedar Chests for H.S. graduation
Saturday night bath in the metal tub
Wringer Washing machines
metal roller skates with key
Annie Annie Over
Mud roads
Party lines on phones
Neighbors were neighborly
Paper Dolls
218
saddle shoes
walking anywhere we wanted after dark safely
garter belts that weren't sexy
girdles
219
swim caps 220
gym suits 221
paper straws 222
wringer washers 223
treddle sewing machines 224
rural route addresses 225
bumper jacks 226
pot-bellied stoves 227
test patterns 228
Bozo the clown 229
oil can spouts 230
Sputnik 231
tin roof in the rain 232
cloth diapers 233
snipe hunting, burlap bags, flour sacks, wells with buckets, three networks on tv, ether for surgery, catching lightning bugs to put in jars, tying strings on June bugs legs, hand muffs, ear muffs, horehound candy sticks, Home Ec. classes, manual typewriters, cedar Christmas trees, hay rides,paraffin lips, no answering machines, no telemarketeers, no 1-800 phone numbers, no junk mail, no spam, metal icetrays, zinc bucket of water and dipper for everyone to drink from, no AIDS, no permanent press clothes or sheets, Old Maids, seesaws 234
super circus with mary hartline and ring master claude kirschner
mr. happy tooth
colgate with gardol the invisible protective shield
sylvania tv's with halo light
"kellogg's sugar corn pops, sugar pops are top"
air raid drills
235
"Si, mamacita, con Gleem!" 236
Pinky Lee
Ethyl Merman
Big John and Sparky
Cream of Wheat Fairy Tale Theater
Allee allee oxen free 237
Gene "By Golly"Barrry and Steve Kirk (Dayton,OH radio DJs) 238
Early 70s rock(Three Dog Night,Grand Funk Railroad,Santana,Joe Cocker,Derek and the Dominoes) 239
Petticoat Junction chicks(long before Dixie Chicks) 240
Power trio rock fusioned by the blues(Cream,Blue Cheer,Beck,Bogart & Appice,Grand Funk Railroad,The Jimi Hendrix Experience) 241
Olivia Newton-John as Sandy in "Grease" 242
Big Time Wrestling and Roller Derby 243
Marcia Brady and other chicks next door. 244
Godzilla,Ultra Man and other icons of the low budget Japanese monster film genre. 245
Speed Racer 246
The Monkees 247
Woodstock 248
249. Give-a-Show Projectors,
BB guns, Cuddly Duddly, Clutch Cargo, The Day the Earth Stood Still,beatnicks,elephant pants,Julia and Room 222. 249
Hoffman Soda
Slam Books
Ding Dong School
$.05 egg creams
Running Bases
Scooter Skirts
Olympic Park (NJ Amusement Park)
Bradley Beach french fries
Seven Minutes in Heaven (kissing game)
Ballerina's (shoes)
250
T.K. Records label (K.C.& The Sunshine Band,George and Gwen McRae,Dorothy Moore) 251
Uncle Orrie and Ferdy Fusbudget
Malcolm McLeud and Duffy the Dog
Dr. Creep
Overnight movies w/Bob Shreve
(Dayton,OH TV personalities) 252
SOUTHERN FRIED ROCK!
Allman Bros.Band
Lynyrd Skynyrd
Blackfoot
Carl Perkins
Molly Hatchet
38 Special
Georgia Sattelittes
Stevie Ray Vaughan & Double Trouble
Elvin Bishop Band
ZZ Top
253
Woodhue perfume
Blue Waltz perfume
Hair curlers
Cherry Fountain Coke
Fountain Sodas
Cliff's 10 hamburgers for $1.00
The A&W drive-in
Dog Collars over Bobby Sox
Denver Sandwich candy bar
The Gala Ballroom Independence, Iowa
Armar Ballroom Cedar Rapids, IA
Danceland Cedar Rapids, IA
254
Parrot Heads!(fanatical fans of Jimmy Buffett) 255
Chess Records label(Chuck Berry,Bo Diddley,Howlin' Wolf,John Lee Hooker,Muddy Waters) 256
Na-na-na-na,hey hey hey..goodbye! 257
Sidney Holy Angels/Piqua Catholic high school basketball rivalry in the 60s and subsequent merger to Lehman H.S. in 1970 258
THE BIG 8...CKLW
"It's twenty minutes before
the hour..this is Byron MacGregor CKLW 20/20 News." 259
Patty Duke on TV as identical cousins Patty and Cathy. 260
"HIGH FLIGHT" poem by John Gillespie McGhee Jr. airs on TV stations during sign-on and sign-off. 261
Sun Records label and recording studio in Memphis introduces B.B. King,Johnny Cash,Jerry Lee Lewis,Carl Perkins,Roy Orbison,Charlie Rich and Elvis Presley