[OT] - Re: Do you remember?

[Clyde Hollinger]

I remember most of this stuff, and I'm only 54.  (Regarding #35, I
remember gasoline at 17 cents per gallon, but that was during a price
war.)

Regards, Clyde

Ted Simmons wrote:

> > Double Dog Dare
> >
> > I am sharing it with you today because it ended with
> >  a "double dog dare"
> > to  pass it on. To remember what a "double dog dare"
> > is, read on. And
> > remember that the perfect age is somewhere between
> > old enough to know
> > better and young enough not to care.  How many do
> > you remember?
> >
> > 01. Candy cigarettes
> > 02. Wax coke-shaped bottles with colored sugar water
> >  inside.
> > 03. Soda pop machines that dispensed glass bottles.
> > 04. Coffee shops with tableside juke boxes
> > 05. Blackjack, Clove and Teaberry chewing gum
> > 06. Home milk delivery in glass bottles, with
> > Cardboard stoppers.
> > 07. Party lines.
> > 08. Newsreels before the movie.
> > 09. P. F. Flyers
> > 10. Butch wax
> > 11. Telephone numbers with a word prefix ...
> > (Drexel-5505)
> > 12. Peashooters.
> > 13. Howdy Doody
> > 14. 45 RPM Records
> > 15. Green Stamps
> > 16. Hi-fi's
> > 17. Metal ice cube trays, with levers
> > 18. Mimeograph paper
> > 19. Blue flash Bulbs
> > 20. Beanie and Cecil
> > 21. roller skate keys
> > 22. Cork pop guns
> > 23. Drive ins
> > 24. Studebakers
> > 25. Wash tub wringers
> > 26. The Fuller Brush man
> > 27. Reel-to-reel tape recorders
> > 28. Tinkertoys
> > 29. The Erector Set
> > 30. The Fort Apache Playset
> > 31. Lincoln Logs
> > 32. 15 cent McDonald hamburgers
> > 33. 5 cent packs of baseball cards...with that awful
> > pink slab bubblegum
> > 34. Penny candy
> > 35. 35 cent-a-gallon gasoline