Hi 10 cents to get into the movies or the swimming pool ( for the day ) Heath candy bars yum 5 cents some old people still wore button shoes spittoons in bars sleeper and diner cars on trains and tracks where the wheels sang clickity clack becuase the rail was hooked together every 60 feet or so not every quarter of a mile Joe Goss imatunr@srvinet.com www.mothergoosetools.com ----- Original Message ----- From: "jolly roger" <baldyam@sk.sympatico.ca> To: <pianotech@ptg.org> Sent: Monday, August 13, 2001 7:58 PM Subject: Re: [OT] - Re: Do you remember? > 45 r.p.m. mmmmmmm My generation was a lit quicker. 78 r.p.m. > > Hi Fi. Nah, The Gramaphone. > > Beer 12 cents a pint. Oh for the good old days. <G> > > Roger > > > > At 07:47 PM 8/13/01 -0400, you wrote: > >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 > >
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