Thread: How old are you? More fun.

Originally Posted by MountainDog

How many of you are brave enough to admitt remembering the following.
I remember them all.

Blackjack chewing gum
Wax coke shaped bottles with sugar water
Soda pop machines with bottled soda pop
coffe shops with jukeboxes
home delivery of milk
Daily home delivered newspapers
party lines
P.F. flyers
Butch wax
Pea shooters
S&H green stamps
Hi-Fi's
Newsreels before the movie
Rollerskate keys

For you younger folks here, the milk was delivered in bottles sealed with a carboard pull tab and set outside your home, you had to shake it before use to mix the cream in with the milk unless grandma wanted to make butter.......and nobody ever took it from you even though it was sitting outside.
Blackjack gum was one of my favorites.

Thanks for the memories MountainDog! I remember all of them. It was the best of times. Even my kids talk about how nice it must have been as a child growing up in the 50's-60's era.

Originally Posted by Skip

The flag had 48 stars

The most common American car was the Ford Mustang,
And the most common foreign car was the Volkswagen Beatle.
The biggest rock group was the Beatles

I had to endure the JFK Assassination on TV for a whole week,
And I remember watching lee Harvey Oswald "get shot" "live", because there were no cartoons on that day.

JFK's speech "Ask not what your Country can do for you but what you can do for your country" is why I went into the Army. I was in my 2nd day of basic training when he was assassinated.

Originally Posted by Charlesoakisland

Originally Posted by Skip

The flag had 48 stars

The most common American car was the Ford Mustang,
And the most common foreign car was the Volkswagen Beatle.
The biggest rock group was the Beatles

I had to endure the JFK Assassination on TV for a whole week,
And I remember watching lee Harvey Oswald "get shot" "live", because there were no cartoons on that day.

JFK's speech "Ask not what your Country can do for you but what you can do for your country" is why I went into the Army. I was in my 2nd day of basic training when he was assassinated.

What was your favorite Dinosaurs when you was Young.

1966 here.

I remember Pong, centapede, Pacman, Saturday morning cartoons, dial turn tv's, record players real pinball machines, Drive-ins.

ladies from the East coast might remember as well as West coast:

mood rings

feather earings and HAIR

banana combs

bandana belts

long demin jackets

Loves baby soft perfume
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All stores closed on Sunday.

dodge ball

kickball

hopscotch

Mesquito fogging trucks

transistor radios

rollerskating

Pet rocks

rock candy

Poprock candy(pops in your mouth)


tv shows:

Happy Days

Kojak

Hawaii Five 0

The Hardy boys

Charlies Angels

The Waltons

Mod Squad

Patridge Family

Brady Bunch

Eight is Enough

Dallas


I'll write more if I can think of anymore....

I'm glad everybody had so much fun with this thread, I found it in a local news letter I receive down here and thought I would share it with you.
I think I'm a bit older than most here (1950) .
I remember my older sis wearing those big skirts with the poopdle on them and going gaa gaa over Elvis, getting our first TV and years later going over to our neighbors place to see their color TV, I wasn't impressed. During the summer we never slept inside, laying out and watching for falling stars was great, you could actually see the stars back then.
Grandma's oatmeal cookies were the best and moon pies made me sick.
One last note, if you remember the sixties you weren't there.

Originally Posted by Scubayons

Originally Posted by Charlesoakisland

Originally Posted by Skip

The flag had 48 stars

The most common American car was the Ford Mustang,
And the most common foreign car was the Volkswagen Beatle.
The biggest rock group was the Beatles

I had to endure the JFK Assassination on TV for a whole week,
And I remember watching lee Harvey Oswald "get shot" "live", because there were no cartoons on that day.

JFK's speech "Ask not what your Country can do for you but what you can do for your country" is why I went into the Army. I was in my 2nd day of basic training when he was assassinated.

What was your favorite Dinosaurs when you was Young.

Tyrannosaurus rex, cause he was the meanest sob on the block and kicked butt up to his last breath.

Originally Posted by MountainDog

I'm glad everybody had so much fun with this thread, I found it in a local news letter I receive down here and thought I would share it with you.
I think I'm a bit older than most here (1950) .
I remember my older sis wearing those big skirts with the poopdle on them and going gaa gaa over Elvis, getting our first TV and years later going over to our neighbors place to see their color TV, I wasn't impressed. During the summer we never slept inside, laying out and watching for falling stars was great, you could actually see the stars back then.
Grandma's oatmeal cookies were the best and moon pies made me sick.
One last note, if you remember the sixties you weren't there.

but not the oldest.

Originally Posted by Charlesoakisland

Originally Posted by Scubayons

Originally Posted by Charlesoakisland

Originally Posted by Skip

The flag had 48 stars

The most common American car was the Ford Mustang,
And the most common foreign car was the Volkswagen Beatle.
The biggest rock group was the Beatles

I had to endure the JFK Assassination on TV for a whole week,
And I remember watching lee Harvey Oswald "get shot" "live", because there were no cartoons on that day.

JFK's speech "Ask not what your Country can do for you but what you can do for your country" is why I went into the Army. I was in my 2nd day of basic training when he was assassinated.

What was your favorite Dinosaurs when you was Young.

Tyrannosaurus rex, cause he was the meanest sob on the block and kicked butt up to his last breath.

Yeah, event THAT has changed. Now scientists say T-Rex was a scavenger! No more heros anymore

Originally Posted by JadedBaztard

Originally Posted by Charlesoakisland

Originally Posted by Scubayons

Originally Posted by Charlesoakisland

Originally Posted by Skip

The flag had 48 stars

The most common American car was the Ford Mustang,
And the most common foreign car was the Volkswagen Beatle.
The biggest rock group was the Beatles

I had to endure the JFK Assassination on TV for a whole week,
And I remember watching lee Harvey Oswald "get shot" "live", because there were no cartoons on that day.

JFK's speech "Ask not what your Country can do for you but what you can do for your country" is why I went into the Army. I was in my 2nd day of basic training when he was assassinated.

What was your favorite Dinosaurs when you was Young.

Tyrannosaurus rex, cause he was the meanest sob on the block and kicked butt up to his last breath.

Yeah, event THAT has changed. Now scientists say T-Rex was a scavenger! No more heros anymore

theory's theory's, give one scientist eye witness.

[quote=Charlesoakisland]

Originally Posted by JadedBaztard

Originally Posted by Charlesoakisland

Originally Posted by Scubayons

Originally Posted by Charlesoakisland

Originally Posted by "Skip":5lk3vbxo

The flag had 48 stars

The most common American car was the Ford Mustang,
And the most common foreign car was the Volkswagen Beatle.
The biggest rock group was the Beatles

I had to endure the JFK Assassination on TV for a whole week,
And I remember watching lee Harvey Oswald "get shot" "live", because there were no cartoons on that day.

JFK's speech "Ask not what your Country can do for you but what you can do for your country" is why I went into the Army. I was in my 2nd day of basic training when he was assassinated.

What was your favorite Dinosaurs when you was Young.

Tyrannosaurus rex, cause he was the meanest sob on the block and kicked butt up to his last breath.

Yeah, event THAT has changed. Now scientists say T-Rex was a scavenger! No more heros anymore

theory's theory's, give one scientist eye witness.[/quote:5lk3vbxo]

couldn't that be said for creationism though? Or for that matter, evolution?