Meme from wordweaverlynn

[ebonypearl]

Here's a list of things people think don't exist anymore. Bold the ones you remember. I have also italicized the ones I still own or buy ocassionaly.

1 Blackjack chewing gum
2. Wax Coke-shaped bottles with colored sugar water
3. Candy cigarettes (I have 4 boxes i my dresser drawer right now)
4. Soda pop machines that dispensed glass bottles
5. Coffee shops or diners with tableside juke boxes (there's one here in town, serves chicken fried steak)
6 . Home milk delivery in glass bottles with cardboard stoppers
7. Party lines
8. Newsreels before the movie
9. P.F. Flyers
10. Butch wax
11. Telephone numbers with a word prefix (WAlker 5, MIdway 6)
12. Peashooters
13. Howdy Doody
14. 45 RPM records
15. S& H greenstamps
16 Hi-fi's
17. Metal ice trays with lever
18. Mimeograph paper (I used to run a fanzine off mimeograph machines)
19 Blue flashbulbs (even though I still have some of these flashbulbs, I no longer have a camera for them)
20. Packards (and other older modes - my first car was a Nash Rambler)
21. Roller skate keys
22. Cork popguns
23. Drive-ins (There's one in town...)
24. Studebakers
25. Wash tub wringers
26. Big, little books.
27. Using hand signals for cars without turn signals.
28. Soldering irons you heat on a gas burner.
29. Pant leg clips for bicycles without chain guards.
30. Real ice boxes.
31. Head lights dimmer switches on the floor.
32. Heaters mounted on the inside of the fire wall.
33. Ignition switches on the dashboard.

Comments

[sunfell.livejournal.com]

I suppose I'm a transitional/military kid- because I remember some of those things (like word prefixes and wringer washers) from when I was really small. And my first car, a '76 Chevy Monza, had a floor dimmer switch. I used "Magicubes" with my camera, and the last drive-in in the state was replaced with an apartment complex and a Kohl's.

I had milk delivered at my home in the UK- in 1991. The last party line disappeared in AR in 1995.