Date yourself. Count up the ones you remember:
1. Blackjack chewing gum
2. Wax Coke-shaped bottles with colored sugar water
3. Candy cigarettes
4. Soda pop machines that dispensed bottles
5. Coffee shops with table side jukeboxes
6. Home milk delivery in glass bottles with cardboard stoppers and cream at the top
7. Party lines
8. Newsreels before the movie
9. P.F. Flyers
10. Butch wax
11. Telephone numbers with a word prefix like
"Yukon or YU" that preceeded the numbers
12. Peashooters
13. Howdy Doody
14. 45 RPM records
15. S&H Green Stamps
16. Hi-fi's
17. Metal ice trays with levers
18. Mimeograph paper with purple ink
19. Blue flashbulbs
20. Howdy Doody and Buffalo Bob
21. Roller skate keys
22. Cork popguns
23. Downtown Shopping
24. The Studebaker
25. Wash tub wringers
26. Clothes Lines with wooden clothes pins
27. Poodle Skirts
28. Bobbie Shocks
29. Pressure Cookers
30. Attic Fans and Window air conditioners
31. The Edsel
32. Gun Smoke with Marshall Dillon, Miss Kitty, Chester, Festus and Doc
33. Full Prom Dresses, petticoats,hooped skirts and corsages
34. Oxford shoes and Penny Loafers
35. Mosquito fogger trucks
36. Miss Francis and Ding-Dong School
37. Catching Dragonflies on clotheslines
38. Staying out late and catching fireflies
39. "Going Steady" Rings, Letter Sweaters and Letter Jackets
40. The Adventures of Rin Tin Tin and Lassie TV Shows
42. Burma-Shave Signs
43. Red, White, and Blue Spinning Barber Poles
44. Brush Hair Rollers and Orange Juice Cans used to roll your hair
45. Drive-In Theaters
50. "The Drag"
(No doubt, some of you will think of even more items to add to the list.)
If you remembered: 0 - 5..... You're still young.
If you remembered: 6 - 10..... You are getting older.
If you remembered: 11 - 15..... Don't tell your age.
If you remembered: 16 - 25 ..... You're older than dirt!
Over 25 ...................... Do you know where your burial policy is ?
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