Middle Aged Memories

I couldn't get the video to load, so I'll just have to imagine what you got as a child, Eph.

OUCH! I'm very happy my grands haven't seen those cans. They would be throwing them at each other.

This memory is very random, but I remember that our corner drugstore (as well as some others) used to make you pass thru' a turnstile to enter.  That was how they kept track of their customer count back in the day.

p.s.  I make those "tin can high heels" to play with for Cub Scout Camp.

Our drugstore had a soda fountain. Had a long counter with a soda "jerk", stools. He would make sodas, and the best malts.

Eph - I just saw that video of those dangerous things the kid's show gave you! Haha, parents today would scream about that - someone would surely get sued!  Did you notice the little girl had a bandaid on her knee?

Of course, we didn't know what danger was in those days.  I'll never forget riding down a huge hill in my neighborhood, on a bike, no hands no feet.  We were little idiots, weren't we?

My father was a soda jerk when he was in high school.  He looked like a movie star anyway, so I'm sure that just made him doubly popular with the girls!

I know we had a small segment of cigarette jingles and slogans a while ago, but just yesterday the jingle "Filter, Flavor, Pack or Box" popped into my mind. Wasn't that for Marlboro cigarettes?

As far as dangerous toys...everyone knows I still have my Jarts!

The ones in magazines were called "flexi-disks." I remember having one from a cereal box too. It was "Jingle Jangle" by The Archies.

Come on now...no memories for a month? Even tho' it has passsed, I have some Halloween memories.

Did anyone get a candied apple or caramel apple for Halloween as a kid? I did. The apples were always on the nasty side (like dry or bruised) tho'. Guess I should have been thankful that no razor blades were in them. I also got homemade popcorn balls (which I saw that pre-packaged ones are still available these days.) I always liked to get Pixie Stix, even tho' it was inevitable that one would break inside the pillow case and the sugar dust went onto everything else. Did anyone have a PLASTIC Halloween costume? That's really old school, and they weren't very comfortable, but if it was a typical rainy night, that plastic sure came in handy to keep you dry.

We used to call it "going begging" for Halloween. Did anyone trick or treat for Unicef? Did any of you former hippies use the chant, "Help the poor, make love not war?" That was trick or treating during the Vietnam years.

I remember help the poor and UNICEF, also trick or treat, smell my feet or give me something good to eat..WHAT????

One little girl about five years old came up with a group and and did the "smell my feet" thing. Her three year old brother echoed it. They got the little hard candies, not the candy bars. I told her that wasn't very nice. About twenty minutes later, she came back with a group, I told her I recognized her that she'd already been here because of what she was saying, the whole group turned and left. They didn't argue at all.

Why were the Xmas lights in the 1950's so cool? My aunt had a set that percolated. Like these but the colors were prettier...

Oh man, those baby bottles were a lifesaver back in the day. I had a GIANT family of dolls & for about 4 years running (6 to 10 I'm thinking) I would dress & feed everyone of those dolls. The babies were plentiful so I had lots of those bottles.

We didn't have any of those cool liquid lights, but I would see them other places. They were da bomB

We had a string of Bubblers which were my grandfathers. We loved to watch them warm up and be the first to announce when the bubbles would start.

This is one I remember