What do you remember...................

[Gino]

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Recently, Fred…. our leader and commander-in-chief, here at s101 had a thread about not being able to get a particular item anymore and was looking for help in locating it.

I’m taking it a step further and whether or not you’ve experienced the item you mention… I’d like to see what shows up as far as things young and old alike can’t find anymore or is no longer in circulation.


I’ll start with some things I used to have as a kid and beyond.

check out those prices...........

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This will probably show peoples’ ages………… :Oops:

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[Fred Weiss]

My first and only visit to a proctologist and the elephant he had hidden behind the door.

 

[J Hill Designs]

this

 

[Shovelhead]

 

[JR's]

My first and only visit to a proctologist and the elephant he had hidden behind the door.

what the hell, lol lol lol.

JR

 

[bob]

25 cent gas

20 cent cigarettes

A good 5 cent cigar

Nucoa margarine that came as a big white lump and you had to mix in the little capsule of coloring. The great white fathers at the FDA, forced by the dairy lobby, had decreed that margarine could not be yellow. Only butter could be yellow.

Milkshakes and malts with a actual lump of ice cream in them.

Poodle skirts.

White bucks and blue suede shoes.

Trousers with a little useless belt in the back.

Flatheads.

Polio and iron lungs.

Lollipops that could hurt you.

12" round tube black and white televisions displaying an indian [feather not dot] test pattern.

Endless radio dramas.

Big John and Sparky.

The cardboard separators in Nabisco shredded wheat boxes printed will all manner of outdoor survival lore.

Dick Tracy's crime stoppers textbook.

Big Bang cannons.

Tires with inner tubes.

...among other things...

 

[surf city]

Ah the old viewmaster man I had a gazillion disks and woolworths food counter, very good memories of that stuff. Howard johnson's used to have a flat bottom hot dog bun and Stewarts rootbeer actually made the burger unstead of the frozen crap they sell today. Oh and GI Joe was like 16" tall and he had a ton of stuff you could get for him. Man, they just don't make stuff the way they used to.

 

[CS-SignSupply]

Collectible RC Cans

 

[surf city]

Oh and the old Schwin Stingray man I loved that bike

 

[Pat Whatley]

I just remembered that when I get as old as you guys I shouldn't make it worse by reminiscing about it.

 

[Bigdawg]

Big Boy restaurants were the place to go...

Everyone had a viewmaster and the rage for us girls was the brand-new-just-introduced talking Barbie. Big Wheels and Sit-n-Spins for my younger siblings and lawn darts for the family...

Leisure suits were the shiznit

and I wouldn't be caught dead without my platform maryjanes on...

 

[Gino]

Hey Shovel........

How 'bout this instead ??
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[Shovelhead]

Hey Shovel........

How 'bout this instead ??
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There's no hole to suck out the goodness within!?

 

[WhiskeyDreamer]

neighbor's kid just came down with one of these the other day...i haven't seen these in years...and loved 'em as a kid.....

and YES, i did ask if i could play with it....he obliged, but only cause i think he's afraid of me...

 

[Gino]

there's no hole to suck out the goodness within!?

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[inthesignbiz]

Bactine and Fizzies.

Not together.

Not again anyway.

 

[tcorn1965]

Clackers

 

[Shovelhead]

:Oops:

 

[Tim Aucoin]

These bring back some memories...

 

[Gino]

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