A trip down Memory Lane..............
Aluminum Christmas Trees - Now = a Festivus Pole...
$0.05 baseball card packs - Valued at $10,000+ unopened...
Beanie and Cecil - created by Jed's smarter brother Bob...
Brownie cameras - Have 2...
Brylcreem - A little Dab will make you look like you stuck your head into a crank-case...
Burma-Shave signs - Caused Accidents
Chef Boy-AR-dee - unseasoned tomato sauce & dhurum pasta...
Cork pop-guns - became interesting once the string was removed...
Car Hops - on rollerskates...
Cigarettes for Christmas - now with X-T38... because they are mild...
$0.05 Cokes - got me there... coke came by the gram when I was buying...
Ding-Dong, Avon calling - dumbest ad ever. Avon used the Telephone to set up appointments...
Drive-in Movies - paradise by the dashboard light...
Drive-in restaurants - for those without girlfriends...
Erector sets - better than legos
Falstaff Beer - only slightly better than Billy Beer
Fire escape tubes - still useful...
Flash bulbs - still useful if you are into IEDs...
The Fuller Brush Man - genuine boar bristles...
$0.25/gallon gasoline - 8 mpg cars...
Green Stamps - granny hoarded them.
Gum wrapper chains - who could afford gum?
$0.15 hamburgers - now $0.20-0.25... not much inflation there.
Jiffy Pop popcorn - hot air poppers...
Lincoln Logs - I had real BRICK building bricks...
Marlin Perkins - And now watch Jeff as he gets eaten by the magnificent African Lion... Good thing he had Mutual of Omaha Insurance...
Metal Ice cube trays - and? my freezer still has them.
Old Yeller - Strom Thurmond didn't cry...
Penny candy - now $0.05...
Reel-To-Reel tape recorders - my reels still play... only a few have had magnetic bleed...
Roller-skate keys - only Girls failed to nail them to boards...
Sky King - since when do cowboys use a plane rather than a horse?
Snap-Jack shoes by Thom McAnn - penny loafers with real pennies...
Speedy Alka-Seltzer - plop plop, fizz fizz
45rpm vinyl record spindles - used to be thrown as frisbees by Radio DJs at town events...
$0.05 stamps - neither rain nor sleet nor federal employee's union...
Studebakers - the Tea Party of the 50s...
Timmy and Lassie - Timmy was too stupid to live... How many wells did he fall into?
Tinkertoys - made great toy guns...
Topo Gigio - Elvis's Hips made more of an impact...
TV Test patterns - National Anthem played before & after...
Washtub clothes wringers - cloth diapers...