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[loracs]

via  firecat  a list of things that people apparently think don't exist any more, and you're supposed to bold which 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 glass bottles
5. Coffee shops or diners with tableside juke boxes
6 . Home milk delivery in glass bottles with cardboard stoppers
7. Party lines (first early flirting was on a party line - not sure who everyone was, but we knew we all went to the same school.  Would talk and/or listen for hours late at night sitting in the cold kitchen on a small stool.  This was the only phone in the house)
8. Newsreels before the movie
9. P.F. Flyers
10. Butch wax
11. Telephone numbers with a word prefix
12. Peashooters
13. Howdy Doody
14. 45 RPM records (first record I every bought was a 45 of Me & Bobby Mcgee by Janis Joplin)
15. S& H greenstamps (I helped my mom every week put all the stamps in the books)
17. Metal ice trays with lever  (and they were always empty because no one liked to fill them up)
18. Mimeograph paper
19 Blue flashbulbs
20. Packards
21. Roller Skate Keys 
22. Cork popguns
23. Drive-ins
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

[merujo.livejournal.com]

I remember so many of these things, even those that were well on their way out when I was a kid. Having parents born in the 20s certainly helped. We still had ice delivered to our house when I was in kindergarten/first grade out in New Jersey - Mom and Dad had a real-deal ice box out on the back porch, next to the hand wringer washing machine. And we still had our milk delivered when I was in high school in Illinois. It changed from glass bottles to plastic jugs somewhere around junior high.

[auntysocial.livejournal.com]

I remember most of those things. Metal ice cube trays, for example. I never got used to the plastic ones. I found out there still are metal ones and you can get them from the Vermont Country Store. However, they are not as substantial as the ones my mother had.