Things you forgot about

[AZ Jim]

Wind-wings, running boards, rumble seats....add some you thought of!

 

[Pappy]

Strap on roller skates, chemistry sets, casts iron banks and toys, penny candy, 5 cent cokes and Popsicles, Saturday movie serials.

 

[Falcon]

"Curb feelers" to help you park the car.

Whole windshield sun visors.

 

[drifter]

My, my some old people on here.

 

[AZ Jim]

white wall tires, real bumpers.

 

[Falcon]

My, my some old people on here.

So, Old people aren't allowed to be on SF?

 

[drifter]

It's okay, you get a free pass.

 

[Pappy]

Coal delivery, using the coal ashes in the snowy driveway, school,desks with a place for the inkwell, flashlight batteries that lasted maybe three days, steering wheel suicide spinners.

 

[Georgia Lady]

Watching ILove Lucy on our first TV, when I was 8 years old.

 

[Lon]

Sling shot, Willow Whistle, BB Gun, Saturday Evening Post ,Green Salve, Lincoln Logs Red Flyer Wagon,

 

[jujube]

I don't have enough computer memory for the things I've forgotten about.....it comes with the territory.

 

[Laurie]

Common courtesy.

 

[hollydolly]

Only 2 TV channels in Black and white..

 

[RadishRose]

How to dance.

 

[imp]

The introduction of "oleomargarine". imp

 

[jujube]

Only 2 TV channels in Black and white..

And, in at least my part of the US, the programming stopped at midnight with the national anthem played. That was it until maybe six a.m. the next morning. In between, you got a grey test pattern and a lot of static.

 

[Skyking]

Playing kick the can, telephone booths, TV tubes, 8MM Movie cameras, chrystal radios, metal TV antennas, collect calls, carburetors, drive-in movie theaters with double features and bench seats in the front of cars (woo woo!!!) 25cent gasoline, Christmas catalogues both Sears and Wards with wood burning kits, wood baseball bats, microscopes and Gilbert Chemistry kits. I miss them all.

 

[Shirley]

Window fans

 

[jujube]

"Downtown" for shopping, not the mall.

Getting dressed up to "go downtown" with your girlfriends on Saturday. 25 cents each way on the bus. Parents glad to have you out from underfoot all day and not worried about perverts and sidewalk bombings.

Elevator operators in the department stores: "Third floor...better dresses...."

An evening set aside to go downtown, look at the Christmas windows and visit Santa Claus.

Tangee Lipstick bought at Woolworths Dime Store; it came in four colors - fluorescent red, fluorescent pink, fluorescent coral and white - and cost 19 cents for the push-up tube and, gasp, 29 cents for one that twisted.

Lunch at the Woolworth's lunch counter; 50 cents would get you a BLT or a club sandwich and a paper cup full of shaved ice and Coca-Cola that fitted in a metal holder. You might even get fries. You could flirt with that cute soda jerk behind the counter and you might get some cherry syrup in your Coke (without paying the 5 cents extra.)

30 cents for a movie (kid rate....."Why, yes, I am only 12 years old....I'm just big for my age....uh-huh...); two feature films, cartoons and a newsreel and you could stay all day and watch them over and over if you wanted to (excellent for those dog days of summer when there was no air conditioning at home).

 

[Ken N Tx]

Only 2 TV channels in Black and white..

And, in at least my part of the US, the programming stopped at midnight with the national anthem played. That was it until maybe six a.m. the next morning. In between, you got a grey test pattern and a lot of static.

Magnifying screens to make the screen larger..

Color wheels for the aluminum Christmas tree..

Tupperware..

 

[Butterfly]

erector sets, tinker toys, viewmasters, Roy Rogers cap guns, hose with seams, garter belts, 45 records

 

[ndynt]

The introduction of "oleomargarine". imp

Remember that little gelatin pill of yellow coloring...to color the "lard" to butter yellow? I felt deprived because we had to use butter and would beg a neighbor to let me squeeze the bag to color her margarine.

 

[ndynt]

Balls of tin foil and bringing metal, to the movie theater, for free admission to the Saturday matinee. Along with crushing tin cans....all to help the war effort.

 

[Warrigal]

Nylon stockings with seams, rope petticoats, twin sets.

 

[Ralphy1]

Refrigerators that weren't self-defrosting...