I'm sure you all remember this stuff and more

Absolutely I do remember the grocery van coming around.. As with Radish Rose.. ours was a Van, which sold a little bit of canned good, fruit & veg, milk bread, etc.. and he would come around every Tuesday.. he had a back door, and you could step into the van to a little tiny counter and be served like that. In fact it was only in the 80's that he stopped coming..

I wish I had a photo of it..

We used to always have the lemonade delivery truck once a week too..he would deliver all sorts of flavoured Pop on the doorsteps like Milk...
 

hollydolly said:
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We weren't Italian but I saw this plenty of times....
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My Italian Grandparents had plastic covers on their living room furniture. I remember on hot days wearing shorts (before A/C), you could lose half the skin on the back of your legs getting up off the plastic covered couch.
 
Hahahaha, JimW I can totally understand that. I had a little bag that held all my jacks and rubber ball. My mom made sure I picked them all up before I was finished.

Pinky, my girlfriends and I played Jacks for hours. That and jump rope. Before the video games.
 
I remember when I was young the milk man would come to our house. When he was bringing the milk to the front door I would take ice from the back of his truck on a hot summer day.

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Everything was delivered. Groceries (packed in boxes), grocery vans, the milkman, the bread and pie man, (Pappy) several ice cream men, the popcorn man, the whip ride, the dry cleaners, etc.

Only 2 moms in my little neighborhood had cars for a time. When families got second cars, moms did all the shopping.

Now, there's a resurgence of home delivery; things have gone full-circle.
 
JimW said:
Babs, my feet hurt just looking at those jacks. I've had the displeasure of stepping on a few in my time. Jacks make Legos feel like cushions on your feet.

Welcome to the forum Babs!
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My dad banned playing jacks in the house after he stepped on them a couple of times in the dark. The first time we got a stern warning, and the second time they were banned forever. We had to leave our cigar box with the jacks and ball in it out on the porch.
 
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Me in 1978 at a wedding and getting my Kodak flash cubes ready.
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I remember those flash cubes. My uncle and aunt who lived in Toronto, used to visit every few years in the 60's when I was a child . They had no children but they had every gadget you can imagine, and would bring their latest camera and cine camera with them..and that's the first time I ever saw the Flash cubes...
 
I was just thinking. Did anyone enjoy climbing trees when you were young? I used to love that. Yes i said used to. I cannot remember for the life of me seeing kids climbng a tree since then. Anyone seen kids climbing a tree lately?
 
I used to climb trees, and I fell out of them my share of times, too. Nope, I haven't seen kids climbing trees in years and years. It's probably a no-no nowdays. If your kid fell out of a tree now, child services or whoever would probably come after you for negligence or some such.
 
Butterfly said:
I used to climb trees, and I fell out of them my share of times, too. Nope, I haven't seen kids climbing trees in years and years. It's probably a no-no nowdays. If your kid fell out of a tree now, child services or whoever would probably come after you for negligence or some such.
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Well i suppose that was a silly question anyways. I cant even see kids playing in the yard, why would they be seen in a tree!
 
How bout the old Dy-Dee Diaper delivery service? The old trucks had a baby wearing a crown on top.

I tried to find a pic of the old Dy-Dee Diaper trucks on-line, but couldn't. All I found was a pic of this toy replica.

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Garydavid said:
I was just thinking. Did anyone enjoy climbing trees when you were young? I used to love that. Yes i said used to. I cannot remember for the life of me seeing kids climbng a tree since then. Anyone seen kids climbing a tree lately?
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Oh yes of course...I would climb anything trees high walls, anything ... In fact I have to physically stop myself even these days when i see a tree ripe for climbing.!! :D Here where I live, much as the kids all have the latest gadgets, they still go out and play, there's never a day when they're not out even sometimes when it's raining. As soon as school is out and the kids are home, out they come, on their bikes and scooters (the latter is the latest fad)... and into the adventure playgrounds and parks they go...


They're still climbing trees too...in fact just a couple of weeks ago we were in the pub garden on a Sunny Sunday afternoon. It's surrounded by mature trees, and 2 little girls maybe 5 or 6 all dressed up in pretty dresses, wandered into the shrubbery ..I'd just mentioned to my o/h that the parents didn't seem to be watching where the little girls were going, when suddenly the elder of the 2 came running out shouting...''daddy, daddy, sister is stuck up the tree''... daddy ran like Billy- O, and got her down, and she was none the worse for it... :D
 
I was a tomboy, yet loved wearing pretty dresses. That didn't stop me from climbing trees, getting up on the roof of the wood shed. I remember when I tore a favourite dress while descending a tree, and was very upset that it couldn't be repaired.

Holly, it's nice to know that kids still play outdoors where you live. That was life for my daughter growing up, but I rarely see that anymore, which is rather sad.
 

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