Quiz: From the following list of 25 items, count all the ones that you remember

CooCooforCoCoPuffs said:
Dippity Do is missing next to Butch Wax perhaps?
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Never fear … here’s a vintage unopened 8 oz. jar on Ebay … only $75.00 😁

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Omg I'm older than I thought I was ..lol.
I remembered all of them except for # 10 Butch wax.

My dad had a butch haircut when I was a kid, but I never saw him use any gel/wax of sorts on his hair.
I actually thought it was may be some sort of car wax my brother would have used to wax his '55 or '63 Chevys.
 

Murrmurr said:
Do you remember the little black, square, naturally flavored licorice chews called Sen-Sen?
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I had a part time job in high school, and my boss was never without Sen-Sen. I tried them and they weren't too bad. I'd buy a tiny envelope of them from time to time just because they were unique with so much flavor packed into flake not much bigger than a piece of coarse ground pepper.
 
GoodEnuff said:
We never had a Packard; I do remember the Hudson.
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Do you remember the Kaiser-Frazier? I've only seen one. The father of a little playmate in the primary grades had one. They were poor, so I think it may have been a car that was in a subStudebaker class.
 
Murrmurr said:
Yeah, Beemans was my 2nd favorite gum.

Do you remember the little black, square, naturally flavored licorice chews called Sen-Sen?
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My grandmother told me that back in the "Roaring 20s" chewing Sen-Sen wasn't quite respectable for young women because it inferred that they were possibly covering up the smell of alcohol on their breath.

She said that to be described as the sort of girl who wears rouge, rolls her stockings down below her knees and chews Sen-Sen wasn't the sort of girls young men take home to meet their mothers.

Hoo boy! Would *I* have been a disgrace!
 
25. Washtub Wringer

My mother had one in our small, low ceiling and leaky basement. I can remember her standing in rain water using this old machine. It's a wonder she never got electrocuted!
 
Speaking of Dippity Do, the forerunner of that was called something like Jo-Kerr (I may not have the exact name).

It was more liquid than Dippity-Do and came in a tall, wide-mouthed bottle that you dipped a comb into. You combed it into wet hair and then put in curlers or pin curls. Use enough and your curls could withstand a direct hit from a nuclear bomb....LOL.
 
Didn't have any first hand knowledge of Packards or Studebakers. I knew of them of course and what they were just don't remember ever seeing any.
 
In my boyhood, there were frequently major conficts about sneaker brands: specifically: PF Flyers vs Redball Jets. I leaned toward Redballs, while my best friend favored the PF Flyers. When times were tough, which they frequently were, some knockoff no-name shoes might be our fate which generally led to a few points being deducted from our our kid status rating. We argued about the effectiveness of competing suction cup patterns, durability of canvas, and other such features of our favored gym shoe. Of course being logging camp kids, we never met a polished hardwood gym floor so most of our contentions were moot.

We generally got new sneakers at the beginning of the school year and wore them until summer vacation at which point they became our all purpose, 4X4; hiking, wading, climbing, jumping footwear until they became tattered beyond wearability. Oddly the last identifiable remnant of our once glorious shoes often was the logo glued to the side of the sole
 
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My mother had the washtub wringer and I liked to feed the clothes through them. They would come out all scrunched up. Mother finally got a regular washing machine.
 
JustDave said:
PF Flyers. What are they? Maybe I knew them by some other name.
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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

PF Flyers
Company typeSubsidiary
Founded1937; 87 years ago in Akron, Ohio, United States
FounderB.F. Goodrich
HeadquartersAllston, Massachusetts, United States
Area servedWorldwide
ProductsApparel, clothing, and shoes
ParentKassia Designs, LLC
Websitewww.pfflyers.com
A pair of PF Flyer "All American" high tops
PF Flyers is an American brand of lifestyle shoes owned by Kassia Designs, LLC. Founded in 1937 by B.F. Goodrich,[1] it is one of the original American sneaker brands.

History​

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In 1933, inventor Hyman L. Witman and rubber manufacturing company B.F. Goodrich patented the "Posture Foundation" arch support insole, and began adding the new technology to its shoes. B.F. Goodrich shoes with Posture Foundation became known simply as "PF" in 1937.
 
OregonGuy said:
-- not the ones you were told about! How to score yourself is at the end.
  1. Blackjack chewing gum
  2. Wax Coke-shaped bottles with colored sugar-water
  3. Candy cigarettes
  4. Soda-pop machines that dispensed bottles
    Cell phone for seniors
  5. Coffee shops with tableside jukeboxes
  6. Home milk delivery in glass bottles with cardboard stoppers
  7. Party lines
  8. Newsreels before the movie
  9. P. F. Flyers
  10. Butch wax
  11. Telephone numbers with a word prefix (e.g., Olive - 6933)
  12. Peashooters
  13. Howdy Doody
  14. 45-RPM records ... and 78-RPM records
  15. S&H Green Stamps
  16. Hi-fi systems
  17. Metal ice trays with lever
  18. Mimeograph paper
  19. Blue flashbulb
  20. Packards
  21. Rollerskate keys
  22. Cork popguns
  23. Drive-in theaters
  24. Studebakers
  25. Washtub wringers
If you remembered!
0 - 5 = You're still young
6 - 10 = You are getting older
11 - 15 = Don't tell your age
16 - 25 = You're older than you think!
Be sure to pass this along -- especially to all your friends with really good memories.
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I am old as the hills and my boyfriend had a dark green Studebaker.
 
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