Things you forgot about

Metal ice cube trays. Home made ice cream with all pure ingredients and fresh fruit. With fights about who was to lick the beater.
 

Milkmen and frozen cream on the top of glass milk bottles, in the winter. Tongue freezing to metal fences and getting trapped on the jungle gym with your dress rolled up on a bar. Sleds and toboggans....ice skating for hours... capturing bugs and caterpillars in jars. Laying in meadow grass, finding pictures in the clouds. No cell phones, video games or tablets.
 
I lived in Japan as a kid and watched The Lone Ranger in Japanese, opening with, "Hi-yo Seeva-San!!" They didn't pronounce "L"s and "R"s. "San" addressed others like mama-san and papa-san. They also showed the Mickey Mouse Club, Romper Room, Popeye, and Captain Kangaroo...all dubbed in Japanese.
 
"girls not being allowed to wear pants to school,"

Good God! We were never that lucky in the UK!

(Pants means a different item of clothing over here!)
 
The girls won't understand what a rite of passage this was, but men of a certain generation will -

The sense of unbelieving wonderment the first time you realised that a girl was gently easing your zip down!
 
Given a nickel for a ice cream and instead picking the largest dill pickle from a wood barrel....that was then wrapped in waxed paper...so you could eat it on the way home. Spending an half hour picking out penny candy...trying to get the 2 or 3 for a penny. So you would have enough for all your "buddies".
 
ndynt said:
Milkmen and frozen cream on the top of glass milk bottles, in the winter.
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We still have milkmen and milk deliveries here..not many now left I grant you, but out here in the backwoods the local farmer still has a milk float and deliveries are still made door to door..in this area..

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Working on the milk float and getting out of bed at 3am ages 12 to deliver milk door to door before school was my very first job when I was a kid
 
Another long forgotten memory , and I must have been very small when they stopped using them..was the cash carrying tube system they used in department stores.. anyone remember them..?
 
hollydolly said:
Another long forgotten memory , and I must have been very small when they stopped using them..was the cash carrying tube system they used in department stores.. anyone remember them..?
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In the 40's they were common. Sears used to fascinate me with those tubes that swept away your money. BTW We had milk deliveries up until '56 or so. Our milk man just walked in checked the fridge and delivered what was needed, if you wanted ice cream you told him in a note what to leave, sweet innocent days.
 
Yup same here Jim, a little note was left in the empty bottles on the doorstep for anything extra like yoghurt or orange juice .

Yes I was always fascinated by those pneumatic cash tubes..just see the money disappearing up a tube and wait for change to come back...and I seem to remember that all the department stores interiors had shiny dark polished wood counters too...ooooh and do you remember those lifts ( elevators) with the gates and the bell boy inside the stores as well?
 
hollydolly said:
Yup same here Jim, a little note was left in the empty bottles on the doorstep for anything extra like yoghurt or orange juice .

Yes I was always fascinated by those pneumatic cash tubes..just see the money disappearing up a tube and wait for change to come back...and I seem to remember that all the department stores interiors had shiny dark polished wood counters too...ooooh and do you remember those lifts ( elevators) with the gates and the bell boy inside the stores as well?
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I sure do Holly. One a year as a boy my folks took us for school clothes. I hated having to wear new Jeans to school, so blue and stiff, I just knew the girls would laugh at me. They didn't though.
 
Haha...so did we...once a year to get a new School uniform to the big posh (for then) department store in the city centre...

We all had to wear strict school uniform no casual clothing allowed and only one or 2 of the department stores were given the licence to sell them and they stocked the uniforms for every school in the city..just about every school had a different colour combination , so they were sold at premium prices, so a big layout every year for parents as it still is today.. very expensive to buy when parents had more than one child to kit out..and my parents had 4..
 
I only lived with "uniforms" one school year, my 8th grade I spent in catholic school. There I learned that even in a uniform girls looked good to me. My catholic education did not take and I did not become a convert, but my education about girls grew.
 
There was a time (40') when CrackerJacks packed REAL toys in their product. Tin whistles, crickets, police badges...none of the cardboard stuff of today.
 

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