What Are Some Common Items From The Past That Kids Today Won't Know?

[applecruncher]

RR, yeah thanks. I remember one kind that had teeth. Can't believe I used those. :laugh:

 

[Aunt Bea]

 

[C'est Moi]

And I think you can still buy Keds and electric rollers.

 

[Pappy]

 

[Ken N Tx]

And I think you can still buy Keds and electric rollers.

 

[fmdog44]

Decoder rings and whistle rings, horseshoe cleats, Big Daddy Ed Roth, green hot dogs, Maypo.

 

[Gary O']

Keds tennis shoes

Red ball Jets
Never had ‘em
Saw ‘em, though

some of the poorest kids in our neighborhood had the neatest stuff

 

[RadishRose]

 

[applecruncher]

meat grinder with table clamp

 

[Ferocious]

What the Butler saw.........




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[C'est Moi]

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That is known as a "Brannock device" and they are still in use as far as I know.

 

[Butterfly]

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I still own and occasionally use one of these!!

 

[Butterfly]

Saturday morning serials
Chapters one through fifteen
Fly paper, penny loafers, and lucky strike green
Flat tops, sock hops, Studebaker, "Pepsi, please"
Ah, do you remember these?
Cigar bands on your hands
Your daddy's socks rolled down
Sticks, no plugs and aviator caps, with flaps that button down
Movie stars on Dixie cup tops and knickers to your knees
Ah, do you remember these?
The hit parade, grape truaide, the Sadie Hawkins dance
Peddle pushers, duck tail hair, and peggin' your pants
Howdy doody
Tootie fruitie
The seam up the back of her hose
Ah, do you remember those?
James dean, he was "keen", Sunday movies were taboo
The senior prom, Judy's mom, rock 'n roll was new
Cracker jack prize
Stars in your eyes
"ask daddy for the keys"
Ah, do you remember these?
The boogie man, lemonade stand and taking your tonsils out
Indian burn and wait your turn and four foul balls
You're out!
Cigarette loads and secret codes and saving lucky stars
Can you remember back that far?
To boat neck shirts and fender skirts and crinoline petticoats
Mums the word and dirty bird and double root beer float
Moon hubcaps and loud heel taps and "he's a real gone cat"
Ah, do you remember that?
Dancing close, little moron jokes and "cooties" in her hair
Captain midnight, ovaltine, and the whip at the county fair
Charles atlas course, Roy Rogers horse, and "only the shadow
Knows"
Ah, do you remember those?
Gables charms, "froggin" your arm, loud mufflers, pitching woo
Going steady, veronica and betty, white bucks and blue suede shoes
Knock, knock jokes
Who's there?
Dewey
Dewey who?
Dewey
Remember these
Yes we do!
Oh do we?
Do we remember these!

Ah -- vintage Statler Brothers!

 

[Aunt Bea]

RR made a post in another thread that made me think of the dangerous glass bottles that we used to use in the bathroom for shampoo, mouthwash, etc... instead of the common plastic bottles we use today.

And little craft projects like this toilet tissue cover that has thankfully slipped quietly into the past.