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

Sunny said:
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This is a sculpture in the Sculpture Garden at the Hirschhorn Musem in Washington, D.C. It cracks me up every time I see it.
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Ah yes ! The good old typewriter eraser. I wore mine out a long time ago.
 

Granpa Don's picture of the radio and TV tubes reminded me of these displays that they used to have in the local drugstores.

I remember my stepfather testing tubes and buying replacements for our television.

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a few years ago we were watching an old movie with the grandkids
one piped up, 'What's he doing?'
Fred MacMurray was dialing a phone
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I think the movie was Double Indemnity
 
True story: Heard this a few years ago. A little girls was give an old fashioned cash register with plastic groceries for a birthday gift. When they set it all out she started dragging the grocery items across the table rather then looking at the price then pushing the keys!
 
terry123 said:
I still have a few of those somewhere! Talking about the green stamp books!
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I do, too, Terry. My mom was into green stamps and she planned our grocery shopping around the Wednesday double stamp day at the store. Then we'd come home and stick 'em into the little books. I have a particular memory of getting the stamp books together and going to the Green Stamp Store and getting some fancy TV trays. Funny the odd things that stick in your memory.
 
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!
 
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