Who remembers these things back in the day ?...come and add your own memories..

These are bikini combs used for teasing hair. They were popular in the 1960s. I had a pink one but never used it because teased hair was not as fashionable for young teenage girls as it had once been by the time I was old enough. :giggle:
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Pappy said:
My kids having fun in a plastic swimming pool.

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My folks bought my brother and me one of those pools. Other neighborhood kids would occasionally come to splash around in it in summer, too.

Do you remember the old key-lid cans for ground coffee? The cans were made from extremely thin steel sheet metal. You used a key to remove a strip of metal from around and just under the can's top. That separated lid, which could be pressed back onto the can to cover the contents, had an almost razor sharp flange of metal remaining with it.
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One time the next-neighbor girl, Kathy, about a year or so older than me, had come over to splash in the pool. A mischievous boy named Gary and wandered from down the block, ready to have 'fun'. He'd tossed one of those can lids, sharp-side up, into the little pool. Kathy stepped on it, suffered a big slice on the sole of one foot, and had to be driven to medical help to get her foot stitched.

Not a pleasant memory. The pool was fun and safe, Gary and that type of can lid definitely were not!☹️
 

Paladin1950 said:
Nehru shirt. I had one in the late 60's.
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I loved Nehru shirts and jackets...
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I remember my dad up on the roof adjusting the TV antenna. He'd yell, "How about NOW?" and my mom would yell out the window, "A little bit better but still fuzzy!" and he'd twist it around again and yell, "Is it better now?" and she'd yell, "No, it was better before!" and that would go on for a long time before he got it just to the right place. And that would work for a while until it got wonky again. We were right under the flight path for the big airport nearby and every time one of the big planes went over, the TV picture would get distorted.

As far as the big curlers, we had to use empty orange juice concentrate cans until they came out with the big plastic ones.

Dad would buy cigarettes from the machine. They cost 23 cents but, of course, you had to put a quarter in. The cigarettes came out with two shiny pennies inside the plastic overwrap as change. He'd always give me the pennies and I'd spend them in the gumball machine.

Oh, madras. Madras shirts, madras dresses, madras skirts and shorts. Until they had been washed several times, the darker colors would stain your skin under the arms and around the waist, anywhere that got "damp".
 
JBR said:
My folks bought my brother and me one of those pools. Other neighborhood kids would occasionally come to splash around in it in summer, too.

Do you remember the old key-lid cans for ground coffee? The cans were made from extremely thin steel sheet metal. You used a key to remove a strip of metal from around and just under the can's top. That separated lid, which could be pressed back onto the can to cover the contents, had an almost razor sharp flange of metal remaining with it.
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One time the next-neighbor girl, Kathy, about a year or so older than me, had come over to splash in the pool. A mischievous boy named Gary and wandered from down the block, ready to have 'fun'. He'd tossed one of those can lids, sharp-side up, into the little pool. Kathy stepped on it, suffered a big slice on the sole of one foot, and had to be driven to medical help to get her foot stitched.

Not a pleasant memory. The pool was fun and safe, Gary and that type of can lid definitely were not!☹️
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Oooooouuu. That sounds yukky. Did the pool water start turning red?
 
I remember most of them, including my first phone number (the second one, too.) And I do remember most of the things in the pictures, except one picture that has me puzzled. It's those black, rolled up things from the Sweet Shop. Looks like licorice, but I ever saw it curled up like that.
 
Sunny said:
I remember most of them, including my first phone number (the second one, too.) And I do remember most of the things in the pictures, except one picture that has me puzzled. It's those black, rolled up things from the Sweet Shop. Looks like licorice, but I ever saw it curled up like that.
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yes it was curled like that here in the UK when I was a kid ...and still is to this day..and you could also get Liquorice pipes... ( smoking pipes)
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I just noticed..that's another word that's spelled different in the US from the UK

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