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Pencil boxes with a built in ruler and pencil sharpener.
 
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Three Generations
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Pencil boxes with a built in ruler and pencil sharpener.


Whoa...flashback!

Only the really cool kids had those in the 5th grade.

How about ball point pens with 3 or 4 tips in different colors. Red, Blue, Green and Black IIRC.




Be careful when following the masses. Sometimes the M is silent.
 
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Roy Rogers metal lunchbox.
 
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Loading the Little League Baseball team in the bed of my pickup and taking them to Dairy Queen for ice cream after the game - Win or Loose.



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When you have no future, you live in the past. " Sycamore Row" by John Grisham
 
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Drive in movies.


End of Earth: 2 Miles
Upper Peninsula: 4 Miles
 
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Bookers Bourbon
and a good cigar
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Vent windows in cars and trucks. Frown



BIDEN SUCKS.

If you're goin' through hell, keep on going.
Don't slow down. If you're scared don't show it.
You might get out before the devil even knows you're there.


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Paint can shaking machine.
(self serve)

I dared my older sister to put her head in one, she did an I tighten it up and hit the switch. She survived, I got the strap.
 
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Winky Dink Crayons
 
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The cake is a lie!
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Many people mentioned phone related things, but no mention of the

Phonebook

Big, heavy, yellow, dropped off at your door. So very necessary.


We still get phone books dropped off on our driveway every year.

I work for the Printing company that made the AT&T Yellow Pages. Our plant phased out of making them maybe 8 years ago, but somewhere out there, phone books are still being produced.
 
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Void Where Prohibited
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Wrapping a piece of aluminum foil around the cable wire and sliding it along until the HBO signal was unscrambled.



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Newsboys on the corner shouting "Extra Extra read all about it!"
 
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Plowing straight ahead come what may
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Blue Horse notebook paper (we could buy it in class)...cut out and saved many of those blue horse heads to turn in for prizes Smile


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Forget that blind ambition and learn to trust your intuition
Plowing straight ahead come what may
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Most of the car/truck related items have been mentioned but here's a few.
Floor vents, actually located below dash board, "flow thru ventilation".
Radios AM only and often without pushbuttons.
Manual Chokes on the dash board.
 
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Legalize the Constitution
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Hand-crank telephones


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Coca Cola with codeine


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Kerosene pumps at the gas stations


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Newsboys on the corner shouting "Extra Extra read all about it!"


Thanks you guys! I don’t feel so old at all...you guys, on the other hand, whoa!

I’ll add baseball cards (and football) bought in packs of 5 with bubble gum. Triples of Marv Throneberry of the NY Mets. No Mickey Mantle, maybe a Warren Spahn, a Willie Mays, Lou Burdette, Luis Aparicio, Roger Maris


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Bubble gum cigars
8 track tapes
8 track tape players
boom boxes(big portable radios)




The Second Amendment to the United States Constitution.

A well regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.

As ratified by the States and authenticated by Thomas Jefferson, Secretary of State



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My Time is Yours
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Dirt clod battles.
Service merchandise.
Makeshift club houses.
Payphones.
Pagers.
Love letters.


God, Family, Country.

 
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Floppy disks




You can't truly call yourself "peaceful" unless you are capable of great violence. If you're not capable of great violence, you're not peaceful, you're harmless.

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Son of a son
of a Sailor
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mimeograph machines! We used to sniff the sheets as the teacher handed them out.


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Floridian by birth, Seminole by the grace of God
 
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Here are my items. God Bless Smile


  • Respect for one another
  • Accountability and responsibility of your own actions
  • Fear of the consequences of ones bad actions/decisions
  • Morals
  • Modesty
  • Creativity/Imagination
  • Patience


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Smudge pot flares around roadwork overnight. When they were working on the road by my house we would sneak out and play with them.

And another thing that I’d rather forget - “Whites Only” signs on business doors Frown


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"Oh bother", said Pooh, as he chambered his last round.
 
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