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Toys:

12" Adventure Team GI Joes
8" Mego Super Heroes
Micronauts
Marx Big Wheels


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Rexall Drug Stores

The affordable Cox model powered planes
 
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Yeah, Woolworth's was the place to eat. A chocolate milk shake and a burger and I bet it wasn't over a buck.



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Mrs. Olson for Folgers Coffee.
 
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Sambo's restaurants (just the original still open, some others renamed)
White Tower hamburgers (I understand there is still ONE open in Toledo, Ohio)




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For those who cannot recall Mrs. Olson. Back when a woman' worth and self esteem were based on making good coffee, not sammiches.

 
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Nickel candy bars.
Dime movies on Saturday mornings: Frances Joins the Army, Martin and Lewis, Huntz Hall and the Bowery Boys.
TV came much later: Sky King, the Lone Ranger, Hopalong Cassidy, the Cisco Kid, Lassie.
7-ounce Coke bottles, collected by the side of the road to buy those nickel candy bars: Cowboy.
Radio Shack; Lafayette Radio stores.
Radio shop class in high school.
16 mm movie projectors (guess who was the high school AV monitor?).


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Teletype terminals and punched tape.
Control Data Corporation and their mainframes.
Disk packs with removable cover and mounting handle.
Disk drives for the above, roughly the size of a dishwasher.
 
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kodachrome in metal film canisters with screw on tops
 
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cross your heart bra commercials.

woolworths, s.s. kresge's, Monkey Ward circa 1955





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Lot's of people mention gun stores but how about stores that sold a 12 year old boy a Sweet Sixteen for $25 down and the remaining $125 financed at $5 a month or two years later another store selling a 14 yr old a new Browning Hi Power with extra mag for $85 with $75 of it financed for a year and both transactions not having an adult co-signing for gun or loan.



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I spent the first 6-ish years of life in Shreveport, LA before we moved away and I started 1st grade. So I don't know if this show was just local to Shreveport or not, but I remember watching a children's program called "Romper Room". I remember the lady looking "through" her hand-held mirror at the end of the show and saying goodbye to Jimmy, Susie, Sally, Johnny, Rebecca, Floyd, Andy, Betty, etc., etc. Bitch NEVER said my name...

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^^^^^^^^^
No it was syndicated. It aired in the Chicago market as well. It was better than Ding Dong school on educational TV with Miss Frances.
 
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Soda and Beer in cans that didn't have pop tops. You had to open them with a can & bottle opener that cut a triangular hole in the top and pushed that flap inside.



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Bookers Bourbon
and a good cigar
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Shibe Park/Connie Mack Stadium



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Doctors who made house calls
Ice cream sold in gallon containers
16 ounce Coke in glass bottler
Crosley Field in Cincinnati
Municipal Stadium in Cleveland
The Browns actually being good
Hearing Whip-or-wills at dusk
Hearing Quail calls
A&W Root Beer stands
 
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16 ounce Coke in glass bottle
A&W Root Beer stands
and frosty, cold, glass mugs with the A&W emblem. My parents got us 4 oz servings/mugs when we were very young.

7 ounce 7up in green glass bottle. "You like it. It likes you." "Freshen up with 7up"
 
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I spent the first 6-ish years of life in Shreveport, LA before we moved away and I started 1st grade. So I don't know if this show was just local to Shreveport or not, but I remember watching a children's program called "Romper Room". I remember the lady looking "through" her hand-held mirror at the end of the show and saying goodbye to Jimmy, Susie, Sally, Johnny, Rebecca, Floyd, Andy, Betty, etc., etc. Bitch NEVER said my name...

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The Philly TV market had the same show, so it must have been all over.


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I remember our local Woolworth's having barrels of M1 Garands in the sporting goods dept for $99.99 back when I was a kid.




Here's to the sunny slopes of long ago.
 
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I remember a game that we played that you sure could not play today. It was called - "smear the queer".
A football was used and maybe 5-10 guys playing. The one with the ball tried to avoid being tackled and when he did the ball was stripped from him and the group then went after the new ball carrier.
 
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