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nik-l-nip in wax bottles
filled gun racks in pickup trucks at school.
 
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Rumors of my death
are greatly exaggerated
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Two speed kick back shift bicycles. Buying shotgun shells at 7-Eleven.



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Hot chestnuts sold on the street corner
Soda fountain Coke syrup for when you had a sore throat
Polo Grounds NYC
GG1 locomotive
Poodle skirts
Junk man who came around with a horse and wagon buying your scrap
4 engine prop planes
S&H green stamps


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Chilihead and Barbeque Aficionado
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Privacy.


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Not really from Vienna
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DeSoto automobiles
Cars with fins, fender skirts, wide whitewall bias ply tires
Open flame gas heaters hooked to a gas jet with a rubber hose
Floor furnaces
Whole house fans
Black metal Hunter oscillating fans that would cut your finger off
Fisk tires “Time to re-tire” signs
“Bear Alignment” signs
 
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Drug store lunch counters with round stools where the waitress would holler your order to the cook in coded language, ie" Adam and Eve on a raft, Battlecreek in a bowl etc."
 
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I'll use the Red Key
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Going to the airline gate to meet some one arriving
I don't see kids climbing trees
Family sitting down for the once a year Wizard of Oz
Wonderful World of Disney on Sunday night




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  • Pan Am
  • Necco wafers
  • Respect for authority
  • Emporium department stores
  • Montgomery Ward stores (brick and mortar)
  • 4-6 weeks for delivery
  • The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
  • Herb Caen
  • Dialing for Dollars

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    A day late, and
    a dollar short
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    Cheap weed Big Grin


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    My other Sig
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    Being looked at straight in the eye and having a conversation with a total stranger.

    I still try that occasionally, but I have to text them now.



     
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    Percomorphum - probably the most vile of home remedies. Surpassed cod liver oil by a good bit. The modern, more palatable equivalent is fish oil capsules.

    Telautograph - one of the high tech tools my dad used when he was a weather observer at Midway airport in the 50s.

    Coal for heating.

    Steel gadgets my mom put in my pants legs so they would dry with a crease.
     
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    Buying airplane tickets out of the classified ads in the newspaper

    Boy Scout kiosk at Sears (or even a [small] Boy Scout store at the mall)

    $0.05 scoops of ice cream at Thrifty's






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    Column shifter
    Floor dimmer switch
    Shotguns in the rear window of pickup trucks at high school
    Vent windows




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    Admin/Odd Duck

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    Flubber


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    Pencils made with real cedar. You could smell the shavings in the pencil sharpener.
    Banging the chalk erasers together was a special privilege to be done on the playground.
    Getting a telegram delivered to your front door. {Usually a birth or bad news of some sort}.
    The Bellhop paging someone in the hotel lobby.
    Elevator operators in uniform. The best were female in upscale office buildings.
    Women wearing white gloves for special occasions.
    Comsikey park Chicago watching Nellie Fox and Luis Aparicio working a double play.
     
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    my existence, while grotesque and incomprehensible to you, saves lives
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    humor


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    Hoping for better pharmaceuticals
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    Black and white TV's, TV dinners with aluminum foil covers,




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    Vertibird
     
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    "party line" telephones


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    Something wild
    is loose
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    Surprised no one mentioned transistor radios. Oh, and chain mail.



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