Hitchhiking.

Growing up, it was the main way to get from here to there. Not so much anymore.

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Originally posted by ZSMICHAEL:
Cap guns
Pay phones

Cap guns are still around....my son did halloween as a Texas Ranger....and me being me had to kit him out properly and found a pretty good cap peacemaker.

Jarts....looking back that's a good thing...we used to see how close we get to the other feet.....or throwing them straight up and dodging them

Summer evenings, laying on the floor next to my father listening to Ernie Harwell and Ray Lane call the Tigers game on WJR. What I wouldn't give to experience that one more time.

Cruising REAL hot rods on Saturday night that always ended up with a bunch of us heading out to a secluded country road to see who could blow who's doors off. My 69 Camaro and 71 Roadrunner certain had their glory days.

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An ass whoopin from teacher or principal

This right here had me laughing! I had my share and somone else's!!! LOL

Oldsmobile. Pontiac. AMC. Studebaker. Avanti. Ontario Motor Speedway.

Lil' Indian mini-bikes
Greenie Stick'em caps
Kenner Girder and Panel building sets
Playgrounds with monkey bars
S&H Green Stamps
Gas Stations that gave out glassware with a fill-up
Book Covers for your school books
Charles Chips deliveries

Haven't read through all the replies, so I don't know if anyone has mentioned it, but I can remember when our phone number was only 4 digits.

Rotary phones,
B&W TV,
Test patterns at midnight
telephone party lines,
milk man at the door 2 days a week,
diaper pickup service,
doctors house calls
.25 gas
pay phones,
phone booths
Colored Only restrooms/water fountains
Lines on the floor of a city bus dividing black and white

Phone numbers with a word for a prefix:

WIndsor6-2820

Television commercials etched into your memory when set to a tune. Most Chicagoans will recognize HUDSON THREE TWO SEVEN HUNDRED an ad for a carpet cleaning company.

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Originally posted by darthfuster:

Oldsmobile. Pontiac. AMC. Studebaker. Avanti.

Hudson. Packard. Kaiser-Frazer. Henry J. Allstate. Eagle.

No phone
An outhouse.
A one room school.

Drinking out of the hose
Tonka trucks made of steel
Laying in the back window of my grandpa Oldsmobile and asking him to hit the breaks so I could fly forward...
Stay at home Moms
Erector Sets

-Drive-in theaters.
-Chicago hard rolls delivered to the Front door each week-day by the local bakery (but that was in Germany where I grew up in the 60’s and 70’s)

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Originally posted by arfmel:
Phone numbers with a word for a prefix:

WIndsor6-2820

Another flashback!

As a kid, our home phone (a party line) was JUniper2-3638. Ring code was a long and a short IIRC.

How about a BIC pen commercial where they shot it out of a .22 through a piece of plywood, and it would still write -

Timex watches - takes a licking and keeps on ticking - didn’t they do a commercial where they put a watch on an airplane propeller and flew it around, landed and then checked it? Still ticking.

JC Penneys used to sell guns, camping gear and tools.

Remember real toy departments in the department stores? Numerous aisles, toy guns, Tonka trucks, building sets, slot cars, Lionel trains & their Christmas train display?

How about when men whistled a tune? Some were really good at it, beautiful even. My Dad was pretty good.

Franks and beans in the can from Cambell’s soup. Dished into a mess kit on the Coleman stove, camping in the back yard. High living it was.

Schwinn bikes - rode mine all over creation.

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Timex watches - takes a licking and keeps on ticking - didn’t they do a commercial where they put a watch on an airplane propeller and flew it around, landed and then checked it? Still ticking.

^^^^^^
Yep. John Cameron Swazey narrated.

Cigarette commercials? “Winston tastes good, like a (boom boom) cigarette should!”