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Originally posted by Chris42:

Remember real toy departments in the department stores?

Department stores used to advertise for part-time seasonal help for the Christmas shopping season.

It was 1960 or 61, I did some moonlight extra work at Gimbel's in NYC. I worked in the toy department, I demo'd and sold toys. One of the big favorites that year was Robbie the Robot. He could be made to sneak up behind an unsuspecting shopper and grab her ankle.

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Originally posted by Chris42:
Cigarette commercials? “Winston tastes good, like a (boom boom) cigarette should!”

“Should a gentleman offer a lady a Tiparillo?”

“Cigars, cigarettes, Tiparillos?”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zDGzd2HcEpo

Skelly, Fina, Sinclair, Enco, Esso gas stations.

Some Sinclair stations had a big green brontosaurus statue on the premises.

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Originally posted by Gene Hillman:
The rifle range in the basement of my high school in Suburban Chicago. (Park Ridge/Des Plaines)

Which HS if you don't mind me asking?

At least in my area:

Calvin & Hobbes in the newspaper.
Gas under $1.
Fireflies/lightning bugs.

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Originally posted by kkina:

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Originally posted by LastCubScout:
San Francisco Gun Exchange (A massive gun store in the middle of downtown SF? How can that be?)

That place was awesome. I used to go in there to look at the wall-to-wall ARs before I was even interested in guns. And 2 blocks from Market Street!

The owner had massive amounts of Randal Knives in stock. I bought a S&W Model 66 3" overrun part of a group made for Secret Service or the FBI in the early 90's sold it later without having fired it, wish I had known what I had then.

James

Eastern Airlines, Western Airlines, Pacific Southwestern Airlines (defunct in 1988).

Just in case it has not already mentioned -

the t.v. “clicker”.

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Originally posted by Chris42:
Cigarette commercials? “Winston tastes good, like a (boom boom) cigarette should!”

That one has always bothered me, because it reinforces a grammatical mistake. It should have been "Winston tastes good, AS a cigarette should!" No one would have noticed that it was correct if they had used the correct form, and it would not have encouraged generations of folks to use the incorrect form in other sentences..

flashguy

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Originally posted by 64dodge:
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.

I had an aunt who did her ironing listening to the daytime Tigers games. She usually managed a shirt per half inning!

I grew up in Detroit, 1942-1960.

flashguy

I came into this one late, so sorry if any of these have already been mentioned.

-Smear the queer
-Playing soccer in the street until 11pm and seeing the commercial on TV "It's eleven o'clock. Do you know where your children are?"
-Laser video disc (as big as a 12" record)
-VHS/Beta
-Shooting a BB-gun within city limits (in CA!)
-"Best" retail store
-Mervyns
-Toys R Us
-Gottshalks
-Blockbuster Video
-Music on MTV & VH1
-No reality shows
-Family friendly TV series
-"Spoons" Tex-Mex grills
-Grandy's restaruant
-Youth rifle team in schools


Tony.

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Originally posted by M1Garandy:
At least in my area:

Calvin & Hobbes in the newspaper.
Gas under $1.
Fireflies/lightning bugs.

I hear gas in Texas is $1.69, in 1970 dollars, that's 25 cents/gallon. Not a dollar, but possibly the lowest price some people have ever paid, even if they've been buying gas for decades.

I can remember gas for 19 cents a gallon, McDonald's fries for 15 cents and their burgers for 19 cents (and they actually tasted pretty good).

"Full Service" gas station. They would pump your gas, wash your windows, check the air in your tires, and maybe even give you "trading stamps" for $0.30+/-.....$0.19 during a gas war.

Bill Knapp's restaurants

The free standing X-Ray machine that was common in the larger shoe stores (Thompson Boland Lee in Atlanta had one)...sticking their feet in to see their bones was the first thing kids wanted when they came in

I traveled the highway of life, hoping that the next Howard Johnson really would have 28 flavors.

Don't know if anyone said this one already or not...

A milkman.

Tony.

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List things from your Youth that do not exist in today's world

My hair.

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Originally posted by benny6:
Don't know if anyone said this one already or not...

A milkman.

Tony.

Yep. Several. My dad was a Milkman ("Retail Milk Salesman" with a truck) for a number of years--until the supermarkets started using milk as a "loss leader" and underpriced milk from the milkman.

flashguy