Bring back any memories?

[thaiworthy]

Tiny soda bottles made of wax and a tasty sweet fluid inside
Dot candy
Streetcars (St Louis, late 50s) the rails are still visible on some streets
Hula-hoops
Superman, Lone Ranger, I Love Lucy, My Little Margie, Sky King, What's My Line, Captain Kagaroo, Mighty Mouse
Calculators with a hand crank
Toy kaleidoscopes
Lincoln logs
Homemade tin-can telephones
The game "Operation"
The game "Candyland"
Coal shutes
Walk-up only McDonald's
The first "portable" TVs
Radiators (home heating)

[pong]

we got -of course also a b+W TV, when I was in grade 3-age 8/9, and TV started at 20.00-the NEWS journal-when anyone had to remain silent, while dad watched in earnest, and it lasted till also 22.00 or so-only on sats were we allowed to see it all, but clad in pyama.
Before that we could go on wednesday (early school) at 17.00 to a nearby church-local, where there was high on a stilt a TV-pay 10 cts to see th special 1/week children program with around 100 other younsgters.
It was also dead normal to help out during holidays on the family shop-children labour!! would be screamed today.
Hot food at night was potatoes, 1 veg and maybe-if the sunday roast supply lasted, a tiny piece of meat. I was oldest-so my clothes went down the rank of the younger siblings. On the days before Xmas-mum would give us a treat by taking us into big own on sundays (when all shops were closed) to see the showrooms with all the moving figures-so that we could not scream to go inside and buy something.Maybe that is why TH is still so appealing-many of those habits survive on.

[Gaybutton]

1. View Master
2. Polaroid camera - remember the first ones that you had to rub some sort of fixer on the photo, and it would curl up?
3. Veg-o-Matic
4. Popeil's Pocket Fisherman
5. The screen to put in front of a black & white TV that turned it into a color TV
6. Lik-m-aid
7. Teaberry gum
8. Mary Janes
9. Flavor straws
10. Ipana toothpaste
11. Speedy Gonzales
12. Bluto - before he became Brutus
13. Sea monkeys
14. Matchbook cover universities
15. Gas station price wars
16. Spin and Marty
17. Shari Lewis and Lambchop
18. Captain Kangaroo
19. Sock hops
20. Beatniks
21. Dobie Gillis and Maynard G. Krebs
22. Drive-in movies
23. Soda fountains
24. Edsel
25. Rotary dial telephones

[thaiworthy]

Hoody Doody
Bosco (chocolate syrup)
X-ray Specs
Buster Brown Shoes
Leave It To Beaver
Mills (US plastic coins in red and green, 1/2 or 1/10 cent)
Radio and tv tubes
Victrolas
Elevator operators
Speedy Alka-seltzer
Ready Kilowatt
Geritol
Lawrence Welk Show
Gunsmoke
Steel-tapped shoes
Penny Loafers
Rin Tin Tin
Annette Funicello
Love That Bob!
Cap Guns
Radio Flyer wagons
Hopscotch
Ted Mack and the Original Amateur Hour
Keds Shoes (Keds are for Kids!)
Maypo Cereal (Markie Maypo)

[Bob]

Pretty damn scary, TW, I remember most of those.

Okay, for those fading fast, remember the milk wagons with ice blocks that the dairys used to deliver milk in bottles to your home (and did your first home have a milk chute)? Khun TW is a few years younger than me but I'll bet he has no recollection of that as I think the practice ended by about 1953 or 1954. And I don't know if this type of milk delivery happened throughout the US or in other countries.

[Gaybutton]

1. Refrigerators with the compressor on top
2. Washing machines with wringers
3. Our Miss Brooks
4. Cap guns
5. Daniel Boon coonskin caps
6. Fess Parker
7. Sky King and his Niece Penny
8. Alphabet soup
9. I Like Ike
10. All the Way with JFK
11. Nixon's the One
12. AuH₂O
13. I'm Dickens, He's Fenster
14. Ernie Kovacs - Nairobi Trio
15. Would a gentleman offer a lady a Tiparillo?
16. Mr. Mxyzptlk
17. Mickey Mantle
18. Hey, Cisco!
19. Crystal radio kit
20.

[lvdkeyes]

My Little Margie
Cracker Jacks with the prize in the bottom of the box
Building "forts" out of discarded Christmas trees
Snowball fights
Hopalong Cassidy
Little Beaver
Inner Sanctum on the radio
Lights Out on the radio
The Shadow on the radio
Radios
Lucky Strike Hit Parade
Ed Sullivan Show vs Bishop Sheen on Sunday evenings
Noon Time Comics
Uncle Johnny Coons
Cherry Cokes
Soda Fountains
Box toed shoes
Charcoal grey suits with pink shirts
D A haircuts
Kookie Kookie lend me your comb
Davey Crockett
Hey Poncho

[Gaybutton]

1. One potato, two potato, three potato, four. Five potato, six potato, seven potato, or. (What the hell was "or" anyway?)
2. Jump rope
4. You're it!
5. Alvin and the Chipmunks
6. Kukla, Fran, and ollie
7. Slinky
8. Hopscotch
9. Saturday Kiddie Matinees
10. Lemonade stand
11. Car 54 Where Are You?
12. Sgt. Bilko
13. Steve Reeves Hercules movies
14. Classics Illustrated
15. Finding Dad's hidden stash of Playboys
16. Donald in Mathemagic Land
17. Stuart Little
18. Charlotte's Web
19. Auto harp
20. Puffa Puffa Rice
21. Tootsie roll pops
22. Turkish Taffy
23. Sheaffer ink and Quink
24. US Keds - Run your fastest and jump your highest
25. Wonder Bread

[christianpfc]

12. AuH₂O

Never heard or read this before. It's "Goldwater":

15. Finding Dad's hidden stash of Playboys

You just want to test if anyone is paying attention? What would a gay boy do with Playboy?

[forrestreid]

I never knew you were from the GDR, Christian.

You must have been quite young when the Wall came down?

This brings back some school memories for me. I remember one of the first things we had to learn was the German names of the German-speaking countries.

Switzerland became Die Schweiz and Austrian became Osterreich.

That was bad enough...but Germany became Deutchland, (surely that should be the name for the Netherlands?) and the we had to remember the West Germany was the BDR and East Germany was the DDR

I got barked at by the teacher for pronouncing it "Dee-Dee-Orr (the way you would pronounce those letters in God's Own language - English) rather than Day-Day-Orr, the way you pronounced it in the Teutonic Devils language.

Then a few years later, by the time my sister was learning, the whole GDR/BDR thing was gone by the wayside (yeah, i know the whole thing became the BDR, but the teachers no longer bothered about that...it was all just Deutschland).