As I get older, there are things that, out of the blue, become fond memories. Remember
when:

Locking the house was latching the screen door
Screen door decorative grilles made out of iron
You locked the house because you were going to be gone for days, not hours.
The house siding was real wood
Sleeping under a fan on a hot night- no A/C
Gas open flame heaters that you backed up to so that your but got warm/hot
Milk delivered to the door
Milk bottles and you returned them clean
Soda bottles that were returned to the grocery store for money
Cream in a bottle
Whipping cream with a hand crank beater (ours was green glass with metal beaters)
Popcorn made in a pan
Homemade soup
Sunday dinner was extra special
TVs had a round picture tube and all of the neighbors had to come by to look at it
Burma Shave signs
First gear in the car always whined (standard tranny)
Everybody drove a standard
Only the special folks had a V8
Most cars had overdrive
Water window coolers for cars
Hand me down clothes
Shoes were not required dress
Making toys from sticks and pieces of wood
Grandpa always had a nickel
Pies were homemade
Mayonnaise or mustard sandwiches
Lunch boxes with your favorite hero on them (Mighty Mouse for me, thank you)
Thermos bottles
Windows that opened from the top as well as the bottom
Storm windows
Putting a towel or rug at the bottom of the outside door to keep the cold out
Girls had cooties
Mr Potato head
Whitewall tires and I mean the entire sidewall was white
Going to see the new cars every September
Highway speed limit was 45 MPH
Super hiways were two lanes, one coming and one going.
Black Jack gum
Bubble gum with baseball cards, the card tasted better than the gum
Hi-Fi records
Grandmas lap was the best place to be
Being carried into the house from the car at night

So, what are some of your memories?

 

Teaberry gum.

78 rpm records
45 rpm records

"Wagon Train" lunch box
"Wyatt Earp" Lunch box
"Roy Rogers" Lunch box

On TV: (And cable was a dream at this point in time!)

Gunsmoke (Anyone remember the actor that introduced the show to television??? He was offered the show, but declined because he wanted to stay on the BIG screen!) [Answer at the bottom. . . no cheating!]

Cheyenne
Wanted: Dead or Alive (Steve McQueen and the Mare's Leg)
Maverick
Bronco Lane
Sugarfoot
The Gallant Men
Combat
The Rat Patrol
Voyage To The Bottom Of The Sea
77 Sunset Strip ("Kookie . . Kookie. . lend me your comb.")
Surfside 6
The Green Hornet
My Favorite Martian

Oh my. I'm geezin' now!




Answer to Gunsmoke question. . . . John Wayne!

 

The best milk bottles were brown glass with a paper seal on top.
The dairy gave you a plastic holder that made a pitcher out of a half gallon cardboard milk carton.
Domestic beer actually had a flavor to it (and an aroma).
Waiting all week to see Walt Disney.

RED SKELTON!

The original Flash Gordon series on saturdays.
Roy Rodgers, and Dale Evans.
Jack in the Box, when they still had the CLOWN! (Outside - and you ordered from it)
When HOTWHEELS were new and special...
Seeing the Kennedy assassinations (both) on TV, and not really understanding what they meant.
First time going to Disneyland (California)
First apartment, and wondering what to buy for food....
Travelling with my parents by car. (GOLDEN days)
Papa teaching me how to use a slide rule (!) yeah...
Working on old cars with Pop...
The way the garage smelled.
Flying over Puget Sound with Papa in an old Taylorcraft...
Picking oranges in the backyard
Buses that were round on the front and back
The San Diego Ferry
Airliners with piston engines.

I could go on, but why?

Oh christ! Thanks a LOT!

"Seventy seven, SUNSET strip (boop-boop) Seventy seven, sunset strip..."

I thought I had that dang jingle out of my head forever!!!! Good kee-riste man, what have you done????


Errrrr.....

 

Not necessarily a fond memory, but I can remember when I and my siblings were the remote - after a while, needed to keep the needle nose pliars handy.
The president giving a speech meant no regular shows on any of the networks.
Prime time was 6:30-10:00 pm central time.
Before my time, 15 minute tv shows (a holdover from radio).
Also before my time, polio epidemics (was the reason my family got a tv - older brothers could not do a lot of the normal outdoor summer stuff with other kids, since such was limited/not allowed)

 

The "TEST PATTERN" late at night, with the announcement:

"It's TEN O'CLOCK - Do you know where your children are?"

And stations that go off the air at the end of the day...

 

Greywolf. . . . .


Did we live on the same street. . . . the same house. . . . are we brothers??????
Daggone man. . . you sound OLD!

I remember ALL of that.
Don't forget "High Flight" at signoff!

 

MMM....http://www.oldtimecandy.com/teaberry-gum.htm

 

WheelMA1. . . You're my hero!!!

I've GOT to order some!!! It has been at least 20 years, for me!!!

 

Cereal toys....
A nice all metal des****** shooting missles.

 

Glad I could be of service. I actually just bought a pack a few weeks ago. I can still find it in many of the local shops. Must be a regional thing only now.

 

Now i'm not old enough to remember those things, but i wished i grew up back then, the closest thing to those memories is the small town i live in.

But i remember my grandpa, picking me up in the morning everymorning before school started in his 90 F350 IDI, and taking me down to the resturant where the waitresses were still behind the counter and the owner lived down the road. and it was good home cooking. He's the reason i'm hooked on fords. I remember his 48 F6 sitting out back of the barn for years then for my birthday when i was 7 he pulled it out and let me drive it. Sadly though he died when i was 8 and my grandma sold the whole farm to a friend.

But i do remember running barefoot to the swimming hole with all my friends when i was little. A place where kids can still be kids and not have to worry about being abducted.

Climbing on top of my grandpa's barn and my grandma yelling at me to get down before i fell (yes i fell a couple times) .

My grandma's cloths line that was 100Ft long at least and running through the sheets like madmen and that 100ft of sheets seemed like a mile.

When moms knew how to cook. Mine does. But alot of my friends mom's don't.

I spent alot of time with my grandparents, back when mom was finishing med school i was there before and after school cause dad was at work and mom was at med school so they looked after me.

Seeing your relatives every day and living with in a couple of miles of them.


First innocent love. The first kiss when your like 11 and you promise to marry them. When your 16 and now your taking them to the fair. Hoping just hoping you get a kiss at the end of the night.

That's what i remember.

DT

 

Ahhh the test pattern on the TV, I remember sitting on the couch on Saturday mornings waiting for cartoons to come on. Sitting there watching the Indian Test Pattern and eating my cereal with about a cup of sugar that I had put in it because I had got up at like 5 and made myself breakfast.

 

Candy bars and Cracker Jacks for a nickel and the prize was more important that the contents. Anyone remember Mr. lucky back in the 50's? Cards in your bicycle spokes, Topper, Amos and Andy. Going to the ice house on a hot day looking for slivers of ice in the chute. The transmission noise of the milk truck. The first one up at grandparents house starts the wood stove. Cars made of metal not plastic. When a persons hand shake ment something. Two silver cap guns on your hip. Road side fireworks that packed a punch not this "safe and sane" glow junk today.
.....=o&o>.....

 

Those little plastic toy soldiers
8 track tapes
Black & white TV
Milk bottles w/paper caps
Playing war and cowboys & indians with your friends
Playing tether ball
Making pop corn in a pot with oil (I still do).
Buying that box of cereal just for the toy inside
Toy guns with the red paper roll of caps
TV dinners (Swanson)


TV programs:
Car 54 Where Are You
McHales Navy
The Munsters
Cartoons on Saturday morning (way too many to list)
The Rifleman
Branded
Outer Limits
To Tell The Truth
You Bet Your Life
Star Trek (first episodes)
Bat Masterson
Speed Racer
Twilight Zone
The Real McCoys
The Guns of Will Sonnet
Captain Kangaroo
Lassie
The Invaders
Topper.

and the list goes on....

 

Many, many a good one so far; I'll add something that's been overlooked.

Making babies/bedroom/backseat/out in the woods blunders when not married/out of wedlock was reason and cause for great shame, humilation, and embarassment. It was reason for people faced with this problem to get married prior to having the kid to try to escape the stigma. The date of the wedding and the DOB of the boo-boo got em busted, everyone knew what was going on.

Those that made the mistake/had the accident didn't get rewarded with free taxpayer money; they had to pay their own debt/bills. This might actually entail taking on more than one job. Imagine that.