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More do you remember when stuff

Michael Bowman (mfbowman@USSCOUTS.ORG)
Sat, 21 Aug 1999 20:34:35 -0400


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> > Count how many you remember....
> >
> > Subject: Age Barometer
> >
> > 1. Blackjack chewing gum
> >
> > 2. Wax Coke-shaped bottles with colored sugar water
> >
> > 3. Candy cigarettes
> >
> > 4. Soda pop machines that dispensed bottles
> >
> > 5. Coffee shops with tableside jukeboxes
> >
> > 6. Home milk delivery in glass bottles with
> cardboard stoppers
> >
> > 7. Party lines
> >
> > 8. Newsreels before the movie
> >
> > 9. P.F. Flyers
> >
> > 10. Butch wax
> >
> > 11. Telephone numbers with a word prefix (Olive - 6933)
> >
> > 12. Peashooters
> >
> > 13. Howdy Doody
> >
> > 14. 45 RPM records
> >
> > 15. S&H Green Stamps
> >
> > 16. Hi-fi's
> >
> > 17. Metal ice trays with levers
> >
> > 18. Mimeograph paper
> >
> > 19. Blue flashbulbs
> >
> > 20. Beanie and Cecil
> >
> > 21. Roller skate keys
> >
> > 22. Cork popguns
> >
> > 23. Drive-ins
> >
> > 24. Studebakers
> >
> > 25. Wash tub wringers
> >
> > If you remembered 0-5 = You're still young
> > If you remembered 6-10 = You are getting older
> > If you remembered 11-15 = Don't tell your age
> > If you remembered 16-25 = You're older than dirt!
> >
> > P.S. How about the following?
> >
> > Beeman's Pepsin?
> > Margarine in squeezable plastic bags with orange dye capsules?
> > Victrola playing at the grandparents?
> > Big John and Sparky on the radio?
> > Heck, the radio?
>
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