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#281
Science kits with uranium and chemistry sets with dangerous chemicals.
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#283
boys hitting girls with snowballs while walking home from school (I hope they don't still do that...)
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#285
I remember monkey bars. I wasn't very good at them. I preferred the jungle gym.
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#286
Saucers for sliding downhill during the winter. At first they were metal... later on plastic. (Where I lived as a child there was a hill we slid downhill on, on saucers. The "course", so to speak, ran down one hill, across a street that was closed during the winter, between 2 concrete posts & then down a second hill. One day when we showed up there to slide, there was blood in the snow by one of the pillars. Another kid said someone had tried to slide down the course on a toboggan.)
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#287
days when stores had ceiling fans, not air conditioning. No ceiling fans in houses, but window fans and portable fans. I remember being in the crib watching a fan move back and forth. I was sort of scared of it because the grill reminded me of a spider's web.
When Tang came out and was very popular as a drink. |
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Our table-top fan was all metal, not plastic. And the grill that enclosed the blades was not child-safe. The spaces between the bars were big enough for even an adult to put a hand through. And our central "AC" was an attic fan.
(But then, our windows opened, and had real hooked-down screens, and we had screen doors front and back.) |
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Yeah, I remember mum going out twice a year to take the storm windows off and put on the screen Windows. I remember that the glass would get broken or loose and need to be replaced or re-caulked and how the old caulk dried up and cracked. They were heavy too. They needed painting touch up too. Lots of work they were.
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#290
My Omron calculator. It would have been around 1966 (the year I graduated from high school) or 67 when I bought it. The guy who sold it to me (who was someone I had known growing up) told me I could take it out to the parking lot, run over it with my car, & if it no longer worked they'd replace it for free. I still have it...
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#291
Ha ha, don't think they're in business anymore so you'd better not run over it now!
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I just posted this in another thread and while I was doing that I thought I'd post it in this thread too. It's not exactly things we remember, but it made me stop and think how adaptable we Baby Boomers are to the changes of time.
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@Seafarer ... up until recently we used to order our dog's food from Chewy.com. And seeing all of the locations it went to before it got to us, we would laugh that our dog's bag of dog food was more well-travelled than us...
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#294
How about milk products being delivered by a milkman? And Howard Johnson restaurants? I seem to remember they served a lot of ice cream flavors?
And cigarette ads on TV--and lots and lots of people smoking? I noticed even Perry Mason smoked. And lots of smokers in movies, too. |
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#295
Remember the ashtrays? They were everywhere too. Glass ones, tin, aluminum, marble, small ones huge ones and tall ones. Ugh I remember having to empty them and wash them, ugh the smell!
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Men's hair products Brylcream & Wildroot Hair Dressing (both of which you can still buy I believe.) Oh & English Leather cologne (among others.) __________________ "I may be older but I am not wise / I'm still a child's grown-up disguise / and I never can tell you what you want to know / You will find out as you go." (from: "A Nightengale's Lullaby" - Julie Last) |
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#297
Oh I remember that hair stuff, people had dollies on the couches and chairs to protect them from the oily stuff. Remember the hair spray? I think my older sister went though a can a week. Mum didn't use that much but she had a weekly Solon appointment for a perm and set and would use a cap to cover her hair at night. My sister slept in rollers
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#298
I remember my grandmother using a curling iron she heated on the stove.
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I remember the TV show "The Millionaire"
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Recently I've seen a TV commercial for some new nicotine product. I grew up watching cigarette ads and knowing all the jingles and slogans for the different brands -- and now I'm shocked that this new nicotine product is being advertised on TV. Funny how times and ideas change. But the guy in this new ad is not exactly the Marlboro Man! |
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