🤔 1923-1973 Do You Remember...

[Anonymous]

👍Tell us about YOUR "good old days"......

BORN: Age 50 - 1973, Age 60 - 1963, Age 70 - 1953, Age 80 - 1943, Age 90 - 1933, Age 100 - 1923.

[MsStretch]

@LisaS961881 , I remember the freebie tiger tails that Esso (or was it Exxon by that time?) gave out to attach to your gas caps and show you had "a tiger in your tank". 🐅

[LisaS961881]

Oh goodness - yes!  It had a black loop to attach it to your gas cap.  We would get so excited when we saw another car that also had a tail hanging out of their tank ! The kids in the cars would wave at each other, and the parents would laugh and wave too.
….And writing this just brought back another memory - playing “car bingo” when we were on long road trips.   The game had thick cardboard cards with little plastic sliders that you would use when you spotted something like a train or school.  It really kept us engaged, 

~ Lisa 🚘 ⛱️☀️

[MsStretch]

We had those same car bingo cards, too! 😄

Looked something like this:

------ Car Bingo!

[LisaS961881]

Yes!  Those are the Bingo cards I was describing!  🚘

[papawofboo]

Never got the logs but Santa did bring me a box of tinker toys.

[DaveMcK]

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[papawofboo]

I think it was more to keep the little one's inside instead of keeping people out.

[DaveMcK]

[papawofboo]

Would be nice if you at some point went back through these great relic's and tell us if we were right on the ones we guessed and inform us of the ones we don't know.

[DaveMcK]

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[papawofboo]

We still do, not in a can. Wife had to pay $$$$ when we put a free one in the trash.

[DaveMcK]

[debiva]

Wish I still had my mom's.  Hers had a red handle.  Many a times pulling out my hand electric one is just too much trouble.

[DaveMcK]

[papawofboo]

I think this is what was used to pull nails out of horse shoes???

[DaveMcK]

[papawofboo]

 You pushed it in, it got hot, you pulled it out and lit up.

[DaveMcK]

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[papawofboo]

It's a small oil can to use on things like sewing machines and stuff around the house.

[DaveMcK]

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[LisaS961881]

I still use the one my father gave me.  Around 30 years ago, the tab popped off, so I attached a safety pin to the tip.

And yes,, I have more modern tools with which to measure length, but this still comes in handy!