🤔 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.

[DaveMcK]

[DaveMcK]

[DaveMcK]

[DaveMcK]

[DaveMcK]

Foot stool!

[KellytheBelly]

A hassock, footstool, ottoman, or pouf. My parents used them to prop up their feet, or to place their knitting needles and yarn project, even newspapers. 🙂

P.S. Forgot about the cats... definitely made for cats. lol

[papawofboo]

Made for a good TV tray also.

[DaveMcK]

[papawofboo]

When you got these, it meant no more blocks of ice and chipping ice with an ice pick.

[LisaS961881]

We had these trays - back when our freezer didn’t self-defrost, and Mom would hook up an electric defroster to do the job! 😮

[DaveMcK]

[MsStretch]

Played with these as a kid.  Can you imagine seeing something like this on the shelf today?  You could put someone's eye out! 🫣 Although we managed to stay unscathed. 😁  

[DaveMcK]

[papawofboo]

This packaging is before '62.

[KellytheBelly]

Scary! 😜  Never have I ever seen these in their product form, not once. 

So...What year were these on the shelves?  I think that'd be quite informative. 

A thing of the past, and exactly where it should stay! IMO. Sorry!  ;-D

Thanks for sharing, @DaveMcK! : D

[DaveMcK]

[papawofboo]

Petty sure you can still buy this. 

[KellytheBelly]

I find this post 'a-peeling.' Ouch! Watch those knuckles! 😄

Be good! x

[DaveMcK]

[DaveMcK]

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[LisaS961881]

I had these and I also had “American Plastic Bricks”.  The bricks were pre-Lego, and came in a large cardboard tub.  I remember building houses and stalls for the little plastic Noah’s Ark animal pairs that were a freebie from the gas station too!  This was way back, when everyone was encouraged to “put a tiger in your tank”, and most gas stations had “give-always”.  😀

[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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