🤔 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]

If you remember 45 (not to mention 33⅓ and 78), you are old. 👵

[LisaS961881]

    I remember that I wasn’t allowed to buy these.  …. But I did try one at a friend’s house, and it tasted like a Necco Wafer. 😊

[papawofboo]

A pack had to last a week. First step on way to look cool, so we thought.

[DaveMcK]

[papawofboo]

We had 5 of them at the store.

Friday at noon was payday and getting off work for the week for the plants in town. 

From noon Friday till closing Sat. they were all going full speed, and I mean full speed.

Believe it or not this was one of the fun things for "the good ole days."

[DaveMcK]

[MsStretch]

I remember when the cheeseburgers were 20₵ and plain burgers were 15₵.  Fries and sodas (one size) were 10₵ and I forget what the milkshakes were (maybe 20₵?) and that was the whole menu at McD's.

[DaveMcK]

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[DaveMcK]

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@Anonymous wrote:

👍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.

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Who had one of these as a kid? I did!

[papawofboo]

That is trouble waiting to happen.

[DaveMcK]

[LeeS4949]

The only straight line I could ever cut...

[SereneSeagull]

In the classroom

[DaveMcK]

[papawofboo]

Back in the "good ole days" everything wasn't fun. This is one of them.

[DaveMcK]

[DaveMcK]

[DaveMcK]

[SereneSeagull]

Collector’s item now!

[papawofboo]

After its first job had played out it then became a door stop.

[DaveMcK]

[LeeS4949]

 During my single digit years I wore one on each hip to the Roy Rogers double feature every Saturday..

[MsStretch]

We used to just take the ribbon of caps and pop them with rocks.  Sorta like bubble wrap. 😁

[SereneSeagull]

Did the same.  Can still smell that smell too by looking at pic

[papawofboo]

Sure did, had a belt with 2 holsters, also had a rifle.

Did the hammer thing also

[OlderWiser7s]

Oh the smell and freedom of those.  And then when feeling especially adventurous, we'd take an entire roll and hit it with a hammer for the biggest bang.  

[LisaS961881]

…..Yes! 

        We would flatten the roll out on the sidewalk or curb, and smash each “spot” with a rock - - just for a whiff of that acrid smell, a glimpse of a spark or a tendril of white smoke, but most of all, for that  “BANG!”

…..talk about a perfect summer day - doing this, playing kickball, spotting a praying mantis, or a snake sunning itself on a rock, or a pair of toads, hearing the sound of the Good Humor truck, then patting the quarter in your pocket in anticipation, racing bikes, ….all capped with a dusk filled with lightning bugs and hand-held sparklers !

   ~ Lisa 🙋🩵 💥 

[MsStretch]

@LisaS961881 , yes! to all of the above and also playing dodgeball, catching grasshoppers and tadpoles, and for sure, the Good Humor truck. 🍦