🤔 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 these 12 things, you're definitely a baby boomer

Oh yeah, I'm definitely a boomer.

[LisaS961881]

   Another Boomer here!

           ….and remember when, after you turned that old CRT TV off, there would be that tiny white light in the middle of the screen that would slowly fade until “Poof!” …. it was gone!

[SereneSeagull]

Sometimes I’d hear a “crackle, crackle” along with it.

[LeeS4949]

 I'm a card carrying boomer for sure.. 

[SereneSeagull]

@LeeS4949   Happy New Year!  

[LeeS4949]

 And a very Happy New Year to you as well.. Thank you. 

[DaveMcK]

[LisaS961881]

     A group of us were sitting around chatting about our favorite Christmas gifts from long ago, and these popped up into the conversation.  I had hours of fun with colorforms!   

[SereneSeagull]

Can you imagine trying to place this in the hands of kids now?  The kids who are used to video games, and phones?  

I loved Colorforms!  Such a simple concept to keep creative thinking alive in a child.

[Vexed]

  If you had a Sonic near you, do you remember these trinkets they put on drink cups? They discontinued them due to choking hazard. I loved those things.

  

[SereneSeagull]

Didn’t have a Sonic around me growing up.  The giraffe pictured here, however, reminded me of getting a Shirley Temple drink and having what i vaguely remember as a plastic giraffe drink stirrer in it.  Felt very grown up while the adults had their cocktails.  😎

[LisaS961881]

    I remember those!  Zoo Piks!  I had a lot of monkeys, but only one giraffe!  Funny how silly little simple things like these could amuse us for hours….

[DaveMcK]

Did you have one of these. Used to cost 20 cents. Lasted about 30 minutes.

[Vexed]

 Yep. You got more time out of yours. lol  I remember them doing a loop-de-loop and right into my head.

[LisaS961881]

    But I remember that this little guy lasted a few hours until he got stuck up in a tree!

[SereneSeagull]

Yes! Always

[papawofboo]

We made ours. Get a hankie and tie a string to each conner, attach tp man, then throw it as hight up as you could.

[DaveMcK]

You probably won’t know what this is. But if you do…you are really old!! What is it used for?

[Vexed]

 Looks like an auto cigarette lighter.

[DaveMcK]

[papawofboo]

This and a BB gun are the reason for most of the butt whooping's.

[LeeS4949]

 Oh yes.. My constant companion.. I remember my sister learning to braid her hair.. I got the idea if I could braid the sling double like her hair I could,at least in theory,double the sling shots velocity.. The braiding was successful with sis's help but at 8 years old I found I coudn't pull it back to fire it.. Back to the drawing board..

[Vexed]

 I remember slingshots. I got dared to try it and still have a scar where it broke and popped me.

[DaveMcK]

[papawofboo]

*It's ice hooks. Speaking of ice, saw an ad other night where a man went out on a frozen lake, cut a block of ice and took it home. He got his ice pick and got a few cubes from it for his drink. You know, ice doesn't look as good as it use to. Anyone know if you can still buy a block of ice?

[SereneSeagull]

Just saw your answer.  I’d like to think one can still buy ice blocks somewhere.

[SereneSeagull]

Ice block pliers I think

[LisaS961881]

    That’s my guess as well.

[DaveMcK]