🤔 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]

[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.

  

[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]

Ice block pliers I think

[LisaS961881]

    That’s my guess as well.

[DaveMcK]

[LisaS961881]

      ~ And whatever happened to Tuesday and so slow?
         Going down the old mine with a Transistor radio ~

                    ~~ Brown Eyed Girl    Van Morrison

[DaveMcK]

[LisaS961881]

       Does anyone else remember a Christmas tree decked with tinsel and Shiny Brite ornaments?

[papawofboo]

Growing up we had wood floors, the last thing that was done when decorating the tree was everyone would get hand fulls of tensel and throw it on the tree.

When I got married our house had carpet. We did the same thing with the tree. We had tensel all year long.

Carpet is the reason I quit with live trees and tinsel.

[SereneSeagull]

I’d always like to throw it, and let it cascade, but I know of some people liked to do it strand by strand!

[LisaS961881]

   We were always admonished to do it strand by strand, and yes, we too always found stray bits if tinsel, pine needles, and even an ornament hook or two clear into February! 🤭

[SereneSeagull]

The more tinsel the merrier!  Since having little pets in the house have skipped that now.   It was different back then too,  But this is how I remember our trees back then!

[LisaS961881]

    No tinsel anymore for me either because of a furry little one!