More Fun On Getting Old

 Candy cigarettes

 Wax coke-shaped bottles with colored sugar water inside

 Soda pop machines that dispensed glass bottles

 Hoola hoop contests

 Buying milk from a vending machine for a quarter, with your penny change taped to the side

 Coffee shops with tableside juke boxes

 Blackjack, Clove and Teaberry chewing gum

 Home milk delivery in glass bottles, with cardboard stoppers

 Party lines

 Newsreels before the movie

 P. F. Flyers

 Butch wax

 Telephone numbers with a word prefix .... (Drexel-5505

 Peashooters

 Howdy Doody

 45 RPM Records

 Green Stamps

 Hi-fi's

 Metal ice cube trays with levers

 Mimeograph paper

 Blue flash bulbs

 Beanie and Cecil

 Roller skate keys

 Cork pop guns

 Drive ins

 Studebakers

 Wash Tub wringers

 The Fuller Brush man

 Reel-to-reel tape recorders

 Phonographs

 The "twist", "mashed potatoes", and "funky-chicken"

 Tinkertoys

 The Erector Set

 The Fort Apache Playset

 Lincoln Logs

 15 cent McDonald hamburgers & 10 cent fries

 5 cent packs of baseball cards..... with that slab of pink bubblegum

 penny candy

 35 cent-a-gallon gasoline

 You're getting older if you remember when the first man walked on the moon

 When Elvis Presley first appeared on the Ed Sullivan show

 When the Beatles arrived

 When the Barbie doll hit the scene    

If you can remember most or all of these, then you have lived a good life!!!  Pass this website on to anyone who may need a break from their serious "getting old" life....I double dog dare ya!!

Senior Trivia...Did you know?...

Those who were born in the 50’s 60’s ,70’s and early 80’s are the last generation who played in the street.  During our childhood we “walked” over a mile a day when we played & played “hide & seek” outside at night with no worries or fear of anything bad happening to us.

We are the first generation who played video games and the last to record songs off the radio onto a cassette tape.  We learned how to program a VCR before anyone else, we were the first to play from Atari to Nintendo…We are the generation of Tom & Jerry, Looney Toons, & Captain Kangaroo. We traveled in cars without seat belts or air bags, lived without cell phones and caller ID.  We did not have fax machines, flat screens, surround sound,  I pods, Facebook, Twitter, computers or the Internet, and through it all we had a great time.