Baby Jane [I know, I know, that is the easy one]
Cartoons and newsreels before the feature movie at a theater
"An apple a day keeps the doctor away"
Phone booths
Outdoor movies
Breaking coconuts with a hammer to eat the coconut and drink the milk
My Space
Cell phones
Marbles
Kodak cameras
Doctors making house calls
Baseball cards in bubble gum package
AstroTurf
Collecting coins
It's Howdy Doody time
Roller Derby
Jai alai [in Las Vegas]
Vinyl records
8-track tapes
Betamax
VHS
Traffic cops
Those TV cliffhanger serials where you wonder how will the man whose car is about to go over a cliff not die, only to find out the next day he ingeniously opens the door and jumps out before it goes over the cliff :-)
A relative telling you as a kid that it is a sin not to eat all your food because they are children starving in the world
Occupy Wall Street
The Tea party
Flash Gordon
Blockbuster Movies
"Tastes great, less filling"
"Hey kid, catch" ["mean Joe" Greene's jersey]
Stealing home at a MLB game - or even an attempt to steal home
Cuckoo clocks
"You the man" "No, you the man"
Real hot meals on airplanes
Jukeboxes
Slinkys
The nurse in elementary school "painting" your throat when it's sore
The milk man
Character counts
Dry ice being delivered to your house
Friday night fights of the week - by Gillette [boxing]
Black Jack gum
Kids playing "hopscotch' "jump rope" or doing "yo-yo's"
Teaberry gum
All day suckers [lollipops]
Baseball double headers [real ones-two for the price of one, not these day night deals]
Chocolate phosphates
Kids watching cartoons on TV on Saturday morning
Downtown drugstore diners where in the back of the store you could get the best hamburgers ever
Sightings of UFO's
and last but not least, whatever happened to April Fools jokes? - Oh, wait, unfortunately they are still going on. :-) Happy April Fools Day.
2 comments:
Actually cuckoo clocks more ubiquitous than ever , as every clock in Obama whitehouse IS a cuckoo clock!
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