1) You remember candy cigarettes.
2) Wax coke-shaped bottles with colored sugar water inside.
3) Soda pop machines that dispensed bottles.
4) Blackjack chewing gum.
5) Home milk delivery in glass bottles.
6) You had a party phone line.
7) Watched black and white newsreels before the movie.
8) Owned a pair of P.F. Flyers.
9) Had a telephone number with a word prefix...Drexel-5505.
10)Collected S&H Green Stamps.

Dang Chatty...I remember almost ALL of them. Course I didn't need the list to validate my OLDness...all I had to do was try and get up out of a chair....ouch!

JJ

Thank you so much Chatty for reminding me how OLD I am. One of the stories in Carosel Kisses is about how I helped my grandmother stick the green stamps in the little books. However, I did NOT own a pair of PF flyers. I remember them, but I wouldn't be seen in the same sneakers my brothers would wear. I don't think I had a phone number like that either. Like Butterfield 8 ? We just tied two cans on a string and talked real loud.

Had them all! My PF Flyers were my favorite. I always took my big brothers old ones when he needed bigger ones. My mother hated it when I wore them, so naturally I wore them all the time.

I remember most of them...does anyone else remember when you only had to dial (and I mean actually dialing, not pushing buttons!!) 4 numbers to call someone in your own exchange?
I spent my first 7 years in the Bronx and I remember a guy with a cart, who used to sharpen knives and scissors. There was also another guy with a cart, who used to walk up and down the block, selling fresh fruits and vegetables. I used to be able to walk to the corner store (which was a block away), when I was 5 (!!) and buy Winston's for my dad at .25 a pack!!

Oh my, memories! I remember going to the corner drugstore, and buying the monthly magazine "Highlights". I think that's what it was called. I loved that magazine. I also loved "Lulu " comics. Anyone remember "Archie, Betty and Veronica". I used to devour that junk.
Unbelievable.

Jackie, in our neighborhood a guy comes by twice a year to sharpen knives and even lawnmowers. It does have a nostalgic flair.

Yup, everything rings a bell. We didn't have a corner store on our street, but we had one close enough to walk to. I was so disappointed the day it closed. Chain stores just aren't the same.

Oh, just think! The things we have seen: Corner stores, Woolworths' with the table displays of goods, dial phones, 3 channels on TV, carbon paper,manual typewriters, slide rules, stockings with garter belts, feminine products that were gruesome and awkward, cars with no seat belts, baby seats that were just a basket with leg holes and a steering wheel over the front seat (!)Milkmen, Bread delivery men, , dime Cokes and dime payphones (another thing altoghether!)50 cent(when I started driving!) gas! Sattelites, sputnik,the program to go to the MOON (and I know a lot of you remember that time, black and white TV and Men on the MOON!!), women's lib, the evolution of transportation and the accessability of foreign lands. Careers being other than nurse or teacher, and you didn't have to leave the field when you married. I know our elders have seen a lot more in the space of time, but I think our generation has seen and embraced much more than expected- and Thank God so much more to come!! Every day is a learning experience and a blessing and thank God we can go on in the intrepid course! Keep the eyes, ears and hearts open ladies, so much to make you glad of life even with the problems attached!

There really were Good Old days. Wonder what our own children will say about the days they are growing up in?

I pretty much grew up with that list too Chatty, although some things were different here.

Can I ask, are P F Flyers, unisex sneakers?

Hannelore, I used to love the Archie comics too!