I didn't own PF fliers, but I remember them. Skate keys, penny candy, newsreels and cartoons before the movies and movies costing a quarter a matinée! Playing hopscotch, kick the can, hide 'n seek and all-ee, all-ee oxen free and all after dark in the neighborhood. Fast food restaurants were few, but what there was served burgers and fries the size we serve the kids today! Sometimes they offered 5 for a buck! Remember when a small drink cost a dime and it was actually a "small" drink? I've been around long enough that I've seen styles come back, maybe with a different name, but they are (were) back, low rider jeans (hip hungers), flared jeans (bell-bottoms), capri pants (peddle pushers) etc. Remember brush rollers? remember wearing those damn things to bed? oh, lord! Oh, remember when thongs were flip-flops and not G-strings? Boy, this is fun, I'm on a roll! We all sat around the table for dinner that Mom made AT 5-6PM? Mom didn't HAVE to work? and most of them didn't. You could buy a new car for $1000 and a new home for $10,000?
We baby boomers did live in the best of times in a lot of ways...not all, but a lot.