What happens when my computer crashes?
Well, for one thing, I don’t spend all my time on a computer! For this past week and this coming week, that statement is especially true, since we are down to one working computer in our home and H-J is cramming for taking multiple AP exams.
Without the ability share many of my own pictures with you (you in its plural form, as in all y’all… I did spent 5+ years living in Texas!), I’m sharing an oldie-but-goodie with images found on The Google [insert nod to Jen]and an e-mail compliments of my friend Carol. (Thanks, Carol! 🙂) Without further ado, here is your walk back through childhood:
45 rpm spindles
Metal Ice cube trays
Roller-skate keys
Cork pop guns
Marlin Perkins
Drive in Movies
Drive in (NOT drive-THRU) restaurants
Topo Gigio (Ed Sullivan Show)
Washtub wringers (I see these for sale on a regular basis.)
The Fuller Brush Man (Red Skelton)
Reel-To-Reel tape recorders
Tinkertoys
Erector Sets
Lincoln Logs
15 cent hamburgers (I’m pretty sure the fries tasted better then, too.)
5 cent packs of baseball cards
Penny candy
25 cent a gallon gasoline
Jiffy Pop popcorn (We actually have some of this in our camping supplies!)
Gum wrapper chains
Chatty Cathy dolls
5 cent Cokes
and 5-cent candy bars, too!
Of course, if you ate too much candy, you might need this:
Speedy Alka-Seltzer
Cigarettes for Christmas (and kids being sent to the corner store to buy them for their parents)
Burma Shave signs
This gum
Brownie camera
Flash bulbs (now THAT was a pop!)
TV Test patterns …and the fact that programming ended each night
Old Yeller
Chef Boy-AR-dee
Fire escape tubes
Timmy and Lassie
Ding Dong Avon calling
Brylcreem (a little dab’ll do ya’)
Aluminum Christmas Trees
Was life really simple back then, or does it just seem that way because we were children without grown-up worries?
What the heck where they thinking?!?!?
Spokalulu 