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Candy cigarettes
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Coke-bottle-shaped wax bottles filled
with colored sugar water
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Soda machines that dispensed glass bottles
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Coffee shops with tableside juke boxes
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Blackjack, Clove and Teaberry chewing
gum
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Home milk delivery in glass bottles,
with cardboard stoppers
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Party lines
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Newsreels before the movie
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P. F. Flyers
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Butch wax
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Telephone numbers with words (Drexel
5505)
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Peashooters
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Howdy Doody
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45 RPM records
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Green Stamps
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Hi-fi's
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Metal ice cube trays, with levers
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Mimeograph paper
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Flash bulbs
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Beanie and Cecil
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Roller skate keys
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.22 cork pop gun rifles
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Drive-in movies
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Studebakers
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Washtubs with wringers
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The Fuller Brush man
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Tinkertoys
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Erector sets
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The Fort Apache play set
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Lincoln logs
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15-cent McDonald hamburgers
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Baseball cards for a nickel a pack, including
a pink slab of really bad bubblegum
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Penny candy.
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Gasoline for 35-cents per gallon
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Tape recorders had reels.
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Decisions were made by going "eeny-meeny-miney-moe."
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Mistakes were corrected by simply exclaiming,
"Do over!"
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"Race issues" were arguments
about who ran the fastest.
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"Money issues" were handled
by the banker in "Monopoly."
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Catching fireflies could happily occupy
an entire evening.
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It wasn't odd to have two or three "best"
friends.
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Being old referred to anyone over 20.
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Tennis court nets were the perfect height
to play volleyball and rules didn't matter.
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The only thing you worried about catching
from the opposite sex was "cooties."
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It was magic when Dad "removed"
his thumb.
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You learned that dodgeball wasn't an
Olympic event.
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Taking a weapon to school meant sticking
your slingshot in your back pocket.
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Nobody was prettier than Mom.
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Scrapes and bruises could be made better
with a kiss.
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You could finally ride the "grownup"
rides at the amusement park.
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A foot of snow was a dream come true.
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Abilities were discovered because of
a "double-dog-dare."
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Saturday morning cartoons weren't 30-minute
ads for action figures.
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No shopping trip was complete without
a new toy.
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"Oly-oly-oxen-all-in-free"
made perfect sense.
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Spinning around, getting dizzy, and falling
down made you giggle.
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The worst imaginable embarrassment was
being picked last for a team.
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"War" was only a card game.
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Water balloons were the ultimate weapon.
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Baseball cards in your spokes could transform
any bike into a motorcycle.
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"Taking drugs" meant chewing
orange-flavored aspirin.
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Ice cream was considered a basic food
group.
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Older siblings were your worst tormentors,
but also your fiercest protectors.