We had a "Funk And Wagnall's Standard Reference Encyclopedia" that my parents purchased one volume-per-week at the local Food Fair supermarket. They even bought the annual supplements well into the 1980s.
Big League Chew: bubble gum shredded to mimic chewing tobacco Readers Digest, grandma never threw one away. They had the best stories! Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom with Marlon Perkins. The Jack Lalanne Show Black & white Tarzan movies RC Cola and Moon pies
Sunday afternoons we would get the "Dead End Kids" movies, Abbot and Costello movies, and the Sherlock Holmes movies with Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce.
Big League Chew is still around. I got a big pack off Amazon. I think you can find it in some stores still too. Sent from my Nexus 5X using Tapatalk
You never had a vehicle that wasn't equipped? Until I moved out of the house, My dad never drove a pickup new enough to have them. I don't know if I ever even wore one until driver's ed.
A few.... Party lines Typing class Slide rule 8 track tapes 45 records First color TV's 19 cent gas (gas war) The milk man (glass bottles) Lap only seat belts Three-on-the-tree transmission shift 50 cent (kid) haircuts Minimum wage around a buck fifty Real paper boys Getting paddled in school When Catholic nuns all wore a Habit Where I was when JFK died
-Vending machines that sold bottles -Tractors cutting hay with a sickle mower -Tractors you had to crank to start -Picking field rock by hand -Tire chains -Grinding meat by hand -Kids bringing guns to school during hunting season -Kids having a knife in their pocket at school -Having an outdoor tv antenna that needed to be turned in different directions because all three of our stations we could get came from different cities. Having a pipe wrench by the front door to turn it in the winter time because it would be frozen. -Teachers smoking in the school -Friday Night Videos -Not having a microwave -Coors Party Balls -Drive in movies -Calculator Watches -Alarm Clocks with the flipping numbers
Man, we wouldn't even start playing until it got dark. Kick the can, ghost in the graveyard, and other questionable things that we probably shouldn't have been doing. Sent from my Nexus 5X using Tapatalk
It may be, but back in the day it's what I read before the internet. Reminds me of simple easy times....
