Cherry cokes made at the fountain, five cents--in a coke glass.

[Paper Roses]

This was to have been a reply to another thread. Only I could mess up something this simple. Good old days,anyone?

Good Hershey bars, also a nickel. Movie theaters for Saturday Matinee, 25 cents. All kinds of stuff from the good old days. Anyone over 60 can probably give you a list a mile long.

[frogmarch]

1. ah, yes, the good old days.

I fondly remember all those things. But I also remember nylon stockings with seams, which required wearing garter belts or girdles to hold them up - garter belts with big, visible-through-clothing snaps, and crotchless girdles that rolled up to my waist whenever I sat my skinny little 13-year-old butt down at my desk in school. And I remember Kotex belts.

I'm enjoying today's world just fine. :hi:

[JVS]

4. panty-hose are the woman's equvalent to the clip on tie.

It does the job, and it's easier. But it has none of the cachet of the original article.

[Paper Roses]

7. Had the girdle and the garter belt. Seams were always crooked.

I think I ran through a zillion pair of nylons. For my first job in the big city, had to dress for work. High heels, nylons were required. The foolish stockings cost more then. Now, panty hose is cheaper and easier. Not torture devices like girdles.


Got my shoes at Wilbar's (SP?). They are long gone now but I think I was their best customer. Between public transportation and a walk from the subway stop to work, I ruined many pair of shoes when the foolish heels went through the sidewalk grates and chewed up the leather.

[LeftyFingerPop]

2. The corner bakery...

The mom and pop grocery.

Cigs at 30 cents a pack.

Gas at 32 cents a gallon.

Car engines that you could work on yourself.

Stick shifts on the steering column.

[Paper Roses]

8. My boyfriend in high school had a 56 Chevy he bought used for

$200.00. Shift on the column. Bench seat, car was powder blue and white and the wheels had white walls..can't remember what they called them but they were wide walls.
Yes, he had fuzzy dice hanging from the rear view mirror.

Those were such innocent days.

[LeftyFingerPop]

10. Wow!

I had a 65 Chevy Impala...powder blue...bench seat...3 on the tree...white walls and fuzzy dice!

283 engine...did my own body work...oil changes...replaced starter, radiator, etc.

Those indeed were the days! :hi:

[LeftyFingerPop]

3. Cashiers that were trained how to make change.

[monmouth]

5. Small bag of Wise potato chips....5 cents....n/t

[Paper Roses]

6. I remember those, and they were a fairly good size.

I spent school lunch money on good old greasy Wise potato chips(until my mother found out).They are not the same now.

The little corner store near us was open early so the neighborhood kids could spend their lunch money as they walked to school. Penny candy, chips, we thought it was good stuff then.

Speaking of school lunch, it was 20 cents. Always came with a piece of white bread and butter. And the best thing they served was baked macaroni on Friday. Usually with fish sticks for the Catholic kids in school. I can see the plate now in my minds eye. Fish sticks, baked mac and lima beans. Apple cobbler for dessert.
The rubbish barrel was filled with fish sticks and lima's at the end of lunch period.

[monmouth]

12. Me too, me too! Wow, we had Hutch's corner store right by the

school and I would get either the chips or the root beer barrels. $.20 for our lunch also and my fave was the spaghetti. My mother was Irish and did not have a clue as to how to make spaghetti...LOL.

[TxRider]

9. Penny bubble gum FTW!

[Paper Roses]

11. Double Bubble...and it tasted great! How about Baloney gum?

Remember that one? It was a long, thin, round piece of gum as opposed to the Double Bubble square.

Don't you love this kind of reminiscing?

My kids would never understand.

[Arugula Latte]

13. They still make Double, errr, Dubble Bubble.

My son brought some home from a b-day party (pinata) and I mooched a piece off of him. Tastes the same as I remember. :9

[Paper Roses]

14. Haven't seen it in a while. Dubble? Sorry 'bout that.

[TxRider]

15. Best part were all bottles were deposit back then

All us kids had to do to get some candy at the store was go round up some empty bottles off the road side and turn em in. A few 5cent deposits and you were rich!

Do they still have bazooka bubble gum with a little comic inside?

[Paper Roses]

16. When I was a kid, back in the "50's, Chlorox came in a glass bottle.

Mom would use it all the time. Our sheets(ringer washing machine)were the cleanest in the neighborhood. Every few weeks, we would truck to the grocery store with empty Chlorox bottles to get the 5 cent deposit back. Heaven help you if you broke one.

At the same time, I remember buying margarine with the little button inside. You'd squeeze the bag while shopping, by the time you checked out, it would be yellow, not the gawd-awful white.
Oxyedol soap for laundry, Lifebouy for bath soap. Gleem or Ipana toothpaste. Ahh, the good old days.