Don Hite at myITforum.com

Can You Remember

• "Oly-oly-oxen-free".
• 15 cent McDonald hamburgers.
• When all your male teachers wore ties and female teachers wore dresses and high heels.
• Drive in shows where they ran cartoons before the movies and they had intermission between the movies.
• Baseball cards in the spokes that transformed any bike into a motorcycle.
• Black Jack, Clove, and Beemans chewing gum.
• Restaurants with tableside jukeboxes.
• Home milk delivery in glass bottles with cardboard stoppers.
• It took five minutes for the Television to warm up!
• It was considered a great privilege to be taken out to dinner at a real restaurant.
• Jiffy Pop popcorn on the stove.
• When there was no such thing as bottled water.
• Laundry detergent with free glasses, dishes or towels hidden inside the box.
• Metal ice cubes trays with hand pull levers.
• When mistakes were corrected by simply saying "Do Over!"
• Nearly everyone's Mom was at home when the kids got home from school.
• Newsreels before the movie.
• Reel-To-Reel tape recorders and 8 track tapes and players.
• Saturday morning cartoons weren't 30-minute commercials for action figures.
• Pop machines that dispensed glass bottles.
• When coffee only cost a quarter and was usually served in a real coffee cup.
• Telephone numbers with a word prefix like Thornwall 7-6013.
• Wax Coke-shaped bottles with colored sugar water inside.
• Submarine races from your car no matter what part of the country you lived in.
• When a quarter was a decent allowance.
• The worst thing you could catch at school was the “Cooties”.
• Being sent to the principal's office was nothing compared to what awaited you when you got home.
• Full service gas stations where they pumped the gas.
• When they could hardly give chicken wings away before the popularity of Buffalo wings.
• When you would reach into a muddy gutter for a penny?
• Your Mom wore nylons that came in two pieces?