Boomer memories

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If you remember most of these, you're part of the Baby Boomer generation...

1. 45 rpm spindle

2. S&H green stamps

3. Metal ice cube tray with handle

4. Beany & Cecil

 

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5. Roller skate key

6. Cork pop gun

7. Marlin Perkins

8. Drive-in movies

 

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9. Drive-in

10. Car hop (at drive-in)

11. Studebaker

12. Topo Gigo

 

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13. Wringer washer

14. Fuller brush man

15. Sky King

16. Reel to reel tape player

 

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17. Tinker toys

18. Erector set

19. Lincoln logs

20. 15 cent McDonalds hamburgers

 

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21. Nickel packs of baseball cards

22. Penny candy

23. 25 cent a gallon gasoline

24. Jiffy Pop popcorn

 

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25. 5 cent stamps

26. Gum wrapper chains

27. Chatty Cathy

28. Nickel coke

 

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29. Speedy Alka-Seltzer

30. Cigarettes for Christmas

31. Falstaff beer

32. Burma-Shave signs

 

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33. Brownie camera

34. Flash bulbs

35. TV test pattern

36. Ol' Yeller

 

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37. Transistor radio

38. Fire escape tubes

39. Timmy and Lassie

 

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37. Transistor radio

38. Fire escape tubes

39. Timmy and Lassie

 

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40. Brylcreem

41. Aluminum Christmas trees

42. Plastic army men

 

[6th]

Oh, yes. I remember them all.

My favorite is # 38, the fire escape tube. We had them on 2 sides of our parochial grade school. I remember as a 5th or 6th grader it was our job to "clean them out" each week. It meant we sat on burlap and travelled down the "slide" to keep it clean and slick. The bigger (often cuter) of the boys had to stand at the bottom and catch us.

 

[Warhawk]

I score about an 11. Not bad, considering....

 

[Prophetess]

14 for me.

 

[pdxKingsFan]

I remember all that aren't tied directly to inflation. Most definitely not a boomer, just obsessed with 50s culture. But still some of those things were going strong in the 70s.

 

[kennadog]

34 remembered. I'm definitley a boomer.

 

[GoGoGadget]

I remember all that aren't tied directly to inflation. Most definitely not a boomer, just obsessed with 50s culture. But still some of those things were going strong in the 70s.

Same here.

 

[pdxKingsFan]

Same here.

Now that's a big surprise

 

[Bricklayer]

May have to define "remember" here. I probably remember only about a dozen (oh, and tinker toys, erector sets and lincoln logs were all staples of my kiddom), but I was aware of maybe another dozen beyond that.

 

[Warhawk]

May have to define "remember" here. I probably remember only about a dozen (oh, and tinker toys, erector sets and lincoln logs were all staples of my kiddom), but I was aware of maybe another dozen beyond that.

Ditto that. I was just referring to things I personally experienced/knew about, not just heard.

 

[pdxKingsFan]

There's at least a dozen that I have actually used or been around in the last 5 years or so alone.