Cindy sent a few more

[Guest guest]

Oh, you forgot the smell of oiled and waxed wood floors in the grocery store!

LOL Marilyn

Nice to remember the old days, huh! ;-)

Here's a few more things that might jog your memory:

Does anyone remember the gumball machines that were kept outside the

store,and left there?

How about collecting soda pop bottles ,and sometimes place them in a wagon or

a friend's wagon and walk to the candy store to get money for the bottles?

Remember the smell of the grape crush and orange crush when entering a

drugstore?They were in big bubbly like glass soda machines that were on the

counter,and you would sit on a stool at the counter where you could turn around

on the

stool or spin around?

How about the wooden fans that would be on the ceiling in the candy store or

drugstore or cleaners?

Remember cinnamon toothpicks,trading cards of tv shows,Shake-a-Puddin,Fruit

Float,punks you had your parents light the end with a match and you could watch

the smoke come out of it,and pretended they were cigarettes,but only when the

parewnts weren't around?

How about the smell of red caps that you put on the pavement and hit with a

rock to make them go off?Or in a cap gun?

Remember Teaberry Gum,Pepsin gum,waxed lips,mustaches,harmonicas,around

Halloween time?Would make the candy store smell so good.What about the big

glassed

cases that would hold the more expensive candy and the penny candy were in

opened boxes at a different part of the store,usually the front of the store or

cased in the window of the store and you couls see the display and you had to

tell the store man what type of candy and how many you wanted and he would put

them in a little brown paper bag,even smaller that the lunch bags in the store

now?

The combination,musty pool hall/shoe shine/cab co.?Comic books in a

barbershop?Comic books that only cost 5 cents or 10 cents?I remember when they

went up

to 15 cents I thought,that is robbery!!!!!! Now look at how expensive they

are!

Anyone ever learn how to make those pretty chains with stick gum

wrappers?Love and Peace rings?Pumpkin seeds?Jiffy Pop Popcorn in a sealed up

foil type

pan?JIFFY POP JIFFY POP THE MAGIC TREAT.AS MUCH FUN TO MAKE AS IT IS TO EAT.

Or when Cracker Jacks had good prizes in them?Like those little playing

cards,like you got in the gumball machines?

When Policemen walked the beat,night and day?

Paddleball,hoolahoops,sliding down metal cellar doors or running up and down

them?Going bump down the stairs on your back side?Making club houses out of

big appliance boxes,or having someone inside the box and someone rolling the box

around the yard and taking turns?How about those special tents we used to

make out of a sheet or blanket thrown over a clothes line?Remember those little

push cars and trucks that you sat in and pushed the peddles to make the car

move?How about putting a rope around someone's waist and standing in back of

them

holding onto the reins and pretending that the person in front was a horse

and you were in a buggy riding?

Well,I could go on and on with all the fun things i played like

paperdolls,Barbies,skipper,Ken,Liddle Kiddles,Ginny Dolls,Chatty Cathy with the

string that

you pulled to make her talk,jacks,one of those balls that you sit on and

bounce all over the place with it?Blowing bubbles,or thosed plastic bubbles that

you placed on the little straw and they smelled good.LOL How many of you people

tried eating a taste of the nice smelling paste in school?Or swallowed

Blackjack gum?

Well,I think I will take a break and let someone else give some of their

memories.Oh and the tire hanging on a rope from a tree,those metal swingsets

that

came with anchors,so when you pumped your feet so high you could feel the

poles slightly lifting up?

[Guest guest]

For the guys... How about:

stoop ball

punch ball

stick ball

box ball

hit the pennie

johnny ride the pony

pitching pennies

the pink balls (15 cents for the cheap one and 25 cents for the high

bouncer)

fountain sodas

2 cents plain (seltzer)

egg creams (Yummmm)

When I was a little older and drove:

Jahn's Ice Cream Parlor (a lotof different ice cream concoctions including

The Kitchen Sink)

Bond's Awful Awfuls (Extreme thick shakes - drink 3 and get your nameon the

wall)

Penny Arcades

Pin ball machines

and tons of other stuff....

Les

[alldiabeticinternational] Cindy sent a few more

Oh, you forgot the smell of oiled and waxed wood floors in the grocery

store!

LOL Marilyn

Nice to remember the old days, huh! ;-)

Here's a few more things that might jog your memory:

Does anyone remember the gumball machines that were kept outside the

store,and left there?

How about collecting soda pop bottles ,and sometimes place them in a wagon

or

a friend's wagon and walk to the candy store to get money for the bottles?

Remember the smell of the grape crush and orange crush when entering a

drugstore?They were in big bubbly like glass soda machines that were on the

counter,and you would sit on a stool at the counter where you could turn

around on the

stool or spin around?

How about the wooden fans that would be on the ceiling in the candy store or

drugstore or cleaners?

Remember cinnamon toothpicks,trading cards of tv shows,Shake-a-Puddin,Fruit

Float,punks you had your parents light the end with a match and you could

watch

the smoke come out of it,and pretended they were cigarettes,but only when

the

parewnts weren't around?

How about the smell of red caps that you put on the pavement and hit with a

rock to make them go off?Or in a cap gun?

Remember Teaberry Gum,Pepsin gum,waxed lips,mustaches,harmonicas,around

Halloween time?Would make the candy store smell so good.What about the big

glassed

cases that would hold the more expensive candy and the penny candy were in

opened boxes at a different part of the store,usually the front of the store

or

cased in the window of the store and you couls see the display and you had

to

tell the store man what type of candy and how many you wanted and he would

put

them in a little brown paper bag,even smaller that the lunch bags in the

store

now?

The combination,musty pool hall/shoe shine/cab co.?Comic books in a

barbershop?Comic books that only cost 5 cents or 10 cents?I remember when

they went up

to 15 cents I thought,that is robbery!!!!!! Now look at how expensive they

are!

Anyone ever learn how to make those pretty chains with stick gum

wrappers?Love and Peace rings?Pumpkin seeds?Jiffy Pop Popcorn in a sealed up

foil type

pan?JIFFY POP JIFFY POP THE MAGIC TREAT.AS MUCH FUN TO MAKE AS IT IS TO EAT.

Or when Cracker Jacks had good prizes in them?Like those little playing

cards,like you got in the gumball machines?

When Policemen walked the beat,night and day?

Paddleball,hoolahoops,sliding down metal cellar doors or running up and down

them?Going bump down the stairs on your back side?Making club houses out of

big appliance boxes,or having someone inside the box and someone rolling the

box

around the yard and taking turns?How about those special tents we used to

make out of a sheet or blanket thrown over a clothes line?Remember those

little

push cars and trucks that you sat in and pushed the peddles to make the car

move?How about putting a rope around someone's waist and standing in back of

them

holding onto the reins and pretending that the person in front was a horse

and you were in a buggy riding?

Well,I could go on and on with all the fun things i played like

paperdolls,Barbies,skipper,Ken,Liddle Kiddles,Ginny Dolls,Chatty Cathy with

the string that

you pulled to make her talk,jacks,one of those balls that you sit on and

bounce all over the place with it?Blowing bubbles,or thosed plastic bubbles

that

you placed on the little straw and they smelled good.LOL How many of you

people

tried eating a taste of the nice smelling paste in school?Or swallowed

Blackjack gum?

Well,I think I will take a break and let someone else give some of their

memories.Oh and the tire hanging on a rope from a tree,those metal swingsets

that

came with anchors,so when you pumped your feet so high you could feel the

poles slightly lifting up?