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Now that’s funny, right there.

Here's a good one!!!

" Child, please put my suitcase in the turtle!"

"Ok, Mamaw!"

Are you sure it made everyone do that?

I remember the gum, but not the farting.

The three cent stamp, and penny postcards.

Party lines. High school shop project was getting a maytag engine to working order and the school break milk came out sod a big solver machine with two handles. If you were special, you cut to cut the tubes on the machine for afternoon milk break. We had the glass bottles at lunch.

I remember the wipers were vacuum operated, I remember the soda fountains, I remember blacks not being allowed in white establishments, I remember the starters being on the floor. I remember no air conditioning, I remember the buses being electric with the overhead lines. I remember vacations traveling by train. I remembered practicing for nuclear war in school. I remember my mother keeping me inside all summer because several kids that lived close to us caught polio. I remember taking the polio vaccine on a sugar cube. I remember pulling up in the gas station, the attendant would ask if we wanted regular or ethel?

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Also used as code by johns in many red-light districts.

Radio, Amos, and Andy. Saturday morning radio, Sky King, The Buster Brown Show, "Twang your major twanger froggy".

Sure that wasnt "Twang your Major Twanger, Froggy"??

You are likely right Bob.

Coke in a bottle for five cents.

That would cost a fella an extra $20.

The fear of a paddling, or worse, if you acted up in school.

One of my favorite high school summer past times (one!), circa '64-'67, was eating of my three favorite food groups -- a chocolate malt, a hamburger, and French fries, .$25 a piece at the local Chic Toc drive-in. Interestingly, at one time within that period gas was also $.25 a gallon. With a couple bucks, a guy was riding the crest of the feel-good wave on a sunny day between strutting around at the local pool and a date at night at an area drive-in theatre where I usually ate my way through whatever double-feature movie was showing.

Rocky , my friends put me on to the Beemans . It worked on all of us but maybe we were all prone to flatulence . Did you get enough to eat in those days ?

You all are making me feel young now.
I drove an International truck with the vacum
wipers. At idle or going downhill they went like
crazy uphill at full throttle, they stopped

ya Buck, passing in the rain was an adventure. Then, my first electric wipers were one speed.

Not sure about the radio warming up. Still have a 51 Dodge truck in the barn and a 51 Willys Jeep in there also. Pretty sure no radio in the jeep. Might have to check the truck though...

Never had a school lunch, always took my own. Thermos bottles that would break if dropped, in a black workers lunch box till the cartoon square boxes came around. LOL. So I'm not that old.

Pick up the phone receiver and hear "Number please?" (Uncle and Aunt, a few miles out of town had a ringer phone until the mid-seventies )
Dollar watches, Heaters in cars were optional - as well as radio.
Blackjack chewing gum.
Steam radiators in the classroom.
Kerosene smudge pots at road detours and closures.
Kerosene plumbers torches.
Rope blocks - come-a-longs hadn't been invented.
Metal saddle horns.
Split windshields.
Big Ben wind-up alarm clocks. (clocks and watches that held within ~3 minutes / day were considered "good"
Noon whistle.
Time and temperature by phone.
Paul Harvey at noon, even in the 50's, I liked listening to him.

edited to add -stock racks on pickups.

The six volt batteries, the barely turned the engine over. Skill required on the hand choke.