Okay, I read the thread about the wacky wafers from the 70's and I do remember those. But here is one I remember from my childhood and I want to see if anyone else out there remembers this....Horlicks Malted Milk Tablets. They were soooooo good ! It has been at least 35 years since I have seen them ! Here's a couple more to chew on....remember Space Food Sticks ? Remember when you actually got gum with trading cards ? Remember those cards of those monster characters driving those super modified hotrods ? Anyone have anymore to add ? Peace and Love !
Partridge Family cards? I guess that's more early 70s. Long ago there were rods of gum wrapped in white paper with powdered sugar inside. You could blow on them and they looked like a cigarette with the smoke coming out. .
60s was a popular time for crazy hero type characters on TV for kids. Munsters poked fun at it one time with a character named 'Zombo'. Regarding snacks, I guess Moon Pies would be a memorable one from the 60s. Fast food places still had style. The old McDonald's still had the giant arches. Some had cobblestone floors inside. .
well railroads still ran passinger trains, even if they wanted despirately to get rid of them, and likewise cities had trollys, long before reinventing them as light rail. the term light rail was only used in great brittan where it, at that time, ment narrow gauge. but odd things that don't exist now? hmmm. well there were a lot of places were you could build and live in a house without needing a building permit or having to meet code. and because of that there were a lot more odd, interesting, expressive and ingenious kinds of buildings. i know some people were offended by their oddness but to me that was idiotic. to be offended by interesting oddness. i think america is a poorer place today for the lack of it. MUCH poorer. there were a lot of positive things about over all population being that much lower then it is today. less then half. there were still 'unexplored' (by dominant 'civilization') places that were actualy in places that had climates where people could (and indiginous people DID, and still of course do, though mostly no longer as they then believed in) live. what else? well tobacco companys claiming cigarettes to be good for your health. there were still a number of people driven 54 packard clippers. candy sigarettes were popular. matchbox cars came in little boxes that looked like the boxes that little wooden matches came in and you could still get those too. the big political struggles that defined the decade were to end segregation and get us out of viet nam. draft beer, not students. war is unhealthy for children and other living things. i shot an arrow into the sky and it stuck. this last was still news. evey manned space shot was such a big deal that the networks relayed the nasa feed live round the clock as long as they were up there. pocket calculators and digital watches were brand new gosh wow like something out of science fiction. i.c. cpu's didn't exist yet. hp's programable calculator (big, heavy, desktop) was big big news in an era of mechanical adding machines. and the closest thing to a personal computer was a mini the size of a refrigerator, and WAY beyond 'personal' budgets. you could camp, or even build a 'shack' out in the woods and walk into town and no one would give you a bad time about it, and because of this, there were town drunks, but no one was homeless, and almost no one was illiterate (where i lived in the u.s.) postcards, yah, postcards. these were everywhere, especial in bus and train stations. people actualy bought them and mailed them to each other. street addressess were something only in cities. people in small towns had post office boxes or rural rout mailboxes out be the road. and not all the roads had names. and the ones that did WEREN'T all renamed after politicians either. silver certificates. this currancy legal tender for all debts, redeamable for silver on demand. said something like that, right on the dollar bill. none of this fedral reserve not blank check nonsense. ah, silver dollars. and quarters and dimes that were real silver with no copper filling sandwedge in the middle. ah one thing on subject i remember was the big orange. there were these, like fast food only i think they just had juce or something, but along the highway there were thise spherical orange stands, i don't know but i think a&w or somebody bought them out and then the building codes came along and made them tearn them all down, but in the 50s and 60s they were still there. =^^= .../\...
WOW ! The things one remembers that they thought they had forgotten. You bring to mind so many more things that I wouldn't ever have room to write about here ! Peace and Love !
My grandaddy was a railroad engineer and drove a passenger train from Tuscumbia AL to Memphis, TN until they cut it out. My sister and I got to play hookey from school and ride on his last run. I was in the 4th grade.
Anyone remember "Norman Normal" for Babbo cleanser, or Maypo cereal, "To a smoker, it's a Kent", Original Ovaltine in the brown jar, or Big-Top peanut butter?
How about "Charlie the lonesome tuna"? What ciggarette slogan was "I'd rather fight than switch?" Remember the Lark commerical sung to William Tell's Overture?
Any of you have a set of Clackers??? Or ever drink any double cola? My first guitar was a silvertone, from Sears...
