"Hey Dad," one of my kids asked the other day, "What was your favorite fast food when you were growing up?

"We didn't have deny oneself food when I was growing up," I informed him. "All the food was slow."

"C'mon, sincerely. Where did you eat?"

"It was a place called 'at home,'" I explained.


Oh, fellow-creature, what memories. I remember all of them and the party line. My number was 6399R. I loved those metal ice trays. My sister utilized to make this frozen lemon stuff with graham crackers in one, and that was our dessert. My brother


I loved reading your memories. I reminisce over eveyone of the ones you listed, too. I LOVED my PF Flyers and really thought I was faster when I wore them!


I'm not that old but I do about all of what you listed, even the smell of singed chicken feathers.
My Mother was 40 when I came along and she taught me all about the piece-goods e freight old days! Hanging of clothes on the cloths line, to dry, the smell of


Oh, fellow, what memories. I remember all of them and the party line. My number was 6399R. I loved those metal ice trays. My sister utilized to make this frozen lemon stuff with graham crackers in one, and that was our dessert. My brother had comic


Yes.I must be a authentic baby boomer.I remembered all 25.May I add one more? More churches in a community than fast food restaurants.

My modern development maternal grandfather and I did enjoy golf and baseball.

Thank you very much.


First-rate memories, Thank you.


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It sounds to me you grew up exactly as I did. I remember and experienced everything you said! The one thing you didn't suggest was the old 78rpm records.

Thanks for the wonderful memories! Especially the


Recollect all but number 10 (butchwax). Also remember a bar and a church on every corner.


I can commemorate all of these and some more. My first roller skates were made out of wood because of the war, my first pair of medal skates were made of some pink medal. My family had a vocation and a crank phone on the wall which we would pick up and say


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fun hang up. I'm not a senior yet, but I remember a lot of those things.
I remember my mom having those S&H green stamps, but what were they for?
the only ones I didn't know were the Studebakers, Packards, Peashooters, phone #s with


I reward them all. We also had several different bread men, fresh fruit and produce, eggs, a junk man who came around on Saturdays to buy your get rid of, and a fellow who came by periodically with a huge variety of women's house dresses. When I was really


Gratefulness you for the memories - but I remembered 22 of the 25 things you mentioned - does that mean that I am (gasp) old ?


I LOVED ALL THE OLD MEMORIES. In the winter of '92/3 I lived rich on a mountain with no neighbors, no running water, only a flat topped wood stove for warmth and to cook on. I burned 9 chords of red fir and pine that winter. I experienced to cook all over


"Ah, yes, I tip it well." My favorite fast-food (?) was the corner drug store where all my friends gathered for a big ice-cream sundae. Like you, we always ate at domicile. I remember putting cardboard in the bottom of my shoes when I could


When I was a green child everyone had ration books, there was not enough food to go around.

Even the sweets were rationed, you were lucky if you got one egg a week, and that goes for everything else.

Children were not allowed

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