Products of Yesterday Year...

[Running Arrow Bill]

Those "old timers" probably remember these!

Maytag Wringer Washing Machines
Mrs. Stewarts Bluing
Musterole Ointment
Watkins Door to Door Salesmen
Fuller Brush Men
Fender Skirts
Black Leaf 40
Bull Durham & Papers
Dial Telephones
Playing Cops & Robbers, Washers, Rubber Guns, Marbles at school
Can Can Skirts
Ducktails
Mohawks
Flat Tops
Cap Guns
Cloverine Brand Salve
Comptometers
Cigarettes 25 cents a pack
Burma Shave Signs
"I'd Walk A Mile For A Camel"
Console Radios
45 RPM Records
Film Cameras
Gasoline 19 cents a gallon
Movies that played continuously at theater (for 50 cents admission)
Camels and Lucky Strikes in Soldiers Rations
Smoking everywhere, every business place
"Ice Boxes"
"Penny Loafers"
Marriage: Males + Females
Neighborhood Grocery Stores
Silver Dollars and 50 cent coins
Library Card Catalogs
Manual Typewriters, Carbon Paper, Typewriter Erasers
Carburetors
Vehicle engines that YOU could repair
Kendal the "2000" mile motor oil
Gas station attendants
Movietone News
An "honest"President (I know...oxymoron)
Drive-In Movies
"Sock Hops"
8 Track Tapes
No School Shootings
An actual 3 lb Coffee Can
Your local grocery store "running a tab"...you pay at end of month
Fountain Pens and Ink
Hectograph "copiers"
Fat & ugly teachers...lol.
Doctors making House Calls (day or nite)
Teachers making $100 a month
Military recruits making $68 a month
Soft Drinks in a bottle, in a case filled with ice
Stores without video surveillance

All I can think of right now...

 

[dun]

Curb feelers
Neckers Knobs
dimmer switch on the floor where it belongs

 

[Williamsv]

I can remember most of these on the list , but not fat and ugly teachers. I loved all of my teachers and do not remember any being fat and ugly. I looked up to them with great respect and wanted to grow up and be just like them. I wonder today how many students want to be just like their teachers. My heart breaks when almost daily I read or hear something terrible that a teacher has done.
After teaching myself for 39 years and three years as a half day teacher for at risk students, I surely hope none of my students remember me as fat and ugly. I tried to always look, act, live,and teach my very best.

 

[Williamsv]

Oh yes, I started off in 1968 with a four year college degree in elementary education making $100 a week. Got paid one month at the time $400. The next year got a little raise and made $433.33 a month. The next year $444.44. The salary was not a problem. I was doing what I felt like God called me to do and loved every minute of it. Almost every minute!

 

[AllForage]

Curb feelers
Neckers Knobs
dimmer switch on the floor where it belongs

Curb feelers? I'm guessing you haven't visited the east side of any big cities lately

 

[herefordlover]

I am only 35 but learned to drive in trucks with dimmers on the floor and still wish they were there along with a cluch

 

[Kingfisher]

Curb feelers
Neckers Knobs
dimmer switch on the floor where it belongs

You forgot vent/wing windows.

 

[dun]

Curb feelers
Neckers Knobs
dimmer switch on the floor where it belongs

You forgot vent/wing windows.

And charles atlas

 

[highgrit]

How about 3 on the tree. And metal toy soldiers.

 

[msplmtneer]

How about starter pedals on floor?
Then they moved them to the dashboard! :banana:
Two gearshifts one 5 speed one 3 speed?

 

[kenny thomas]

How about starter pedals on floor?
Then they moved them to the dashboard! :banana:
Two gearshifts one 5 speed one 3 speed?

Learned to drive a tandem truck hauling a bulldozer with a 5 and 3. Top speed downhill might have been 50. If you missed a gear you had to pull off the road and start over.

 

[backhoeboogie]

PF Fliers

Hootenanny

Captain Kangaroo

Big Huge candy bars. 5 cents.

Metal Tonka trucks. Still got mine from the 60's

 

[Nesikep]

Lillooet BC used to have a championship CanCan dancing group...

I have been thinking of converting my truck to the high beam dimmer on the floor!... Already did it in our land cruiser because the switch screwed up anyhow.
Our Ford County, JD model B and Allis HD6 all have the starters on the floor

Most everything we have has a carburator unless it's diesel... I'm pretty darned good at tuning them too... Except for the Carter POS's on Dodge Slant 6's.. those were incorrigible!

110 and 35mm film? 8mm movies?
Dinky toys? (I have a whack of them)
Warner brothers cartoons.. the good ones that were drawn by hand... It amazes me that the more technology makes it possible for people to make a GOOD product, the more they cheap out and make garbage, and modern cartoons (south park, spongbob, etc) are great examples of it

 

[Kingfisher]

Tin pump bug sprayers with DDT

 

[circlebllc]

Real metal in vehicles, exchange glass soda bottles, no smog restrictions, could dig in your own creeks

 

[john250]

8 track tapes used to rival possums and armadillos as road kill. I mourn the copies of Sweet Home Alabama that were tossed, possibly out the vent window.

 

[dun]

It's funny how many people wave at me in the Model A when I stick my arm out the window to give the hand/arm signals since it doesn;t have turn signals.

 

[mwj]

I am 66 and I do not want to go back to those ''good old days'', you folks can have my share!

 

[dun]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nOl_XkwhDYM

 

[slick4591]

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