One of my colleagues, Deb Higgins, sent around an email that has evidently gone viral. It depicts lots of items remembered only by Baby Boomers and their elders. I used the skate key picture from that email as an illustration for Lanie Tankard’s guest blog on Touchstones. But I thought you might like to see the whole lost of nearly-forgotten items from 60’s and 70’s pop culture. Perhaps the list will stir you to comment or share a story that the item brings to mind!
How many of these do YOU remember???
45 rpm spindles
Green Stamps
Metal ice cubes trays with levers
Beanie and Cecil
Roller-skate keys
Cork
pop guns
Marlin Perkins
Drive in Movies
Drive in restaurants
Car Hops |
Studebakers
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Topo Gigio
Washtub wringers
The Fuller Brush Man
Sky King
Reel-To-Reel tape recorders
Tinkertoys
Erector Sets
Lincoln Logs
15 cent McDonald hamburgers
5 cent packs of baseball cards
Penny candy
25 cent a gallon gasoline
Jiffy Pop popcorn
5 cent stamps
Gum wrapper chains
Chatty Cathy dolls
5 cent Cokes
Speedy Alka-Seltzer?(Plop-Plop Fizz-Fizz Oh What a relief it is)
Cigarettes for Christmas
Falstaff Beer
Burma Shave signs
Brownie camera
Flash bulbs
TV Test patterns
Old Yeller
Fire escape tubes
Timmy and Lassie
Brylcreem
Aluminum Christmas Trees
To complement the list above, here is another nostalgia link list.
Do you love to be reminded of these past cultural icons in memoir,
or do you find nostalgia distracting to the real reason you read?
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