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Wednesday, November 10, 2010

Do You Remember?..........

Do You Remember......

---Phone Booths
---When buying a new car, air conditioning, power windows and door locks were extra

---Burma Shave Road Signs

---Buster Brown Shoes

---Hot Cross Buns

---Eastern Airlines



---Nancy Drew and the Hardy Boys
---When serving in the armed forces was considered a duty

---Packard, Studebaker and Kaiser

---Paddlings at school
---Everybody went to church on Sundays
---Manual clothes ringers on washing machines
---Roller skates that screwed on (with a Key) to the soles of your shoes
---Candy cigarettes

---Cap pistols

---Telegrams

---Boy's Life magazine

---The Weekly Reader at school
---When the phrase "Made in Japan" meant it was junk
---When the phrase "Made in China" meant it was junk
---When soccer was considered a ridiculous sport in the USA
---When baseball was the national pastime
---Smoking cigarettes was encouraged everywhere---at work, at home and in motor vehicles

---Tatoos were considered "low-class"
---The evening news was considered fair and impartial

---Life Magazine

---Look Magazine
---When you saved money by getting your shoes re-soled