Things from our childhood that our grandkids likely will never see
Blackjack and Beeman's gum***
Powerhouse candy bars
Licorice records
Wax teeth, lips and mustaches***
Wax Coke-shaped bottles with colored
sugar water***
Candy lipstick
Candy cigarettes
Fizzies***
Soda pop machines that dispense bottles
Pull tabs that snapped off soda cans
Tableside jukeboxes in coffee shops
Home milk delivery in glass bottles with
cardboard stoppers
Movies preceded by cartoons and newsreels
Party lines
Rotary phones
Drive-ins with car hops
Sock hops
Winter rubber boots with metal latches
Coonskin caps
P.F. Flyers
Angora sweaters
Bouffant hairdos
Spoolies
Hair dryers with plastic caps
Butch wax
Dart guns with rubber-tipped darts
Tin-can telephones
Peashooters
Cork popguns
Roll of cap-gun caps
Howdy Doody puppets
Beanie and Cecil dolls
Two-bladed ice skates that clip onto
shoes
Roller skates that clip onto shoes
Roller skate keys
S & H green stamps and plaid stamps
Metal lunchboxes
Winky Dink kits for drawing on the TV
screen ***
Crystal radios
Console hi-fis with 78s
45-rpm records
Hand-crank wringers on tub washing
machines
Slide rules
Levered metal ice trays
Mimeograph paper
Carbon paper
Flash bulbs
Eight-track tape decks
Home movie cameras
Dick and Jane readers