The World of Grandpa Don

How many do you remember?

Count all the ones that you remember.
- not the ones you were told about!

1. Blackjack chewing gum

2. Wax Coke shaped bottles with colored sugar water

3. Candy cigarettes

4. Soda pop machines that dispensed a bottle

5. Coffee shops with table side jukeboxes

6. Home milk delivery in glass bottles with cardboard stoppers

7. Party lines

8. Newsreels before the movie

9. P.F. Flyers

10. Butch wax

11. Telephone numbers with a word prefix (Olive-6933)

12. Peashooters

13. Howdy Doody

14. 45 RPM records

15. S&H Green Stamps

16. Hi-fi's

17. Metal ice trays with lever

18. Mimeograph paper

19. Blue flashbulb

20. Beanie and Cecil

21. Roller skate keys

22. Cork popguns

23. Drive-ins

24. Studebakers

25. Wash tub wringers

Shared by Alex K

I can remember the WW I song "It's a long way to Tipperary".
... My father and mother would sing it. (See the Pun of the week)

I struck out on #10. "Butch wax"
But got a score of 24 ...

#11 and a little history:
Phone numbers used the name of the exchange office "Beverly 1234"
(You 'rang' the operator and asked for the number)
When the "dial" phone was invented it became "BE-1234"
Later as service was expanded "BE-8-1234"
Then "238-1234"
And now we have area codes, prefixes, and country codes.
AND, ... #7 Party line was when two (or more) households 
shared a phone line and you had to wait until the 
other 'party' was through talking before making a call.

Grandpa Don