When I returned to school at age 30, we had a student store that sold refreshments and school supplies. Often someone would come in to buy a candy bar and comment, “25 cents! Why I remember when…” and J.R., the guy who ran the store would say, “OK, everybody drag up a chair for another edition of ‘I remember when.’”

Recently, part of this list was posted in Gailey’s Place. Then I got it in a little different form in personal email. I added a few items from my memories and got to thinking there are many more that could be added. Ergo, this forum.

Please post additional items you remember and I will then post them in a sequential listing as a static item called I Remember When 2

ID: 450006   (Rated: 13+) I Remember When...2  A sequencial listing of the items from the I remember When... Forum. by Writer of the Winds

for you to read, copy for yourself, or ignore. Here are the rules.



1. Each item you enter should be at least 40 years old and preferable over 50.
2. State your item in a single (relatively) short statement, and then if you wish, give any explanation you desire.
3. You may make general comments without entering an item for the list, but please preface your subject with “OT” so folks looking for the listing may more easily find them.

Above all else, do enjoy your visit and have fun

Here are the items already listed.

1. Bottle stopper with a bunch of holes in it to sprinkle clothes for ironing.
2. Head lights dimmer switches on the floor
3. Ignition switches on the dashboard
4. Heaters mounted on the inside of the firewall
5. Real ice boxes
6. Pant leg clips for bicycles without chain guards.
7. Soldering irons you heat on a gas burner.
8. Using hand signals for cars without turn signals.
9. Blackjack chewing gum
10. Wax Coke-shaped bottles with colored sugar water
11. Candy cigarettes
12. Soda pop machines that dispensed bottle
13. Cafes with tableside jukeboxes
14. Home milk delivery in glass bottles with cardboard stoppers
15. Party lines
16. Newsreels before the movie
17. P.F. Flyers
18. Butch wax
19. Telephone numbers with a word prefix (Sycamore-4611)
20. Peashooters
21. Howdy Doody
22. 45-RPM records
23. S&H Green Stamps
24. Hi-fi's
25. Metal ice trays with lever
26. Mimeograph paper
27. London Bridges Falling Down
28. Packards
29. Roller skate keys
30. Cork popguns
31. Drive-ins
32. Studebakers
33. Wash tub wringers
34. Henry Js
35. Car Ignition Switch that didn't require a key
36. Snow Ice Cream
37. Ring-around-the-Roses
38. Blue flashbulb
39. Irons that had to be heated on the stove or by the fireplace.
40. Nylon Shirts
41. 12 Inch Rulers given away by Coca-Cola.
42. Blue Horse Coupons.
43. Gas Rationing Cards
44. Write-Right School Supplies
45. Tests printed on a Ditto machine.
46. Coffee Grinder at the A & P
47. Hot Tire Patch Kit
48. Kitts Candy
49. Holloway Sucker or Black Cow Chocolate Sucker
50. Prince Albert Tobacco