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I Remember When...2
A sequencial listing of the items from the I remember When... Forum.
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I Remember When...


Here is a listing of the items posted in the I Remember When... Forum. They are contributed by folks who remember these activities and/or things with a fondness (though I doubt many would want to have to go back to them). If you have memories of things like these and would like to contribute them to the forum and this static item, you are welcome to visit the forum and post them. Here's the address.
ID: 449997   (Rated: 13+)
I Remember When... 
What are the activities and things in your past that are no more? Share them with us.
by Writer of the Winds

Thanks for visiting our little dusty attic and do return again.

Writer of the Winds

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
51. 78-RPM Records
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