I LOVED Winkie Dink!    Carole H.

--- Sherilyn Sherry <[log in to unmask]>
wrote:
> Boy did that list trigger memories.  Remember Ipana
> toothpaste?  Winkie Dink (they sent you a sheet of
> plastic to put on your   TV screen so you could draw
> on it and connect the dots to solve the mystery)
>     -----Original Message-----
>     From: will johnston
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>     To: [log in to unmask]
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>     Date: Tuesday, August 24, 1999 10:34 PM
>     Subject: Re: NON PD - Age and Memory Barometer
>
>
>     How old is dirt?  +++see notes in text+++
>
>     ----------
>     From: Hawkins, Darwin
> <[log in to unmask]>
>     To: [log in to unmask]
>     Subject: NON PD - Age and Memory Barometer
>     Date: Tuesday, August 24, 1999 11:52 AM
>
>     > Are you still young???
>     >
>     This sure did bring back some wonderful (and not
> so wonderful) memories for
>     me. I think I know what number 9 was (a brand of
> tennis shoe?). Number 20
>     was probably cartoon characters on TV, an
> appliance we didn't have in the
>     hills of Arkansas. All the rest are just as if
> it were yesterday!
>
>     > Count how many you can remember...  and then
> check the bottom.
>     >
>     > 1. Blackjack chewing gum +++remember chewing
> gum tree sap? The stuff we
>     called "retread" back during WWII?
>     > 2. Wax Coke-shaped bottles with colored sugar
> water.
>     > 3. Candy cigarettes +++smoked grape vines,
>     > 4. Soda pop machines that dispensed bottles.
> ++for 5cents++Pepsi Cola
>     hits the spot. Twelve full ounces; that's a lot.
> Twice as much for a nickel
>     too, Pepsi Cola is the drink for you.
>     > 5. Coffee shops with tableside jukeboxes.
> ++Put another nickel in, in
>     the nickelodeon, all I want is loving and music,
> music, music.....Theresa
>     Brewer
>     > 6. Home milk delivery in glass bottles with
> cardboard stoppers++How about
>     the dipper to take cream off the top in the days
> before homogenization?
>     > 7. Party lines...++Remember the old phones
> with no dial...Just a crank to
>     signal central
>     > 8. Newsreels before the movie. +++Saturday
> matinees with 3 serials?
>     > 9. P.F. Flyers..++The old Keds with no tread
> to pick up mud etc.
>     > 10. Butch wax++Vaseline hair tonic?
> Anamacassers to protect  the
>     furniture?
>     > 11. Telephone numbers with a word prefix
> (Olive -6933) +++What about long
>     distance where the operator had to ring through
> connecting cities to route
>     a call?
>     > 12. Peashooters..++What about rubber guns? [a
> short piece of wood (abt 10
>     inches) with a spring clothes in on one end.
> The projectile was a round
>     slice of inner-tube [before tubeless tires]
> stretched from one end to the
>     clothes pin.  Open the pin and the rubber flies!
>     > 13. Howdy Doody.+++Remember the Muntz TV.
> Don't sit there watching your
>     radio! Buy a Muntz TV!
>     > 14. 45 RPM records++Remember when the 78's
> changed from shellac to vinyl?
>     I still have a few 78's recorded on only one
> side!
>     > 15. S&H Green Stamps. +++Remember the song by
> the Brothers Four to the
>     tune of Greensleeves? The tune is before the
> stamps.
>     > 16. Hi-fi's.. Remember when hi fi was only a
> portion of a drunken giant's
>     eating song?  Remember Cook Records.  The sounds
> of our times on monaural
>     or on binaural which had a separate track and
> tone arm for left and right?
>     > 17. Metal ice trays with levers. Remember the
> pasteboard sign with the
>     numbers 10, 20, 25, 50 ? The sign was to be
> placed in the window. Which
>     number was at the top told the iceman how much
> ice to leave?
>     > 18. Mimeograph paper.  Hectograph? The pan of
> waxy gelatin on which you
>     would place the master and then lift it out
> carefully and put in blank
>     paper a sheet at a time?
>     > 19. Blue flashbulbs. ++Flash powder?
>     > 20. Beanie and Cecil..++ Tom Mix's horse
> "Tony"?
>     > 21. Roller skate keys. +++Skiing on barrel
> staves?
>     > 22. Cork popguns. +++A .22 short rifle to put
> squirrel meat on the table
>     in the depression or WW II.
>     > 23. Drive-ins...The first drive in was
> Fortune's Jungle Garden in
>     Memphis, TN. [back then they would spell out the
> states all the way]
>     > 24. Studebakers+++Commanders? Champion? The
> Lark and the Avanti came
>     late. Steadybreaker made the first production
> car where you could not tell
>     whether it was coming or going. Terraplanes,
> Essexes, Willys, Graham-Paige,
>     LaSalle's.... Like Archie and Edith Bunker said,
> "Those were the days."
>     > 25. Wash tub wringers. +++Remember when any
> owner of a washing machine
>     would be proud to have it sitting on the front
> porch?
>     >
>     >
>     >
>     >
>     >
>     > If you remembered 0-5 = You're still young
>     > If you remembered 6-10 = You are getting older
>     > If you remembered 11-15 = Don't tell your age
>     > If you remembered 16-25 = You're older than
> dirt!
>     >+++
>     Those of us who remember the really old ones are
> pre-cambrians of the
>     Oolitic period.
>
>

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