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> Are you still young???
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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.
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> 1. Blackjack chewing gum
> 2. Wax Coke-shaped bottles with colored sugar water
> 3. Candy cigarettes
> 4. Soda pop machines that dispensed bottles
> 5. Coffee shops with tableside 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 levers
> 18. Mimeograph paper
> 19. Blue flashbulbs
> 20. Beanie and Cecil
> 21. Roller skate keys
> 22. Cork popguns
> 23. Drive-ins
> 24. Studebakers
> 25. Wash tub wringers
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> 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!
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