 5 cent Cokes |
 5 cent gum with baseball cards |
 15 cent McDonald's burgers |
 45-rpm record spindles |
 1949 Futuramic Oldsmobile 88 |
 1949 Kaiser Virginian |
 1956 Cadillac Series 62 convertible |
 1956 Cadillac Series 62 Coupe de Ville |
 1957 Buick |
 1957 Chevy - everyone's dream car to cruise, peel out, customize |
 1957 Chevy |
 1957 Dodge Royal Lancer |
 1957 Lincoln Premiere four-door Landau |
 1958 Cadillac |
 1959 Chevy |
 1958 DeSoto |
 1958 Dodge Custom Sierra |
 1958 Edsel Citation |
 1959 Mercury |
 1959 Buick 2 Door Convertible |
 1959 Mercury Colony Park Country Cruiser |
 1960 Lincoln Continental MarkV Four Door Landau |
 1960 Plymouth Fury |
 8-track stereo tape players |
 Aluminum Christmas Trees |
 Automobile in-dash record players - Lawrence Welk in his 1955 Dodge |
 Baseball - playing it with no adults to help kids with the rules of the game? |
 Beany and Cecil |
 Beatles fan button |
 Brownie Cameras |
 Brylcreem |
 Burma Shave road signs |
 Buster Brown TV Show |
 Buster Brown Shoes Radio Club |
 Candy Cigarettes |
 Captain Kangaroo and Bunny Rabbit |
 Carhops |
 Chatty Cathy Dolls |
 Chef Boy-Ar-Dee |
 Cigarettes for Christmas |
 Cooties - all girls had them in most of our juvenile male minds |
 Cork Pop Guns |
 Cracker Jacks |
 Ding Dong, Avon Calling |
 Dinner out with the parents at a real restaurant was a real privilege? |
 Drive-in movie speakers |
 Erector Sets |
 Ernie Banks |
 Falstaff Beer |
 Fire Escape Tubes |
 Fireflies - catching them could happily occupy an entire evening? |
 Flash Bulbs |
 Fuller Brush Man |
 Fuzzy Dice for your car |
 Gas Stations with full service |
 Gum Wrapper Chains |
 Gym uniforms for girls were fairly ugly |
 Howard Johnson's Lamplighter Weather Vanes on top of the cupolas |
 Howard Johnson's Cupola with Simple Simon and Pieman on the weathervane |
 Howdy Doody |
 Hula Hoops |
 Jiffy Pop Popcorn |
 Laundry Detergent with free glasses, dishes or towels hidden inside the box |
 Lincoln Logs |
 Marlin Perkins |
 Marvel Family comics |
 Miami Floridians basketball team |
 Milk delivery at your home in glass bottles with cardboard stoppers on top |
 Moms at home when the kids got home from school |
 Nylons - moms wore nylons that came in two pieces |
 Old Yeller |
 Pay phone booths |
 Pee-Wee sodas, sold in miniscule sized bottles |
 Penny Candy |
 P. F. Flyers |
 Poodle Skirts |
 Pull Tabs on canned beverages, great for cutting your feet on the beach |
 Purebred Dogs - no one owned one, we all had mixed breeds and they were fine dogs |
 Race issues meant arguing about who ran the fastest |
 Radio Orphan Annie and Andy |
 Red Ryder air rifles |
 Reel to Reel Tape Recorders |
 Roller skate keys |
 Rotary dial residential telephones |
 Rotary dial pay phones |
 Roy Rogers and Dale Evans |
 S&H Green Stamps |
 Saddle Oxfords |
 Safety caps and hermetic seals didn't exist because no one tried to poison perfect strangers |
 Sky King |
 Soda pop machines that dispensed glass bottles of soda |
 Speedy Alka-Seltzer |
 Stenso Lettering Sets |
 Studebakers |
 Teachers - males wore neckties and females had their hair done every day and wore high heels |
 Telephones - black, dial, prefixed telephone numbers (TUxedo 7-4891) and party lines |
 Televisions took several minutes for the tubes to warm up |
 Timmy & Lassie |
 Tinkertoys |
 Topo Gigio |
 Tube Testing Machines |
 TV test patterns |
 Washtub Wringers |
 Wax Coke bottles with sugar water inside |
 Winky Dink |
 Zippy Chocolate Beverage, bottled in Miami |