 3D movie glasses |
 5 cent Cokes |
 5 cent gum with baseball cards |
 10 cent Coke Machines |
 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 |
 1957 Mercury advertisement |
 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 |
 77 Sunset Strip |
 8-track stereo tape players |
 Admiral Spectravision Color Televisions |
 Air for free at gas stations |
 Airstream Trailers |
 Alfred Hitchcock Presents television program |
 Aluminum Christmas Trees |
 Aluminum Christmas trees |
 American Bandstand |
 American Bandstand |
 Automobile in-dash record players - Lawrence Welk in his 1955 Dodge |
 Ava Gardner |
 Barbie Millecent Roberts (Barbie Doll) |
 Baseball - playing it with no adults to help kids with the rules of the game? |
 Beany and Cecil |
 Beatles fan button |
 Beatniks |
 Beer, Marching for it |
 Bell & Howell color slide projectors featuring Sabrina |
 Bell-bottom Jeans |
 Bench front seats in cars |
 Bench front seats in cars |
 Betty and Archie comics |
 Betty Boop |
 Betty Boop |
 Bill Mauldin |
 Blatz Beer being beneficial to young moms and their babies |
 Blatz Beer coasters |
 Blondie and Dagwood, debut on February 17, 1933 (history below photo) |
 Bob Hope entertaining our troops during war after war after war |
 Bowling alleys with manual pin setters |
 Brigitte Bardot |
 Brownie Cameras |
 Brylcreem |
 Bunny Hop, The |
 Burger Chef restaurants featuring the Big Shef |
 Burma Shave road signs |
 Buster Brown TV Show |
 Buster Brown Shoes Radio Club |
 Butch wax and crew cut wax |
 Candy Cigarettes |
 Candy Cigarettes |
 Cap Bombs |
 Captain Kangaroo and Bunny Rabbit |
 Carhops |
 Carhops |
 Chase & Sanborn Coffee |
 Chatty Cathy Dolls |
 Chef Boy-Ar-Dee |
 Chesterfields for Christmas, promoted by Ronald Reagan |
 Cigarettes for Christmas |
 Clackers, those horrible finger smashing clacker balls |
 Coca-Cola bottle evolutions over the years |
 Continental Kits |
 Cooties - all girls had them in most of our juvenile male minds |
 Cork Pop Guns |
 Cracker Jacks |
 Davy Crockett Coonskin Caps |
 Dean Martin, Shirley MacLaine and Elvis Presley |
 Del Taco fast food restaurants in the early years |
 Ding Dong, Avon Calling |
 Dinner out with the parents at a real restaurant was a real privilege? |
 Drive in movie theatres, a great place for dates |
 Drive-in movie speakers |
 Drive-In Restaurants |
 Elizabeth Taylor in her beautiful youth |
 Elvis and Priscilla Presley |
 Erector Sets |
 Ernie Banks, Chicago Cubs from 1953 to 1971, 1931-2015 |
 Fallout Shelters |
 Falstaff Beer |
 Fire Escape Tubes |
 Fireflies - catching them could happily occupy an entire evening? |
 Flash Bulbs |
 Flower Girls! |
 Fuller Brush Man |
 Fuzzy Dice for your car |
 Gas Stations with full service |
 Grocery bag covers for school books |
 Gum Wrapper Chains |
 Gym uniforms for girls were fairly ugly |
 Hair styles for guys |
 Hindenburg's dining room, one of the earliest color photographs |
 Hindenberg disaster at Lakehurst Naval Air Station, New Jersey |
 Hot dogs to impress your lady |
 Howard Johnson's Ice Cream Shops and Restaurants - from Maine to Florida |
 Howard Johnson's Motor Lodges |
 Howard Johnson's Restaurants, famous for their varieties of ice cream and great clam strips |
 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 |
 Hula Hoops |
 Iggys |
 International House of Pancakes early A-frame building design |
 Jayne Mansfield drawing looks of admiration or envy from Sophia Loren |
 Jefferson Super Department Stores |
 JFK's funeral with his son John Jr. saluting his coffin before it was transported to Arlington National Cemetery for burial |
 Jiffy Pop Popcorn |
 John Wayne in his younger years |
 Kodak Brownie Hawkeye Flash camera |
 Laundry Detergent with free glasses, dishes or towels hidden inside the box |
 Lincoln Logs |
 Maidenform Bras |
 Marilyn Monroe |
 Marlin Perkins |
 Marvel Family comics |
 McDonald's, the first one in California in 1940 |
 McDonald's in the early years (1957) |
 McDonald's in the early years |
 McDonald's in the early years |
 McDonald's early menu and prices |
 Merchants Green Stamps |
 Miami Floridians basketball team |
 Mickey Mouse Club meetings in the early years |
 Milk delivery at your home in glass bottles with cardboard stoppers on top |
 Mini Skirt shortening services |
 Mister Softee Ice Cream Trucks |
 Moms at home when the kids got home from school |
 Nino Tempo and April Stevens performing "All Strung Out on You" on The Lloyd Thaxton Show |
 Nipple Bra, The |
 Norma Jean Baker (later Marilyn Monroe) |
 Nylons - moms wore nylons that came in two pieces |
 Old Yeller |
 Oscar Meyer Wienermobile and Little Oscar |
 P. F. Flyers |
 Pay phone booths |
 Pee-Wee sodas, sold in miniscule sized bottles |
 Penny Candy |
 Photo Booths |
Pin Up Girls - Gallery - click on image to see the gallery of images
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 Plaid Stamps AKA MacDonald Plaid Stamps |
 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 |
 Rat Fink - a derogatory term of endearment |
 Red Ryder air rifles |
 Reddy Kilowatt |
 Reel lawn mowers |
 Reel to Reel Tape Recorders |
 Rin-Tin-Tin |
 Roller skate keys |
 Roller Skating at roller rinks |
 Rotary dial residential telephones |
 Rotary dial pay phones |
 Roy Rogers and Dale Evans |
 Roy Rogers and Trigger, the smartest horse in the movies |
 Royal Castle - Fit for a King |
 S&H Green Stamps |
 Saddle Oxfords |
 Safety caps and hermetic seals didn't exist because no one tried to poison perfect strangers |
 Service Merchandise catalog showrooms |
 Sky King |
 Soda pop machines that dispensed glass bottles of soda |
 Soda shop dates |
 Southern Bell phone booths (later version) |
 Speedy Alka-Seltzer |
 Stag Beer, Mr. Magoo's favorite brew |
 Stenso Lettering Sets |
Stewardesses when they were young, beautiful and sexy gallery - click on image to view other images
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 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 |
 Tempest Storm, burlesque star |
 The Pixies Three - 442 Glenwood Avenue |
 The Twilight Zone television program |
 Timmy & Lassie |
 Tinkertoys |
 Tony Roma's Place - the first one on Biscayne Boulevard in North Miami, Florida |
 Top Value Stamps |
 Topo Gigio |
 Triumph Motorcycles |
 Tube Testing Machines |
 TV test patterns |
 Washtub Wringers |
 Water powered rockets |
 Wax Coke bottles with sugar water inside |
 Whataburger Restaurants in the early days |
 Wheelie - the first wheelie documented on film in 1936 |
 Winky Dink |
 Zayre Department Stores |
 Zenith black and white television model G2355 |
 Zippy Chocolate Beverage, bottled in Miami |