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 |