SOME MORE FLASHES FROM THE PAST!

The first time you met Earnest T. Opening day of trout season Much ado over the new model cars each year A movie was 15 cents Kerosene was 10 cents a gallon The Saltville Alkalies Carter's Little Liver Pills Hot dogs and hamburgers were not served at home A soft drink was a treat Mick or Mack No high test beer( 3.2% only) The Broad Street Tea Room in Marion Genuine Navy Pea Coats Bell bottom trousers Denim jeans with white laces in back The Indian motorcycle Men dressing in pink and black in the fifties Troop trains Quail were plentiful Rabbits were plentiful The first side delivery rake Finding out there was no Santa Finding out there was no Tooth Fairy The word Queer meant strange of unusual The term lesbian was not a part of our vocab. Gay meant happy Ayds was a diet candy When Ike was President Air Force I was named the "Columbine" People did not choose Welfare for a career

Golfing With Ike Polio vaccine No Viagara Most ladies wore hats to church on Sunday. Boys wore ball caps with the bills turned toward the front Drops of wintergreen on the car carpets Sugar with drops of lamp oil for coughs All sneakers were canvas De-Coder Rings ordered with cereal box tops Charles Atlas Captain Marvel Shazam! Dick Tracey wearing Diet Smith's Wrist Radio Twiggy Dagwood and Blondie Mr. Dithers Gotham City Daisy and her puppies Ozzie and Harriet David and Ricky Nelson Digby "Digger" O'Dell, the Friendly Undertaker The Life of Riley William Bendix The New Departure brake on your bicycle The Bendix Brake Dec. 7, 1941, Pearl Harbor The Great Depression A cone of ice cream was a Special Treat Hello Mudder, hello Fadder, here I am at Camp Granada Comic Valentines

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