Remember When game .....

[precocious]

MTA tokens smaller than a dime.....with a "Y" cut out of the center.

 

[ravenwytch]

green stamps

 

[JerryP]

reel to reel tape recorders

 

[dbee]

cracker jack prizes

 

[ladymez]

A & W Root Beer stands ....

 

[ladymez]

That's not how the song goes.....I sang it here a while ago..:worry:..I'm sure ChooChoo remembers it!

"Choo Choo Charlie was an engineer - he had the biggest deals on the Spoofee board I hear ..." - or something like that!

 

[JerryP]

When a Fudge-sicle cost a nickel

 

[annaapple]

When they had towels or saucers in powdered laundry soap

 

[JerryP]

Peanut butter in glass jars with cool pictures on them that later became "glassware"

 

[ladymez]

Saspirilla soda, Brich Beer and Zarex (the sugar "crack" of my day...)

 

[JerryP]

Ginger beer and if you are from the Mid West - Sun Drop

 

[JerryP]

Aluminum tumblers

 

[precocious]

Aluminum tumblers

....in various colors!

My mother always said you can't make grape juice in the aluminum pitcher becuase it would 'pit'.

 

[Drifa]

Glass baby bottles.

 

[ladymez]

Glass MILK bottles - delivered to your door :bigok:

 

[precocious]

Blocks of ice from the ice man to keep in your ice box (the "refrigerator").

Also the man in the truck that went around the neighborhood to sharpen your knives and scissors...... * :secret: In Queens, there still is a guy who does this*

 

[JoyceHarkless]

Remember when Preco wasn't always "angelic"? :tongue: LOL

 

[precocious]

Remember when Joyce used to be "nice"? :rofl:

 

[JoyceHarkless]

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

 

[JerryP]

The first time a salesperson said, "may I help you, Mam" or "may I help you Sir" That was when I felt really grown up (Sir not Mam).