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Default Sep 09, 2019 at 08:24 PM
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Science kits with uranium and chemistry sets with dangerous chemicals.

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Wasn't that the bubble gum with the comic strips in the package?
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Default Sep 12, 2019 at 02:41 PM
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boys hitting girls with snowballs while walking home from school (I hope they don't still do that...)

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Playgrounds that were full of metal and pavement...and danger.
Remember monkey bars? Ours were cemented in concrete at our neighborhood park. I don't recall anyone dying. Just the occasional broken bone and skinned knee. It made us all dare devils.
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Default Sep 16, 2019 at 11:05 PM
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Remember monkey bars? Ours were cemented in concrete at our neighborhood park. I don't recall anyone dying. Just the occasional broken bone and skinned knee. It made us all dare devils.
I remember monkey bars. I wasn't very good at them. I preferred the jungle gym.
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Default Sep 18, 2019 at 06:35 PM
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Saucers for sliding downhill during the winter. At first they were metal... later on plastic. (Where I lived as a child there was a hill we slid downhill on, on saucers. The "course", so to speak, ran down one hill, across a street that was closed during the winter, between 2 concrete posts & then down a second hill. One day when we showed up there to slide, there was blood in the snow by one of the pillars. Another kid said someone had tried to slide down the course on a toboggan.)

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Default Sep 19, 2019 at 11:05 PM
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days when stores had ceiling fans, not air conditioning. No ceiling fans in houses, but window fans and portable fans. I remember being in the crib watching a fan move back and forth. I was sort of scared of it because the grill reminded me of a spider's web.

When Tang came out and was very popular as a drink.
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Default Sep 20, 2019 at 12:19 PM
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Our table-top fan was all metal, not plastic. And the grill that enclosed the blades was not child-safe. The spaces between the bars were big enough for even an adult to put a hand through. And our central "AC" was an attic fan.
(But then, our windows opened, and had real hooked-down screens, and we had screen doors front and back.)
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Default Sep 20, 2019 at 12:28 PM
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Yeah, I remember mum going out twice a year to take the storm windows off and put on the screen Windows. I remember that the glass would get broken or loose and need to be replaced or re-caulked and how the old caulk dried up and cracked. They were heavy too. They needed painting touch up too. Lots of work they were.

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Default Sep 20, 2019 at 04:26 PM
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My Omron calculator. It would have been around 1966 (the year I graduated from high school) or 67 when I bought it. The guy who sold it to me (who was someone I had known growing up) told me I could take it out to the parking lot, run over it with my car, & if it no longer worked they'd replace it for free. I still have it...

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Default Sep 20, 2019 at 04:46 PM
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Ha ha, don't think they're in business anymore so you'd better not run over it now!

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Default Sep 21, 2019 at 12:54 PM
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I just posted this in another thread and while I was doing that I thought I'd post it in this thread too. It's not exactly things we remember, but it made me stop and think how adaptable we Baby Boomers are to the changes of time.

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Default Sep 21, 2019 at 01:53 PM
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@Seafarer ... up until recently we used to order our dog's food from Chewy.com. And seeing all of the locations it went to before it got to us, we would laugh that our dog's bag of dog food was more well-travelled than us...

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Default Sep 28, 2019 at 04:18 PM
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How about milk products being delivered by a milkman? And Howard Johnson restaurants? I seem to remember they served a lot of ice cream flavors?

And cigarette ads on TV--and lots and lots of people smoking? I noticed even Perry Mason smoked. And lots of smokers in movies, too.
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Remember the ashtrays? They were everywhere too. Glass ones, tin, aluminum, marble, small ones huge ones and tall ones. Ugh I remember having to empty them and wash them, ugh the smell!

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And cigarette ads on TV--and lots and lots of people smoking? I noticed even Perry Mason smoked. And lots of smokers in movies, too.
My parents both smoked. They quit after I left home, which perhaps say somethin'...

Men's hair products Brylcream & Wildroot Hair Dressing (both of which you can still buy I believe.) Oh & English Leather cologne (among others.)

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Oh I remember that hair stuff, people had dollies on the couches and chairs to protect them from the oily stuff. Remember the hair spray? I think my older sister went though a can a week. Mum didn't use that much but she had a weekly Solon appointment for a perm and set and would use a cap to cover her hair at night. My sister slept in rollers

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I remember my grandmother using a curling iron she heated on the stove.

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Default Oct 01, 2019 at 03:36 PM
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I remember the TV show "The Millionaire"

The story was the same every time, some anonymous donor gives someone a check for a million dollars.

How come they never came to my house!

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Oh I remember that hair stuff, people had dollies on the couches and chairs to protect them from the oily stuff. Remember the hair spray? I think my older sister went though a can a week. Mum didn't use that much but she had a weekly Solon appointment for a perm and set and would use a cap to cover her hair at night. My sister slept in rollers
I remember reading somewhere that those doilies were called antimacassars and that the reason they were called that is that they protected the sofa and chair backs from the men's hair oil, Macassar oil, from Macassar in Indonesia.

Recently I've seen a TV commercial for some new nicotine product. I grew up watching cigarette ads and knowing all the jingles and slogans for the different brands -- and now I'm shocked that this new nicotine product is being advertised on TV. Funny how times and ideas change. But the guy in this new ad is not exactly the Marlboro Man!
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