Non cruising nostalgia

I’m showing my age here but …..

remember when……..

Cracker Jack had good prizes.
Cereal boxes had license plates

The best toys, were also the most dangerous ( like lawn darts and chemistry sets )

Buying a book from the bookmobile at school.

School field trips .

Sleeping under the rear window in the car.

Full service gas stations where the attendant would ask ; leaded or unleaded .
Cap guns ( or just dropping a rock on a roll of caps )

Punks ( to keep mosquitos away ) or you could light a cat-tail aka pussy willow.

Vud-Vuts . Okay, you may be shaking your head at this one. Back in the day, if you lit a whiffle ball bat in a campfire, the molten plastic would drip off. The sound it made would go vuuuut, vuuuut, vuuuut. We just called it a vud-vut.

please, add on


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Free summer afternoon matinée movie tickets, given out to us kids by local retailers. With that and a quarter you could go to the theatre to see a full length feature film (plus a couple cartoons) and have popcorn and a soda.

Funny, I was just remembering penny candy. We would collect pop bottles, turn them in for 2 cents and buy a couple pieces of candy.

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