52 Lists – Things I Grew Up With

This week’s list is very nostalgic…I had a lot of fun creating this one, it brought back lots of memories.  I even have a Pinterest Board Back in the Day where I started pinning Things That I Grew Up With.  Here are some of the highlights…

• Riding in the back of pick up trucks – no seat belts, just the wind in our hair
• Cartoons were only on TV on Saturday mornings
• The fact that our TV only had 3 channels and went off the air each night with the Star Spangled Banner
• Dippity Do and pink foam hair curlers
• Lilt perms
• Days of the week Underwear – each pair had a day of the week embroidered on them
• Records and record players
• Bathing caps for swimming
• Hi-C, Kool Aid and Hawaiian Punch
• Tang
• Feathered hair a la Farrah Fawcett
• Romper Room, Sesame Street and the Electric Company, Captain Kangaroo and Mr. Rogers
• School House Rock
• Jellies
• Calvin Klein Jeans
• Dickies pants in rainbow colors
• The Streak
• The Dorothy Hamill hair cut
• My Fancy French Rotary Phone
• Body Suits
• Leg Warmers
• Penny Loafers and Saddle Oxfords
• American Bandstand and Soul Train
• Encyclopedias
• Card Catalogs and Library Cards
• TV Guide
• Woolworths, Grants, Newberry’s, Hills, A&P, Mick or Mack
• Paint by Numbers Kits
• Keds Tennis Shoes
• Car lighters and ash trays in the doors in the back seat of cars
• Avon Lipstick Samples were like miniature little lipsticks – perfect for dress up
• Kinney Shoes and Thom McAnne
• View Masters
• Taking back soda pop bottles for cash
• S&H Green Stamps
• Screw on Earrings
• Flash Cubes for your camera that actually used film that you had to send off to get developed
• Fall Out Shelters
• Movie projectors and slide strips in school
• Cassette tapes
• Wearing rompers and jumpers
• Ditto Machines
• Drive in movie theaters
• Playing Four Square
• We always had to wear a slip with our dress
• Being fitted for shoes
• Candy cigarettes and bubblegum cigars
• Pong
• Being vaccinated for smallpox
• Tanning with Baby Oil and Iodine
• Seventeen Magazine
• Metal lunch boxes with a thermos inside
• Double Bubble Comics and Cracker Jack Toys
• Casey Casem’s Weekly Top 40
• Colored Toilet Paper
• High Top Reeboks and slouch socks
• MTV – when they played videos
• Slime
• Kissing Potion and Bonnie Bell Lip Smackers

Oh my, this list turned out to be quite long! Lot’s of nostalgia here!

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