Our Daughter Jessi only knew of 4 of these 25 listed. This is of course because i still use a wringer washer and we have a drive-in 50 mile from us, that we take summer trips to. How many can you get?

1. Blackjack chewing gum 2. Wax Coke-shaped bottles with colored sugar water 3. Candy cigarettes 4. Soda pop machines that dispensed bottles 5. Coffee shops with table side jukeboxes 6. Home milk delivery in glass bottles with cardboard stoppers 7. Party lines 8. Newsreels before the movie 9. P.F. Flyers 10. Butch wax 11. Telephone numbers with a word prefix (Olive-6933) 12. Peashooters 13. Howdy Doody 14. 45 RPM records 15. S+ACY-H Green Stamps 16. Hi-fi's 17. Metal ice trays with levers 18. Mimeograph paper 19. Blue flashbulbs 20. Beanie and Cecil 21. Roller skate keys 22. Cork popguns 23. Drive-ins 24. Studebakers 25. Wash tub wringers

-- Shau Marie in WI (shau@centurytel.net), January 11, 2001

Answers

I remember everything except Newsreels before the movies. I remember how good the mimeograph paper smelled. Do you remember Beeman's and Clove gum? Straws that made milk taste like strawberry? Putting baseball card on bicycle wheels with clothespins? Tiny Tears and Betsy Wetsy dolls? Neightborhood butcher shops.

-- Cindy (atilrthehony_1@yahoo.com), January 11, 2001.

Your daughter did better than I did! I only got 23. I do vividly remember green stamps. Granny had a big sack of them up in the very top cabinet in the utility room. She swore I was part monkey. I always thought if it was up on the top shelf it had to be more interesting and important :o).

-- Amanda in Mo (aseley@townsqr.com), January 11, 2001.

I remember most, not all. Did you know they are making the wax "coke bottles" again? DW

-- DW (djwallace@ctos.com), January 11, 2001.

We can still buy Blackjack and Beeman's and the clove gum. I loved Beanie and Cecil. What is butch wax?

-- Anne (HT@HM.com), January 11, 2001.

I got 'em all. Yippee! Hey, they still make Clove gum (and I think Beemans and Black Jack, too, but they only distribute them around the holidays.) My mom bought me a case of Clove for Christmas the year before last! She had to look all over the place, and I think special ordered it. I've been chewing a lot of gum this past year or so!

Butch wax was a boy's hair product that was popular with guys. They put it on that sort of stand-up front part that kind of toned down crew-cuts. Also, I think guys used it for those D.A.s that they had...named after Ducks A**es because it was sort of swept into a point.

This was fun remembering. Thanks!

-- sheepish (WA) (rborgo@gte.net), January 11, 2001.

I remember 7...but I know more than that now. Black jack gum was actually a recent thing for me. We always called them stereos, but my mom always called them hi-fi's. Is there a defining difference? duh? or no duh?

-- Doreen (animalwaitress@excite.com), January 11, 2001.

Must be gettin' old.I remembered them all except Butch wax.

-- JT (gone2seed@hotmail.com), January 11, 2001.

all but one - Beanie and Cecil, my brother said it was a regional thing and that's why we don't remember - what was it?

-- diane (gardiacaprines@yahoo.com), January 11, 2001.

I can't believe they are making wax coke bottles again. I used to love them! Beanie and Cecil was a cartoon in the early sixties. I guess Beanie wore, you guessed it, a beanie with a propeller on top. Butch wax was for hair, thanks sheepish. I believe hi fi and sterios are the same. I just remebered i have two old metal ice trays in the big freezer, that have metal levers. Giggle!!

-- Shau Marie (shau@centurytel.net), January 11, 2001.

Hi-Fi= Hi fidelity sound. I don't think the music had two or more channels, the way stereo did...you know like how if you are listening to stereo, and the sound effect is a train going by, how on one speaker it starts, and then splits off and finishes on the other speaker? That's stereo more or less(as I understand it.) On hi-fi, I think it would have been on only one or else on both speakers at the same time. Come to think of it, I think hi-fi's had only one speaker. Hmm. The opposite of the stereo was monoral, come to think of it. I used to have to pay attention when I was buying albums (yes, vinyl) in the '60s. I think some of my early Bob Dylan albums are actually in mono. Lame.

Another thing I remember is wax lips. Anyone else?

-- sheepish (WA) (rborgo@gte.net), January 11, 2001.

I remember about half of them. I used to love the wax lips and bottles, used to eat the wax! Don't they make the lips anymore?

-- Rebekah (daniel1@itss.net), January 11, 2001.

I remembered them all! Does anyone remember staying in a hotel that had a little t-v in your room that you put a quarter in the slot for 30 minutes of viewing? Or wearing about 5 crinolines under your gathered skirt to make it stand out a lot? I remember starching those things and hanging them on the clothes line on Saturday so they would be all ready for another week, I could hardly fit in my desk! And did anyone ever watch Johnny Jupiter on t-v? I think I must be the only person who saw that show.

-- Artie Ann Karns (rokarns@arkansas.net), January 11, 2001.

How about Captain Video and the video rangers?

-- diane (gardiacaprines@yahoo.com), January 11, 2001.

I remember 22 or 23 of them. I "heard of" Studebakers as a kid, but did not know anyone that had one. I saw this list elsewhere last year, so I NOW know all of them, but my childhood memories do not include butch wax or newsreels before the movies (though I had heard about those too!).

We had a book of articles, puzzles, etc. for kids from Readers' Digest. There was a "test" for your age by what you called things -- that is, there was a picture of an item and about 4 choices of what it was called. At the end, you added up the points to tell how old you were. At age 12, my score was 40! I lived in a backwards town -- growing up in the 50's and early 60's, but in many ways it was like living one or two decades earlier.

I didn't have PF Flyers, I had Red Ball Jets. Anyone else remember those? I remember Davy Crockett coonskin caps, and Roy Rogers everythings (my brother had his hat, guns, gloves, and even pajamas -- I don't know what poor Roy wore!). The wax bottles with flavored syrup inside (not all were Coke flavored) we called Nickle Nips. Anyone else remember Lik-M-Aid? (a powdered substance that you sprinkled on your hand and licked off -- tasted sort of like SweetTarts). Beemans is STILL my favorite flavor of gum, though I don't find it very often. Somewhat later, there was also a gum called Teaberry (commercial had a catchy tune and dance, "The Teaberry Shuffle") -- liked that too.

-- Joy Froelich (dragnfly@chorus.net), January 12, 2001.

I was going to mention that #2 were Nickel Nips, but Joy got there first...How about remembering Fizzies? Some horse-pill sized tablets that you dropped into water that were supposed to make it into soda pop (gag!). You can buy them on eBay again if you have a lot of nostalgia and no sense of taste. I've still got one of Roy's gloves and his scout knife with a compass in the sheath. I got to make the mimeographs when I was in grade school. I'm with Joy on my answers...no one could afford the butch wax to use it on their butch haircuts, didn't really need it, that short.

Ooh, Captain Video!! We used to show that at Nickelodeon (you got in for a nickel and got one installment of Captain Video and one movie). We used to get BIG turnouts for that.

-- Julie Froelich (firefly1@nnex.net), January 12, 2001.

I only remembered 12. Remember those lizards on leashes that kids pinned to their shirts? And at the bowling alley we had Blue Chip bowling, and we knocked down colored pins and filled up a book of stamps and then got to go to the Stamp Store and pick out stuff. I remember going with my Dad to Sears or Wards, and putting our TV tubes in that tester to see if they were ok!

-- Cindy in Ky (solidrockranch@msn.com), January 12, 2001.

Yeah, good old fizzys-we use to put them in our mouth whole on a dare. I still have my Annie Oakley lunch box that was my prize possession when I started taking lunch to school.

-- diane (gardiacaprines@yahoo.com), January 12, 2001.

Sheepish is correct about hi-fi. Stereo is two channel sound and came later than hi-fi. Hi-fi is short for high fidelity and only means that the sound reproduction was better than before (closer to the original sound). Hi-fi receivers and phonographs only used a single speaker on a single channel.

-- JLS in NW AZ (stalkingbull007@AOL.com), January 12, 2001.

My youngest brother and I played Beanie and Cecil all the time. We would rescue each other from crocodiles and sharks and other horrible sea-creatures. He was always Beanie, and he still signs his letters to me "Bean". We're both in our forties now. And fizzies! We used to love the root beer flavor in milk. Made a cheap brown-cow. Does anyone remember Cherry Mashes? Haven't seen those for years.

-- glynnis in KY (gabbycab@msn.com), January 12, 2001.

When we're in a tight spot we still say "Help Cecil, help!".

-- Anne (HT@HM.com), January 12, 2001.

Boy, do I remember!

We have a store here that still sells not only BlackJack gum but Beemans and Cinnamon. They also sell the nip a sips (the milk bottles with the sugar liquid), wax lips and fangs plus a whole bunch more.

I remember the black phone with the dial and only 3 numbers...no prefix.

I still have 45 records and a Hi-Fi.

Do you remember when the milk delivered at the door would "blow its top" in the winter because the cream froze.

Remember having to lick all those green stamps, counting your books over and over to see if you could get what wanted from the catalogue.

It's Hoody Doody Time with Buffalo Bob, Princess Spring Summer Winter Fall.

A nickle to play 3 songs on the the jute box while you waited for your Steak and Shake malt and hamburger.

Collected food for the needy in our little Red Flyer wagon.

Getting on the bus for a nickel. Then the price was raised to a time and I did not have the extra nickel, but everyone knew everyone and the driver said OK, bring it next time.

Running away from home (to the next door neighbor but saying that you had to be home for dinner).

The newsreels before the cartoons, before the feature film for which you paid 18 cents to get in and I think a dime for a huge box of popcorn.

Peashooters were, for us, a straw and some dried peas.

I recently got rid of the ice cube trays with the levers. My mother used to take the insides out and make freezer ice cream in the trays.

As for roller skate keys. You always seemed to be skating on one skate. They never stayed on no matter how we tightned. Skate for a few steps then bamb! out comes your foot. Leather straps with a buckle to keep the heel in.

The drive in was the big treat. On Sat. night our parents would take us and always we had blankets and pillows because we could never stay up that late.

Never likes Studebakers!!!

Washed in a old washing machine with homemade lye soap, put the clothers through the ringer then hung them up to dry. Boy! did they smell good.

Blue Flash bulbs for the Brownie Box Camera.

Thanks for all the memories.

-- Cordelia Kaylegian (ckaylegian@aol.com), January 12, 2001.

Yikes, I not only remember them, I experienced them. I even remember when the Cleveland Indians won the World Series!

-- jimR (jymcyn@earthlink.net), January 12, 2001.

I remember 11 from personal hands on experience. (I only held the blackjack gum, I wouldn't chew it!)

Wish I could talk to lots of you more, I'll bet you've got lots of stories I'd just love to hear!!

-- Marty (Mrs.Puck@Excite.com), January 12, 2001.

Been there, done that, except for Beanie and Cecil. The gums mentioned, i.e. Blackjack, Clove, and Beemans is made each October for holiday sales. A drug store down the street from me buys enough to last though the year, however it gets a little old. Did I say a little? See further down in the post for an offer at some.

There is a wonderful diner franchise called "Five and Diner", that is in the metal looking buildings, and they have the tableside jukeboxes with oldies, except they are cds.

Yup, wore a crew cut until in my 20s and used to use Butch wax. The duck haircuts mentioned had a different name around here, they were known as duck tails. One person still comes in where I work wearing that style.

Mimeograph paper and smell. A possible clarification here--spirit duplicators were most often incorrectly called mimeographs. Mimeographs used yucky ink that in my opinion stinks, whereas spirit duplicators used a fluid that smelled great. If any of you need a fix of that smell, write me and I'll get it to you. I just happen to have a spirit duplicator that was my mom's, and a gallon or so of the fluid. Here is a rare chance to have my address to write to. greenbeanman@ourtownusa.net (Please Steve & J.D. don't print it in your magazine.) Anyone want a package of stale gum while I'm offering?

Still have a sleeve of the flash bulbs. They were "Press 25Bs." The Press 25s didn't have the blue coating on them and were only for black and white. They provide a very powerful flash, and I'm saving them for that once in a lifetime photo that needs a lot of illumination.

On the skate key--how many of you remember the song "Brand New Key" that singer Melanie sang? I have it on CD and love it.

Really dating myself here. I've owned a Studebaker. Bought a 1942 coupe with a buddy back in the mid-60s. Later sold my share to him. For those of you that wonder about them, a Studebaker was what the Muppets were driving in "The Muppet Movie." It was all painted up, and kind of had a bullet nose. A Jim Carey movie also used one, I think it is called "The Mask." What fun!

-- Notforprint (Not@thekeyboard.com), January 12, 2001.

13 out of 25. Yikes! What year is this? :o)

-- Kenneth in N.C. (wizardsplace13@hotmail.com), January 12, 2001.

Am I the only country boy that remembers "Bull of the Woods Chewing Tobacco", Syrup of Black Drat", and "Jax Beer". One of the 1st tunes I remember from the radio was Hello Mellow Jax, Little Darlin, your the beer for me, yesssireee. Got my hide tanned for singing that one for the preacher.

-- Okie-Dokie (tjcamp6338@aol.com), January 12, 2001.

Yeah, Notforprint is right about the difference in spirit duplicators and mimeographs. I did both of them, but in grade school, we mostly used the spirit duplicators. They did smell good, sort of like bread baking (?), but it probably wasn't good for us to be smelling it. This from the girl who used to eat her paste . . . . yucky! The mimeographs had stencils for the originals, and you had to crank it around and around to get the copies made. Geez, I was still doing those in 1979 -- five years later, I was working on a PC! Things really changed in a hurry!

-- Joy Froelich (dragnfly@chorus.net), January 12, 2001.

I remember the boys using Buthc Wax to keep thier hair standing straight up in front or curling over into a little point. Then they would rest thier heads against the school bus window and leave a greasy spot on the glass.

Black Jack gum, flavored with a mild licorice, was and always will be my favorite.

The Boy Scouts in my community rented skates on Saturday afternoon and for a quarter we could skate around and around the community hall, but only on the out edges. We weren't allowed skate in the middle of the wood floor because on Saturday night there was a dance - my father played and sang in a band called the Hillbilly Wrangers - and the adults danced in the center of the floor where the wood was still varnished.

Last week I watched an old B sci-fi movie called They Conquered the World (or some such thing) staring James Arness (before he was Marshall Dillon) and every car in the movie was a Studebaker. My favorite old car! The first vehicle I ever wrecked was a 1941 Studebaker pickup. Ah, the nostalgia!

-- Maggie's Farm (elemon@peacehealth.org), January 12, 2001.

It Conquered the World...yup. Also the enthralling 'Teenagers From Outer Space'. I was watching it on tv when I was 9 or so, my mom came in and said "What IS this! This is AWFUL!! GO play outside!" and turned it off. I didn't get to see it again until just a couple years ago. A 30-year intermission. Possibly the longest in history.

I was thinking of the jelly mimeographs you cut the stencils for and would lay the paper in the trays and let it absorb. I forget how long for each one, usually just til the colour was strong enough, then you'd have to let them dry, usually over recess. I've still got the spirit duplicator, the one with the drum and the handle that you turn in the basement. Printed a small press magazine on it for some time.

-- Julie Froelich (firefly1@nnex.net), January 12, 2001.

Hey, I'm new to this forum but I can tell you, I don't think you're going back far enough. Phones where you cranked the handle and talked to the operator and told her who you wanted to talk to. If they weren't home she'd call to the place where they were. Better than a paging service. She also knew all the news in town. Little Nash Ramblers. White Bucks. Taps. 33 1/3 RPM records. 78 RPM records. 5 & 10 cent stores that really had stuff for 5 and 10 cents. Rocket man. Serials at the movies? Round T.V. picture tubes (the front, not the whole tube). They were about 6 or 8 inches if I remember right. Model A as the main mode of transportation. Cokes for a nickle. Never could understand why grandmother bought the little Dr. Pepper instead of the large Pepsi. Service stations that really serviced? Street cars in every big city? Crystal radios? Brownie box cameras? What was it, 620 film? Opps, slide rules when they were the only "calculator" allowed in class? How about ink wells in the desk at school? Three or four grades in one class room? Darn, I can remember everything except what day it is or where I left my hat.

JackD

-- JackD (jdenterprises@centurytel.net), January 12, 2001.

Julie, weren't the gel type duplicators called hectographs?

Now about those old movies--anyone remember "THEM"? It too had James Arness in it, also Fess Parker and Leonard Nimoy for a couple of other big names. It was done in 1954 about giant mutant ANTS. Saw it as a school kid as a freebie for haloween.

-- Notforprint (Not@thekeyboard.com), January 12, 2001.

JackD-I like your style. You are sure dating us though. Ahh-white bucks. How about Hop-along Cassidy??? Rumble seats!!! 8 party lines? Dial O for long distance. Better yet, radio at it's best. The Shadow Knows???

-- diane (gardiacaprines@yahoo.com), January 12, 2001.

Oh man. This is nuts! Whatever it was...mimeos or not, I used to hold my freshly-printed papers up to my nose as soon as they were passed out in class! (These days I take the paper out of the copier and press my hands on them to get warm!)

My first job out of High School was working at Sears in the catalog department. We processed our orders via pneumatic tubes that flew from the order desk up to us on the (can't remember) 6th (?) floor. My second job (and the one that got me through college the first time) was as a long distance telephone operator. We had the whole set- up just like Lily Tomlin...the headsets and the cord-boards and everything. I have stories about that time that are legion!! I think they will have to go into my book (what book? I dunno!) some day. Talk about a power trip. The operators could rule your world if you didn't treat them nice! We used to hold up people's lines until they would promise to be nice to us. Sheesh! Can you even imagine??

-- sheepish (WA) (rborgo@gte.net), January 12, 2001.

Nobody's mentioned Rocky and Bullwinkle. I didn't get them when I watched them originally but when I see them now, I think they are a hoot. Loved Boris and Natasha!

I got 25 out of 25. Oops!

-- marilyn (rainbow@ktis.net), January 12, 2001.

Not only do I remember tha radio show "The Shadow" but how about "Danny Clover"?, "Johnny Dollar", "The Creaking Door", "Amos and Andy", "The Green Hornet", The Gene Autry Show", "Sergeant Preston and Ukon King" brought to you by Puffed Rice and Puffed Wheat, the cereal shot from guns. and what about "The FBI, in Peace and War" brought to you by L-A-V-A Soap?Gosh, I could go on and on.."Fibber Mcgee and Molly", "Burns and Allen". Radio was wonderful, you could keep on working and be entertained, made your work go by really fast. My imagination was much better than T-V.

You can still buy those chewing gums from the Vermont Country Store Catalog. I was never allowed to chew gum, it wasn't lady like so never did develope that habit. Didn't whistle either.." A whistling girl like a crowing hen soon will come to no good end".

-- Artie Ann Karns (rokarns@arkansas.net), January 12, 2001.

Hey Artie,"'Danny Clover"?..... you must be so old!!!!! :)

I so laughed about your reference to chewing gum and whistling! I too was told it wasnt ladylike, which of course made it all the more attractive to me! I became an expert bubblegum blowin machine, and can still out-whistle most!

Suspect some of you breathed in a tad too many mimeo-fumes........;)

-- Earthmama (earthmama48@yahoo.com), January 13, 2001.

These will be my last ones, I'm entering into memory lapse now. What was the T.V. show that stared Brian Donlevy? He was standing by a pole, lighting a cigarette and a knife was thrown and stuck in the pole right next to him? Neru jackets? Liesure suits? Oh, Hot Pants? Loved hot pants better than T.V. Then there was the Whistler and Sky King. How could I forget the Schwin bicycle? Or fender skirts, contentinal kits? Or flames and pinstripes? I really didn't have flames, I just forgot to fix the carberator leak! It looked cool for a few seconds though.

JackD

-- JackD (jdenterprises@centurytel.net), January 13, 2001.

WOW!!! Almost 40 replies and going strong. When i posted this i never dreamed it would become such a trip down memory lane. You are all an interesting, educational bunch. Glad to meet you.

I was just thinking that tomorrow is Saturday and if i were a kid again, i would be getting up early to watch the tests patterns until the cartoons started. That is when they were worth watching. Thanks everyone for sharing.

-- Shau Marie (shau@centurytel.net), January 13, 2001.

Sky King-my favorite, Fury, Cartoons-Rough and Ready, Quick Draw McGraw, Chatty Cathy dolls. Sending the inside of the t.v. out for repairs and then playing t.v. in the set box. It was all nifty, keen and cool, not to mention groovy, some things were even spiffy.

-- Cindy (atilrthehony_1@yahoo.com), January 13, 2001.

I remember all of it and 78 records, tourist cabins for $5 a night and radios that you put a dime in to play. how about wax lips & buck teeth. I remember, VJ day, 10 cent movies, 5c cokes, 10c double dip ice cream cones. Air Raid drills, (WWII). And we used old playing cards in our bicycle spokes.

-- Hendo (redgate@echoweb.net), January 13, 2001.

Ahh - Nostalgia!! I love you guys!!

We lived way out in the boonies - still in the same place, in fact; but the world has come a lot closer to us in the past 4 decades.

I remember the crank phone and "Hello, Central?" I remember Mama being thrilled to get the old black rotary phone - our number was GLendale 9-2297. We had 16 parties on our early phone line - that was everyone who lived out this direction and had a phone! Later, we were on an 8 party line and my girlfriends and I invented conference calling before Ma Bell got around to it - a girl on one party line would call a girl on the other one and the rest of us would pick up - Drove our parents (and the rest of the adults on the line!) crazy! Remember when it was really extravagent to have 2 phones in the house - and they were both hooked to the same line?! I remember Mama and Aunt Shady talking on the phone about a soap opera story, and in two days time the mailman stopped Mama at the mailbox and asked her if it was true that her and Pop were getting divorced and a bunch of other questions that could have only come from the soap opera!!

Our fizzies came from the "Huckster Wagon" a huge old truck that seemed like a country store on wheels. It drove around to all the farm houses and bought eggs, butter and cream; then sold the farm wives whatever they would need.

I think my favorite TV characters were Roy Rogers and Rory Calhoun. Loved Beanie and Cecil, Top Cat and Wally Gator, Yogi and Boo-Boo and Cindy Bear. Do you remember the old Lassie series where they lived on a farm - I remember they had sheep. June Lockhart would come out of the house in her starched shirtwaist with 2 or 3 can-cans (our word for crinoline!) under it, her little white gloves on and dainty little hat on her head. Then she'd climb up into that big old truck, take off her gloves and stomp down on the starter and off she'd go (with no power steering yet!). That woman was the original Homestead Heroine! Does anyone remember her name in the show? I've always just said "Little Timmy's Mom from Lassie" when I've been asked who my heroes are.

I think I'll start another topic thread - on childhood heroes...and maybe our adult ones too!

-- Polly (tigger@moultrie.com), January 13, 2001.

I think you're right -- hectographs. I mentioned this thread to my mom over dinner, and we laughed over it a while. We never had Tv until I was about what? 7 I think. When she was little, they didn't have radio because they couldn't afford it, altho they heard it at neighbor's houses. So they stuck her younger sister, Helen, into a cabinet and pretended that was a radio and would 'tune' it in and say "Let's see if there's some nice music on" and Helen would sing, and then they'd 'tune' in Jack Armstrong -- All American Boy, and Helen would ad lib that as well.

-- Julie Froelich (firefly1@nnex.net), January 14, 2001.

Polly, your must be young. The orginal owner of lassie was Jeff. Does anyone remember "I remember mama"? I struggled for years to stay awake long enough on Christmas eve to see if the animals talked at midnight.

-- diane (gardiacaprines@yahoo.com), January 14, 2001.

June Lockhart's character on Lassie was "Ruth Martin" (Timmy Martin played by Jon Provost). Lassie was one of my favorite programs, even after she went to live with the forest ranger, whatever his name was. Then there was Lassie's watery adventures, where she wore the dolphin costume -- remember Flipper? ;-)

BTW, did you know that "Lassie" (supposedly a female) has always been played by a male collie, because they have "better" coats? And did you know that "Flipper" (supposedly a male) was played by a female dolphin named Susie? Useless trivia 'R' ME!

-- Joy Froelich (dragnfly@chorus.net), January 14, 2001.

JackD, the t.v. show you asked about with Brian Donlevy was "Jim Bowie". Watched it all the time. How about The Lone Ranger, Cisco Kidd, Range Rider, Ted Mack Amateur Hour, Truth or Consequences, People Are Funny, Honeymooners? The list goes on and on. Does anyone remember when WLS, Chicago was a country music station? Had a Barn Dance on Saturday nite. Had such world famous entertainers as Lulabelle and Scottie, Arkie The Arkansas Wood Chopper, String Bean, Captain Stubby, and Carl and Pearl Butler to name a few. My dad told the story of going to a country school and had to walk 2 miles in all kinds of weather uphill both ways. I went to the same school but we had moved to the other side by then. Thanks for the memories, everyone.

-- Dave Comer (drcomer@rr1.net), January 14, 2001.

Remember "Butch Wax"? I kept them in business between 67 and 71. You could use my head to wash a car with , I use so much !

-- Jay Blair in N. AL (jayblair678@yahoo.com), January 14, 2001.

Just thought some of you might like to know that the "Pig Stands" restraunt chain here in San Antonio still has the juke box feeders or whatever they are called at their booths!! We also have the Mission Drive-In with 4 screens that shows movies in the summer. At one time there was a large chain of $3 Motels here that only cost $3 a night for a small cabin.

-- MYellowRose (MYellowRose@maingate.com), January 14, 2001.

Man! You guys are all so OLD! Nah, I remembered all but Beanie and Cecil. Must not have had it where I grew up! Whenever we have a video of one of the old programs, the Grandkids LOVE them! I would think they would be too innocent (the programs, not the kids!)to be entertaining for them, but they aren't. Too bad now the kids watch so much violence, etc. I realize we have to have progress, but some of it really is terrible! Guess all good things have to come to an end some day... Jan

-- Jan in Colorado (Janice12@aol.com), January 14, 2001.

18 out of 23 for me! I went into a local antique shop. The owner said he could guess how old people were by having them look around the shop and telling him what they played with. I had to take him up on the challenge. I pointed out a doll and he said I was over 35, then I pointed out something else and he said oh that one was only made for a short time now I know you're over 40. I told him he could stop right there! Linda

-- Linda (wklkmorgan@ifriendly.com), January 15, 2001.

I thank all of you for this lovely, peaceful walk down memory lane.

-- Shau Marie (shau@centurytel.net), January 15, 2001.

I guess I'm giving away my age but I got all of them. It wasn't even a challenge. When my wife was my "steady", I was driving an old 54 Studebaker. I remember 78 RPM, before 45's. I tried to remember someting to add but couldn't remember anything except jaw breakers, twim smittys (SP). I can remember getting shot with a pea shooter while playing basketball against other schools. My mom had a wash tub ringer. I can't imagine teens going on dates and not go to a drive in movie, or getting a coke anywhere except a drive in cafe. Butch wax kept my flattop in place but I always had a problem getting it off my hands. Seems like it stayed on there all day no matter how many times I'd wash my hands. I remember at the movie theater we had before drive-ins. When the reel broke was a good time to "smootch" with the girl you brought to the movie. It was hard to kiss her during the movie because when we got home, her mom made her tell her all about the movie. If you touched the flash bulb after you took a picture, it would burn your fingers. We had four neighbors on our party line. One time, my mom was having a disagreement with someone and our neighbor got upset and started putting in her 2 cents worth. When she remembered she'd been listening in, she hung up. Jute boxes where 5 songs for a quarter. When they went up to 3 for a quarter, everyone blamed Harry Truman and the Democrats. The paper corks on the glass milk jars were hare to get and and even harder if you accidently punched them down into the milk. I could go on aond on. Thanks for the memories. Eagle

-- eagle (eagle@alpha1.net), February 02, 2001.

I remember them all, but who remembers a toy that deserves the stature of inclusion on this list of all stars, that was called a Wheel-O? The Wheel-O was a red plastic wheel with a magnetic axel that traveled back and forth, over and under a curved silver frame. The speed and momentum of the wheel was controlled by how fast you could bend your wrist back and forth as the wheel completed its journey back and forth on the frame. Playing with it put you in some weird kind of trance.

Thanks for a refreshing blast of the past.

-- Sam Kurshan (skurshan@prodigy.net), February 22, 2002.