A compendium of nostalgic relics that are absolutely tailored to bring back some affectionate memories for baby boomer .
1.Delicious, delicious Tang that came in glass jars:
2.Nestlé’s Quik that came in a tin container and required a spoon to pop open its lid:
3.Band-Aids that came in tin containers:
4.And Nabisco Saltine Crackers that also came in tin containers (OK, so practicallyeverythingcame in tin containers):
5.“Clicker” TV remotes:
6.The Oscar Mayercommercialthat featured the very catchy “The Oscar Mayer Wiener Song” jingle:
7.Mr. Whipple in the “Please, don’t squeeze the Charmin!” Charmin commercials:
8.And the “Mamma mia, that’s-a-spicy meat-ball!” Alka-Seltzer commercial:
9.S&H Green Stamps and the books you or your folks would put them in:
10.And trading stamp savers that hung in the kitchen and collected S&H stamps:
11.Tin matchstick dispensers that were mounted in the kitchen next to the stove:
12.And note pads that were hung on the wall next to the kitchen wall phone so that you could take a message or write down any information you needed:
13.Elaborate Jell-O desserts that were served for “fancy” dinners:
14.And savory Jell-O being used to make Jell-O vegetable salads:
15.The Dick Cavett Show,which ran late at night on ABC:
16.AndThe Ed Sullivan Show,which aired on Sunday nights:
17.Metal toy cap guns that looked a lot like real guns:
18.And bubble gum cigarettes that looked a lot like real cigarettes because they had an almost similar “name-brand”:
19.Having your sandwiches you brought for lunch be wrapped in waxed paper:
20.The little seats inside of phone booths so that people could sit down while they made a call:
21.Silly Putty that would start turning gray from pressing it so much on to newspaper pages:
22.Montgomery Ward’s toy catalog, which you always looked forward to looking through so that you could circle everything you wanted to get:
23.Walking into Sears and having the whole store smell like fresh popcorn because of the candy department:
24.And shopping for your Sunday best at Penneys:
25.Mercurochrome, which your parents would put on scratches and cuts and burned like the pits of hell:
26.And St. Joseph’s orange-flavored children aspirin that tasted like candy:
27.Halloween costumesthat were either vinyl Ben Cooper smocks with a plastic mask you couldn’t see out of or a homemade costume:
28.Playgrounds that were constructed of metal and wood, and that you had a very good chance of getting hurt at whenever you played in one:
29.And merry-go-rounds at the playgrounds that were all about having someone spin it as hard and fast as they could while everyone on it hung on for dear life:
30.Stuffed celery (which was usually just cream cheese mixed with olives spread on celery sticks)…
31….and ambrosia salad, which was served at every summer get together:
32.Mechanical typewriters, which had that distinct clacking sound:
33.Banks when they didbank giveaways, and were closed on the weekends:
34.Built-in ashtrays next to toilets:
35.Colored toilet paper which also matched the color of the bathroom:
36.And crocheted doll toilet paper holders that also coordinated with the bathroom:
37.One-use plastic or paper cups that were set up next to the bathroom sink to be used whenever you brushed your teeth (because it was more sanitary):
38.Twister being controversial for being too sexual:
39.When you needed two keys for your car; one to open the car doors and one to start the ignition:
40.Fallout shelter signs that marked a building you should run inside of in case of a nuclear attack:
41.And fallout shelters people either bought or built themselves in their yards so that they could hunker down inside of it in case of a nuclear attack:
42.TV antennas on the roofs of every house in the neighborhood:
43.Hot rollers cases that sat on your mom’s or grandma’s bathroom vanity:
44.And your mom or grandma also owning Avon perfumed soaps that smelled oh-so-heavenly:
45.Packing for vacations in suitcases that had no wheels and were heavy as hell to carry if they were tightly packed:
46.Drive-through photo development kiosks, where you could not only develop your photos but also get film and other camera accessories:
47.Kodak slides — which was an event whenever anyone pulled out the Carousel to share their slides:
48.Double-features at the movies. Though most of the time, one of the films was not so great:
49.The external speakers you would need to put inside the car whenever you went to drive-in theater:
50.An Osterizer blender that was the real workhorse of the kitchen:
51.Metal ice cube trays that always got stuck frozen shut:
52.TV dinners that came in aluminum trays and never heated up right:
53.Eating Salisbury steak with canned vegetables:
54.Having to punch a hole on top of a can of delicious and sugary Hawaiian Punch.
55.Making pizzas at home with Chef Boyardee Complete Pizza kits:
56.And you or your parents making chow mein for dinner out of a can and covering it with crunchy noodles:
57.Portable transistor radios that had very long antennas:
58.Cigarette ads everywhere:
59.And cigarette vending machines everywhere:
60.Nightstand books that featured racy covers that made no secret about what they were about:
61.Kinney Shoes as the go-to to get shoes for the entire family:
62.LePage’s Mucilage glue that looked like maple syrup and really never glued anything down:
63.The catchy and magical “I’d Like to Buy the World a Coke"Coca-Cola commercial:
64.Doilies under things like phones as not only a decoration but to protect tables from being scratched:
65.Chenille bedspreads that made the bedroom look “fancy”:
66.This blue fan thateveryoneseemed to own in the 1970s:
67.Rabbit ear antennas, which you had to connect to the back of your TV’s VHF and UHF input:
68.Baby/child car seats placed in the front passenger seat:
69.Metal roller skates that you would literally just strap to your shoes:
70.Sitting very close to the TV not only to see it better but also to make it easier to change the channels:
71.And lastly, Walter Cronkite delivering the evening news on CBS:
