OT: Are you older than dirt?

[Rixxx]

Give me mercurochrome anytime. What was killer was merthiolate. Had a light red color with a green tint when the bottle was held up to the light. It was a killer on my young scrapes.

 

[Ozimoto]

Experienced them both. As it was explained to me "The pain and burning means it's killing the germs!"

 

[psconn]

Of course I know about all of them, but I only have a direct memory of actually experiencing 18 out of 20. Never had a party line, and as far as I recall, newsreels were replaced by coming attractions and snack bar ads by the early- to mid- 1960s.

 

[psconn]

You forgot S&H Green Stamps!!

#19 on the list?

 

[msf22b]

Happy birthday!

Thanks

 

[RSHERMVIKES]

Az, I got home from Boot Camp in 1954 and when I looked into my cedar chest where I had stored about five hundred Topps cards they were gone. My favorite team at that time was the Dodgers and I had five or six complete player sets. I asked her what happened to them and she said, "I thought that you outgrew them," I could cry when I see the prices for Robinson, Hodges, Snider, Campanella and Reese.

Steelerone- - -After College (1970) and I got a teaching and coaching job in MO my Mom in NYC sent out my desk, bed and dresser.
After the movers delivered it and left I checked the drawers of my desk and everything was there but 6 complete years of Topps baseball cards weren't there, I called my Mom to check and she said she sent everything out the way they were, so the movers stole my Baseball card collection (late 1950's to early 1960's)!
Nothing I could do then!

 

[HuskyNan]

Yep, we used to eat our Swanson’s frozen dinners on them.

 

[McFly]

Give me mercurochrome anytime. What was killer was merthiolate. Had a light red color with a green tint when the bottle was held up to the light. It was a killer on my young scrapes.

Yes, and there was also iodine, which was as bad as, or maybe worse than merthiolate.

 

[Dogstar]

Yes, and there was also iodine, which was as bad as, or maybe worse than merthiolate.

Also contains Mercury

 

[Hoops66]

I thought I was pretty cool with my Davy Crockett Coonskin

Cap, but I couldn't wear to school. The neighborhood dogs liked it though...that's was when they could be let out on their own.

 

[RSHERMVIKES]

Yep, we used to eat our Swanson’s frozen dinners on them.

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HuskyNan- I have 2 metal folding trays now!

 

[freshler40]

We had the first color TV in the neighborhood. It consisted of a plastic sheet with three colors on it placed over our 8 x 10 Dumont console. Blue = sky, Green= Grass, Brown=dirt. Nice, we kids were very proud showing it to our friends. We could get only two channels, both out of the Albany area. Thank you GE.

 

[Bald Husky]

Even though I have back problems, when I retired 3 years ago I decided to go back to golf. Last year I replaced my Driver and 3 Wood. I didn't even notice, but my 3 wood was actually made of wood instead of metal and whatever they are using now. (not the shafts, I'm not that old). That club was part of a 4 wood set that I purchased when I was a teenager and I figured technology may have improved over the last 55-60 years. LOL. I was right, but it really hasn't helped my game that much, so I have to resign to myself that my age will prevent me from playing as well as I did back then. Mentally I haven't figured that out as yet, but eventually I will.

 

[HuskyNan]

OMG, I knew all the words! We used to sing it at camp along with Do Your Ears Hang Low, BINGO, Head Shoulders Knees and Toes etc

 

[zymurg]

'If you go out in the woods today; you better go in disguise.
For every bear that ever there was will be there for certain
Because today's the day the teddy bears have their picnic.

and it continues with: "Picnic time for teddy bears,
the little teddy bears are having a lovely time today..."

 

[willtalk]

I remember being in a lovely garden with some naked lady talking to a snake. Then everything changed for the worse.

 

[Ozimoto]

There are a lot of variations of that "On Top of Spaghetti" song...

 

[Steelerone]

I think that no form of entertainment surpassed the Republic serials like Zorro's Black Whip, Captain Midnight and Batman. Yes, they were corny, made in a week on a cheap budget but for the young men and women who sat in the audience they were instruments in fine tuning your imagination and, in the final analysis, the fun time of your life.

 

[HuskyNan]

LOL. I’d faint