I am sharing it with you today because it ended with a "double dog dare" to pass it on. If you remember what a "double dog dare" is, read on. And remember that the perfect age is somewhere between old enough to know better and young enough not to care. How many do you remember?
01. Candy cigarettes 02. Wax coke-shaped bottles with colored sugar water inside. 03. Soda pop machines that dispensed glass bottles. 04. Coffee shops with tableside juke boxes 05. Blackjack, Clove and Teaberry chewing gum 06. Home milk delivery in glass bottles, with Cardboard stoppers. 07. Party lines. 08. Newsreels before the movie. 09. P. F. Flyers 10. Butch wax 11. Telephone numbers with a word prefix ... (Drexel-5505) 12. Peashooters. 13. Howdy Doody 14. 45 RPM Records 15. Green Stamps 16. Hi-fi's 17. Metal ice cube trays-with levers 18. Mimeograph paper 19. Blue flash Bulbs 20. Beanie and Cecil 21. Roller skate keys 22. Cork pop guns 23. Drive ins 24. Studebakers 25. Wash tub wringers 26. The Fuller Brush man 27. Reel-to-reel tape recorders 28. Tinkertoys 29. The Erector Set 30. The Fort Apache Play set 31. Lincoln Logs 32. 15 cent McDonald hamburgers 33. 5 cent packs of baseball cards... with that awful pink slab of bubblegum 34. Penny candy 35. 35 cent-a-gallon gasoline
I WANT TO GO BACK TO THE TIME WHEN..................... Decisions were made by going "eeny-meeny-miney-mo." Mistakes were corrected by simply exclaiming "do over!" Money issues were handled by whoever was the banker in "Monopoly." Catching the fireflies could happily occupy an entire evening.