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This little article came in our weekly newspaper exactly a year ago. I cut it out then and saved it so I could share it with you (I really didn't intend to wait a year, but I lost the clipping!). Hope you enjoy it. Add your own favorites!

...It's amazing how time flies, with the retro craze, many old-fashioned favorites are experiencing a rebirth. How many of these do you remember?

1. Candy cigarettes
2. Wax coke-bottles with colored sugar water inside
3. Soda pop machines that dispensed glass bottles
4. Coffee shops with tableside jukeboxes
5. Blackjack, Clove, and Teaberry chewing gum (How about Beech-Nut, Beeman's Pepsin Gum, or those big sticks of Bazooka Bubble Gum? As a past bubblegum conoisseur, I have to say that I always considered Fleer's DubbleBubble to have a much finer flavor than Bazooka. I was always disappointed when the only kind available was Bazooka)
6. Home milk delivery in glass bottles with cardboard stoppers (We now have milk delivery from a small creamery in the next town. The milk is un-homogenized--the cream rises to the top--in glass bottles. Their motto: "A taste of the past")
7. Party lines
8. Newsreels before the main feature
9. Butch wax
10. Telephone numbers with a word prefix (Drexel-5505)
11. Peashooters
12. Howdy
13. P.F. Flyers
14. 45-RPM records
15. S&H Green stamps (or any other premium stamps)
16. Hi-Fi's
17. Metal ice cube trays with levers
18. Mimeograph paper (or stencils? or machines? or ink in tubes?)
19. Blue flash bulbs
20. Beanie and Cecil
21. Rollerskate keys
22. Cork popguns
23. Drive-ins
24. Studebakers (like the GOLDEN HAWK!)Or Kaisers? Frazers? Crosleys? Hudson Hornets? ...sigh...I'm OLD...)
25. Wash tub wringers
26. The Fuller Brush man (still have a few of these, but they only make house calls by appointment)
27. Reel-to-reel tape recorders (had one of these. Awesome!)
28. Tinkertoys in the cardboard tube
29. The Erector Set (wasn't this a suggested wedding present for some old geezer who married a much younger woman?)
30. The Fort Apache Play Set (Or, Little Suzy Homemaker?)
31. Lincoln Logs (also in a cardboard tube)
32. 5-cent packs of trading cards...with that AWFUL flake of evil-tasting bubble gum with them
34. Penny candy
35. 35-cents a gallon gasoline (or the gasoline price wars, when you could fill up everybody's cars for a dollar--for all of them)

Hope you enjoyed this little stroll down memory lane. Now, where did I put my Roy Rogers coloring book and my Dale Evans paper dolls??