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SasyMama Prowler Junkie From:Lambertville, Mi, Monroe Registered: Mar 2001 Admin Use	posted 06-06-2001 09:06 PM Hi Jim and All Actually this test was give to a college group. By the answers given, a fairly close calculation of each person's age was given. ------------------
CJ POA Lifetime Site Supporter Prowler Junkie Personal ScrapBook From:Rochester Hills, MI USA Registered: Jul 2000 Admin Use	posted 06-06-2001 09:47 PM How many do you remember? Start counting: 01. Candy cigarettes - was one of the things I could afford with my allowance! 02. Wax coke-shaped bottles with colored sugar water inside - after you sucked them dry, then you chewed the wax like gum! 03. Soda pop machines that dispensed bottles - absolutely! Anybody remember NEHI Orange and Grape and Dr. Pepper in light green bottles!? 04. Coffee shops with table-side juke boxes - used to fight with my sisters about who got to pick the song 05. Blackjack chewing gum - came in a blue wrapper, but it sure did make your tongue black! 06. Home milk delivery in glass bottles, with Cardboard stoppers - our house had a milk chute and with 6 kids, we definitely had home delivery! On occasion, my mom would forget her keys and lock us out of the house, so she used to make me crawl through the milk chute so I could unlock the door! 07. Party lines - hated the party lines, had one lady who would never get off the phone so we could use it - didn't think children should be able to use the phone. 08. Newsreels before the movie - yep! And our school used to make us sit and watch newsreels! 09. P. F. Flyers - remember them, but couldn't afford them. 10. Butch wax - my grandfather used it 11. Telephone numbers with a word prefix, example: (DRExel-5505)PRescott-12231 - our home phone number (don't ask me how I remember that!) 12. Peashooters. my mother wouldn't let me have one like the rest of the guys...she figured I would use it on my younger sister (she was right!) 13. Howdy Doody - and Buffalo Bob! Every day after school! 14. 45 RPM Records - still have a bunch of them..are they worth anything yet? 15. S&H Green Stamps - got them with all the groceries. It was how my mom got a lot of things for the house. Used to save Gold Bell Gift Stamps, too! 16. Hi-fi's - my sister still is storing the one my mom had 17. Metal ice cube trays, with levers - my grandmother could never get the ice out without flinging it all over the kitchen. I used to think she did it on purpose just to make us laugh! 18. Mimeograph paper - when I worked as a teacher's aide in Colorado, we still had to use mimeograph machines to run off tests, etc. 19. Blue flash Bulbs - my mom had a camera that used these - man did they kill your eyes! 20. Beanie and Cecil - 21. Roller skate keys - used to put the key on a string and tied it around my neck so I wouldn't lose it! 22. Cork pop-guns - Bob says he had one 23. Drive ins - The Gratiot Drive-In and the Bel-Air on 8 Mile! Oh, yeah! 24. Studebakers - one of Bob's friends had a Studebaker Hawk 25. Wash tub wringers - are you talking about the electric kind like my grandmother had or the wooden ones? We still have a wooden one that we use for ringing out rags when we wash the cars. ------------------ CJ - 1999 Black Matching Prowler Trailer Stock / Classic / Beautiful
SasyMama Prowler Junkie From:Lambertville, Mi, Monroe Registered: Mar 2001 Admin Use	posted 06-06-2001 10:03 PM Cool CJ ------------------
Lance.d Prowler Junkie From:Tulsa, OK Registered: Sep 2000 Admin Use	posted 06-06-2001 11:13 PM Um we still have all these things here in oklahoma, well most of them anyways. ------------------ Lance Delk L.delk@quinnoftulsa.com L.delk@mailcity.com 800 722 7686
ed monahan POA Lifetime Site Supporter Prowler Junkie Personal ScrapBook From:Cincinnati, Oh, USA Registered: Jul 2000 Admin Use	posted 06-06-2001 11:34 PM Man, I go play golf (one hole before we had a gulley washer) and I get bashed by everyone from Ohio to Ariz. I don't color my hair, I don't have hair. I counted up how many I remember but now I forget how many I remembered. Alzheimers. They still make black jack gum. They still make wringer type wash machines. Try this site www.columbuswashboard.com. They are having a big festival next weekend in Logan, Ohio and the theme is hand wash boards. A few guys bought the company just to keep it in business and now it is booming since they use them for decorations in early american or country decor homes. Logan is South East of Columbus Ohio, just north of Athens Ohio in case you want to attend. The local phone exchanges were WAbash, GArfield, MOntana, CHerry, GRandview, MAin, followed by 4 numbers, later followed by five numbers, the first number always being a 1 or a 2. Then they dropped the names and had 7 numbers. I remember steet cars, trolleys and finally buses. I remember when they paved the street since it was originally mud in the 40's. I remember coal furnaces and getting coal delivered and putting it down the coal chute, although I was probably not much help. I remember the smell of those fires in the furnace. I remember pop and beer cans that had a cone shape on top with a twist off cap that was metal, not plastic. I had a 57 Silver Hawk Studebaker. My brother destroyed it while I was in Korea in 1966. No car when I came home. I remember my grandpa going to the bar and getting a jug of beer and you had to have a leather short strap on the ring, for some reason, but I don't know that reason. I remember sleeping with my brothers in bed. I never got to sleep alone until after I got married. lol I don't remember the inclines in Cincinnati but I have seen pictures, of course. They still have one in Pittsburgh. Did Melanie sing the song, "I've got a brand new pair of roller skates, you've got a brand new key"?? Was it Beanie and Cecil that gave "The BEAN Seal of approval" or was that a local show. I can't remember. I remember Beanie and Cecil. I remember all 25. Do you know why Astroturf was invented and why it was named Astroturf. NO TEXANS REPLY for 24 hours. Give the rest of them a chance to think about it. The Quality goes in before the name goes on, was the trade mark of what manufacturer? What was the name of the first TV's, the brand names? Philco was an early one but what was before that. The blue flashbulb were individual bulbs and you had to change them after every picture. Wet the base to make better contact. They were basically two sizes. Then they came out with strips of bulbs good for 10 or 12 shots and then flash cubes that automatically rotated and had 4 flashes per cube, 3 cubes per pack. I worked in a drug store in the early 60's. Man, Sassy you made us think of stuff we hadn't thought of in WEEKS. lol This message has been edited by ed monahan on 06-06-2001 at 11:49 PM
ALLEY CAT POA Lifetime Site Supporter Prowler Junkie From:mesa, az, USA Registered: Jul 2000 Admin Use	posted 06-07-2001 12:09 AM Ed - Astroturf. Grass wouldn't grow in the early days of AstroDome, so articial grass was invented for the field. Zenith -the quality goes in before the name goes on. 1st Tvs - RCA Victor, with the nice dog. How did I do? what about: sqeeky,froggy and midnite the cat? Ed, you watched Capt. Kangeroo every day? Sorry about telling on your hair colors, Mike Gatlin made me do it!
tangled up in BLUE POA Site Supporter Prowler Junkie From:New Castle, Ind Registered: Dec 2000 Admin Use	posted 06-07-2001 12:10 AM I remember ALL OF THESE....I used Butch wax on my hair to make the front stand up, good look needless to say !!! also remember... * 5 cent 16 oz bottles of Double Cola... * When McDonalds signs said MILLIONS served... * I was a Car Hop at a drive in rest... * candy bars were a nickle... * cigarettes were .25 cents per pack... * hamburgers were 10 for 1 dollar where I worked... * carrying a draft card... * madras clothing... * bell bottoms of course... * first color TV/rabbit ears... * TV was only on during evening hours, 3 channels, rest of the time was the test pattern.... * AM radio and Casey Kasems top 40 every week... * watching the first episode of the Beverly Hillbillies.. * Dino the dinasaur...what gas company was it ??? * Skateboards had metal wheels... * 5-speed(stick shift) Schwinn Stingray bicycle... * Hula Hoops... * real dinasaurs...no, that was MY PARENTS !!! Thanx for the fun....rough week, always come here to have a good time... ------------------ X-Black 99 X-Silver Bullet X-Black 2000 X-Y2K YELO X 4
Laddie Roussel >POA Lifetime Site Supporter Prowler Junkie Personal ScrapBook From:Hester, LA. USA Registered: Jul 2000 Admin Use	posted 06-07-2001 06:47 AM Never heard of some things on that list... But, captain midnight, ovalteen sp??, Lone Ranger, Cisco kid, sundance kid, hop-a-long cassidy, Roy Rogers, Gene Autry, crank start tractor, milking cows, soda machines with water in them to keep cool, drip coffee pot, cystern for water supply, out house, coal oil, pabst blue ribbon & falstaff beer, etc... ------------------ This message has been edited by Laddie Roussel on 06-07-2001 at 07:17 AM
Nelson Weber Prowler Junkie Personal ScrapBook From:High Ridge, Mo USA Registered: Sep 2000 Admin Use	posted 06-07-2001 07:28 AM I remember all except Beanie & Cecil. We didn't have electricity in the country till I was about 8 years old. I remember Mom getting a gasoline motor powered Maytag washing machine. We were 'high class' now. We had the old wall mounted wooden telephones, with the handcrank. Short rings and long rings were used to call the house you wanted to call. You would pause for a second or two between the 'cranking'. If you turned the crank one full turn that was a short ring, if your turned the crank two or three full turns that was a long ring. So each house had their own identifying ringing code, such as one short ring and one long ring, or two short rings and three long rings, or one long ring and two short rings and one long ring, etc.
HiHoSilver Prowler Junkie From:U.S. of A. Registered: Aug 2000 Admin Use	posted 06-07-2001 08:06 AM quote: Originally posted by tangled up in BLUE: * Dino the dinasaur...what gas company was it ??? Sinclair...... I remember mom sending me and my younger sister to the matinee on Saturday. Couple of cartoons, a newsreel, Rocket man serial, a hula contest, then the main movie. Got us out of the house for a good 4 hours. 50 cents bought my ticket, box of red hots and a large cherry coke. Seems like yesterday ------------------ Trey Post 2001 Black-Tie #005 (your welcome Larry)False alarm, it's gone now. Mods: 2001 Speed Yellow Porsche Cabriolet
Alex POA Site Supporter Prowler Junkie From:Westminster, CO USA Registered: Apr 2001 Admin Use	posted 06-07-2001 08:12 AM I remember all 25. And yes, we caused some havok with the pea shooters at the malls! Alex ------------------ 2001 Orange Kat
Larry Summers POA Site Supporter Prowler Junkie From:Bonita Springs, Florida USA Registered: Mar 2001 Admin Use	posted 06-07-2001 08:36 AM I remember all of them excpet #'s 20 and 2l. Beanie and Cecil must have been some type of cartoon characters. Thanks for the walk down nostalgia lane.
viper93 Prowler Enthusiast From:York SC US Registered: Oct 2000 Admin Use	posted 06-07-2001 08:41 AM You got tears running down my face thinking about the when and where I can remember most all of these items.
SasyMama Prowler Junkie From:Lambertville, Mi, Monroe Registered: Mar 2001 Admin Use	posted 06-07-2001 08:44 AM I remember being in a Hula-Hoop contest at the corner drug store as a kid. Heres a good one. How many remember the dot candies on the paper. It looked like adding machine paper with candy on it. My 3 favorite candied in the world are Mary Janes, squirrels and black jacks. MMMMmmmmmm ------------------ This message has been edited by SasyMama on 06-07-2001 at 08:45 AM
Gary C POA Site Supporter Prowler Junkie Personal ScrapBook From:San Diego Area Registered: Jul 2000 Admin Use	posted 06-07-2001 08:57 AM Soupy Sales? White Fang? Vernors? Sanders Hot Fudge? 45 car record player? 13 White Castles for a buck? oops, use to live in Detriot All but one.
ALLEY CAT POA Lifetime Site Supporter Prowler Junkie From:mesa, az, USA Registered: Jul 2000 Admin Use	posted 06-07-2001 09:20 AM Linda - Thanks for the great thread. Notice how afew questions brings out the best of us? MikeK and Judy were going to post, but they are still bucketing water out of the Prowler garage! Gheeezz Laddie - I remember most of your items, but didn't want people to think I'm as old as Ed. Hey Pancho! Hey Cisco! Sugar Pops and Andy Devine? OK, what about the beer from "The land of sky blue waters"? School lunch - 25 cents per day or $1 for five days? Gas - 15 cents @ gal? Trey - I remember 25 cent movie theaters, 5 cents for a box of Milk Duds, and a dime would buy a LRG. size icecream sandwich, nickel gum packs, 2 cent bulk jaw breakers, and nickel bottles of pop w/2cent deposit. One local theater had 10cent saturday movies, but when the lights dimmed, you had to stomp your feet five times to eliminate the rats running under the seats!!! ------------------ Larry Salzman Call 911 - there is a Prowler in my garage.... This message has been edited by ALLEY CAT on 06-07-2001 at 09:37 AM
SasyMama Prowler Junkie From:Lambertville, Mi, Monroe Registered: Mar 2001 Admin Use	posted 06-07-2001 09:22 AM Gary, you have got to be from the midwest. These are item you found in Detroit. How about Johnny Ginger in the morning who showed the 3 stooges. I was always late for school because of them ------------------
tangled up in BLUE POA Site Supporter Prowler Junkie From:New Castle, Ind Registered: Dec 2000 Admin Use	posted 06-07-2001 09:30 AM Yes, Sassy...I remember the candy on the paper ...not one of my favorites... my favorite was cat-tails...think they later were called Chicko sticks...how about Ipana toothpaste....Speedy, the Alka Seltzer guy....redline tires(also gold lines and blue lines)...Firestone WIDE OVALS... when all tv shows had the star smoking cigarettes...when John Wayne and James Arness(Matt Dillon) were pitchmen for the major cigarette companies...when Chester was on Gunsmoke...when Snoopy was fighting the RED BARON, think a group called the Royal Guardsmen recorded a couple of 45s about Snoopys exploits...when a nice 57 Chevy could be purchased for $150...Beatle haircuts, traded in my butch wax for this !!! first slot car track, it was battery powered...when SMP(later AMT) model cars were the only quality kit on the market...I also had a Hopalong Cassidy shirt, man it was cool !!! Desotos, Packard Hawks, Corvairs, MOD TOPS(MOPARS)...on and on and on...thanks for the trip thru time....hope we are all around long enough to be nostalgic about the time we owned a Prowler...quik funny story...there is a really old guy in town here that has 5 Cadillac Eldorado convertables (all are 1976)in his driveway...they are not mint, they sit out year round....he parks them in his driveway so he can sit and look at them year round out his front window...he does drive them on occassion...just the other day I passed him on the street and he looks as happy driving that big ugly car as I look driving my Prowlers etc...it just dawned on me...this will be me in another 30 years....the old guy with a driveway full of Prowlers, dirty, ragged etc...and I will still think I am cool with my various nonmatching plaids...it was a real eye opener about my future.... ------------------ X-Black 99 X-Silver Bullet X-Black 2000 X-Y2K YELO X 4
onaprwl POA Site Supporter Prowler Junkie From:covington,louisiana,U.S.A. Registered: Nov 2000 Admin Use	posted 06-07-2001 01:50 PM 21 Either I'm not as old as I think or my mind is fadding fast.....? ------------------
Todd Cameron unregistered Admin Use	posted 06-07-2001 05:43 PM I remember 14 of them, stuff like Black Jack Gum, mainly because of hearing someone talk about it. But your bringing me back to memories at age 2 and 3! ------------------ 2000 Black, 2001 Black Tie, 2001 Orange
ed monahan POA Lifetime Site Supporter Prowler Junkie Personal ScrapBook From:Cincinnati, Oh, USA Registered: Jul 2000 Admin Use	posted 06-08-2001 01:47 AM Sasquatch, originally the Astrodome had a clear roof. The ballplayers lost the ball in the glare so they painted the roof, which killed the grass and that created the need for Astroturf, so named because it was for the Astrodome. Do you remember BB Bats candy? They were on a stick and came in chocolate and vanilla and strawberry. How about galoshes with buckles?
CJ POA Lifetime Site Supporter Prowler Junkie Personal ScrapBook From:Rochester Hills, MI USA Registered: Jul 2000 Admin Use	posted 06-08-2001 09:32 AM Geez....yeah, remember those candy dots on the paper. Ended up eating half the paper because you couldn't get them off without it!! Galoshes with buckles - My mother used to make me wear them when I was in high school!! Argh! I walked to school, so I would wait a few blocks and take them off and stuff them between my books until I could put them in my locker, so the other kids wouldn't know. Talk about humiliating.....but she always found out somehow. I swore she had a spy living on that street who would watch for me and then call her! Sanders Hot Fudge, Vernors.....definitely a Detroit thing! While we are at it: My mother (with 6 kids) did not have a clothes dryer, just a washing machine. Had to hang the clothes outside or inside during inclement weather (rain and snow). When she hung them in the basement, it seemed like miles of clothesline and clothes! My sisters and I used to play tag running up and down the "aisles" of clothes! Saddle shoes - the dirtier the better!! That was the coolest! Lucky Strike cigarettes Betsey Wetsey and Tiny Tears dolls Silly Putty Ovaltine Post Crispy Critters breakfast cereal Gleem toothpaste Brylcreem - "A little dab will do ya!" (My dad used that) Good Luck margarine ------------------ CJ - 1999 Black Matching Prowler Trailer Stock / Classic / Beautiful
NHCAT POA Site Supporter Prowler Junkie From:Hooksett NH USA Registered: May 2001 Admin Use	posted 06-08-2001 10:12 PM only 23 ------------------
Paul POA Site Supporter Prowler Junkie From:Cedarburg, WI USA Registered: Jul 2000 Admin Use	posted 06-08-2001 11:20 PM 24.5 for me. I knew party lines existed but growing up on the south side of Chicago we didn't have them. We were pretty darn sophisicated (so we thought). Score 100 points on all the other memories. ------------------
GPS John POA Site Supporter Prowler Junkie From:Illinois Registered: Aug 2000 Admin Use	posted 06-08-2001 11:43 PM 24.5 for me too. I guess the Chicago area had a "sophiticated" telephone system. Remember life without a microwave oven? computers? EMAIL??? Cell phones? Remember when calculators first came out and the death of the slide-rule? Remember when Star Trek wasn't a re-run? Sometimes, as we progress, we lose sight of the simpler times... Thanks for the memories !!! ------------------ This message has been edited by JohnS on 06-08-2001 at 11:44 PM

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