Baby Boomer Quiz
Courtesy of David R.
How many do you remember?
- Candy cigarettes
- Wax coke-shaped bottles with colored sugar water inside
- Soda pop machines that dispensed glass bottles
- Hoola hoop contests
- Buying milk from a vending machine for a quarter, with your penny change taped to the side
- Coffee shops with tableside juke boxes
- Blackjack, Clove and Teaberry chewing gum
- Home milk delivery in glass bottles, with cardboard stoppers
- Party lines
- Newsreels before the movie
- PF Flyers
- Butch wax
- Telephone numbers with a word prefix....(Victor 2-1701)
- Peashooters
- Howdy Doody
- 45 RPM Records
- Green Stamps
- Hi-Fi's
- Metal ice cube trays with levers
- Mimeograph paper
- Blue flash bulbs
- Beanie and Cecil
- Roller skate keys
- Cork pop guns
- Drive ins
- Studebakers
- Wash Tub wringers
- The Fuller Brush man
- Reel-to-reel tape recorders
- Phonographs
- The "twist", "mashed potatoes", and "funky-chicken"
- Tinkertoys
- Erector Sets
- The Fort Apache Playset
- Lincoln Logs
- 15 cent McDonald hamburgers & 10 cent fries
- 5 cent packs of baseball cards..... with that slab of pink bubblegum
- penny candy
- 35 cent-a-gallon gasoline
- When the first man walked on the moon
- When The Beatles first appeared on the Ed Sullivan show
- When the Beatles arrived
- When the Barbie doll hit the scene
If you can remember most or all of these, then you have lived!!! Pass this on to anyone who may need a break from their "grown up" life....
