Some Oldies but Goodies

6/28/2012

Some Oldies but Goodies

When I don’t have anything else to think (worry) about, I then have to find things to think (worry) about.  Yesterday, my brain was sitting on idle and I sat down figuratively pen and paper and made a list of things that I remember that either aren’t around anymore or are no longer the “norm” - whatever the heck that is anymore.  Maybe you can add a few oldies of your own to the list:

Oleo

Harassment in the workplace

45, 33 and 78 rpm

American Bandstand and Dick Clark

No air conditioning in the car

Crank down windows in the car

Wind-Wings - perfect place for Dad to blow out his cigarette smoke

Listening to Gunsmoke on the radio

Hanging your clothes out to dry

1960’s beehive hairdos

Rolodexes - the desk kind

Typewriters (they are still around but not everybody knows what to do with them)

Shorthand (a dying art)

Lawrence Welk

See the USA in your Chevrolet Show with Dinah Shore

The Loretta Young Show

Queen for a Day

Dark Shadows

Laugh In

Father Knows Best

Lassie

Lindy pens (my favorites: gold and turquoise)

Double feature movies
Bobby Sox
Petticoats - now called slips

Letters – now referred to as snail mail, which nobody uses anymore

Going steady and wrapping his ring in angora yarn so it fit

Pen pals

Kingston Trio

Peter, Paul & Mary

Radioactive red Fiesta Ware

Liquid saccharin -ick

Metrecal - double ick

Real princess phones installed by the phone man!

Full service gas stations

Carbon paper

Baby oil mixed with iodine for a real quick and dark tan

Black and white television

Stockings or nylons instead of pantyhose

Handbags instead of purses

Icebox instead of refrigerator

Enjoy the memories

P