How many do you remember...
 I am sharing it with you today
 because it ended with a 
 "double dog dare" to pass it on.  
 To 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.

 By: Shelby Riggs

 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 Playset.
 31. Lincoln Logs.
 32. 15 cent McDonald hamburgers.
 33. 5 cent packs of baseball cards...
     with that awful pink slab bubblegum.
 34. Penny candy.
 35. 35 cent-a-gallon gasoline.
 36. Color Cartoons at the movies
 37. Davy Crockett Raccoon Skin hats
 38. "Old Yellar"
 39. Spin & Marty
 40. Topper
 41. American Bandstand in Philadelphia
 42. Sock Hops at the end of a Basketball game
 43. a nickel 6 1/2 ounces bottle of coke
 44. Nehi Strawberry POP
 45. Milky Way's were a nickel
 46. No sales tax
 47. Your Paperboy was actually a 12 year old boy
 48. A Round TV screen




 49. Those great old Teenage Tragedy songs, 
     like "Patches", "Tell Laura I love her"
 50. You could actually walk the streets 
     at nighttime by yourself,
 51. The Texaco man cleaned your windshield
 52. Movies cost 25 cents at the Movie theatre.
 53. Popcorn and a coke cost a quarter 
     at the theatre.
 54. You didn't have to lock your  doors at your house.
 55. You didn't have a 6' block wall between yards
 56. Annette with Mickey Mouse ears



 57. A payphone cost a dime
 58. No zip codes
 59. 15 cents postage stamp
 60. A loaf of bread was a quarter.
 61. Six tunes for a quarter on the Jukebox
 62. The Ed Sullivan Show
 63. Gas stations sold only gas, and repaired your auto
 64. Your first car cost you $50 for that 1949 Mercury
 65. Rotary phones

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