
Familiar to all,
Fifties Memories I-Z:
I Like Ike buttons
Ipana toothpaste
Lifebuoy soap
Mello Cups
Mercurochrome
Metal ice trays with ejector handles
Mexican jumping beans
Mimeographed tests
Moon pies and RC colas
Newsreels before movies
Old Spice cologne
On vacations dad would drive out of the way to find a motel with a swimming pool
One eyed one horned flying purple people eater
Overalls (overhauls), galleasses, brogans, long handles, step-ins
P.F. Flyers
Party lines
Peashooters
Pegging your pants
Penny loafers, poodle skirts
Pinball Machines
Plastic bug deflector on hood of car
Police cars had red lights
Polio scare
Pop came in a bottle and was always returnable
Prince Albert in a can
Rain on a tin roof
Red Rider gloves with the fringe on the sleeves
Religious programs came in the clearest on the radio
Roll your own cigarettes
Roller Skate keys
S&H Green Stamps
See Rock City signs
Sleep walking
Smell of a Cuban cigar
Smith Brothers cough drops
Soft drinks dispensed in an upright water cooler
Spotting first Lincoln Memorial penny
Table-side jukeboxes
Teacher's paddles
The boogey man
Trading funny books
Trading your Halloween bounty of candy with your brothers
Yo Yos
Washboards and Octagon soap
Wax coke bottle shaped colored sugar water candy
When motels in Myrtle Beach charged $1 extra for air conditioning
Wooden Louisville Slugger baseball bats
Zorro
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