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Strata Rose Chalup <strata@virtual.net> writes:
> > How many do you remember? Start counting:
Here are the ones I remember:
> > > > > > 01. Candy cigarettes
The last time I saw a candy cigarette was probably in the 1980s.
> > > > > > 03. Soda pop machines that dispensed bottles.
The last time I bought a bottle of coke from a vending machine was in
a dentist's office in Albuquerque in the 1990s. I assume it's still
there.
> > > > > > 04. Coffee shops with tableside juke boxes
There are two restaurants with tableside juke boxes within easy
walking distance of my house in San Francisco.
> > > > > > 05. Blackjack chewing gum
Blackjack I last chewed in 1993 or so, I think.
> > > > > > 14. 45 RPM Records
I grew up playing 45 RPM records on my record player; I remember doing
it frequently in 1986 and 1987.
> > > > > > 16. Hi-fi's
My friend Dallas in Dayton has several of these. FWIW, record players
keep getting better . . .
> > > > > > 17. Metal ice cube trays, with levers
I declined to buy metal ice cube trays, with levers, in Aberdeen,
South Dakota, in 1995, at several garage sales.
> > > > > > 19. Blue flash Bulbs
We used to use these (magnesium-oxygen flash bulbs, right?) for family
pictures in the 1980s.
> > > > > > 22. Cork pop guns
I bought one of these in Albuquerque around 1992.
> > > > > > 23. Drive ins
There are two operating drive-in movie theaters in Dayton, IIRC.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > If you remembered 0 to 5, you're still young
> > > > > > If you remembered 6 to 15, you are getting older.
> > > > > > If you remembered 16 to 25, you are older than dirt
People get older young these days, it seems. I remembered 10, and I
was born in 1976.
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