I REMEMBER ...

• When soda came in returnable bottles
• oil cloth
• The first TV I ever saw. A big box with a 2 or 3 inch screen in the lobby of the Penelec building on the square in Lewistown, Pa.
• kneading the color packet into a pale block of oleomargarine
• milk bottles w/the paper cap sitting on a column of frozen cream
• the taste of homemade butter
• the Apple Lisa (a computer)
• Steam Shovels
• Blow Torches
• when pop top can tops were thrown away
• Clark Bars
• Ice boxes (that actually used ice)
• what the hollerith code was (is)
• As a lad, going visiting with Mom and watching young women getting ready to go out. They painted their legs (with some kind of makeup) and painted a thin black line up the back to resemble silk/nylon stockings.
  "...the seam up the back of her hose." is mentioned in The Statler Bros. song "Do you remember these".
• when you had to know your hat size to get a baseball cap
• Arco Credit cards (It's a west coast thing)
• when all bikes had fat tires and coaster brakes
• When tennis balls were white

I can be hollered to at tmurray@surewest.net

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