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Puffer Kites

 

When the only nursing home was the wonderful state of Florida.

A.K.A. God's waiting room.

 

Air raid siren tests

 

Raisin Ranch. LMFAO :lol::lol::lol::lol:

 

How about Sansabelt slacks?...

 

Strike anywhere matches.

 

Quiz: If you're truly older than dirt, what where they called a really long time ago?

I remember my granddaddy calling them this.

 

All I come up with is "kitchen matches."

Which you lit either with a thumb nail or by a swipe on your pants.

 

We used to have a "popcorn popper" appliance as a child, huge thing with a clear dome on top for viewing this amazing act. Things got high-tech when jiffy-pop came out with the pie-shaped foil basket with the long u-shaped handle.

 

Blue Tip Matches

 

Blue tip and kitchen matches were and still are commonly used names but those aren't the answer. I'll give it another day.

 

What I remember are Ohio Blue Tip Matches made in Wadsworth Ohio.

 

Your favorite Halloween catch was a homemade popcorn ball and you did't worry about eating it.

 

...or the caramel apples from the little old neighbor lady...who we all knew was really a witch.

 

Another name for "strike anywhere matches".. Lucifer...?
.....or perhaps ........"friction matches"

 

Your shaving kit consisted of Gillette Blue Blades , Barbasol Shave Cream and a Styptic pencil.

 

Lucifer it is. :devil:
Sulfur matches were invented in the mid 1800's. Their strong sulfurous smell gave rise to the nickname associated with the devil.

 

Sounds like a quote from a Duck Dynasty commercial I saw the other day... something about the old guy receiving the Sears catalog way back when and thinking "Whew... high grade TP for the next month! Now we are livin' in style!"

 

Some more than others, but true nonetheless.