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I still have those damn things, they weren't too comfortable but they sure

were cool back in the old hippy days.

 

Blue suede with pegged pants!

 

When your grandfather throws an anchor to park the Chrysler Town & Country Station Wagon...that thing had two area codes and two zip codes...

 

My favorite cartoon at eight was "Scooby Doo"...and is now my grandkids' favorite cartoon.

 

If you rolled your cigarettes in the sleeve of your T shirt.

 

I was never very good at rolling things.:eek6:

 

When a ten pack of 8oz. Knickerbocker cost $1.00 them were the days!

 

Your first car had a split windshield and it was only five years old.

 

I'll bet you were the kid that raised his hand three minutes before the bell rang to ask 'weren't you going to give us a quiz, Miss Crabtree?'.

 

No, the whole class had to do it. It was the teacher's idea.

 

and remember Brown Appliances was in...it went with pine.

 

^^^^^^^^^ had both!

 

^^^^ Yup! That is older than dirt! ^^^^

 

Air-cooled V'Dubs...

 

You can still get toy water rockets! I haven't seen one in years.

Water Rocket, Classic Science Toy!-ScientificsOnline.com

 

Lucky Lager with the puzzle tops.

 

^^^^^ What a flashback that is, reminds me of my Army days on

Okinawa.

 

Generic "BEER", in the white cans with BEER in black letters.

It was made in the Lucky Lager brewery in Vancouver, Wa.

 

I recognize about 20 out of 25 there. The other 5 look familiar but can't place them.

 

Police officers killed in the line of duty was actually higher when I was a kid. In 1974 I was a teenager, and more than twice as many cops were killed that year compared to 2014.

No 24-hour national news channels back then.

CD