Remember when

We got free bubble gum when my dad bought his hooch at the drive thru window!

 

I never looked for them made them hunt for me. In the sporting Goods Gun Department.

Though after being left there the first few times I was used to walking the 6 miles home back then it was fun woods and fields all sorts of friendly Dogs .

Now most of it would be through an Industrial Park better then a housing development

 

I still think of taking pictures in this fashion Why i never got into the habit I have enough pictures of my thumb.

 

and that same bubblegum cut your cheek every damn time trying to bite into it LOL

 

Sinclair dinosaur soap.



My dad ran a Sinclair gas station and then a Phillips 66.
Back when the only food you could get was a candy bar and a soda.

 

Remember going to the Esso Station to "put a Tiger in your tank"?

 

Remember antenna balls? Always wanted to put them on dad's car,,, just hoping to see it blow away.

Now it's just littering




Blue arrow came with the pic?

 

Antenna balls usually came in bright colors, in the north they were used to see cars behind snow banks.

 

Remember when your parents would have let you have a Coke but you chose Fizzies instead, because they were fun to make?

 

Fizzies and space food sticks! Loved those things when I was a kid.

 

Whatever what?

 

Remember when Bazooka bubble gum cost $ .01 a piece.

 

Even better so you could find the car at the newfangled shopping center instead of wondering around for hours.

Board Games with no electronics that might last for weeks.

Adding Extra Money when playing those long games of Monopoly

 

one time i got these two confused..







it wasn't awesome.

 

I remember when I could buy five pieces for a penny. (caveat is: that I was overseas and the exchange rate was very much in favor of the U.S. dollar. and that it was 1963.)

Last week I bought a wee tub of Bazooka gum for my bride and it cost me $0.07 a piece. ($16.00 for 225 count tub)

 

Remember the rumor that if you threw a Fizzie to a Seagull (and he swallowed it, like they did everything!) it would explode his stomach?
Apparently, the reason was that they couldn't burp. (I never confirmed the rumor.)

 

They were good - and affordable.
A sub was $1.50, and with nachos ($1) and a soda ($0.75 ??) you could have lunch for less than $3.50. And for two people actually if you split the sub & shared the rest.
Used to do that with my brand new bride when I was making a whooping $7/hr at Rocky Mountain Airways in 1982.

 

With Bazooka Joe comics....

 

Still have one. And a lot of the game cartridges. (Actually, my daughter has it at her house now.)