Cogshell's Dept Store. On the square in Darlington, S.C. $14.95. I had a black, brown,blue, and tassle pair. I had a rich girlfriend at the time.Weejuns
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I remember all of those.Gosh, I'm gunna quit...LOL...I'll be weeks if I don't
I had to go to Pennsylvania back in the 70's and they didn't know what nabs were, either. Called em cheese crackers. How do people live live like that?I remember all of those.
On the other hand, I never heard the term "nabs" until I was in college.
The oldest odd thing I remember is the old cans of motor oil with the reusable spout.
Sure do, I have an old 5 gallon can in the shop that was my dads.Remember Wolf's Head Oil?
I remember the Sky City department store we had, and remember thinking it was the biggest place I'd ever seen.
Spitballs were for pussies. We used straightened out paper clips launched via rubber bands.Anyone ever got hit in the head or hit somebody in the head with spit balls in school? lol
Anyone ever got hit in the head or hit somebody in the head with spit balls in school? lol
Spitballs were for pussies. We used straightened out paper clips launched via rubber bands.
BB Bats heated up with matches or a lighter to make the hard taffy chewy.
Chic-O-Sticks at the city park pool during the hourly breaks.
And does anybody remember the Sambo's restaurant chain? We had one back home. That name would never fly in today's PC world.
My dad bought a brand new '57 Chevy Bel-Air, 4 door, yellow with a black top. As was the thing back then, dad had a set of the clear vinyl seat covers made for it. The week of July 4, 1957, we were going to Newport News, VA to visit family for a few days. Traveling down Highway 58, somewhere between Danville and South Boston, with the temperature near 100 degrees, dad stopped at a roadside picnic table, took out his pocket knife, and left those seat covers in the trash can. We were all sitting in puddles of sweat and our clothes were soaked. Dad was complaining the whole time he was cutting the covers off about how much money he had just paid for them.
Ahhhh..............take a back seat with @Sandman_NC as I'll one up you on those paper clips. Eight of us were expelled because of me taking a huge sack full of these along with some huge red rubber bands to school:
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This expulsion occurred after every single light around the football field, all of the night lights, and quite a few third floor windows were shot out by my renegade friends. I did confess to shooting some of the sign boards and other fixtures but to this day I refuse to be blamed for all of those lights. There were some pretty hard feelings during those weeks as I remember.
So yes...........I "DO REMEMBER".
BB Bats heated up with matches or a lighter to make the hard taffy chewy.
Chic-O-Sticks at the city park pool during the hourly breaks.
And does anybody remember the Sambo's restaurant chain? We had one back home. That name would never fly in today's PC world.
I remember my dad sending me to get a gallon can of gas when it was .55 a gallon. He would give me a dollar and I could keep the change. I would go into the 7-11 and buy a whole bunch of "Penny Candy". Ask a kid what "Penny Candy" is today. We used to pick up bottles for the .5 return refunds for that candy. Pinball machines were our video games and we had to meet at the arcades to play them.Cheap gas, I can remember my dad going crazy when it went to a dollar a gallon, screaming how's a working man gonna make it.
.kSpitballs were for pussies. We used straightened out paper clips launched via rubber bands.
We used to get these from the Ice Cream Truck. I had a bunch of these and those cool car ones too.It was like that in Raleigh 1984
I still have a stack of these Wacky stickers.
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Coin condoms, I remember them well.
No pull top, had to use a church key.Beer came in cans with a pull top and a seam in the side.