Exploring Yesteryear

The Ragtag Daily Prompt this morning is SHADOWY EXPLORATIONS.

Well, as a response I’m going to take you all back to the distant shadows of the past and explore life in the 50s and 60s. I’m also going to give the new BlockEd its first Make-a-list trial. Confession: I’ve taken some else’s list and added.

How many of these can you remember?

1. Candy cigarettes
2. Cafes with table-side juke boxes
3. Home milk delivery in glass bottles
4. Party lines on the telephone
5. TV stations going off the air at midnight
6. TV test patterns – circles and an Indian head
7. Peashooters
8. Howdy Doody
9. Brownie cameras
10. Pleated plaid skirts
11. Metal ice trays with lever
12. Blue flashbulb
13. Cork popguns
14. Studebakers
15. Wash tub wringers
16. “There are eight million stories in the Naked City.
    This has been one of them.”
17. Almost all men wearing hats
18. Officers Tweedie & Muldoon
19. Pocket watches and men’s wallets on chains
20. Jars of Striped Peanut butter & jam
21. Roller skates
22. When head-rests and seat-belts were unheard of
23. Hood ornaments on cars
24. The Big Bopper
25. Li’l Abner
26. George Burns and Gracie Allen
27. Rin Tin Tin
28. Ice boxes
29. Bread Boxes
30. Kelvinator fridges
31. Calling between midnight and 8am to save money
32. “Hey, Mr Wilson!”
33. Garter Belts
34. Chubby Checker’s new dance
35. Massey Harris tractors
36. Galvanized steel bath tubs, with the same bathwater for all

Hope you’ve enjoyed these explorations into the shadowy past.