Getting to the bottom of a box of Cracker Jacks meant a prize so sought after.................you got an extra comic in your Bazooka bubble gum!!!!!!!!
And 2 soda bottles got you enough candy to supply you and your freinds a long moment of happiness!!!!!!!
Hdrider said
02:36 PM Oct 27, 2012
LOL!!! Just a couple days ago Diane and I both had our hands in boxes of Cracker Jacks looking for that prize. We sat there acting like a couple of kids LOL!! I think we have one more box.
GENECOP said
02:54 PM Oct 27, 2012
Yes mike, coming forward a couple of more years has prompted my wife and I to visit YouTube and watch a few segments of Wonderama with Bob Mcallister.....what trip.....
PIEERE said
12:11 AM Oct 28, 2012
Wow: I was called The Cracker Jack Kid by my brothers and even had the blue and white Navy uniform when I was about 5 or 6. Remember the Black Jack gum and Salt Water Taffy from New Jersey.
Loretta said
02:23 PM Oct 28, 2012
Pieere we still have slt water taffy here in NJ. Does anyone remember SenSen?
Lucky Mike said
02:30 PM Oct 28, 2012
Licorice!!! hard candy!!!!!..............yummy
Lucky Mike said
02:52 PM Oct 28, 2012
Charlie says " Love my Good & plenty"....Charlie Says" Really Rings a bell!!......Charlie says "love my good good & plenty , dont know any other candy that I love so Well.........good & plenty.....good & plenty.....good& plenty!!!!!!!!!
Hdrider said
03:31 PM Oct 28, 2012
Black Jack and clove gum...
bjoyce said
04:11 PM Oct 28, 2012
Some of those things you think are no longer made might still be around. We found a few things we didn't know they still made at Jack's Country Store in Ocean Park, Washington - http://www.jackscountrystore.co/ . If you find yourself in the Long Beach WA/Astoria OR area, it is worth a visit.
LifeBeganInaWinnebago said
06:59 PM Oct 28, 2012
Can you still get the magnifing glass in the Cracker Jacks. That was the prize to covet.
Mark
thebearII said
04:04 PM Oct 29, 2012
How about propane lights in RVs....
I remember watching my mom try to light the propane light with a stick match. The head flew off of the match when she struck it on the box. The head which ignited in flight landed in the kitchen window curtain she had just made new for this trip. The curtain caught on fire. It was like watching something out of a Three Stooges movie.
Lucky Mike said
09:00 PM Oct 29, 2012
A simple clothespin and a playing card made you bike sound so much faster............................and losing your marbles only happened in the playground.................silly putty was the in thing............
Terry and Jo said
12:33 AM Oct 30, 2012
So, I wonder how many on the forums have absolutely no clue as to what is being discussed. Some things might have been regional because I don't remember "Good and Plenty."
Then again, I was raised in the Oklahoma Panhandle (Dust Bowl country) so all of that stuff may have just blown away or got covered up with dirt. While I was born too late to experience the Dirty Thirties, we did experience similar, but not as bad, dust storms in what we called the Gritty Fifties.
Going on vacation and crossing desert areas, one hung a canvas water bag from the hood ornament of the vehicle just in case one needed to add water to the radiator.
Terry
Racerguy said
01:57 AM Oct 30, 2012
I can remember drinking water out of those canvas bags that sat in the water at the well head where to ice cold water came out of the well into the irrigation ditches.
bjoyce said
03:56 AM Oct 30, 2012
I remember drinking water right now of a creek, river and some lakes with no ill effect. Now giardia is in all that water and a giardia infection is a week long gut ache as I learned many years ago.
Racerguy said
04:34 AM Oct 30, 2012
Remember that well Bill..had a collapsible cup I carried when I went fishing in the Colorado Mountains.Just dipped it the creek or whatever and drank it.
Hdrider said
03:13 PM Oct 30, 2012
When I tell people we had a outhouse growing up in Iowa and a old had pump in the kitchen for our water they look at me and I know they are thinking,, you poor sucker. When we finally got a hydrint put in the kitchen we were the talk LOL!!! Thats probably a little off topic I guess.
Lucky Mike said
03:29 PM Oct 30, 2012
I remember helping build our Tv with my grandfather ......it was a heathkit!!!!!!!!............
Jo And Craig said
04:08 PM Oct 30, 2012
Oh, how about this... do you remember the Bun candy... vanilla, maple, caramel... with unsalted peanuts and covered in milk chocolate? My grandparents always brought them home from Fort Wayne, Indiana and we could not wait to get ours! Oh, yum!
And, yes, I DO remember clove gum... and Slo Pokes. My favs!!!
Jo And Craig said
04:10 PM Oct 30, 2012
In addition to the candy, I remember my father taking the tubes out of our television set, taking them down to the drugstore, and testing them. OMG how times have changed!!! I even remember looking through the various sizes to find just the right size for our set. And, I remember the elongated packaging... yellow/white/black!!!
LifeBeganInaWinnebago said
05:23 PM Oct 30, 2012
Those are all bring back some great memories, but I give up on the SenSen Loretta. What was that?
Mark
thebearII said
05:26 PM Oct 30, 2012
My Aunt & Uncle in the 1960's lived on a farm in West Virginia. It was very remote.
They had a two hole outhouse and had to go to a spring to get water. There was no running water in the house. They did have electricty and a TV though. Her kids bought her a house in town with "indoor plumbing" including a washer and dryer, they moved her in to it. After a couple of months... the story goes that she wasn't happy in the new house so she set it on fire and moved back to her old house on the farm.
Loretta said
01:38 AM Oct 31, 2012
Sen-Sen came in a small package and they were tiny black squares of licorice flavored something.....they were marketed as breath freshners.
Collecting all of the soda pop bottles in the neighborhood and loading them into your red wagon to take to the mom & pop grocery store. The sound of all those bottles rattling in that metal wagon.
Trade in the bottles and then buy a couple of "Big Hunk & Abba-Zabba" candy bars plus a 16oz bottle of ice cold RC Cola. Plus a comic book and two packs of baseball cards with bubble gum. Great smell those baseball cards had.
Get back home in time to watch Leave it to Beaver on the TV.
3fortheroad said
08:07 PM Oct 31, 2012
The Saturday matinee .25 cents, and at intermission ( usually there were two movies and cartoons) they would have ticket drawings for neat stuff. Not really neat, but it was great to have your ticket called. And then when we were old enough there was the upper balcony. Not a lot of movie watch"n up there.
To earn money we could go Night Crawler hunting, we would get .25 cents a dozen, sometimes we would go to the golf course and fish balls out of the creek, .05, .10 and .25 cents for a really good one.
Has anyone trapped gophers? We could get .25 cents a tail at the municiple airport.
-- Edited by 3fortheroad on Wednesday 31st of October 2012 10:39:53 PM
papa d said
10:22 PM Nov 5, 2012
I remember hot summer days and going to the little store by our house and picking up a Pepsi and a nickel bag of peanuts. We would sit in the shade of a tree, drink some of the Pepsi and pour some peanuts in the bottle. May sound odd to some people but it was sooooo good.
Terry and Jo said
10:37 PM Nov 5, 2012
Oh, wow!!! I had forgotten about that. Even into the '70's when I was in my 30's and when there were still glass Coke bottles, that was a favored afternoon treat. Not odd at all.
Terry
Lucky Mike said
10:44 PM Nov 5, 2012
We did it with Dr pepper & mr.pibb...........but boy do I miss the moon pies!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Getting to the bottom of a box of Cracker Jacks meant a prize so sought after.................you got an extra comic in your Bazooka bubble gum!!!!!!!!
And 2 soda bottles got you enough candy to supply you and your freinds a long moment of happiness!!!!!!!
LOL!!! Just a couple days ago Diane and I both had our hands in boxes of Cracker Jacks looking for that prize. We sat there acting like a couple of kids LOL!! I think we have one more box.
Pieere we still have slt water taffy here in NJ. Does anyone remember SenSen?
Licorice!!! hard candy!!!!!..............yummy
Black Jack and clove gum...
Some of those things you think are no longer made might still be around. We found a few things we didn't know they still made at Jack's Country Store in Ocean Park, Washington - http://www.jackscountrystore.co/ . If you find yourself in the Long Beach WA/Astoria OR area, it is worth a visit.
Can you still get the magnifing glass in the Cracker Jacks. That was the prize to covet.
Mark
I remember watching my mom try to light the propane light with a stick match. The head flew off of the match when she struck it on the box. The head which ignited in flight landed in the kitchen window curtain she had just made new for this trip. The curtain caught on fire. It was like watching something out of a Three Stooges movie.
So, I wonder how many on the forums have absolutely no clue as to what is being discussed. Some things might have been regional because I don't remember "Good and Plenty."
Then again, I was raised in the Oklahoma Panhandle (Dust Bowl country) so all of that stuff may have just blown away or got covered up with dirt. While I was born too late to experience the Dirty Thirties, we did experience similar, but not as bad, dust storms in what we called the Gritty Fifties.
Going on vacation and crossing desert areas, one hung a canvas water bag from the hood ornament of the vehicle just in case one needed to add water to the radiator.
Terry
When I tell people we had a outhouse growing up in Iowa and a old had pump in the kitchen for our water they look at me and I know they are thinking,, you poor sucker. When we finally got a hydrint put in the kitchen we were the talk LOL!!! Thats probably a little off topic I guess.
Oh, how about this... do you remember the Bun candy... vanilla, maple, caramel... with unsalted peanuts and covered in milk chocolate? My grandparents always brought them home from Fort Wayne, Indiana and we could not wait to get ours! Oh, yum!
And, yes, I DO remember clove gum... and Slo Pokes. My favs!!!
In addition to the candy, I remember my father taking the tubes out of our television set, taking them down to the drugstore, and testing them. OMG how times have changed!!! I even remember looking through the various sizes to find just the right size for our set. And, I remember the elongated packaging... yellow/white/black!!!
Mark
They had a two hole outhouse and had to go to a spring to get water. There was no running water in the house. They did have electricty and a TV though. Her kids bought her a house in town with "indoor plumbing" including a washer and dryer, they moved her in to it. After a couple of months... the story goes that she wasn't happy in the new house so she set it on fire and moved back to her old house on the farm.
Sen-Sen came in a small package and they were tiny black squares of licorice flavored something.....they were marketed as breath freshners.
http://www.victoryseeds.com/sen-sen.html.
Trade in the bottles and then buy a couple of "Big Hunk & Abba-Zabba" candy bars plus a 16oz bottle of ice cold RC Cola. Plus a comic book and two packs of baseball cards with bubble gum. Great smell those baseball cards had.
Get back home in time to watch Leave it to Beaver on the TV.
The Saturday matinee .25 cents, and at intermission ( usually there were two movies and cartoons) they would have ticket drawings for neat stuff. Not really neat, but it was great to have your ticket called. And then when we were old enough there was the upper balcony. Not a lot of movie watch"n up there.
To earn money we could go Night Crawler hunting, we would get .25 cents a dozen, sometimes we would go to the golf course and fish balls out of the creek, .05, .10 and .25 cents for a really good one.
Has anyone trapped gophers? We could get .25 cents a tail at the municiple airport.
-- Edited by 3fortheroad on Wednesday 31st of October 2012 10:39:53 PM
Oh, wow!!! I had forgotten about that. Even into the '70's when I was in my 30's and when there were still glass Coke bottles, that was a favored afternoon treat. Not odd at all.
Terry