Nostalgia ......remembering the fun stuff from when we were kids !

stetam · May 6, 2022

Can't forget about these!

Steve

GKL · May 6, 2022

stetam said:
Can't forget about these!

Steve

Now that is one thing I don't remember ever having :lol:

, I even had to look it up to refresh my memory about them as I had heard of Clackers at some point, might even had been more recently looking up vintage stuff :lol:

just never had them myself, could have heard of them when I was a kid and just don't remember offhand.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clackers

Hey, it's neat when someone posts something I'm not really very familiar with :lol:

GKL · May 6, 2022

Another interesting memory from childhood is school lunches.

I remember using the metal lunchboxes when I was real young, don't remember the design on the outside offhand though.

When I got a little older I switched to the more mature brown paper lunch bags :laughing:

Eventually at some point I started buying the cafeteria cooked lunches, I think I remember them being under $1 and a small carton of milk was 2 cents.

Many kids were crazy about the peanut butter fudge the school cafeteria occasionally had for dessert and sometimes would trade other food for an extra one :lol:

When I took my lunch in the beginning I remember at least 3 sandwiches my mom alternated between making me, peanut butter and jelly, bologna and mayo, and egg salad made with mayo. In hindsight I am thankful I didn't get sick because home brought lunches were kept in your locker unrefrigerated until lunch :shock:

Don't remember what design lunch boxes I had but found a couple online as examples

diggin4clad · May 6, 2022

GKL said:
Another interesting memory from childhood is school lunches.

I remember using the metal lunchboxes when I was real young, don't remember the design on the outside offhand though.

When I got a little older I switched to the more mature brown paper lunch bags

Eventually at some point I started buying the cafeteria cooked lunches, I think I remember them being under $1 and a small carton of milk was 2 cents.

Many kids were crazy about the peanut butter fudge the school cafeteria occasionally had for dessert and sometimes would trade other food for an extra one

When I took my lunch in the beginning I remember at least 3 sandwiches my mom alternated between making me, peanut butter and jelly, bologna and mayo, and egg salad made with mayo. In hindsight I am thankful I didn't get sick because home brought lunches were kept in your locker unrefrigerated until lunch

Don't remember what design lunch boxes I had but found a couple online as examples
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When I was in the 7th grade (1959) the school lunches were 25 cents and that included a carton of milk. Milk alone cost 3 cents.
I usually took my own lunch which was sometimes peanut butter and jelly, but sometimes was deviled ham or veal loaf. Sometimes it was a "thing" called shaved ham. My Thermos bottle was usually filled with milk.

diggin4clad · May 6, 2022

GKL said:
I'll start with how much more inexpensive things were back then......

I grew up 50's and 60's (I was 10 years old for most of 1962 having a birthday in December) and we had both a Gino's fast food and a McDonald's fast food, eventually Gino's got the rights to make and sell KFC (Kentucky Fried Chicken) of course some years later KFC had their own places.

Wow, those 15 cent hamburgers and 10 cent fries ! (the ad says 10 cents, but I remember paying 11 cents for Gino's fries when I was in elementary school so I guess they raised the price by a penny back then )

I also remember 5 cent popsicles and 10 cent ice cream bars, as well as inexpensive soft serve ice cream from the "Mr. Softee" truck.

We had a local A&P grocery store, I seem to remember getting packs of Kool-Aid for a nickel each, also candy bars were 5 cents each.

I remember when I turned 15 I got a worker's permit to work at Gino's, they started me out making french fries, then hamburgers and manning the cash register, then I gratuated to making the famous Kentucky Fried Chicken and guess what ? the package with the secret herbs and spices came in a PLAIN wrapper with no ingredients listed

I normally worked the day shift but one time they needed me to fill in on the evening shift and any cooked food that was left over at closing we got to bag up and take home for free and it was a lot. Even during the day shift we were allowed to eat whatever we wanted for lunch at no charge !

I also worked on the back of a Softee ice cream truck for a little while and I made sure I made the milkshakes really thick and tried to give a fair amount of ice cream in the cones and sundaes !

Here are some related pics I found online:

Gino's menu 1960
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KFC menu 1969 ________________________________________ McDonald's 1960
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imagine the coins kids might had dropped
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We had Good Humor and Treety for ice cream. Some years later a guy who lived on the next street from us started coming around with Mr. Softee. At Halloween, instead of candy he'd give out ice cream cones. The last time I saw a Good Humor truck around here was in 1997.

GKL · May 7, 2022

diggin4clad said:
When I was in the 7th grade (1959) the school lunches were 25 cents and that included a carton of milk. Milk alone cost 3 cents.
I usually took my own lunch which was sometimes peanut butter and jelly, but sometimes was deviled ham or veal loaf. Sometimes it was a "thing" called shaved ham. My Thermos bottle was usually filled with milk.

I remember one time I got a craving for french fries at lunch time during elementary school (that school was within walking distance to home) and I think I had at least a little over a dollar on me and the Gino's fast food (like a McDonalds) was fairly close by so I walked there for lunch and bought nothing but french fries, I bought MANY bags of them, but they were only 11 cents a bag back then so I got my fill :laughing:

(I only remember doing that lunch venture one time :lol:

)

GKL · May 7, 2022

Another interesting memory from childhood is school supplies, I'm sure some of you remember some of these !

GKL · May 7, 2022

Another fun memory from childhood is the goofy gag pranks :laughing:

(there are many others but these are just a few I managed to find for now)

GKL · May 7, 2022

Looking online for pics of vintage old toys and stuff from when I was a kid I came across one simple but real fun thing I had originally forgot about.....

.....the Pea Shooter !!!! :laughing:

I remember one year as a kid that after having shot peas from my pea shooter in our yard that later I started seeing some pea plants sprout :shock:

until then I don't think I realized you could plant the peas from a bag of uncooked dry peas and they'd grow :laughing:

GKL · May 7, 2022

Now as much as I enjoyed joking around as a kid I had a serious side also and liked science type stuff, as a kid I had a chemistry set, microscope, telescope, and many various science toys and gadgets, there are likely some others I had but here are some I found online, I don't remember having the drinking bird and not sure about the magic rocks either, though I was aware of them.

diggin4clad · May 7, 2022

GKL said:
Looking online for pics of vintage old toys and stuff from when I was a kid I came across one simple but real fun thing I had originally forgot about.....

.....the Pea Shooter !!!!

I remember as a kid that one year after having shot peas from my pea shooter in our yard that later I started seeing some pea plants sprout until then I don't think I realized you could plant the peas from a bag of uncooked dry peas and they'd grow
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I had pea shooters when I was a kid. Back in the late 1950's the local sheriff's association sponsored an annual bus trip to the Yale Bowl in New Haven Conn. to see Yale (an Ivy League team) play a football game against another Ivy League team. The bus trip took about an hour and a half along the Connecticut Turnpike ( I-95). some of us kids took our pea shooters along with us plus afull box of those dried peas and when no one was looking we'd shoot peas out the window at passing cars. We did this a couple of years in a row but then one year just before the buses departed the sheriff came on the bus and said that if anyone has a pea shooter to turn them in before we leave or there's be no bus trip. It wa ssort of like when Wyatt Earp or someone would tell the bad guys to turn in their guns ! :lol:

We turned them over and the bus trip commenced but the ride wasn't as much fun as it used to be. :lol:

diggin4clad · May 7, 2022

GKL said:
Another interesting memory from childhood is school supplies, I'm sure some of you remember some of these !

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I remember the school supplies and one of the ones we had was a pencil box. It had a small plastic six inch ruler, a protractor which is something I never had a use for, a compass, another useless object and some really bad crayons that hardly had any color in them. Every September just before the new school season started the local movie theater would put on a special back to school cartoon show and would give out pencil boxes to everyone who attended. The line to get into the theater was a mile long so it was imperative to get there early so you'd be in front of the line. The usual price of admission to a movie was 25 cents but the pencil box promotion cartoon show had an admission price of 35 cents. My mother would always gripe about the extra ten cents admission fee and how the pencil box isn't really free. Seeing 30 episodes of Looney Tunes cartoons was a great way to spend a Saturday afternoon, higher price or not.

diggin4clad · May 7, 2022

We always had LePages glue around the house, but once Elmer's Glue came about, Lepages seemed to disappear.
The melted ice cream thing is nice, we had a couple of similar gags.....one looked like vomit and the other looked like dog poop. And of course we had those fake spiders to scare someone with.

GKL · May 7, 2022

diggin4clad said:
I had pea shooters when I was a kid. Back in the late 1950's the local sheriff's association sponsored an annual bus trip to the Yale Bowl in New Haven Conn. to see Yale (an Ivy League team) play a football game against another Ivy League team. The bus trip took about an hour and a half along the Connecticut Turnpike ( I-95). some of us kids took our pea shooters along with us plus afull box of those dried peas and when no one was looking we'd shoot peas out the window at passing cars. We did this a couple of years in a row but then one year just before the buses departed the sheriff came on the bus and said that if anyone has a pea shooter to turn them in before we leave or there's be no bus trip. It wa ssort of like when Wyatt Earp or someone would tell the bad guys to turn in their guns !
We turned them over and the bus trip commenced but the ride wasn't as much fun as it used to be.

as kids we didn't always see the big picture, but it was likely that they weren't trying to ruin your fun, just trying to keeps drivers from being distracted, if they didn't return your pea shooters after the trip then maybe the sheriff's kid got a lot of free pea shooters :laughing:

diggin4clad said:
I remember the school supplies and one of the ones we had was a pencil box. It had a small plastic six inch ruler, a protractor which is something I never had a use for, a compass, another useless object and some really bad crayons that hardly had any color in them. Every September just before the new school season started the local movie theater would put on a special back to school cartoon show and would give out pencil boxes to everyone who attended. The line to get into the theater was a mile long so it was imperative to get there early so you'd be in front of the line. The usual price of admission to a movie was 25 cents but the pencil box promotion cartoon show had an admission price of 35 cents. My mother would always gripe about the extra ten cents admission fee and how the pencil box isn't really free. Seeing 30 episodes of Looney Tunes cartoons was a great way to spend a Saturday afternoon, higher price or not.

Reminded me we had a drive-in movie within walking distance of home, but they did not require a car to get in, you could pay at the gate and walk in and sit on the benches in front of the concession stand, they had a huge playground area in front of the screen open until the movie started, it was fun in the summer to very occasionally go see a science fiction movie on the big screen outside, the movie entrance fee wasn't bad, maybe 75 cents or a dollar (this was in the 1960's), but the concession stand was pricey, you had to figure what to get that would fill you up the most for the least amout of money :laughing:

diggin4clad said:
We always had LePages glue around the house, but once Elmer's Glue came about, Lepages seemed to disappear.
The melted ice cream thing is nice, we had a couple of similar gags.....one looked like vomit and the other looked like dog poop. And of course we had those fake spiders to scare someone with.

Thinking of those prank gags I thought of one that I never did try, that was to get a picture of someone and tape it to the outside of a window to make it look like someone was there to people inside the house :lol:

I remember the ones you mentioned, also there was the fake ice cube with a fake bug inside, just now was thinking that it was actually someone's job to think up these prank gags and get paid for thinking up goofy stuff :laughing:

GKL · May 7, 2022

I remember thinking how neat it was to have our own soda fountain (used a glass soda bottle) and snow cone machine !

GKL · May 7, 2022

Remember these vintage toys ? (I had the skates and a slide whistle, but not the jumping shoes)

GKL · May 7, 2022

Neat toys I wish I had as a kid

The backyard roller coaster would have been really neat but with us having a small back yard would not have been too much room for extra track :laughing: