non-jw memories

by Hortensia 29 Replies latest jw friends

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  ataloa

  Does anyone remember Winner suckers?
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  hillbilly

  I learned to drive... gas was in the $.40 to .50 gallon range... we could get into the movies for about $2.50

  $450 bought my first car...66 VW I bought a nearly new pickup in 1978 for $3500

  Jeff
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  edmond dantes

  I remember going into record shops and seeing 78's piled up on the counter and asking to listen to some in a sound booth.I bought one once put it on the sofa when the dog jumped up and broke it in three places .I only owned three records at that time so I sellotaped the pieces together and listened while the gramaphone needle kept jumping about.I was about thirteen or fourteen at the time ,soon after that bop bam allua! Elvis ,Little Richard,Buddy Hollie, Bill Hayley,Chuck Berry, Connie Francis etc and Vynyll arrived ,fantastic.

  See you later alligator.
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  Wordly Andre

  I remember when gas was 1.20 a gallon
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  Casper

  Winner suckers?

  Haven't got a clue...?????

  Cas
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  mouthy

  I rememeber NO one had a car on our street. & to play records we had to put them on a gram-aphone Wind it up!!! then put the needle on the record & it would play.
  On another topic also! we didnt waste newspapers like you kids do today, we cut it up in squares for toilet paper & put them in the out house( thats all we had ) besides pots under the bed chambers for in the night .Or we cut it up as innersoles for inside our shoes -so that when they wore all the leather away & got to the paper we knew we had to afford new shoes ,,I used to hang my pillow case at christmas at the bottom of the bed got ONE thing ( may be an apple or orange & a piece of coal)

  So stop complaining all of you ....Your all blessed that WE HAVE all these luxerys,

  O.K. I will go to my room( spoil sport.
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  ataloa

  Winner suckers were big hard candy suckers that came in grape and cherry. They were 5 cents. Some of them had a piece of paper underneath the wrapper that said "winner". If you were the lucky winner, you got another sucker for free.

  My first car was a 68 Ford Galaxy 500 - $800 (which I had to pay for myself, of course). Even though it was only six years old, to a teenager, it felt ancient, and I couldn't really appreciate it then. But that was a slick ol' car - wish I had it now.
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  Casper

  Winner suckers were big hard candy suckers that came in grape and cherry. They were 5 cents. Some of them had a piece of paper underneath the wrapper that said "winner". If you were the lucky winner, you got another sucker for free.

  Thanks Ataloa, umm, don't remember them.
  

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  There was a sucker that I used to get as a child, that I have not been able to find for years. I don't know the name of it, but it was shaped like a marshmallow, only hard, with red stripes on it. It came on a wooden stick. The taste and texture were different than any other candy I have ever tasted.

  Also used to eat a candy called "Kitts", (spelling ??) it came in banana, peanut butter, chocolate and strawberry... can still find them if you look real hard.

  Cas
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  ataloa

  Yes, Cas, I remember Kits! I'd forgotten all about them. Kind of a taffy. I can't think of the other sucker though. btw, nice legs, you changed your avatar.

  Mouthy, you are just too much.
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  Balsam

  Mouthy, a good reminder of how things have changed in less than 80 years. Crazy isn't it the stuff young people have today? Lord and no toilet in the house just out houses. Yah I remember my folks saying that people who had indoor plumbing was considered rich. Mom told me once that her grandmother made her wear a corsette when she was about 13 in 1925 and she was so mad because girls weren't wearing stuff like that by then.

  Hortensia, I was just starting to drive in 1967 and we were having gas wars in LA, Calif. .23,24,25. a gallon there, lord we could fill up if we had a $1.25 an hr job and cruise all weekend on a tank of gas and have enough left to get us back and forth to school and part time jobs. Funny thinking about it, we loved getting out and just walking around the neighborhood too. My folks got their first TV when I was about 5 and I remember after about 10:00 pm it would get that big circle on the screen when the station said good night. Kids have so much these days but we felt pretty cool back then as the Hippy movement came into play in the late 60's and free love, drugs and rock and roll were all the rage. I never did drugs but sure enjoyed all the rest of it.