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You May Be a Boomer if

You Remember…

  • Candy cigarettes
  • Coke-bottle-shaped wax bottles filled with colored sugar water
  • Soda machines that dispensed glass bottles
  • Coffee shops with tableside juke boxes
  • Blackjack, Clove and Teaberry chewing gum
  • Home milk delivery in glass bottles, with cardboard stoppers
  • Party lines
  • Newsreels before the movie
  • P. F. Flyers
  • Butch wax
  • Telephone numbers with words (Drexel 5505)
  • Peashooters
  • Howdy Doody
  • 45 RPM records
  • Green Stamps
  • Hi-fi's
  • Metal ice cube trays, with levers
  • Mimeograph paper
  • Flash bulbs
  • Beanie and Cecil
  • Roller skate keys
  • .22 cork pop gun rifles
  • Drive-in movies
  • Studebakers
  • Washtubs with wringers
  • The Fuller Brush man
  • Tinkertoys
  • Erector sets
  • The Fort Apache play set
  • Lincoln logs
  • 15-cent McDonald hamburgers
  • Baseball cards for a nickel a pack, including a pink slab of really bad bubblegum
  • Penny candy.
  • Gasoline for 35-cents per gallon

 

You Remember When…

  • Tape recorders had reels.
  • Decisions were made by going "eeny-meeny-miney-moe."
  • Mistakes were corrected by simply exclaiming, "Do over!"
  • "Race issues" were arguments about who ran the fastest.
  • "Money issues" were handled by the banker in "Monopoly."
  • Catching fireflies could happily occupy an entire evening.
  • It wasn't odd to have two or three "best" friends.
  • Being old referred to anyone over 20.
  • Tennis court nets were the perfect height to play volleyball and rules didn't matter.
  • The only thing you worried about catching from the opposite sex was "cooties."
  • It was magic when Dad "removed" his thumb.
  • You learned that dodgeball wasn't an Olympic event.
  • Taking a weapon to school meant sticking your slingshot in your back pocket.
  • Nobody was prettier than Mom.
  • Scrapes and bruises could be made better with a kiss.
  • You could finally ride the "grownup" rides at the amusement park.
  • A foot of snow was a dream come true.
  • Abilities were discovered because of a "double-dog-dare."
  • Saturday morning cartoons weren't 30-minute ads for action figures.
  • No shopping trip was complete without a new toy.
  • "Oly-oly-oxen-all-in-free" made perfect sense.
  • Spinning around, getting dizzy, and falling down made you giggle.
  • The worst imaginable embarrassment was being picked last for a team.
  • "War" was only a card game.
  • Water balloons were the ultimate weapon.
  • Baseball cards in your spokes could transform any bike into a motorcycle.
  • "Taking drugs" meant chewing orange-flavored aspirin.
  • Ice cream was considered a basic food group.
  • Older siblings were your worst tormentors, but also your fiercest protectors.