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If you're about as old as I am, you might remember some of these things. If you can remember stuff you'd like to include here, just send me an email and
let me know.
Breakfast Cereals:
Sugar Pops - now it's called "Corn Pops," or something like that.
Sugar Crisp (with Sugar Bear who sounded like Elvis). Now called "Super Golden Crisp."
Twinkles (the elephant...the cereal with marshmallow stars)
Clackers - A graham cracker cereal with a parrot as their spokesbird.
Toys:
Vavoom - I think it was called...it was an air "gun" that shot plastic balls
Cap guns - that used real roll caps
Slot cars - Lionel, Atlas, Aurora, and Tyco (Tyco is still around)
Gilbert Erector Sets - Used nuts, bolts, and real steel pieces.
Lincoln Logs - They're still around someplace
Tinker Toys - Still made
Various wind-up toys. I had a wind-up tank when I was 4 or 5.
Vibrating football games - Been replaced long ago with electronics.
Mister Machine (a see-through robot toy).
Kitchen Appliances:
Harvest gold or avacado green ANYTHING (and from Jay-Coppertone!)
Hand crank meat grinder that clamped to the edge of a table (I now have one :-)
Ice crushers as attachments to a blender (they're making a comeback!)
Coldspot refrigerators
Frigidare washers with the agitator that moved vertically.
Wringer washers (yes, I lived in places where they were used).
Electronics:
Philco-Ford TVs
Soundesign stereos
Black and white TVs (in sizes above 5 inches!)
6 transistor radios
Reel-to-reel tape recorders (3", 5", and 7" reels and if you could afford it; 10 1/2")
As a side note here, I can recall my very first tape recorders being Mayfair rim-drive 3"
reel-to-reel that came with a little crystal mic and ran on 4 "C" batteries. My next step up was a 5" reel model RCA portable, then to portable cassette recorders, and so on. My crowning
achievements were a $600 cassette deck made by some Japanese company...Nakamichi, I think, and a Pioneer 10 1/2" reel to reel that was ungodly expensive back in 1980. Kewl, 'cause it had a neat blue
flourescent display. I even owned a Realistic 909-A reel-to-reel portable in 1974 or so. Look THAT one up! Back to our story...
Craig cassette recorders (they had a "T" control instead of buttons)
Marantz home stereos (Yes, they are still around!)
Muntz car stereos (they made 4 and 8 track players--and TVs!)
Practically any turntable or record player (making a comeback-finally!)
8 track (or 4 track) stereos. Even more rare-8 track recorders.
Rotary dial phones
10¢ telephone calls (yeah, I know, they were a nickel once, but I don't remember that.)
Games (some of these may still be around)
Mystery Date (I remember seeing commercials in the mid-60's on TV)
U.N.C.L.E. games (Man From, Girl From)
Rock 'em Sock 'em Robots
Other TV show board games (there were a LOT of them!)
Rack-0
Of course, there are more, but many of them were games that are produced and sold now, like Life and Scrabble.
Soft Drinks and other Foods:
Bubble Up
Upper 10
3¢ deposit on 12 and 16 oz soft drink bottles, 5¢ on the "big bottles".
1¢ Pixy Stix (mix 'em with your soda and stand back!)
Calcium Cyclamates (originally in drinks like Diet Rite and Tab Cola)
Funny Face Drink Mixes (Choo Choo Cherry, Loudmouth Lime, Jolly Ollie Orange, Goofy Grape, Lefty
Lemon. Incidentally, the original names for the cherry and orange drinks were Chinese Cherry and Injun Orange. Changed in 1965 no doubt, for political reasons)
Wink (The Sassy One, From Canada Dry. Is that soft drink still around?)
Retail Establishments: (I think all of these are defunct, for the most part)
Gemco
FedMart (became Price Club, then Costco)
W.T. Grants
Woolworth/Wolco
Kresge (now KMart--they're buying or have bought out Sears)
White Front and Big Apple (supercenter department stores in California)
Yellow Front (might have been only in the Western states)
McCrory's (was a "dime store")
Zody's (never saw too many of those)
Farrell's (ice cream parlor - looks like there are two that are still open)
Mayfair Supermarket
G. C. Murphy (a 5 and dime store that doesn't seem to exist anymore)
Memorable Cars
AMC (Pacer, Ambassador, Matador, Javelin)
Ford/Mercury (Pinto, Maverick, Mustang, Comet, Cougar)
Chevy (Impala, Belair, Corvair-ever seen a Corvair Van???)
Buick (Skylark, LeSabre/Limited, Special, Invicta station wagon - from Dave)
Volkswagen (Bug/Beetle, Van-otherwise known as the "Microbus)
Chrysler/Dodge (Fury, Monaco, Imperial, Charger, Dart)
Ponitac (Tempest, GTO, Parisienne)
Oldsmobile (Delta-88, Cutlass, the Rocket engine series)
Plymouth (Valient with "Push Button Drive", Barracuda - "Cuda")
Renault, Fiat, and Yugo,,,too many more come to mind to include here.
TV Shows (first run):
My Mother The Car - Jerry Van Dyke as character, Dave Crabtree. Premise of the show was the the lead character's mother died and came back as a 1928 Porter
car. 30 episodes, 1965-1966
It's About Time - with Imogene Coca.and some other not so memorable characters. Two astronauts become stranded in the past, AKA Gilligan's Island
(Sherwood Scharwtz produced both). 26 episodes. 1966-1967
All sorts of cop shows too numerous to mention them all. The success of shows like Hawaii Five-O and Adam 12 brought us numerous cop shows in the
mid-70's...almost every network was running cop shows at least 3 nights a week. I didn't even LIKE most cop shows.
Star Trek (the original series), Lost In Space (first run).
I want my Maypo!
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