NFT: Memories for the older folks

Pole to pole, the telephone poles were the end zones and parked cars were inbounds.

Mean, old nuns and their rulers, sticks and brooms (they kept us in line).
Scooter made from a wooden milk crate, 2x4 and old roller skates
Roller skates and the little clamps that never stayed on
Galoshes that always leaked
Shoveling snow into the storm sewers
A real neighborhood bar on every street corner
Real pizza from real Italians
Real kielbasa from real Polish
Fried potatoes and shrimp from the local fish stores
Getting ‘egged’ and ‘socked’ on Halloween

The list goes on … Wouldn’t trade it for anything … wouldn’t want to do it again.

Wiffleball in homemade backyard stadiums

Playing in the 'WEEDS', the nature preserve along the Hackensack River from Giants Stadium to Little Ferry.

Terrorizing firefly's with wiffle bats

The sound of many children playing outdoors at dusk

Musclecars. Rolling works of art, everywhere

Saturday Morning cartoons with a bowl of Vanilly Crunch

Swimming pool 'hopping' on a hot summer day

And in my hometown, next to Teterboro Airport? BLIMP!!!!

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With your favorite super hero on it

For 13 cents a call with the final scores

976-1313. And the daily quiz

and it was rented for AT&T...think it took to the 70's for the FCC to say anything in the house was property of the house owner.

TV repairman replacing tube 3BU8...

All the kids on the block got to play stick ball from 6-16 years old - big kids took care of the little kids.

Good ones listed.

I remember most of the OP's list.

I somehow remember watching the WS during the day, it must have been either 79 or 80...Want to say 79 and Pittsburg.

Announcing little league games. My league allowed players to do it as long as you took it seriously. There'd usually be 3 of us keeping the game book and announcing. At 9 and 10 years old, running a press box lol.

Putting baseball cards or Huggs juice bottles in your bike to make it sound like a motorcycle.

My paper route ("I had to visit 200 houses. Or 2 dumpsters" - Mitch Hedberg)

Bazaars/block parties. Big in northeast PA, little Fri-Sat-Sun events with food and games held in the summer by churches and fire companies as fundraisers.

Watching the Stooges and John Wayne on Sundays after church with bobcia and dziadzi

In comment 16221892 jpetuch said:

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Courageous Cat and Minute Mouse Space Ghost The Banana Splits Abbott and Costello before and after Sunday Yankee games MLB Weekend Doubleheaders 4.25 Yankee box seats F-Troop Get Smart Time Tunnel Land of the Giants Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea

The Brady Bunch and Partridge Family as must see Friday night TV, Followed by Love American Style.

Ron Tin Tin....Dinah Shore Show....Twilight Zone....Jailhouse Rock.....Pat Boone

Standing up on the subway to give your seat to an older person
Getting beat up by nuns when you misbehaved
Having your best friends mom rat you out, or even give you a shot now and then.
Ringalarrio, Stoopball, handball, booties up, Johnny Ride the pony, Stickball on the street.
Hell you guys got most of them already.
Mom always home.
Best friend fights year to year changing who won.
Playing baseball in Central Park for a dollar a man... Don't make any errors, you get beat up by the older guys.
50's & 60's music on AM
Cars that weigh 3 tons and got crap gas mileage, what was gas mileage?
Making out in the back of a school bus after basketball games on way home.


GOOD TIMES !!!!

Straws filled with powdered sugar Fake cigarettes Wax tubes filled with sugar water candy buttons on long white paper . Those were the days !!

Baseball cards were 5 cents.
And there was a culture built around trading cards and playing with them.

Pizza was 10 cents and a coke was a nickel.
A matinee double movie was 25 cents.
You see a movie and have two slices and a coke for half a dollar.

Punch ball
Stick ball
Box ball
Stoop ball
Ringaleavio
Tackle football in the street.

Some other items not mentioned where the knife sharpeners who visited in trucks.

In comment 16222039 Archer said:

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Baseball cards were 5 cents. And there was a culture built around trading cards and playing with them. Pizza was 10 cents and a coke was a nickel. A matinee double movie was 25 cents. You see a movie and have two slices and a coke for half a dollar. Punch ball Stick ball Box ball Stoop ball Ringaleavio Tackle football in the street. Some other items not mentioned where the knife sharpeners who visited in trucks.

I had forgotten about box ball … a ball, a good piece of chalk, a stick and some bottle caps and we were set for the summer.

Between classes in high school with 200 other degenerates.

It still blows my kids minds.

We had lawn darts, too.

Cardboard in your sneakers to cover the holes in the soles.

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Some other items not mentioned where the knife sharpeners who visited in trucks.

For some reason I remember those knife/scissor sharpener trucks as always being a darkish green...

on the Elmhurst/Maspeth border, by the gas tanks on Grand Ave., but standing on streetlight bases as fire trucks went by was a big thing circa 1970 (if you were a 6-year-old boy in my neighborhood).

And watching Jordan play on WGN.

The knife sharpeners also made a sound announcing their arrival. It was somewhat cacophonous.

I also remember the Twilight Zone and other TV shows.

Listening to baseball and football on small portable radios.
I was a bit off but I would keep the stats.

Walking to school and the crosswalk guards with their white vinyl shoulder belts.

The World's Fair. Free tickets to Mets games after spending the day at the Fair. The great food including the Belgium Waffles.

The sound of the electric carts playing leave the driving to us.

Baseball at Marine Park.

Playing football with a hand me down helmet, pads, shoulder pads and a weathered football.

Oklahoma drills, running laps after practice in full gear, sprinting in full gear, the wing T, etc.

and Bo Derek

Kind of a starter kits for kids interested in explosives.
and..

Big Wheels
Air Hockey
The Electro-Shot Shooting Gallery - a favorite of mine
Dial Telephones - Not great when you were trying to be caller #5
Putting a string of aluminum foil on a tv antenna and sticking it out the window with the hope that the screen would clear of just enough so I could almost make out whats happening in a hockey game
The advent of cable tv with the boxes that sat on the tv...and the monthly "whats on HBO" guides.

Rama of the Jungle (osvaliday)
Rin tin tin
blue balls at the drive in

I didn’t see listed. Those mobile amusement-park type rides coming to our street.

In comment 16222208 gtt350 said:

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Rama of the Jungle (osvaliday) Rin tin tin blue balls at the drive in

I thought I might be the only person left who remembered The Modern Farmer. Kudos

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Paid for minutes, Fireball XL5, Clincher softballs Channels 2 4 5 7 9 11 and 13. Thunder birds are go. Combat and 12 o'clock High on tv. Roger Ramjet cartoon.Aronld Palmer miniature golf, Korvettes and Majors department stores. Hermans sporting goods and Coleco street hockey pads

Lincoln Logs

"Farming" the carpet in the house with toy combines and tractors as fun

my awesome Giants Starter youth jacket I wore in the 80s.

Silk shirts!

Trapper Keepers!

In comment 16221934 M.S. said:

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With home deliveries of desserts! Lincoln Logs Set. Disneykins. T.V. repairman. Borden’s Milk

Dugan, isn't it?

They were big late 60’s -very early 70’s before they got banned for occasional shattering and blinding some kids. They were fun though before video games

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Baseball cards in bike spokes
TV tubes in tv needing replaced
Diaper service trucks
Milk trucks
Penny and 5 cent candy
Pixy sticks
Bugs Bunny
6 Million dollar man
Being out from morning until sundown outside and parents not freaking out
riding your bike everywhere
Kids playing pick up games in the neighborhood all the time
sledding for hours
socks for gloves
Riding on the highway in the back of a pickup truck
Double feature movies
Walkie Talkies
Short wave radios

The liver man wagon, “aa-lee-volivolivo…”

Occasional burnt coffee smell from Maxwell House in Hoboken

Occasional stink from Miller Abattior on Tonnelle Av.

White paper containers of beer from the corner bar

Mr. Softee’s song reverberating on summer nights

Church carnivals with bad rides and great zeppoles.

In comment 16222452 steve in ky said:

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Thats a GREAT one

of a large block of ice for the top of the fridge---

In comment 16222424 Alan W said:

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In comment 16221934 M.S. said: Quote: With home deliveries of desserts! Lincoln Logs Set. Disneykins. T.V. repairman. Borden’s Milk Dugan, isn't it?

Yes, indeed: Dugan!

Candy Dots
Lik*m*aid
Gold Mine Bubble Gum
Sweet Tarts
Fruit Stripe Gum
Bonomo's Turkish Taffy
Candy Necklace
Pez

Listening to Marty Glickman and Al DeRogartis doing play by play on the radio. I was too young to drive with the older relatives, to Connecticut to watch on TV!

And who on this board, remembers when the National Anthem was the signal that the TV was going off the air. No nothing but a test pattern until about 5-6 AM.

Lights out and sneaking a peak at the air raid warden walking down the middle of the street. The ration books and the red and blue tokens given as change. The thrill of V-E day and then the thrill of V-J day. Thrilling and some scary radio shows that let one use their imagination.

In comment 16222937 carpoon said:

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Lights out and sneaking a peak at the air raid warden walking down the middle of the street. The ration books and the red and blue tokens given as change. The thrill of V-E day and then the thrill of V-J day. Thrilling and some scary radio shows that let one use their imagination.

Was hoping you’d chime in - nice to see you

In comment 16223024 bluefin said:

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In comment 16222937 carpoon said: Quote: Lights out and sneaking a peak at the air raid warden walking down the middle of the street. The ration books and the red and blue tokens given as change. The thrill of V-E day and then the thrill of V-J day. Thrilling and some scary radio shows that let one use their imagination. Was hoping you’d chime in - nice to see you

We studied outlines of German warplanes and learned how to report sightings (that never happened).

In comment 16222888 M.S. said:

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Candy Dots Lik*m*aid Gold Mine Bubble Gum Sweet Tarts Fruit Stripe Gum Bonomo's Turkish Taffy Candy Necklace Pez

well played
also Black Jack Gum
De soto's

Packing wheel bearings

Paper routes

Tobogganing

Devil's night

Grandma's for Sunday Gravy...every Sunday

Riding my Schwinn Stingray

Outside all the time

Noon whistle, get home for lunch.

5 o'clock whistle, get home for dimner.

Before semiconductors tubes handled the connections (think light bulb things). When you turned on the system it would have to warm up to get going, so the music would "rev up" from no sounds to loud over like 10 seconds or so. Are these systems were all in one cabinet which would look good against a wall.

To the spokes of bicycles to make a flapping sound.

They were a treat

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Between the rear window and rear seat of the car. Yeah way before seats belts haha