Older Than Dirt

[Boxlicker101]

Nah! We had it in Florida when I was a kid. Beeman's manufactured it and it's still being made today.

How about Dubble Bubble?

I remember Double-Bubble quite well. It was a pink block, and cost a penny, and there were two wrappers. One had the logo and the other had a comic strip. One of the characters in the strip was named Pud, and I think one was named Skinny. God, I must have had a crummy life to remember crap like that!

ETA: I remember Blackjack Gum was licorice flavor. Remember Dots Candy? It came on a paper strip and was tiny dots, that you would bite off. We had a party line, and we would pick up the phone and a voice would ask "Number Please?" and we would tell her the number we wanted.

In all honesty, this was a private phone company. The larger cities around us had dial phones.

 

[voluptuary_manque]

how about Teaberry?

I had a friend with a Studebaker but it was in the middle 70's, so I didn't count that one, or the Packard. Cars I knew nothing about until my marriage, when the ex taught me more than I ever wanted to know.

I don't remember ever having milk delivered either.

Those were my three.

Huh! The first car I remember was a Packard and the first new car we ever owned was a Studebaker. But I remember both Teaberry and Double Bubble gum.

 

[kimbalee]

Huh! The first car I remember was a Packard and the first new car we ever owned was a Studebaker. But I remember both Teaberry and Double Bubble gum.

I love the Teaberry, but it's hard to find here now. I get a couple whenever I see them.

 

[_Lynn_]

Huh! The first car I remember was a Packard and the first new car we ever owned was a Studebaker. But I remember both Teaberry and Double Bubble gum.

There was another gum too. Teaberry, blackjack and clover/clove. It was my favorite.

 

[TE999]

I remember Double-Bubble quite well. It was a pink block, and cost a penny, and there were two wrappers. One had the logo and the other had a comic strip. One of the characters in the strip was named Pud, and I think one was named Skinny. God, I must have had a crummy life to remember crap like that!

Heh! You have a retentive memory, is all. I remember Bazooka bubble gum and the 'Bazooka Joe' comic strips on the wrappers. I collected those things and put 'em in a scrapbook...I liked the artwork.

 

[voluptuary_manque]

I remember the Katzenjammer Kids in the L.A. Examiner, Tarzan, Flash Gordon, Prince Valiant and one from a paper in Helena, MT called "Kevin the Bold". Great artwork in all of them.

 

[TE999]

I love the Teaberry, but it's hard to find here now. I get a couple whenever I see them.

Remember the Teaberry Shuffle played by Herb Alpert and the Tiajuana Brass from the commercials in the 70's?

 

[TE999]

I remember the Katzenjammer Kids in the L.A. Examiner, Tarzan, Flash Gordon, Prince Valiant and one from a paper in Helena, MT called "Kevin the Bold". Great artwork in all of them.

Those were great strips. How 'bout 'Terry and the Pirates' and 'Steve Canyon' by Milt Caniff? 'Barnaby' by Crockett Johnson and 'Smilin' Jack' by Zack Mosley?

 

[john-the-author]

I had a friend with a Studebaker but it was in the middle 70's, so I didn't count that one, or the Packard. Cars I knew nothing about until my marriage, when the ex taught me more than I ever wanted to know.

I don't remember ever having milk delivered either.

Those were my three.

I also had a good friend in the 70s with a Studebaker truck that was a gem and I remember looking at a used Studebaker truck with him at a car lot near where I was living at the time, too. But I didn't count that or Packards for the same reason.

I got 21 of 25.

 

[voluptuary_manque]

Those were great strips. How 'bout 'Terry and the Pirates' and 'Steve Canyon' by Milt Caniff? 'Barnaby' by Crockett Johnson and 'Smilin' Jack' by Zack Mosley?

Barnaby and Smilin' Jack never made it into the Basin but Terry and the Pirates gave me a fetish for sexy, sinister women that has never dissapated. Long live the Dragon Lady.

http://i264.photobucket.com/albums/ii177/1volupturary_manque/dragon3.jpg

 

[kimbalee]

Remember the Teaberry Shuffle played by Herb Alpert and the Tiajuana Brass from the commercials in the 70's?

no, I don't remember those, but I did get Bazooka Bubble Gum at the corner store every morning before I got on the bus for 3 cents each. we used to see who got the best comic and trade them back and forth on the bus.

and those little chocolate coated candies called sixlets... and Swedish red fish, candy buttons on that register receipt kind of paper (and when you pealed them off you said what the heck and ate the paper that always stuck to the back of them) and wax lips, and candy necklaces, lollipop rings, pixie sticks, lik-a-stiks, pop rocks... man I ate a lot of candy.

 

[TE999]

ETA: I remember Blackjack Gum was licorice flavor. Remember Dots Candy? It came on a paper strip and was tiny dots, that you would bite off.

Sure do. Also Good N' Plenty, Junior Mints, Necco wafers, Bit O' Honey, JuJubes and lollypop whistles. I saw all that stuff and lots more in an old general store on Cape Cod a few years ago.

 

[glynndah]

P.F. Flyers? Thas the only one, Radio Flyer wagons?

Boston Blackie on the radio?

& The Shadow Knows!

gads...

amicus...

P. F. Flyers were sneakers, sweetie. BlackJack gum was great. Just one stick and your mouth, lips and teeth were a gross grey color for hours!

22 for me. I knew all of them, but can't actually remember the cars.

 

[TE999]

no, I don't remember those, but I did get Bazooka Bubble Gum at the corner store every morning before I got on the bus for 3 cents each. we used to see who got the best comic and trade them back and forth on the bus.

and those little chocolate coated candies called sixlets... and Swedish red fish, candy buttons on that register receipt kind of paper (and when you pealed them off you said what the heck and ate the paper that always stuck to the back of them) and wax lips, and candy necklaces, lollipop rings, pixie sticks, lik-a-stiks, pop rocks... man I ate a lot of candy.

When eatin' all that sugar made us hyper, the teachers would just make us sit in the cloakroom...nowdays you'd be diagnosed as ADD and put on Ritalin.

 

[voluptuary_manque]

P.F. Flyers? Thas the only one, Radio Flyer wagons?

Boston Blackie on the radio?

& The Shadow Knows!

gads...

amicus...

Don't forget "Johnny Dollar". That used to be the dinner hour's standard entertainment!

 

[amicus]

P. F. Flyers were sneakers, sweetie. BlackJack gum was great. Just one stick and your mouth, lips and teeth were a gross grey color for hours!

22 for me. I knew all of them, but can't actually remember the cars.[/

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I think we couldn't afford the PF Flyers, but, ahm, 'Converse' or something like that...we called em Gym Shoes and the only time we wore them was in the gymnasium so as not to mar the floor with grit from normal shoes, (or cow manure)

Thanks to DG Hear for this trip down memory lane...nice...ahm, nostalgic...

Ami

 

[cantdog]

According to the quiz I'm older than dirt. 16 out of 25.

But I don't remember those days with any great fondness.

Got 'em all.

 

[TE999]

Don't forget "Johnny Dollar". That used to be the dinner hour's standard entertainment!

We listened to Ozzie and Harriet and Jack Benny during supper...not good to laugh while eating but we didn't care.

 

[DG Hear]

Don't forget "Johnny Dollar". That used to be the dinner hour's standard entertainment!

We had Gracie and Allen on the radio along with the Lone Ranger. Milkey's party time was a clown show in Mich. I was on it with the cub scouts. I talked to Soupy Sales while I was there.

I went to an oldies party a few years back (in Mich) and they had all the old candies, including squirels, mary janes (candy), black jack and many others. They also own a 7 oz. bottled coke machine. There is a place in Kentucky and Texas that still bottles them. Rather expensive though.

Lots of memories for an old guy.

 

[glynndah]

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I think we couldn't afford the PF Flyers, but, ahm, 'Converse' or something like that...we called em Gym Shoes and the only time we wore them was in the gymnasium so as not to mar the floor with grit from normal shoes, (or cow manure)

Thanks to DG Hear for this trip down memory lane...nice...ahm, nostalgic...

Ami

Red Ball Keds were the gold standard of tennis shoes when I was a little girl. You could "run faster and jump higher". We begged for those as kids. We got ones that started with K, all right. Kresge's. *sigh*

 

[cantdog]

Red Ball Keds were the gold standard of tennis shoes when I was a little girl. You could "run faster and jump higher". We begged for those as kids. We got ones that started with K, all right. Kresge's. *sigh*

Red Ball Jets.

Keds were different.

 

[DG Hear]

Red Ball Keds were the gold standard of tennis shoes when I was a little girl. You could "run faster and jump higher". We begged for those as kids. We got ones that started with K, all right. Kresge's. *sigh*

I remember when Wonder bread helped build strong bodies 8 ways, then 10 ways, then 12 ways, now they say it's bad for you. Oh well.

We wore those black gym shoes. Don't recall the name but they were cheap. haha

 

[glynndah]

Red Ball Jets.

Keds were different.

Really? No wonder we never got any! I've been thinking my mother was just cheap all these years.

 

[amicus]

Gadzooks, there's an old one for you Joe Palooka...I thought I was the oldest dirt clod around here, guess not....

ami

 

[voluptuary_manque]

Gadzooks, there's an old one for you Joe Palooka...I thought I was the oldest dirt clod around here, guess not....

ami

Uh-uh! You'd be amazed . . .