I remember when.....

[3fingers]

Wax-coated milk cartons with a foil strip over the opening you had to tear off before you could get at the milk.

Also, waxed 1 gallon cartons of milk. As a kid they were hard to pour out of without making a mess until they came out with the holder gizmo with the handle on it. Boy, did that save me a bunch of trouble.

 

[jamespowers]

Candy cigarettes.

I can remember buying these once as a kid from a shop in a nearby village. My friend lived in said village, so she bought candy every week. I had never gone into a shop to buy candy as a kid by myself because I lived miles outside of the nearby village and my parents weren't big on buying stuff they didn't consume. (Also, now that I think about it I didn't get an allowance either, so... no money to buy candy on my own.) When we walked by her house we hid the candy cigarettes just in case her grandmother looked out and thought we were smoking.

Candy cigarettes are still available. They were hilarious in the sense that if you blew threw them just right, the powdered sugar would come out like a cloud of smoke from the end. It nearly fooled my father once. He thought it was pretty funny when he realized they were candy---actually, I think they were gum…..

 

[jamespowers]

Organized sports for kids were the exception rather than the rule.

Having to re-lace your old hand-me-down mitt.

Ghost runners.

You bought the bubble gum pack for the gum, the baseball cards were just a bonus.

Goo-goo clusters.

No one sliced open a watermelon, you just busted it open on the ground.

Chinaberry fights.

Lawn darts.

You opened a watermelon on the ground! :doh:

 

[HudsonHawk]

You opened a watermelon on the ground! :doh:

What's your point?

 

[sheeplady]

Candy cigarettes are still available. They were hilarious in the sense that if you blew threw them just right, the powdered sugar would come out like a cloud of smoke from the end. It nearly fooled my father once. He thought it was pretty funny when he realized they were candy---actually, I think they were gum…..

Yeah, but they're not marketed as "candy cigarettes" anymore... they're candy sticks.

Sure..... candy STICKs.

 

[hatguy1]

Yeah, I'd forgotten about breaking melons open on the ground. But, yep; saw that several times at picnics and other gatherings back when I was a kid.


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[rjb1]

You don't have to (only) remember Goo Goo Clusters. They still make them in huge quantities. The factory is about 15 minutes away from where I am at the moment.
Just for curiosity, does everyone know/remember what a "Goo Goo" is?
They used to be a prime sponsor of the Grand Ole Opry. To the tune of: "Shave and a hair cut, two bits." - "Go get a Goo Goo, it's good." (There used to be a big billboard downtown with: "Nashville - Home of Goo Goo" on it.)

 

[Gregg Axley]

They also sell the GGC at Cracker Barrel.
A former neighbor of mine loved those, and moon pies as well.
When I say love, I meant several a day. :eeek:

 

[Sefton]

I remember being sent to the store as a six or seven year old by my mother. She'd give me half a dollar and say "Get me a pack of cigarettes and you can keep the change." And I remember the clerk selling me that pack of cigarettes, no questions asked, because they knew my mother. I'd buy a bottle of soda with the change and think I was doing pretty well.

I had a similar routine when I was about 9 years old: a nice elderly lady who lived a few doors down from our house would give me a couple of bucks if I would bring here a pack of smokes from the corner store. The change was enough to buy a comic book and a candy bar. Today the store clerk would call the cops on her and I'd end up in the custody of the State (which is certainly worse than merely smoking!).

 

[HudsonHawk]

They also sell the GGC at Cracker Barrel.
A former neighbor of mine loved those, and moon pies as well.
When I say love, I meant several a day. :eeek:

Really? I'll have to go to Cracker Barrel, just for the GGC. I haven't seen one in years.

Moon Pies are a food of the gods.

 

[skydog757]

I remember getting homemade caramel apples and popcorn balls for Halloween. From complete strangers, no less.

 

[green papaya]

I remember back when a kid was lucky just to have $5.00 or $10.00 that would be like winning the lottery to a kid back then , these days kids can buy $300 - $500 items on their parents Ebay account like it's nothing, have all the latest Smart Phones & gadgets, laptops, Tablets, etc

I remember when a teacher or principle could dicipline your kid for misbehaving, they could slap you, they could shake you like a rag doll, they could use a paddle or belt and whip the kid

these days they cant touch them or they will get arrested

 

[Gregg Axley]

Really? I'll have to go to Cracker Barrel, just for the GGC. I haven't seen one in years.

Moon Pies are a food of the gods.

No, it can be delivered to you.
48 count Moon Pie variety pack...
http://www.amazon.com/Moon-Pie-Mini-Variety-count/dp/B004CH7WJE/ref=sr_1_7?s=grocery&ie=UTF8&qid=1394969098&sr=1-7&keywords=goo+goo+clusters
Goo Goo clusters (the supreme variety) 12 count....
http://www.amazon.com/GooGoo-Cluster-Supreme-12-count/dp/B0053GIVFW/ref=sr_1_2?s=grocery&ie=UTF8&qid=1394969244&sr=1-2&keywords=goo+goo+clusters
I'd stock up before summer, because you don't want to ship anything perishable during the summer.

 

[LizzieMaine]

I remember back when a kid was lucky just to have $5.00 or $10.00 that would be like winning the lottery to a kid back then , these days kids can buy $300 - $500 items on their parents Ebay account like it's nothing, have all the latest Smart Phones & gadgets, laptops, Tablets, etc

I remember the first time I was allowed to *hold* a $20 bill. I was awestruck. I had no idea that amount of money existed.

 

[Tomasso]

I remember my father paying for a family dinner (for five) in one of the best restaurants in Chicago with a $20 and getting change back.

 

[Touchofevil]

I remember collecting bottles to turn in for money at the local store so we could buy a half a gallon of ice cream and a bottle of root beer. We thought we were the luckiest kids alive as we walked around the neighborhood eating our root beer floats straight out of the carton.

 

[Dan Allen]

Heaven forbid if a kid were to play mumble peg on the playground at recess. I remember the school having tournaments. There would be swatt teams involved today

 

[HudsonHawk]

Heaven forbid if a kid were to play mumble peg on the playground at recess. I remember the school having tournaments. There would be swatt teams involved today

Knives at elementary school were pretty much banned by the time I got there in the early 70's. For good reason, IMO.

 

[hatguy1]

Knives at elementary school were pretty much banned by the time I got there in the early 70's. For good reason, IMO.

Our high school didn't have any such ban in the late 1970s. We even had kids who had rifles in the gun racks of their trucks. AND...there was never an issue with any of it. People knew how to behave themselves better back in those days.

 

[LizzieMaine]

Knives at elementary school were pretty much banned by the time I got there in the early 70's. For good reason, IMO.

Knives were common during most of my grammar school years -- both Boy and Girl Scouts wore them on clips hanging from their belts as part of their uniforms, which were always worn to school on meeting days -- but they were banned when I was in the sixth grade, out of concern that a certain group of sixth-grade boys was carving "gang symbols" into the backs of their hands with the blades. Which they were, in fact, doing.