Nestlé's Quik that came in a tin container and required a spoon to pop open its lid:
And Peter Pan Peanut Butter that game in a glass jar with a tin lid that was sometimes hard to grip:
"Clicker" TV remotes:
The Ed Sullivan Show, which aired on Sunday nights:
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Schwinn Sting-Ray bikes with the banana seats that everybody you knew seemed to own:
Duck and cover drills, which were supposed to help you survive a nuclear attack...by hiding under your desk and covering your neck?
Having your sandwiches you brought for lunch be wrapped in waxed paper:
Elaborate Jell-O desserts that were served at every party you went to:
And savory Jell-O being used to make Jell-O vegetable salads:
Rolling Stone being a counterculture magazine:
Bayer Aspirin packaged in tin pillboxes:
And Prell shampoo when it came in a glass covered bottle:
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Floor ashtrays that were perfect to put next to a chair or sofa that didn't have a side table:
Promotional 45 records that came on cereal boxes:
Note pads that were hung on the wall next to the kitchen wall phone so that you could take a message or write down any information you needed:
i did, i'm 65
#11 during WW2 Bayer (a German company) used healthy jewish female prisoners to test pharmaceuticals on, when the test subjects died they'd ask for more. none survived
I did. I’m 51.
So this is an old-fart site?
Walgreens still has this setup to this day, AND security cameras