Boomer Blast From The Past: Nostalgic Photos To Stir Memories (30 PICS)

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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:

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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:



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Kasey 3 month s ago
#1 how meny boomers took a spoonful and just put it in their mouth?
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
       
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Assene 3 month s ago
Kasey,

I did. I’m 51.
       
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Estelle 3 month s ago
Kasey,57 here and I also did. The key was trying not to breathe in while you took a spoonful.
       
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Thursa 3 month s ago
Kasey,

So this is an old-fart site?
       
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Brina 3 month s ago
#14 I still have two of the Archies records, 'Sugar, Sugar' and 'Bang-Shang-A-Lang'; and they still play.
       
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Kasey 3 month s ago
#17 Adam from "mythbusters" was in those commercials
       
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Hattie 3 month s ago
#5 As an early Gen X'er, I had one with the stick shift on the top tube. Kids like me then played all day with no parental supervision and came home when it was time for supper. Children and young adults today don't know what true freedom is. We grew up to be strong, independent and resilient. We were the last, truly free generation, and we were proud of it.
       
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Ance 3 month s ago
       
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Aldrich 3 month s ago
Ance, I like your comment, too many downvotes. Boomers at least had ideals (even though they were insane and destructive), but wtf does gen x live for? That generation isn't even useful as a bad example.
       
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Yulan 3 month s ago
#14 - I’d forgotten those - my friends and I though5 they were so cool but they were always cheap cr#p dance3
       
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Claire 2 month s ago
#25 - they weren't for your convenience, the mirrors were angled because that was for store security, before the invention of security cameras.

Walgreens still has this setup to this day, AND security cameras
       
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