1.
Nestlé’s Quik that came in a tin container and required a spoon to pop open its lid:
2.
And Peter Pan Peanut Butter that game in a glass jar with a tin lid that was sometimes hard to grip:
4.
The Ed Sullivan Show, which aired on Sunday nights:
5.
Schwinn Sting-Ray bikes with the banana seats that everybody you knew seemed to own:
6.
Duck and cover drills, which were supposed to help you survive a nuclear attack…by hiding under your desk and covering your neck?
7.
Having your sandwiches you brought for lunch be wrapped in waxed paper:
8.
Elaborate Jell-O desserts that were served at every party you went to:
9.
And savory Jell-O being used to make Jell-O vegetable salads:
10.
Rolling Stone being a counterculture magazine:
11.
Bayer Aspirin packaged in tin pillboxes:
12.
And Prell shampoo when it came in a glass covered bottle:
13.
Floor ashtrays that were perfect to put next to a chair or sofa that didn’t have a side table:
14.
Promotional 45 records that came on cereal boxes:
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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:
16.
Colonel Sanders starring in Kentucky Fried Chicken commercials:
17.
Mr. Whipple in the “Please, don’t squeeze the Charmin!” Charmin commercials:
18.
Gas station attendants at full-service gas stations:
19.
The little seats inside of phone booths so that people could sit down while they made a call:
20.
Dr. Scholl’s wooden Exercise Sandals that came in the distinctive almost Kodak yellow box:
21.
Electric skillet frying pans, which were the air fryers of its era:
22.
Bankbooks, that you would get the day you opened your account and allowed you to keep track of deposits and withdrawals:
23.
Built-in 8-track players in a car’s center console:
24.
Howard Johnson’s restaurants, which were always a stop any time you went on a car trip:
25.
The slanted mirrors on the top of super market shelves that let you be able to see what was in the back:
26.
Super market clerks that would walk you out to your car if you needed help loading groceries into your car:
27.
Shopping for your Sunday best at Penneys:
28.
Ben Franklin stores, which were the five and dime that carried all the art and crafts supplies, party supplies, and stationery you could want:
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Coca-Cola machines that looked like this and sold you a Coke for a dime:
30.
And lastly, the TV test pattern screen that went up at midnight which meant that was the end of programming for day until the next morning:
Source: https://www.buzzfeed.com/briangalindo/very-nostalgic-photos-for-boomers-gd