BABY BOOMER QUIZ & AGE BAROMETER

1. Blackjack chewing gum
2. Wax Coke-shaped bottles with colored sugar water
3. Candy cigarettes
4. Soda pop machines that dispensed bottles
5. Hamburger joints with tableside jukeboxes
6. Home milk delivery in glass bottles with cardboard stoppers
7. Party lines
8. Newsreels before the movie
9. Slingshots
10. Butch wax
11. Telephone numbers with a word prefix (DIckens 5-4692 STate 0-6575)
12. Peashooters
13. Howdy Doody
14. 45 RPM records
15. S&H Green Stamps
16. Hi-fi's
17. Metal ice trays with levers & aluminum drinking cups
18. Mimeograph paper (or even carbon paper)
19. Blue flashbulbs
20. Amos and Andy
21. Roller skate keys
22. Cork popguns
23. Drive-in movie theaters
24. 25 Cent Matinee's
25. Wash tub wringers
26. Dr. Ross Dogfood
27. Penny Candy
28. Studebakers
29. Helm's Bakery Truck visiting your neighborhood
30. Sheriff John "Put Another Candle on Your Birthday Cake..."
31. Engineer Bill (Couldn't drink milk without his red light/green light game)
32. Incinerators behind your garage or near your alley
33. "Woody" stationwagons
34. Stanley, Stanley, Stanley Chevrolet,
Two blocks off the Santa Ana Freeway,
1-1-9-8-0 East Firestone,
Stanley Chevrolet!
35.
U.S. flag with 48 stars
36. Outdoor laundry drying lines & wooden clothes pins
37. Oscar Myer weiner whistles

38. Rabbits feet key chains
39. Jacks

40. Spinning tops
41. yo-yo's
42. hula hoops
43. Slip 'n Slides
44. step on a crack,break your mother's back
45. Bazooka Joe bubble gum
46. Peddle pushers
47. muumuu dresses


If you remembered 0-5 = You're still young (or you're bland & boring, not unlike Rob Curry)
Can you add to this list ? Please e-mail Derrick Garbell


Thanks to:

Leslie Sutherland, Reseda High '70

Patricia Hunter, Reseda High '69

Stu Allen

Lorna Dunn O'Cana Reseda High '69

Sue Grossman, Reseda High '69

Bob Fox
© 1995-2007 Derrick Garbell
Back-dated 28 July 2009

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