Most of those things were true for me. Although it was a paper bag for lunch, gas was 26¢/gallon during a gas war between Ohio and Kentucky. lol

My favorite fragrance was Muguet de Bois (lily of the valley)

My mom worked at our grade school so basically kept the same hours we did.

The rest is exactly how it was and it was pretty wonderful.

Many, but not all; some was before my time. I remember my dad would stop for gas and it was $0.50/gallon. HAHA yea that little triangular side window! I think it was technically for ventilation but certainly made it convenient for ash-flicking. And the HUGE cars!

You would have been the neighborhood weenie if you wore a bike helmet.

Was never into comic books, and no one in my family was a Trekkie. How I loved Wonder Woman with Lynda Carter in the mid-70s though! The special Christmas specials and the Olympics -- no spoilers back then, everybody watched it at broadcast time, and they were truly TV events.

My mom was a stay-at-home mom but did have a part-time job 1-2 days/week when the older kids could watch the younger kids, or grandma could baby-sit. No kid I knew *ever* went to daycare -- I don't even think there was such a thing back then, was there?

And the glorious freedom we had. Kids nowadays will just never experience this nor understand this. As long as mom had an idea of where we were going and who we'd be with, we were free to roam around the neighborhood, knocking on doors to see who come out to play or ride our bikes somewhere. Impromtu baseball and street hockey games (I really sucked at that so usually just watched), summer days that seemed to last forever with no sense of time other than dinner time and street-lights time (had to be home when it got dark). Looking back, it taught us life skills - I wouldn't trade growing up back then for anything.

Those nudie glasses where you add drinks and their clothes came off.

Dairy stores and candy stores in the neighborhood.

The Sun-In, Love's Baby Soft, teenage girls (and ladies) lying out in lawn chairs to tan to a dark brown crisp.

City kid here. Not every family had a car. We did, and I remember my dad doing runs to get the rest of the aunts, uncles and cousins to grandma's on Sunday for dinner.

Sneakers were "bad" for your feet.

Garter belts and girdles. Before pantihose.

Howdy Doody and Wonderama

One corded phone in the hall.

45 records and the stores that you went to to get them, after you heard them on AM radio. RIP Cousin Brucie (may be a NY thing)

Watching the Beatles on Ed Sullivan

I could go on forever.

Our skirts in 1968?had to touch the floor if we knelt on the floor, and yes, they made us kneel! In 1969, it was so cold, we could wear pant suits, but they had to have a matching vest or jacket.

I had been married three years before I could have my own credit card.

Even when I bought my Honda Odyssey in 2015, the salesman did not want to talk to me just my husband. He, bless him, said, ” It is not my car, talk to her!”

All our dogs ran loose in the neighborhood. None ever got lost, everyone knew whose dog they were. Our dog was getting fatter and we found out that she had a route each morning visiting neighbors' homes to get treats!

I remember Sat a.m. watching Fury, Sky King, Zorro, Lone Ranger and Whirlybirds.

I remember having only 3 networks to watch, PBS, plus 3 local out of NYC. I spent more time watching TV shows I disliked because it's what was on. I also remember looking forward to the Sept issue of TV guide where they had summaries of all the new shows. I'd study the schedule and figure out which shows I was going to watch on which nights. And I remember being frustrated because they'd start as school did so tv viewing had to compete with homework. And of course if you missed a show, you missed it. No recording. Maybe you got lucky and saw it in reruns. And then there were the summer fill in shows, my fave being the Smothers Brothers.

I remember being thrown out of the house if the weather was nice and having to come home when Mom rang the bell.

And something I wish I had now....as a kid, I'd get mad that we had to come in for supper as I was having such a good time! Nowadays, my life revolves around meal time.

I remember eating foods that would turn my stomach now...pop tarts, scooter pies, lucky charms, orange elephant peanut-shaped candy. Ugh!

I remember it was a *huge* deal if someone had a car with a clock -- which never worked right -- or FM stations -- or AC!

I remember my first transistor radio which I took to the beach with me, listening to Cousin Brucie, and my first digital clock radio with the numbers on tags that would flip over as the wheel turned.

And Paul was cute but I was nutty for George Harrison...

OMG, hobbitmom, yes to most! There was no doubt in my mind I’d marry Paul McCartney.🥰 Such a different world then.

A huge one for us here in SoCal is looking back at the prices of homes.😳 Young people could once actually afford a decent starter home. We thought the prices of homes back then were right where they should be.

Anyone remember Yardley of London products, Jean Shrimpton and Twiggy?

@chloebud... No. You are incorrect. He was going to marry me!! Instead he married Linda. It was OK (I guess) as he loved her dearly, and they were a good match. Then she died, and he married that horrid, awful gold digger gal with the one leg. She was only interested in how his $$$ could benefit her. He seems to be happy with wife # 3. They have been married for decades now with no drama.

captain kangaroo, mr. green jeans, moose!

and that woman on romper room who NEVER said MY name.

playing outside for hours and hours and knocking on the nearest door instead running home when we had to go potty.

putting playing cards in the spokes of our bicycle tires and mom having to constantly buy new clothes pins because we used them for that more important purpose.

coming home, running to the bathroom and locking the door so we could put bandaids on every cut/scrape we got so mom wouldn't see the carnage.

never paid much attention to little joe cartright but LOVED his horse!!!

grudgingly put a dress and patent leather shoes on every sunday because that's how girls dressed for church.

LOL, no marriage but there was also Jane Asher before Linda! Agree Linda was a good match and wife #3. #2 was very unfortunate.😠

I remember that the price of a loaf of bread always seemed to be about the same price as a gallon of gasoline. Mother would have us walk to the grocery store to pick up a few things, probably to get us out from under her feet. We also walked to the elementary school.

I started working as a store clerk when I was 15 and never stopped working until I retired. Of course, I only worked part-time during the school year, usually 4 - 5 hours on Mon - Thursday and 8 hours on Saturday. Our non-grocery stores were closed on Sunday and Friday nights were for school activities.

It's amazing to me that I could afford a car payment, insurance, gas, entertainment and most of my clothing on part-time minimum wages. I doubt there's any way to come close to that today.

I remember when people used to get dressed up to fly. I also remember when a flight from LA to San Francisco was less than $12.

Coming home for lunch.

School clothes, and after-school clothes (we didn’t wear uniforms, we just wore one kind of clothes for school and rough-and-tumble after).

When it was our parents’ turn to host bridge club. we kids put cigarettes in the various cigarette boxes while Dad filled the lighters, then we played with the lighters. Got to watch TV in their bedroom while the grown-ups played bridge, drank, ate, and smoked. In the morning, the house smelled of stale cigarette smoke, but the sugar cubes from the coffee were still out, and Mom and Dad were still asleep, so we ate sugar and built blanket forts with the furniture and card tables.

Dressing up for our friends’ birthday parties.

The day it blizzarded, but the school superintendent could get out of his driveway so school was on. No school buses running that day, so we walked the mile-and-a-half to junior high school. In pants. First time. and not the last, there was no going back.

Freedom. We explored along the creek, went ”uptown” to buy candy from the drugstore, explored everywhere on our bikes. To and from school on our own. Picking lilacs from the Montgomerys’ fence bushes, to give our teachers.

We had a game called ”Laid By”. No need to clutch your pearls! The sidewalks were stamped every so many squares with the emblem of the company that laid the concrete. The game was to step on the “Laid By” emblem.

Summers playing Shadow Tag after dinner, and Hide-and-Go-Seek at dusk, and chasing fireflies.

I even remember gas wars when we paid 25 cents a gallon in our old VW bug. I remember three-channel TV: CBS, NBC, and ABC. I remember Rod Serling and Alfred Hitchcock shows, which were spectacular with only one 30-second ad midway through. I remember my mother sending me to the A&P for a loaf of poppyseed bread for 21 cents and Woman Day magazine sold for a nickel. I loved Twiggy and since I was skinny like her I emulated her outfits and might have drawn in lahes. Loved the Beatles and saw them on Ed Sullivan. Still in love with Paul. Wore Lily of the Valley perfume and sometimes Chanel no 5 which I guess is still around. Also loved LOVE products around 1970.

Chloebud, I was in love with Yardley products. The lipsticks, eye shadows and cologne.

Me and my friend tried to duplicate "The Shrimp" and Twiggy's look.

London Mod was the thing. And I liked Ringo.

i dony knor why

These memories are fun. Yeah, I remember having a gorgeous tan was required. Dumb.