Today is Jog Your Memory Day. Being a Baby Boomer, there were many things that were very different in the day. Inflation is now in overdrive and technology, for better or for worse, is skyrocketing faster than anyone day could have imagined back then. There is one thing many of us Boomers will agree on. “They just don’t make things like they used to,” and that it is a “throw away society” today. Some things were just a lot more fun, longer lasting, less expensive with greater durability, and we fixed things. What do you remember of that precious time so long ago?
Does anyone remember what this is for? 
What strange object lay upon the floor of your car at the left corner. Should I tell you? It was an easy, keep your hands on the steering wheel gadget to click on high beams or click on low beams. There are just to many things on the steering column these days. How simple it was to just click with your toe. One gadget, one function, one toe. Simple!
Candy selection was amazing at the penny candy counter which really did exist. Sometimes, one could get two pieces of candy for a penny. Saturday afternoons were the best time of the week. With a friend, I would head off to the movies. If I remember correctly, it was twenty-five cents to get in. Loved Sinbad, Jason and the Argonauts, House on Haunted Hill, Pit and the Pendulum. 
Fantasy and scary were my genres. We never bought our snacks at the theater. We went right next door to the Fruit Store making all our selections at the penny candy cabinet. Awesome or what!!!! There is was Amherst Cinema and in the forefront at the empty windows the Fruit Store was housed. One of the places that basically looks the same as when I was a kid growing up. Back then, we walked to the theater and back home again (in a foot of snow up hill both ways). Was only two blocks from the center of town and still across the street from farm land. Life was so different then. Used to walk to and from school and parents never needed to worry about a single thing.
Remember these shoes? Saddle shoes that had to be polished. 
They were made of good leather and lasted forever. That price was top dollar then. Not to forget penny loafers. I particularly liked the oxblood color. These, too had to be polished as they were all leather. Wore like iron. 
These were two staples in a girls wardrobe back then.
Yes, we wore the white bobby socks with dresses to school. No pants. If you lived in the north, as I did, you would slip a pair of pants on under the dress so you could walk to school.
This one is good. The old registers we used to have. No scanner, no bar codes, not even price checkers in the aisle. 
Check-out was a bit cumbersome back in those days. Paper bags were great. Much better than plastic of these days.
Just wish we had been recycle conscious. Also, we used to get useful gifts stuffed into our detergent boxes. I remember my mother getting these towels and they were great, especially as they were a name brand item. Maybe you remember Duz and their give away. 
My Haviland china was bought in the grocery store for pennies in the late 60’s. Buy a pice or two a week and next thing you knew there was a serving for eight with all the serving dishes. Cheer was giving away steak knives. I will not even go into the myriad of nifty toys being given away in cereal boxes. Though, I would like to mention the the records that were imprinted on the back of boxes. A great tune or story to listen to. That was every kids gold. Cereal box treasures are a topic on their own.
Though this video is 58 minutes, it was a blast to watch. If not only for the movie projector at the beginning. What a dinosaur. The rest is all memories of how things were advertised at that time. Also, I remember having an Annie Oakley double holster cap gun set.
Here is to a thorn in my side. The death of the pay phone. Remember pay phones? I curse the day of the cell phone came out. So miss the pay phone for emergencies. When I’m out of the house, it is to shop or relax not drag along my phone to be interrupted by or intruded upon. Not to be tracked down or kept track of. Not to visit people who constantly monitor every going on with their cell phones. I enjoyed visiting with people who were unattached. All I ever need a phone for when I leave my home is for an emergency. I was taught to stay off the phone at work. That time is long gone when every time you turn around at work people were check on who was doing what with who and where. Forget actually doing a job and remaining focused. My boss said I’m a dying breed. I guess I am. I owned a pay phone for a while but soon got rid of the greatest pain in the neck I ever owned. 
R.I.P my dear pay phone.
Give me a guess on this one. What in the world was this used for. I know but do you?
A very simple yet important item back in its day.
It’s been a great walk down memory lane. We will have to do this again real soon.
“To fill the hour──that is happiness.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson
We were busy back then when life, as far as I am concerned, was a lot more fulfilling. Hard work and dedication in every aspect. Think about it.