If you remembered 6-10 = You are getting older
Tar
Slinky
Bazooka
45rpm
33 &1/3
Zorro
slingshots
Cisco Kid
8 tracks
Steam locomotives
Mighty Mouse cartoons
Howdy Doody
Saturday matinees w/Winkie bread wrapper admission
FLICK Your BIC marketing campaign
Mutnik
Sputnik
Telstar
Old Dutch Win-mill at BCTV studios on Saturday.
Thunderbird cartoon puppets.
Space 1999 the first talking heads show. Boring as hell.
Getting turned away from Dim Sum lunch by RCMP goons, because Trudeau was dining there. With Margaret. And a couple of your friends older brothers from SFU. And he smiled and shrugged.
American Bandstand on tv every day after school - hosted by Dick Clark
Seeing Elvis on the Ed Sullivan Show - before the hips were censored!
“I Love Lucy” on Mondays night at 9:00…allowed to stay up late if you were good
Saturday night “treat night” - to the corner store for chocolate bars…5 cents
Saturday movie matinees - ticket, popcorn & a drink for 50 cents
Babysitting for 35 cents/hour…some parents paid extra after midnight!
Summer baseball games in the vacant lot…carried over from day to day
Playing hopscotch…the bigger the squares the better, using beach glass as markers
Swimming at the gravel pit…hell to pay when parents found out!
Herds of kids hiking, riding bikes to get to the bush, lake, wherever…no one drove us!
Building forts in the bush…making slingshots, bows & arrows, spears to defend it!!
Floating down a creek in an old bathtub…sitting on the hole to keep water out
Catching frogs, tadpoles, toads, snakes and keeping in an old tub in the backyard
Saying the Lords Prayer and singing God Save the King/Queen every day in school
The Principal’s Office!!! The Strap!!! Ruler across the knuckles!!!
I’m definitely “older than dirt” and lovin’ it!!
Getting pawned on your teen-age auntie to act as min-chaperones, and you loved it cuz all her boyfriends had convertibles!