# Nostalgia for the little things **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [December 28, 2010, 9:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nostalgia-for-the-little-things/565651 "2010-12-28T21:47:51Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![dada2fish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ccd318/32.png) [@dada2fish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dada2fish)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2010, 12:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nostalgia-for-the-little-things/565651/41 "2010-12-31T00:27:33Z")
Ha! That image of Koogle shows an expiration date of June 6, 1975. Struck me as funny! ---
**Author:** ![salinqmind](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3ec8ea/32.png) [@salinqmind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/salinqmind)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2010, 1:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nostalgia-for-the-little-things/565651/42 "2010-12-31T01:14:06Z")
> [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](#): > > Raisin Biscuits. > > Called by the British Garibaldi Biscuits. This one always comes up in these threads, and in my OCD way I am compelled to advise that these are available at an exorbitant price from the Vermont Country Store catalog. ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2010, 1:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nostalgia-for-the-little-things/565651/43 "2010-12-31T01:34:36Z")
> [@elmwood](#): > > Free air at gas stations. I was getting free air over at the BP near me…until about 6 months ago. It’s 25 cents, now. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![lisalan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/0ea827/32.png) [@lisalan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lisalan)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2010, 3:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nostalgia-for-the-little-things/565651/44 "2010-12-31T15:11:54Z")
> [@madmonk28](#): > > I came in here to mention those, how random is that? Also, the candy that was essentially powdered sugar and a candy tongue depressor that you licked and dipped in the sugar. You know that stuff is still around. It’s called FUN DIP. ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2010, 3:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nostalgia-for-the-little-things/565651/45 "2010-12-31T15:20:00Z")
Here’s one I remember since it’s New Year’s Eve. When I was little, I used to love sitting up listening to the radio on this night as they counted down the top songs of the year. They always timed it to where #1 played just before midnight. I’m guessing that sort of thing has probably gone by the wayside now. ---
**Author:** ![shellofmyformerself](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/5f8ce5/32.png) [@shellofmyformerself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/shellofmyformerself)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2010, 3:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nostalgia-for-the-little-things/565651/46 "2010-12-31T15:23:07Z")
> [@astorian](#): > > I miss those little candy dots (“buttons”) that were stuck on to rolls of paper. I haven’t seen those since I was a little kid on New York. Also, if you have a Cracker Barrel near you, they sell them in the store. ---
**Author:** ![WhyNot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c77e96/32.png) [@WhyNot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WhyNot)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2010, 3:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nostalgia-for-the-little-things/565651/47 "2010-12-31T15:46:33Z")
Ooh, **Siam Sam** ’s post reminded me. There was a radio show I used to listen to with my mom on New Year’s Eve, I think on NPR. It had all sorts of fun and silly (and a few naughty!) songs. I remember hearing “The Scotsman” on it every year, and the look on her face the first year she realized I “got it” was priceless. (I’m sure the look on \*my \*face was just as funny!) Midnight…something? Edition? Express? Help me out here, Old Timers! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![rowrrbazzle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rowrrbazzle/32/414_2.png) [@rowrrbazzle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rowrrbazzle)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2011, 5:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nostalgia-for-the-little-things/565651/48 "2011-01-01T05:14:12Z")
Taking glass soda bottles to the corner penny candy store and getting the deposit back in candy. > [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](#): > > Paper straws you could unwind. > > A simple pleasure. If they were waxed, you could light them with a match and have a mini flame thrower or blow lots of smoke (NEVER inhaled). > [@elmwood](#): > > Free air at gas stations. There are two I know of about a mile away from me. They’re within 2 blocks of each other. Three others nearer to me do charge (different amounts). ---
**Author:** ![scratch\_llll](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9fc348/32.png) [@scratch\_llll](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scratch_llll)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2011, 6:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nostalgia-for-the-little-things/565651/49 "2011-01-01T06:50:22Z")
Aurora monster models. Search for the Stolen Idol GI Joe. Bannana seat bikes. Friday Night Fright Flicks. Feeling as if everything was taken care of and all I had to do was catch fireflys. ---
**Author:** ![Zsofia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/7bcc69/32.png) [@Zsofia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zsofia)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2011, 7:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nostalgia-for-the-little-things/565651/50 "2011-01-01T07:07:14Z")
Something in the episode of the X Files got me and my boyfriend talking about those things from school you forget about, like how the teachers didn’t have phones and would send student aides around with the most trivial of messages, and in his schools they used the intercom to communicate ("%@#$@ Ms. Smith, please send John Doe to the principal’s office (long pause) MS SMITH ISN’T HERE) and at my schools that was only for the panic button which was always accidentally pushed (MR WATSON? Oh sorry, accident!) and we realized that now they must all have telephones and all, which would have prevented me as an aide from having to go down to Coach Thompson, who resembled a gorilla more than a human being, with a referral that claimed “David F\_\_\_\_ pretended the cardboard Eiffel Tower was his penis” with a straight face. Good times! Also, what the fuck are Jojo Potatoes? I have always wondered this, because the kids who didn’t get the free lunch wouldn’t have been caught dead in the lunch room so I just knew they were always on Fridays. ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2011, 8:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nostalgia-for-the-little-things/565651/51 "2011-01-01T08:12:26Z")
Gas for 25 cents a gallon . . . and someone pumping it for you. Being able to play baseball in the street, because cars were very infrequent. Those little threads in Band-Aid wrappers. Burning leaves in the fall. Defrosting a refrigerator. ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2011, 1:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nostalgia-for-the-little-things/565651/52 "2011-01-02T01:46:43Z")
I just dested our fridge this weekend. ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2011, 3:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nostalgia-for-the-little-things/565651/53 "2011-01-02T03:49:13Z")
> [@panache45](#): > > Those little threads in Band-Aid wrappers. Oh yeah! Those little red threads that helped rip open the paper. They don’t do that anymore. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2011, 3:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nostalgia-for-the-little-things/565651/54 "2011-01-02T03:50:24Z")
> [@Siam\_Sam](#): > > I just dested our fridge this weekend. What is that? ---
**Author:** ![WhyNot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c77e96/32.png) [@WhyNot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WhyNot)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2011, 4:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nostalgia-for-the-little-things/565651/55 "2011-01-02T04:05:59Z")
> [@Mahaloth](#): > > Oh yeah! Those little red threads that helped rip open the paper. They don’t do that anymore. ☹ Most of the time, they didn’t do it then! I hated those little red threads, which mostly pulled out without doing their job. ---
**Author:** ![saje](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/saje/32/3631_2.png) [@saje](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/saje)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2011, 4:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nostalgia-for-the-little-things/565651/56 "2011-01-02T04:35:16Z")
Wax paper liners in cereal and cracker boxes, and around Graham crackers. Social Tea cookies The car’s high beam switch on the floor The triangle vent window in cars Not having to worry about anything but getting my homework done and being home in time for dinner. ---
**Author:** ![Mrs.Cake](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/2acd7d/32.png) [@Mrs.Cake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mrs.Cake)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2011, 4:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nostalgia-for-the-little-things/565651/57 "2011-01-02T04:52:30Z")
Fifty cent kid’s double-feature matinees at the local theater. I don’t remember ever seeing an adult attend. Saw tons of movies, some of which probably shouldn’t have been a kiddie movie (_Blue Water, White Death_, a forerunner to _Jaws_ comes to mind). Where else could you see all the very worst in Disney live-action best-forgotten films like _Million-Dollar Duck_, _The Boatniks_, and _The Happiest Millionaire_ as the second feature to _Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea_, or _Around the World in 80 Days_. ---
**Author:** ![dwyr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dwyr/32/363_2.png) [@dwyr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dwyr)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2011, 5:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nostalgia-for-the-little-things/565651/58 "2011-01-02T05:15:32Z")
> [@WhyNot](#): > > Most of the time, they didn’t do it then! I hated those little red threads, which mostly pulled out without doing their job. Or in my case cutting my finger while trying to open the darned thing thus ensuring the need for another Band-Aid. Evilly clever. ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2011, 8:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nostalgia-for-the-little-things/565651/59 "2011-01-02T08:59:25Z")
> [@Mrs.Cake](#): > > Fifty cent kid’s double-feature matinees at the local theater. I don’t remember ever seeing an adult attend. Saw tons of movies, some of which probably shouldn’t have been a kiddie movie (_Blue Water, White Death_, a forerunner to _Jaws_ comes to mind). Where else could you see all the very worst in Disney live-action best-forgotten films like _Million-Dollar Duck_, _The Boatniks_, and _The Happiest Millionaire_ as the second feature to _Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea_, or _Around the World in 80 Days_. For us, it was 25 cents. We got to see double features of all the sci-fi movies of the 50s, plus cartoons and newsreels. ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2011, 2:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nostalgia-for-the-little-things/565651/60 "2011-01-03T02:38:53Z")
> [@Siam\_Sam](#): > > I just dested our fridge this weekend. > [@Mahaloth](#): > > What is that? “Defrosted.” It’s so hot here, the “frost” melted before I could hit Submit. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nostalgia-for-the-little-things/565651.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nostalgia-for-the-little-things/565651.md?page=4)