These things. They go over your shoes and are stylish and/or protective of their shine. Marching bands still wear them.
<Clark Griswold>It’s a non-nutritive ceral varnish…</Clark Griswold>
Jello Pudding Pops.
Candy/chocolate cigarettes.
The candy ones are still around. The gum ones with the powdered sugar “smoke” I haven’t seen in ages, and I’ve never seen a chocolate one.
An article of footwear that buttones around the ankle and shoe and came down over the top part of the shoe, covering the laces.
Fromm Merriam-Webster online: “noun: a cloth covering (a legging) that provides covering for the instep and ankles.”
[Total hijack] Someone above mentioned the Sinclair dinosaur. One time my wife and I were making the annual trip from California back to Iowa and were getting a little short of gas. We were about 50-60 miles from the town of Sinclair, Wyoming where there was a big Sinclair refinery. I thought that gasoline would be cheaper there than elsewhere in highway 30, so I kept going. We made it and filled up.
Most expensive gas anywhere on our route.[/Total hijack]
This isn’t that old, but Zantigos - not fricking Taco Hell, who bought them out (actually Pepsi did the buying). They had an item called a taco burrito that actually contained some food and had some flavor.
Also seconding Burger Chef - only place that served hamburgers in clear plastic bags. Yummy.
But what I really miss is vintage Sesame Street (not for me, for the kids I’ll be having soon) (well, okay, maybe I’d watch a little just for old time’s sake). They used to show footage of hippies living in communes, no one wearing any shoes. And the kids actually played on Sesame Street & not in an apartment, which is apparently too dangerous these days. But my favorite bit was the white dots on the black background (or was it black on white?) that would fill the screen in amusing patterns. None of this high-tech crap. Also enjoyed the footage of factory field trips, going to see how things are made - apparently since we’re no longer a manufacturing society that kind of footage is pointless (not sure why they haven’t dropped in to visit you programmers!).
You know I bet that’s it! Thank you! That is such a vivid memory for me for some reason and it always drove me crazy that I could never remember what exactly the show was.
Sternvogel, my father still has a Charley Chip can that he uses for his chips. Buys a big bag of chips and empties them into the can. I forgot all about that! Sadly we can’t get those chips around here so he fills it with Ruffles.
E.G. Marshall’s Radio Mystery Theatre*. I used to listen to that back in the '70s. I think it was on an NBC station, but it might have been CBS. My favourite episode was The White Wolf of the Hartz Mountains, about a sickly man terrorized by a werewolf.
I also remember one where a scientist and his assistant went to the future. It was a rough ride, and the scientist was killed. The assistant was founs guilty of murder and sentenced to “Show Biz”. In the future they don’t use special effects, and the on-screen carnage is real!
Oh yeah… I’ve seen Charle’s Chips vans on the freeway recently. I love their salt’n’vinegar chips!
2 stroke is well and alive here in Denmark, lots of mopeds and scooters around.
I myself own this old nowhere near original looking
1977 Yamaha FS1 moped
Hand-crank telephones with separate hand-held earpiece and fixed mouthpiece
Carbon paper
Lawn Darts
That “water wiggle” toy thing that hooked up to your hose and got you wet as it flailed about - that thing would find its way around your neck and choke you.
mmm, Jello Pudding Pops. I seriously miss French’s Sweet & Sour Sauce—the perfect accompaniment to french fries. The McDonald’s sauce just isn’t the same.
I love Shrinky Dinks! Also, fuzzy stickers. How come you can’t find those anymore??
I was about to say Howard Johnson’s Restaurants.
There’s only eight HoJos left in the world and one of them is in Atlantic City.
Gino’s fast food
Full sized Jeep Grand Wagoneers
Jeep CJs with V8 engines and full time 4wd
International Harvester pick-ups and SUVs
mini- corvette Opel GTs
Ford Big-Block SOHCs and BOSSes
There are Dairy Queens in Chelsea (just south of Atlantic City), in the Shore Mall (in Pleasantville), and ONE BLOCK FROM MY HOUSE!
I miss Jell-o Pudding Pops also.
And Hostess Ding-Dongs, and Fruit Pies made out of and chock full of real fruit, not fruit-jel and a little fruit. And Hostess Pudding Pies - Chocolate, Butterscotch, Lemon, and Vanilla - if you need.
I miss the original Trix and Lucky Charms Cereals, yeah they still make them, but they are different than when I was a kid. Trix -was fruity and round, not fruit shaped and tastes fruit-like. Lucky Charms - I liked the original shapes and the cereal doesn’t taste the same.
grump: I have a nice set of lawn darts. When I move, I’ll even have a lawn!
Enola Straight: My CJ has a 4-cylinder “Go-Devil” engine. (It’s a CJ2A. 
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Hot Shoppes Restaurants
5 and 10 cent stores like Murphy’s, McCrory’s and Woolworths(dollar stores just aren’t the same)
Televisions with 2 dials–one for VHF and one for UHF
7-digit dialing (where I live)
Sticker books (ones where you would buy the book, then buy packs of stickers at the grocery store to fill it out)
When I lived in Lancaster, CA in the 1970s and into the 1980s, we only had to dial five digits. All of the numbers had either a 948- prefix or a 943- prefix, so you’d dial 3-1212 or 8-1212 (for example). Palmdale, seven miles away, was 947, and it was long-distance; so you had to dial 1-947-1212 and you were charged for a long-distance call.
That’s what I ate for dinner last night.
I found Beeman’s Gum on sale at a general store a couple of weeks ago in Ohio Amish Country. I think there’s a company that cranks out a few cases occasionally for food-nostalgia-types. Bought a whole sheetload of it. Yum, pepsin!
Ice Cream cones cereal.
Man that stuff was good.