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X-ray macines in shoe stores to check the fit of kid's shoes. You stood on a little platform beneath a wooden box like affair and the shoe salesman or parents could look through some window things on the top of the machine. It must have been bad for kids, but the salesmen could only have...

Coming home everyday from grammar school for lunch, then going back. Do they let kids do that now? I guess that moms were pretty much home then.

Another memory from the gas station... One evening one of my co-workers rolled a tire across the busy four lane boulevard and right through the open door of Babe's Bar, directly on the other side of the street. A perfect shot, it was kind of a biker's bar. Nobody came out of the bar, but a...

:thumbup: A friend of mine's girlfriend was a telephone information operator. I'd be over at his house and he'd keep calling info until he got her, by recognizing her voice, then he'd give her a hard time. I don't think you could call and simply ask for her.

Sean, I remember those oil can spouts. We used those at a gas station that I worked at, sop. I also remember gas stations having a lot of give aways of one sort or another. Usually checked under the hood too, unless the customer said not to. Sold a fair amount of oil that way. You got...

A drug store with a lunch counter. They brought you your milkshake in one of those big metal cup things that they stuck in the mixer, poured your shake and sat the container down next to it because it was still about a third to half full.

A local market that let you buy beer for your dad if you had a note.

Ha, I remember candy cigarettes. I'd forgotten! They kind of had a chalky taste at first.

Anybody remember when soft drink bottles came in machines where you lifted up the lid and the drinks where immersed up to their necks in cold water in a rack? Putting in your money opened up a lock and you could slide the bottle out of the rack and lift it from the water. Who knows what was in...