The clang, clang of putting your glass, pint bottle back in the metal milk rack after finishing lunch in elementary school.
That same clang, clang when the milk man delivered to every house about 6 AM each day.
When you could hear the ladies walking to the Catholic church for communion every morning.
Ready Kilowatt, The Pillsbury Dough Boy, and Mister Clean - Mister Clean.
Lindsey Nelson on the one and only Saturday afternoon college football television game. Always the same games: Ohio State-Iowa, Ohio State-Michigan, Michigan-Michigan State, Texas-Texas A&M, Texas-Arkansas, LSU-Ole Miss, Alabama-Tennessee, USC-UCLA, USC-Notre Dame, Notre Dame-Michigan State.
Uncle Charlie on My Three Sons.
Body by Fisher!
Mosquito punks (smelled and smoked like hell) at the drive inn.
Donkey basketball games - now there's a fundraising event for you.
High-top tennies, black or white, with circular labels on the inside ... ankle height.
Duck tails.
Black leather jackets with silver buttons.
Those stupid looking knobs they used to attach to the huge steering wheels.
After-market auto air conditioners that always blew the kids up against the back windows.
Baby moons!
REAL car hops.
Hamburger joints before the advent of franchises ... where they actually threw the buns on the grill to brown and soak up a little grease before slapping the meat to them.
When you had to carry an extra suitcase when in town, because Chicago was the only place you could get a "Slider."
When I had to smuggle Blue Bell back to Baton Rouge for the guys at the dorm.
When folks use to actually stop, remove their hats and bow their heads when funeral pressions passed on the street.
Wagon Train, Twenty-Mule Team Borax, Sea Hunt, Gunsmoke, The Wonderful World of Walt Disney (before the Florida land-grab), Daniel Boone, Tex Rider and Jimmy Wakely.
"Guess the magic word and win $100!"
The Art Linkletter Show, The Arthur Godfry Show, and The Milton Burl Show!
Record players, then four-tracks, then eight-tracks, then reel-to-reels, then cassette players.
TV sign-off screens every night.
