If you remember the smell of popcorn when you walk into Sears , then be fain to be enrapture back in sentence .
1.Crocheted toilet paper dolls that, along with hiding an extra roll of toilet paper, also matched the bathroom color:
2.And colored toilet paper which also matched the color of the bathroom:
3.One-use plastic or paper cups that were set up next to the bathroom sink to be used whenever you brushed your teeth (because it was more sanitary):
4.And possibly brushing your teeth with Great Zeeth’s Mighty White toothpaste:
5.The Beatlescartoon which aired on Saturday mornings and featured sing-alongs of their songs:
6.The Oscar Mayercommercialthat featured the very catchy “The Oscar Mayer Wiener Song” jingle:
7.Cherry-flavored Vi-Daylin Chewable Vitamins that were for kids:
8.Sheaffer pens that came with replaceable cartridges:
9.Tin matchstick dispensers that were mounted in the kitchen next to the stove:
10.Eating Salisbury steak with canned vegetables:
11.And having succotash made from canned lima beans and corn:
12.Hot rollers cases that sat on your mother’s or grandma’s bathroom vanity:
13.Flipping through your parents' newest issue of Life magazine:
14.And flipping through the newest Gamble Aldens catalog as soon as it arrived in the mail:
15.An Osterizer blender that was the real workhorse of the kitchen:
16.And you or your parents covering the Osterizer blender with a kitchen appliance cover that coordinated with the kitchen colors, and matched the other appliance covers:
17.Making pizzas at home with Chef Boyardee Complete Pizza kits:
18.And you or your parents making chow mein for dinner out of a can and covering it with crunchy noodles:
19.Having fruit cocktail cake for dessert — though it was more of a pudding than a cake:
20.Princess phones, which were extremely coveted by tween and teen girls:
21.Portable transistor radios that had very long antennas:
22.And car radios that came with push buttons:
23.Twister being controversial for being too sexual:
24.Planning family road trips with brochures and various road maps:
25.Packing for vacations in suitcases that had no wheels and were heavy as hell to carry if they were tightly packed:
26.Stuffedanimalsthat always looked more creepy than cute:
27.TV antennas on the roofs of every house in the neighborhood:
28.The post office giving out change of address kits — which were postcards you or your family would mail to magazine publishers, your family, friends, etc., to update them of your new address:
29.Water cooler bottles being made of glass and weighing a ton:
30.Fuzzy terrycloth pastel slippers that your mom or grandma would wear around the house:
31.Cigarette ads everywhere:
32.And cigarette vending machines everywhere:
33.Tri Chem Liquid Embroidery, which was just fabric paint:
34.People decorating rooms in their homes so that the carpet, wall colors, and textiles were all the exact same color:
35.Walking into Sears and having the whole store smell like fresh popcorn because of the candy department:
36.Putting a stack of dimes on top of the payphone if you knew you were going to be talking for a while:
37.Breck Shampoo and the Breck Girls used in ads:
38.LePage’s Mucilage glue that looked like maple syrup and really never glued anything down:
39.Avon Hostess Soaps that your mom or grandma would put out in the guest bathroom and you were not allowed to use (because it was for guests only):
40.An Avon perfumed talcs which your mom or grandma would have in their vanity area:
41.Vaseline that came in glass jars with tin lids:
42.And Vicks VapoRub, which also came in glass jars with tin lids:
43.Mercurochrome, which your parents would put on scratches and cuts and burned like the pits of hell:
44.Bozo the Clown, who was more terrifying than anything else:
45.And lastly, Walter Cronkite delivering the evening news on CBS:
