Nostalgia
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Lik-m-aid
I'd forgotten about these - apparently they changed the name in the 70s to Fun Dip, but I was long over them by then.
It was simply flavoured powder (like in pixie sticks) that you'd lick off your wet fingers, or you scarfed the package. Typically both.
They may have been 2 cents each or 3 packs for 5 cents type of thing.
https://www.oldtimecandy.com/collections/walk-the-candy-aisle-lik-m-aid-fun-dip
- toytales.ca Secret Sam Attaché Case from Topper Toys (1965) | Toy Tales
Released in the mid-1960s, Topper Toys’ Secret Sam Attaché Case was a comprehensive spy kit concealed in a black plastic carrying case.
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Tube Tester at Convenience Store!
>If you're old enough you might remember seeing one of these in a drug store, grocery store or even Radio Shack. You could pull all the tubes from your radio or TV, put them in a paper bag, and take them down to your local store to test. And hopefully you wrote down which one came out of which socket. Once you found the bad tube or tubes, the store proprietor would unlock the bottom and find new replacement tubes. And the price list is taped right inside the door.
https://www.morningstarobs.com/drug-store-tester.html
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Back in my day we used Corel WordPerfect at school.
cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/35607747
> Kids today and their fancy Office 365.
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- www.nytimes.com Why Culture Has Come to a Standstill
A Times critic argues that ours is the least innovative century for the arts in 500 years. That doesn’t have to be a bad thing.
https://archive.ph/elN8W
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Huckleberry Hound Lamp
I had one! I could have sworn it was a green/gray/turquoise colour, but this is the only colour that comes up.
There was also a Quick Draw McGraw, Yogi Bear, a Dino/Pebbles combo, and possibly a Fred Flintstone, and Barney.
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Kolynos Toothpaste
M'dad always bought the least expensive stuff - we kids, ofc, wanted Stripe! or Ultra-Brite, or Close-up.
That's why we never got the dames, I guess
