Try initially to keep them to 4 and add more later. I will mention Good Stuff only and keep it down to 4 for now. Telephone Operator (Number Pls) Ball and Jacks Game Jumping Rope Cracker Jacks w/surprise in box I have more for later on.
Robby the Robot ("I'm Robby the Robot, the mechanical man. I walk and I talk and I do what I can.") Erector Sets Baseball Cards with bubble gum Fairer elections
1. Party lines 2. Silly Putty and the Sunday comics 3. Penny candy 4. Department stores that sold critters (birds, turtles, fish, chameleons, Easter ducks & chicks)
1. Manners 2. Running through the clean sheets hanging on a clothesline 3. TV test pattern 4. My Radio Flyer wagon
1. Making pillow-forts in the living room on rainy days. 2. Wearing "crinolines" to make my skirts stick out as far as possible. If you could get through a door without your skirt touching both sides, you didn't have on enough crinolines. 3. Saturday matinees at the movie theater. Two movies, cartoons, a newsreel. If we were lucky, a drawing for prizes. 4. Going to church a lot.
Roller Skates for your shoes or boots. Hoola Hoops Indian Feather Bands handed out to all the kiddies at the large stores in Houston during the 50s, also had a comic kid corral with huge table and stacks of the latest comics for kids to sit there and read and stay out of other shoppers way. IceCapades In a freezing cold arena during mid summer. Slobbering on a Red Candied Apple, not that kraft taffy but real Red Candy.
5. Saying the children's prayer at night and worrying that "if I should die before I wake" might actually happen. 6. Candy cigarettes. 7. Shelling peas with my grandma. 8. Weejuns.
Cough Drops at the drugstore so I can have candy while sitting in class. Cinnamon Toothpicks Itching Powder for that snoot that sits in front of me in drafting class. I think I said this already but the Sears Candy Counter. Doggone it I loved those coconut balls
Cheaper everything! But, do tell many people that aren't from my Generation, "If I went back to the old Lassie/Rin Tin Tin days, I'd have my laptop and iPhone." Then again, getting either to work (Service) would be a problem.
The closing of 5&10 stores, these are dearly missed. Those critters mentioned above could be found at these 5&10's, and delish counter burgers. The capitalistic snakes have been busy.
I grew up in those stores. My dad worked for G.C. Murphy from the time he was in high school until the day he died. I'd be there after closing, raiding the candy counter and making myself some chocolate/cherry/cola sodas from real syrup. *burp*
We had one a couple doors down from the Heights Theater in Houston, also one on Jensen Drive named Cameron's 5 and dime. I could take in a monster movie then stop by the dime store on the way home and buy a heck of a lot of junk with that 25 cents I had left over from show money. They had everything a kid could love. Once I bought a little plastic Stetson Hat in a nice little box for a dime. It was first class and pretty
Fountian vanilla and cherry cokes. 8 o'clock coffee grinders at the end of every checkout isle at A&P Blue Laws $18 oz's