Some of those are fake.
It was a nickle or, if you were lucky, a dime, not a quarter, that was a decent allowance when I was a kid. Only the rich kids got a quarter.
The female teachers did NOT get their hair done every day. They couldn't afford it.
Who got to vist a pool? Those were for rich folks. We swam in a wide place in the stream, which we shared with a nest of Copperheads until our parents finally came and cleared them out.
The pink slab of bubble gum wasn't awful. It was pretty darn good. Not as good, of course, as the chunks about the size of a sugar cube (the real ones, not the dinky ones they have today) that came in a wrapper than had a comic strip printed on it. But still, the playing card bubblegum, from Fleet if i recall correctly, was fine bubblegum. Plenty good enough to blow a bubble into the hair of the girls sitting in front of you in class and send her crying to the girls room and you to the principal's office. |
