Things you could order over 50 years ago that you can't order now !

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Since the thread has drifted a bit...
When I was in elementary school...every year for "show and tell"...I would take the Japanese dress sword my dad brought home from the war (he took it off a Jap officer after they were released from the prison camp)..
...these days it would be bad news if you tried to take a sword into an elementary school...!

 

[Larry Caldwell]

1972... I can remember hitch-hiking with a 22 rifle. Bolt in the pocket, of coarse.

It was a different world. 1964, duck hunting with a buddy, jump shooting the creek that ran north from my folks' farm. When it got too dark to shoot, we climbed out of the creek, mud to our belly buttons, and thumbed a ride home. The first car by stopped for us, two unkempt teenage boys carrying guns in the dark.

 

[ultrarunner]

Some of the best duck hunting was down by the airport and my nextdoor neighbor would take the express bus with shotgun and always come home with at least one bird if not two... really a different world for sure.

 

[oosik]

A 45 cent hamburger.......

 

[Oaktree]

A 45 cent hamburger.......

Change from a dollar at McDonalds. I doubt anyone under 65 or so would get that reference to their vintage ad today.

 

[2LaneCruzer]

7UP candy bar and Cherry Humps candy bar.

 

[bullbreaker]

Heck on thursdays when I was a kid we use to buy a case of cheeseburgers at Royal Castle in Miami, Fl for five cents a burger . Ten cents would also buy you a gallon of kerosene .

 

[Gale Hawkins]

I remember ordering 110 volt arc welder complete with a carbon arc heat source from Popular Mechanics ad for like $19.99.

 

[Blue Mule]

I remember being able to order items from the Bass Pro Shops catalog and pay the UPS driver "COD" cash on delivery when he showed up at the house with it. Those were the days!

 

[JasperFrank]

I had entirely forgotten about Cash On Delivery. I wonder if you can make a long distance land line call and reverse charges anymore?