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

[Jstpssng]

TNT

 

[ruffdog]

The original Geritol.

 

[/pine]

Your union secretary to get you some coffee...then pick up your dry cleaning...!

 

[m1garand762]

Back on the day you could order an m1 garand out of the back of outdoor life

 

[ruffdog]

Lawn Darts. Funny....they outlaw these because they were dangerous....if they only knew.

 

[Dftodd]

Now I ask you how much trouble could a young boy and x-ray vision glasses get into.

You don't need xray glasses today. All you gotta do is go to the mall.

 

[Ken45101]

You could buy ant farms complete with starter ants...

OMG! I had forgotten about the ant farms! I had one of those!

 

[beowulf]

Many, many years ago, I think it was on cereal boxes - you "could" buy land in Canada for - like a few cents. I don't recall the details but it intrigued me then and still does. I hope someone else remembers this and can provide a bit more information. I recall - I think - that some of it was near a place called Lake of the Woods. I don't know why I remember that particular place. Early '50s?

 

[ultrarunner]

My grade school teacher collected enough bix tops for a 25x50 lot in the Santa Cruz mountains...

I went and said it's still there... the lots are campsites but in 1950 a few built cabins that are grandfathered....

 

[Jstpssng]

At one time you also could buy a square inch of land in Alaska, or perhaps as in Canada you got it for boxtops.
Imagine the taxes on a piece of land like that?