My entire childhood (almost) in one email...

45 rpm spindles  Aluminum Ice cube trays  Roller-skate keys  Cork pop guns  Marlin Perkins  Drive-in Movies Drive-in restaurants (not THRU) with Car Hops  Studebakers  Topo Gigio (Ed Sullivan Show)  Washer wringers  The Fuller Brush Man (Red Skelton) Reel-To-Reel tape recorders  Tinkertoys  Erector Sets  Lincoln Logs 25 cent a gallon gasoline and you got green stamps  15 cent hamburgers  5 cent packs of baseball cards  Penny candy  postage rates for 1st class  Jiffy Pop popcorn  Gum wrapper chains  5 cent Cokes  Chatty Cathy dolls  Flash bulbs  Sky King  Speedy Alka-Seltzer Cigarettes for Christmas  Falstaff Beer  Burma Shave signs  Brownie camera  TV Test patterns  Old Yeller  Chef Boy-AR-dee Timmy and Lassie Ding Dong Avon calling Brylcreem (a little dab'll do ya'). Aluminum Christmas Trees w/ revolving lights If you can remember most or all of these,  Then you have lived. Pass this on to anyone who may need a break from their 'grown-up' life. And if some or all of these are unknown to you, I'm so sorry.  You missed out on the "good stuff"!  Life was simple and wonderful back then.