- 25¢ allowances
- 45 RPM Records
- 6-12 Spray Repellent
- Air mail pick-ups
at the duPont Airport
- Air-raid drills
in the 40's & 50's & crouching under you desk
and in the halls
- Chinese Gingko
Trees and their 'Stink Bomb' seeds
- Cork Pop Guns
- Dialing '1191' & hanging
up would make your phone ring
- 'Dick & Jane'
Books
- Ditto Copiers
with blue ink print
- Doctors made
'house calls'
- 'Gasoline Wars'
- 16¢-17¢/gal.
- Getting 'Left
Back' meant getting left back
- 'Hardy Boys'
books
- Hula Hoops
- Kennett & Concord
Pikes & Kirkwood
Highway with only two traffic lanes
- Kite Flying
- Leaving your
doors unlocked
- 'Light' was
opposite dark - not 'light food'
- 'Listening Booth's'
in record stores
- Metal Ice Cube
Trays
- Mimeograph copiers
- Motor Vehicle
Inspection Lane lines winding through the 'Flats'
- Movie Newsreels
- Mustard Plasters
- 'Nancy Drew'
books
- Non-diet food
& drinks
- Oyster boats
docking at 3rd & Church Streets
- Parking & leaving
your car with windows opened & keys in ignition
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- Peashooters
- Phone exchanges
OLympia, WYman, POrter, ENdicott and SYcomore
- Playing baseball
WITHOUT adult supervision
- Reel-to-Reel
Tape Recorders
- 'Safety Capless'
bottles
- Savings Stamps
- Slingshots
- Smoking at work & in
restaurants
- Sugar rationing Stamps
- Telephone
'Party Lines'
- The 'ammonia
odor' from Diamond Ice & Coal Ice Plant on 11th
Street & Bancroft Parkway
- 'The Flats'
Woodlawn Trustees Maintenance Men
- The odor
from the Marcus Hook refineries
- The Plymouth
'Push Button' transmissions
- The 'tanning
odor' from Amalgamated Leather Co., Front Street & Maryland
Avenue
- Two-way traffic
on Market Street
- 'Ring Worm'
Epidemic
- Veedol Service
Stations with 'complete' service
- We only had
one mail zone number: (example) Wilmington 5, Delaware
- Your phone
number had only 5 numbers and before that - 4 numbers
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