- 3-D Comic Books
- 10" TV's
with magnifying glass in front
- 45 rpm RCA
record player and record carrying cases
- AM Radios
had a 'CD' (Civil Defense) logo at '640' and '1240'
for emergency information
- B&O Steam
Engines
- Blackjoe
Stoves
- 'Brownie'
Cameras
- Buying Pizza
(tomato pies) in the alley on 6th Street next to the
Peidmont Club
- 'Cleats' for
your shoe heals
- 'Cigar Indian',
4th & Market Streets
- Coal Buckets
- DDT Sprayer
Trucks during the Polio Epidemic
- Delaware
Coach Company's 'Trackless Trollys' (with the 2 overhead
wires) painted ivory & green. (As kids, we would
unhook the poles and the driver would have to reconnect
them)
- 'Diamond-shaped'
signs to hang in window for ice deliveries (25-50-75
or 100 lb.)
- Ferry Boat
crossings between New Castle & Pennsville, NJ
- Football
helmets without face masks
- Fountain Pens
- Freshmen
Beanies at the U of Delaware
- Hearing 'Fog
Horns' from the Delaware River
- Ink Wells
- John's Body
Shop Car with two front-ends
- King Corn
Stamps
- May Day Poles
- Metal boxes
at door steps for milk deliveries
- NO air-conditioners
- One-bathroom
homes
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- Oscar Meyer
Mobile
- Overhead
Tank Toilets
- Painted store
windows on Market Street at Christmas time
- Pennsylvania
Railroads GG1 Electric Engines
- Plastic TV
screen stick-on's in green/orange/blue.
- 'Portable
radios' had a heavy 'B' battery
- Ration Stamps
- S & H
Green Stamps
- Sorority
and Fraternity 'Ad Books'
- Street Cleaners
- TB Chest
X-ray Trucks
- The "Speakman
Barrel " water tank at Speakman Co. on 30th Street
- The 4th Street & 7th
Street Trackless Trolley Cars
- The black
Delaware auto tags with the replaceable "month & year" inserts
- The Market
Street Christmas lights on the utility poles
- The oil "Smudge
Pots " that were used in construction areas
- The old black
gas storage tanks (where Frawley Stadium is now)
- The two connecting
bridges on the DuPont Building (just recently removed).
- The water
horse trough at 4th & Franklin Streets
- The Wilson
Lines
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