showing your age...

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Post by BenniesMom

Great thread....

Not to add to the pile but....
Who had a Polaroid camera?

When I went through Navy Basic training in 1958 they were fairly new. I bought one at the PX and started taking pictures of other recruits in their uniform. In no time I was sending my friend to buy film. In just one afternoon I paid for my camera. I had a line of sailors around 100 feet long. I would snap a picture and pull the picture from the camera. While I was taking the next picture my friend was waving the one I pull from the camera,in the air, to develop it faster. We had quite an assembly line going.

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Originally Posted by pomtzu View Post

Remember when drug stores were drug stores, and not mini Walmarts? And of course every one had a soda fountain where you could sit down at the counter and get sodas, shakes and sundaes.

My best memories as a kid was going to Mr Wombles drug store for the fountain drinks. I loved the "Vanilla Coke","Cherry Coke" and the real squeezed fountain "lime aid".

Today the only way to know if you are in a drug store or not is to look for the tire section. If there are tires then you are probably in Walmart. The Walgreens and Rite Aids must do alright though because you see one on every corner.