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[shoesnbags]

I can remember both my number and my grandparents' number. Ours started with Fr for Franklin, and theirs was By for Bywater. Back on those days we had a "party line" if anyone remembers those.  Then I remember some years later the phone company added an additional number, and changed the letters, so we were both Wh which stood for Whitehall.

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@Cakers3 wrote:

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Oh @Cakers3 @that was my favorite!!!

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@Buffalogal47 wrote:

CApitol 7-3726. Then we moved to the North Side: BRoadway 4-5203.  Does anyone remember two-digit zones before ZIP codes? 

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Yes. We were 17. 

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@Cakers3 wrote:

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Oh that striped tube makes me feel all warm and fuzzy!  I was a Yardley girl all the way.🥰

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@september wrote:

My dad had one of the first cell phones, if you can call it that. It was built into his car, and we called it the "car phone"!

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@september 

That's exactly what I was thinking right before I read your post.  We called them "car phones" at first because they were attached to the car. My first mobile phone sat between the front seats of my mini van.

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@BluestarFL wrote:

This thread brings up so many memories for me...wow.  I got a turtle. I also got the clear, plastic pond thing it came with and there was even a plastic palm tree stuck in there for shade for the turtle.

I was so excited to get home with it. I filled it up with water and was so proud of my first pet.  Then my brother decided the turtle needed sun and put the whole contraption out on our back deck.  Within a few minutes, Mr Turtle was picked up by a bird and was never seen again. 

I cried for days.  Then we moved onto gold fish from that same 5 and Dime!  We each got our own - along with some that little man in the diving suit to put into our fish bowls for decoration and our own little containers of fish food.  Mine even had pretty colored tiny rocks on the bottom of the fish bowl. 

I remember the day we 'buried' my brothers fish by flushing it down the toilet when he went onto gold fish heaven. 

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This is going a LONG ways back.  We had one of those turtle homes, too, exactly like it with the plastic palm tree!

I was just thinking of it as you described it!

A lot of those painted turtles escaped into the Mississippi River where they have multiplied and are not native turtles.  

I always loved visiting Woolworth's pet department, until our's closed in the late 1980s, especially the birds. 

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@itsmetoo wrote:

Thank you for this thread!  Did anyone have pop beads?  You bought them from a machine like a gum ball machine but they were these plastic beads that popped together.  Such great memories.

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Wow, I can't believe I'd forgotten all about pop beads!  Hadn't thought of those in years, but boy, were they ever popular. 

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@sunshine45 wrote:

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Remember both of these, but particularly the art contest.  

My sister sent in an exact drawing of the pirate.  She was 10, and got a letter back that said when she was 12 she could take the art lessons they offered, but was too young at the present time.  She was very talented at a young age and lost interest later.

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@itsmetoo wrote:

Thank you for this thread!  Did anyone have pop beads?  You bought them from a machine like a gum ball machine but they were these plastic beads that popped together.  Such great memories.

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My grandma had yard long strings of "pop-beads". 

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@shoesnbags wrote:

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@Cakers3 wrote:

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Oh that striped tube makes me feel all warm and fuzzy!  I was a Yardley girl all the way.🥰

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I can still remember how they tasted.  I had a set.  I loved Yardley.