100 Things Every 1950s American Kid Remembers.

This video presents 100 ordinary facts of childhood in 1950s America that younger generations cannot comprehend, including penny candy counters, home milk delivery, metal lunchboxes, sidewalk games like hopscotch and kick the can, the Saturday morning cartoon block, the paper route, the school bell, the street light curfew, the card catalog at the library, the five-and-dime stores, the Sears Wish Book, the toy train under the Christmas tree, the backyard sandbox, stick ball, tag, pickup sticks, tin windup toys, the bicycle pump, the lemonade stand, ski ball, the top, hide and seek, soap bubbles, lightning bugs in a jar, Tinker Toys, checkers, Monopoly, the yo-yo, the gyroscope, the Fuller Brush Man, the Good Humor Man, candy cigarettes, root beer barrels, Necco wafers, the jawbreaker, the Pez dispenser, the console television, the party line telephone, the pocket knife, school milk, the TV dinner, the radio program, the cereal box toy, the comic book, the chemistry set, the water pistol, the wagon, crab grass, Sunday dinner, the Jell-O mold, the block party, the fallout shelter pamphlet, the duck and cover drill, playing in the alley, riding bikes in packs, the garden hose, the cookie jar, the hi-fi record player, croquet, the aquarium, the cap gun war, grace before meals, reading aloud, the electric refrigerator, the encyclopedia, the family photograph album, the piggy bank, and the last day of summer.