Retro products

Now that I have reached mid-life, I often think of items that are retro or no longer sold. Some of them have become collector's items. Can you think of any? I will revisit this post as I think of new things. Please let me know of items you remember! If they are from before the 70s, please try to associate them with a timeframe.

• Pillsbury funny face juice characters and mugs
• metal lunch boxes with clasps (I had one with Charlie Brown on it that included a thermos) - we did not use backpacks then.
• space food sticks (chewy candy-food in honor of the astronauts who landed on the moon)

• wacky packy trading cards with bubblegum
• candy cigarettes (no longer PC)
• pixy stix
• striped knee socks with toes
• stick pins
• earth shoes
• chukka boots (70s style)
• saddle shoes (they were retro from the 50s to us)
• MIA clogs (dark red leather; Swedish)
• Lectric Shave (thinking old obnoxious commercials) - product still around
• Hai Karate cologne (for men)
• Aqua Velva grooming products (for men)
• Earthborn shampoo (featured Dorothy Hammel with her infamous haircut on the front label)

• Breck shampoo
• Herbal Essence shampoo (?)
• Gee Your Hair Smells Terrific shampoo
• Jean Naté (still around but not easy to find)
• Bonne Bell facial astringent
• Emeraude "perfume" - ugh
• Windsong perfume
• Noxzema skin cream (could still be around, but it was all the rage)
• Dippity Doo hair gel and special tape/bobby pins for holding curls in place after using it
• soap on a rope
• super-sized lip smackers on ropes to be worn as "necklaces"
• kiddles (I even had the "kiddles" bus mounted on my wall) - kiddles were dolls that were about 3" or 4" inches tall
• weebles
• mood rings (still around)
• sunshine family house with an "all blonde family" - the sunshine house baby looked exactly like my sister
• flatsies (5" flat dolls), but they're back!
• Dawn dolls (6" dolls complete with disco wardrobes and a carrying case)

• I had a barbie named Casey with blonde short hair - can't find her anymore.
• Black barbies Francie and Julia
• Baby Tenderlove
• Dressy Bessie
• Mrs. Beasley Doll (from TV show "Family Affair")
• Coppertone suntan lotion (where dog pulls down toddler's pants to show tan line)
• buff puffs
• American Girl magazine
• Ms. magazine
• "dirty old men need love too" T-shirts (ugh)
• T-shirts for pregnant women featuring an arrow pointing downward toward their future baby
• furry winter bonnets with ties that had pom poms on the ends
• very long winter elf-like hats with pom poms or gathered fringe at the end. They were often striped.
• now defunct Fisher Price toys: yellow two-story family-style house that could close and had a carrying handle; farm with door that "mooed" when you opened and closed it; the old-style airplane
• Stretch Armstrong toy - my sister and I dissected one, and it was full of nasty yellow goo (I have since learned it was corn syrup). This photo is from 1978.

• slime - this gooey concoction came in several colors and was housed in purpole- and green-colored plastic "garbage cans" about the size of a drinking glass. It would contain rubber worms and other "fun" items that parents just loved.
• footsies - you would insert one of your feet through a plastic ring and at the other end of a cord was a plastic weighted cup. You used a footsie to "jump rope," but horizontally.
• Lite-Brite toy
• Rings and Things
• Spirograph
• Viewmaster
• Punch balls (I was giving them at Easter - sort of like a "balloon yo-yo")
• Plastic pencils with replaceable points. These were a "must have" in junior high. 
• Slip on Bass sandals with an insert between the big toe and the next. They had no back strap (big in junior high)
• Dr. Scholl's sandals (every color but white - big in junior high)
• Bathing caps with neck straps and designs on them like rubber flowers. I had a hideous orange one decorated with orange slices.

• Sears tough skins jeans (how cool were they - not!)
• Levi's cords in colors
• Christmas trees covered with fake snow
• Lifesavers books (given as Christmas gifts to friends)
• items that had ecology, smiley face, or peace sign symbols - still around
• Duncan butterfly yo-yo's
• Bicycle baskets (for girls) decorated with flowers. They were used into adolesence.