Remember When These Used to Be Here in NYC

[raybrag]

Not at all exclusive to NYC, but who remembers these?





BTW:  What is it?  Hint:  GMan will know.

 

[grumpy grizzly]

Today's generations have no idea the great things they missed! Listening to a ball game on an AM transistor radio, not on a cell phone.

 

[manhattan]

Not positive, but I think it's a moistener used to wet labels and stamps before the days of pre-applied glue.

 

[johnd248]

That's what I thought.  I seem to remember my father had one.

 

[raybrag]

Right, guys.

 

[mack]

Gone - beer can openers 1950s:

   

   


Then pop top pull tab rings that detached from the can and were left everywhere 1960s:

   

 

[mack]

Gone - St John's "Redmen":

 

 


Now:

 

 

 

[memory master]

Gone - beer can openers 1950s:

   

   


Then pop top pull tab rings that detached from the can and were left everywhere 1960s:

   

Is Schlitz even around any longer?

 

[mack]

Gone - beer can openers 1950s:






Then pop top pull tab rings that detached from the can and were left everywhere 1960s:

Is Schlitz even around any longer?

Yes - looks like it is: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Schlitz_Brewing_Company


Firemen drank Schlitz:


Schlitz pop-top cans:

 

[mack]

Gone - the old ABA and the old New York/New Jersey Nets - 1960s 1970s:

Remember the ABA: New York Nets

Dr J:

 

[manhattan]

Is the man in the grey jacket wearing spats in the 1963 pop-top video?

 

[mack]

Is the man in the grey jacket wearing spats in the 1963 pop-top video?

Yes!

 

[Disp51]

In the basement of many apartment buildings

 

[grumpy grizzly]

Not only St John's basketball, but the entire Big East!

 

[68jk09]

In the basement of many apartment buildings

  The drums of crackers .....water ...etc were in the basement of almost all FHs that had been occupied pre '60s .....they were in a chicken wire enclosure.....they remained for many years well into the '70s in some FHs.....the Shelter Sign still remains on some today & from time to time the signs appear on ebay...glad the shelters never had to be used here.

 

[manhattan]

Also happy that the crackers and water never had to be ingested.  I tried one of the crackers once and it was enough to knock off anyone who might have survived the atomic blast.  The water made the cracker taste good.

 

[nfd2004]

According to a local NYC radio station, it was recently reported that ALL of those Fallout Shelter Signs will be removed from ALL buildings in NYC over the next year.

I also heard of a couple of firefighters who were looking for a quick 2 am snack a few times and they thought a little milk and those crackers would really hit the spot. Of course they never actually did it. But reading what "manhattan" says, "if they did, it would have been great to watch their reaction".

 

[mack]

1960s - NYC fallout shelters:

    - 17,448 properties were identified by the Army Corps. of Engineers to have shelters that could hold 11,703,090 people
    - Supplies were installed for $2.40 a person, and included aspirin, toilet paper and hard candies
    - FDNY firehouses had designated fallout shelters
    - Many signs still remain

   

   

   

 

[mack]

1950s drills:




Schools conducted drills w/students into the 1960s:

 

[mack]

Gone 1964-1965 NY Worlds Fair:

http://creative.nydailynews.com/worldsfair