• If you drop an object on the floor or ground, there’s only a 50% chance that you will pick it up.
  • You still bend the bill of your baseball cap.
  • You are innocent of tattoos.
  • You can still sing the first verse of the themes from the following TV series: Zorro, Davy Crockett, King of the Wild Frontier, The Jeffersons.
  • You have a scar under your arm from your smallpox vaccination.
  • You occasionally refer to the fridge as “the ice box.”
  • You can still sing TV commercial jingles like “Bry-Creem, a little dab’ll do ya…”
  • You can remember watching Dizzy Dean (“HE SLUD INTO THIRD!”) and Pee Wee Reese calling The CBS Game of the Week.
  • Once upon a time, you knew how to use a slide rule.

  • You had a crush on puppeteer Shari Lewis or Mousketeer Annette Funicello.
  • You can name at least four British Invasion bands that weren’t the Beatles or the Stones.
  • You were sent home for a dress code violation, e.g., letting your sideburns creep below you earlobes.
  • You used the wax paper from Mom’s sandwiches to go faster down the slide at your school.
  • You waited in line for an hour or more to see Star Wars.
  • You know what a “pay phone” is. And a dial phone.
  • You did your research papers in school on a typewriter.
  • You can explain the function of something called “A 45.” (A-side and B-side)
  • You used a crank to lower your car window.
  • While you were busy cranking down your window, the service-station attendant filled your tank, checked your oil and cleaned your windshield.
  • Twenty dollars = Four bags of groceries.
  • You draped your Christmas tree with aluminum “icicles,” also useful for foiling Soviet radar.
  • You know the actor to whom this refers: “Kookie, Kookie, lend me your comb.”
  • Route 66: You wanted to grow up to be those guys. Or, failing that, you wanted to grow up to be their Corvette.

  • Sadly, you drove a Ford Pinto.
  • You can at least hum the following tunes: “How Much is That Doggie in the Window?” “Itsy-bitsy Teenie-weenie Yellow Polka Dot Bikini,” “Purple People Eater.”
  • You know that Hoss’s Mom was Swedish, that Lassie’s human was Timmy (Timmy-Fell-Down-the-Well) and Rin Tin Tin’s was Rusty.
  • Saturday mornings started with Fury, the horse equivalent of Lassie, followed by Warner Brothers classics (see below) and Rocky And Bullwinkle.

  • During the Cuban Missile Crisis, you were reasonably sure that you were going to die.