[John Wanninger]

Ethyl (gasoline with tetraethyl lead)
Reel-to-Reel (tape recorder)
Magic Eye (recording level tube, before v-u meters and led’s )
Nixie Tube (numeric neon display tube)
Discwasher (keep those records clean)
Dry Cell (usually a big carbon zinc battery with terminals)
Flashbulb (as well as Flashcube and Flipflash, before xenon strobes became cheap)
Hair Tonic (Vitalis anyone?)
Crew Wax (for a crew cut that will stand up to anything, before brylcream))
Rain Bonnet (those plastic pleated women's rain hoods)
Milk Chute (for the milkman)
Automat (restaurant where entire wall is a vending machine)
Hideaway Headlights (the cool 60’s cars had these)
Breaker Points (and Condensor) (change with every yearly tune-up)
Jarts ( fun but deadly lawn dart game)
Slide Projector (oh no, not more vacation pictures)
Cottered Crank (did your bike have one of these?)
Banana Seat (on your ‘Stingray’ bike)
Cheater Slick(also on your Stingray)
Clackers (two hard balls connected by strings)
Mood Ring
Uncandle (floating salad oil candle)
Close’nPlay (portable phonograph – distant relative to the walkman or ipod)
Give-a-show (projector)
Thingmaker (for making creepy crawlers)
Church Key (back when cans didn’t have pulltabs or poptops)
Trading Stamps (As a kid, a fun task was filling up stamp book with S & H green stamps)
Red Ball Jets (competition to PF Flyers)