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This breakfast cereal mascot is a tiger who says, "They're Grrrreat!"
Tony the Tiger
This modeling compound came in brightly colored cans and could be shaped into almost anything.
Play-Doh
In the 1950s and early 1960s, one of these could often be purchased from a vending machine for about a nickel or dime.
A bottle of soda/Coco-Cola
If something was especially impressive or exciting, a young person in the 1960s might call it this four-letter word meaning fashionable or excellent.
COOL
Instead of sending a text, kids often called friends using one of these phones attached to the wall or sitting on a table.
Landline telephone
This paper towel brand featured a strong character known as the "quicker picker upper."
Bounty
This spring-shaped toy could famously "walk" down a staircase.
Slinky
For much of a Baby Boom era, this coin could buy a candy bar.
A nickel
This 1960 expression meant "Tell me what's happening" or "Give me the details."
Give me the scoop
Children often drank water outside directly from this garden item instead of going inside for a bottled drink.
Garden hose
This antacid was advertised with the memorable phrase, "Plop, plop, fizz, fizz."
Alka-Seltzer
This drawing toy used two knobs to create pictures on a gray screen.
Etch A Sketch
Baby Boomers may remember paying less than one dollar for a gallon of this necessity for their cars.
Gasoline
Someone tellign you to relax in the 1960s or '70s might tell you to do this two-word phrase involving temperature.
Cool It
Before video games and smartphones, kids commonly spent afternoons outside riding these two-wheeled vehicles.
Bicycles
This candy claimed that it "melts in your mouth, not in your hand."
M&M's
Introduced in 1959, this famous fashion doll had a boyfriend named Ken.
Barbie
This fast-food chain orginally advertised as its hamburgers for just 15 cents when it expanded in the 1950s.
McDonald's
This word beginning with "g" became popular slang for something wonderful, fashionable, or exciting during the 1960s.
Groovy
Before GPS, families used these large, folded paper guides to find their way on road trips.
Road maps
In a famous commercial, a Native American character shed a tear after seeing this problem along America's roads and waterways.
Litter/pollution
This talking doll, introduced in the 1960's, spoke when a child pulled a string from her back.
Chatty Cathy
In the early 1960s, the average new American home cost closer to $20,000 than to this modern six-figure amount.
$200,000
This phrase from the counterculture era was commonly used to mean remaining relaxed, peaceful, or easygoing.
Keep on truckin'/Take it easy
Families would often gather around the television at the same scheduled time because this modern viewing option did not exist.
On-demand television/streaming services