Bill,
In the old days, it was “Hires” & “Dad’s” Root Beer & A&W Root Beer Floats, in frosted glasses.
My Grandma made Apple Cider in her basement also.
Doug
MOXIE
a New England staple since 1884
Brown bread in a can is a staple at our BSA Troop winter camp every year. The Troop is 63 years old and still going strong!
In the winter, when I was a kid we ate home baked beans and brown bread every Friday
Sometimes we had the canned bread, but most often my mother would make home-made
I’m a big fan of baked beans now, but when I was young…not so much
The sweet bread made the meal tolerable
It is fun to remember the “old” days and they sure were less stressful! Lets not forget:
Good-N-Plenty candy
Teaberry Gum
Black Jack Gum
Jiffy Pop popcorn
Flat Top haircuts with the jar of pink colored wax to put on it
The Lone Ranger, Sugarfoot, “Have Gun Will Travel”, Rawhide, Gunsmoke, The Rebel, and on and on…
The trip was great! Thanks…
My grandma always made bread in coffee cans.
I’ll add “Little Toms” to the list. If you were a kid in the Cleveland area in the 60’s and 70’s and were having a birthday party or 1st Communion party, it was some kind of special if you got the Little Toms. Soda Pop bottled by a local bottling company in 6 oz. (I am guessing) real glass bottles in a wooden crate. It was special 'cause the kids got to drink out of the bottle like the grown ups.
Mike
My Grandmother had a home-made version that was just wonderful. It was one of my all-time favorites. I haven’t had any brown-bread, home-made or store-bought, in fifty years. 8T 
…in 1950 we had hard tack and peanut butter, the peanut butter was in a #10 can with a top you could put back on best I can remember…also there was raspberry jam…thinking that was a big can too but not sure if it was a #10 or not. Any of those former ‘staples’ of my time in BC still around?
Old time cheers,
MontanaMoose
Do You Remember These??
http://oldfortyfives.com/DYRT.htm
Yep, way too many of them. I’m getting out of here before someone calls me “old timer.”
Speaking of old timer here is one of the oldest of old timers. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2000_Year_Old_Man The caveman humor are hillarious. :lol:
One of my favorite was:
The beginning of nationalism
"I was born in minus 37 and I lived in a cave with my parents.It was Cave 76, a roomy cave with southern exposure and an unobstucted view of Cave 75. Back then a cave was important. It went beyond shelter. It was part of your identity. Every cave was like its own individual nation. We had our own flags and our own national anthems. I’ll never forget ours. My mother wrote it. It had such passion and pride. Let me sing it to you. Wait, I’ll clear my throat. Here goes: “Let 'em all go to hell, except Cave 76.”