Miscellaneous Memories
Welcome to the Carpentersville Memories Miscellaneous Memories Page. Our goal is to bring back some fun memories of growing up in the 50’s, 60’s, 70’s and 80’s. Please take your time and check out all of the Miscellaneous images and files, they are sure to bring back many memories.
We bring back Memories you didn’t know you had
What do you remember about the past?
Many of us still have great memories, but even great memories need a boost now and then. Pay phones, record players, teeter totters, and monkey bars are among the many images you will find below.
I hope you enjoy looking at these great images from the past. If you have anything to share please contact us using the contact form on our home page.
Injun Summer
Sears Wish Book Site
Automobile Memories
1972 Clark Gas
Honda Ad
Air Pump
Best Cars
Earl Scheib
Full Service
Cool Car
Two Keys
Bike Memories
1972 Rupp Rascal
Bikes (1)
Bikes (3)
Bikes (4)
Bikes (5)
Wheelie
Schwinn for Champions Only
1969 Huffy
Banana Seat
Orange Krate
Schwinn
The Motor Sound – Clothes Pins and Baseball Cards
Candy Memories
Buying Penny Candy
Candy Cigarettes (1)
Candy Cigarettes (2)
Candy Cigarettes (3)
Candy Machine1
Candy Machine2
Ice Cubes
Ice Cubes (2)
Pixy Stix
Bazooka Bubble Gum
Good and Plenty
Penny Candy
Bubblegum Cigars
Cereal Box Record Memories
Cereal Box Records (1)
Cereal Box Records (2)
Cereal Box Records (3)
Cereal Box Records (4)
Cereal Box Records (5)
Cereal Box Records (6)
Cereal Box Records (7)
Christmas and Winter Memories
Yankee Clipper Sleds
Yankee Clipper Sled (2)
Yankee Clipper Sled (1)
Vintage Christmas Ornaments
Tree Light
Tons of Tinsel
Tinsel
Schwinn Bikes
Rudolph (2)
Rudolph (1)
Radio Flyer Sled
Postman at Christmastime
Joseph Spiess Christmas
Joseph Spiess Christmas box
Flexible Flyer Ad (2)
Flexible Flyer Ad (1)
Flexible Flyer (3)
Flexible Flyer (2)
Flexible Flyer (1)
Ward’s Sleds
Electric Fireplace
Christmas Morning
Christmas Candles
Christmas Bulbs of the Past
Charlie Brown Christmas
Carpenter’s Christmas
Cardboard Fireplace (2)
Cardboard Fireplace (1)
Ben Franklin Christmas
Ackemann’s Christmas Box
1976 Sears Christmas Wish Book
1974 Sears Christmas Wish Book
1973 Yankee Clipper Sled
1970 Sears Christmas Wish Book
1968 Sears Christmas Wish Book
1961 Montgomery Ward Christmas Catalog
1956 Sears Christmas Wish Book
1952 Sears Christmas Book
8 Track
1975 Wishbook
Aluminum Tree Color Wheel
Christmas Candy
Christmas Light Bulbs
Pure Asbestos Snow
Santa Smokes Ad
Comics
Alfred E Neuman For President
Archie Comic Book
Charlie Brown
Comic Book Stand
Peanuts
X Ray Specs
1959 Be a He Man in 15 Minutes
1959 Build Your Own Hot Rod
1959 Civil War Soldiers
1959 Comics Ad
1959 Daisy Rifle
1959 Learn Radio and Television from Home
1959 Mickey Mantle
1959 Sell These
1959 Toy Comic Book Ad
Comic Book Stand
Charles Atlas
TV Show Comics
Mad Magazine
Easter
Sugar Easter Egg Diarama
Easter at White Hen Pantry
Electronics Memories
Betamax
CB Radio
Commodore VIC 20
Radio
Mattel Electronic Games
Mold A Rama
Transistor Radio
Heathkit
Radio Shack
RCA TV Tube
SB QSL Card
Tube Tester
Radio Shack
Fashion
Dress for the 70s
Mood Ring
Penny Loafers
Indian Bead Belt
Makup Mirror
Dippity-Do
Love’s Baby Soft
70’s Fashion
Food and Drink Memories
Hamm’s Bear for President
A and W Menu
A and W
Bonanza
Funny Face Drink Mix Cups
Good Humor Man (1)
Good Humor Man (2)
HoJos Oasis
Howard Johnsons
Meister Brau
Old Style (1)
Old Style (2)
Ponderosa Steak House
Wendys Wheres The Beef
Wylers Drink Mix
Burger King
Bathroom Towel Roll
Ovaltine Cup
Double Cola Machine
Dr Pepper Machine
Mountain Dew Machine
Pepsi Machine
Ron Santo’s Pizza (1)
Ron Santo’s Pizza (2)
Wiener Mobile
Land of the Giants Lunchbox
Life Cereal – Hey Mickey
Me and My RC
Milk Shake Mixer
Quisp Cereal
Soda Pop Top
Space Food Sticks
Tupperware Party
Mister Donut
Tang
60’s Table
Banquet Cream Pies
Chef Boy-Ar-Dee
Fizzies
Shake Mixer
Games
Playing Cowboys
We Had a Box
Aladdins Castle
Chinese Jump Rope
Cootie Game
Fortune Teller
Fortune Teller
Hide and Seek
Hop Scotch
Life
Marbles
Merry Go Round
Messaging
Metal Slide
Monkey Bars (1)
Monkey Bars (2)
Mystery Date
Paddle Ball
Pinball
Teeter Totter (1)
Teeter Totter (2)
Teeter Totter
Tetherball
Playground Tunnels
1970’s MCI Ace Arcade Game (1)
1970’s MCI Ace Arcade Game (2)
1970’s MCI Ace Arcade Game (3)
1970’s MCI Ace Arcade Game (4)
1970’s MCI Ace Arcade Game (5)
1970’s MCI Ace Arcade Game (6)
Door Stop
Duck Hunt
Outside
Playground Rocking Horse
Puck Bowling Game (1)
Puck Bowling Game (2)
Puck Bowling Game (3)
Red Rover
Roller Skates
Tire Swing
Tree House
Mechanical Horse Rid
Puzzle
Classic Football
1940’s and 1950’s Good American Citizenship Posters
Good American Citizenship (1)
Good American Citizenship (2)
Good American Citizenship (3)
Good American Citizenship Law 1
Good American Citizenship Law 2
Good American Citizenship Law 3
Good American Citizenship Law 4
Good American Citizenship Law 5
Good American Citizenship Law 6
Good American Citizenship Law 7
Good American Citizenship Law 8
Good American Citizenship Law 9
Good American Citizenship Law 10
World War I Flying Ace Game – This was at the Meadowdale shipping center in the early 70’s
Halloween Memories
Star Trek Spock Costume
Halloween (3)
Halloween 1967 (1)
Halloween 1967 (2)
Halloween Costumes 60s and 70s
Halloween Costumes of the 70s
Woolworths Halloween Ad
Trick or Treat Bag (2)
Trick or Treat Bag (1)
Schlitz Halloween Ad
Salerno Cookies Ad
Nancy and Sluggo
Cracker Jack
1960’s Halloween Costumes
Casper Costume
Halloween Whistle
Trick or Treat Bags
Misc Memories
Your Grandma was Cool
Back in 1972
Back to the 70s (1)
Back to the 70s (2)
Back to the Future
Boones Farm Wine
Drinking from a Hose
Drive In Theater
Fotomat
Friends (1)
Friends (2)
Funny Face Drinks
I Forgot
Injun Summer (1)
Injun Summer (2)
Lunch Boxes
Moms Then and Now
Museum of Science and Industry 1960s
No Phone
Outhouse
Outside
Pat Paulsen for President
Piggy Bank
Playing with a Box
Polaroid Swinger Instant Camera
Push Mower
Raceway Park Calumet Park 1938-2000
Randhurst Mall
Roller Skating
Selfie
Smallpox Vaccination
Street Light
Wauconda Orchards 1951-2001
Worm Guts
President Kennedy
Iron On Patches
TV Dinner
Timex
Social Network
Roller Derby (3)
Roller Derby (2)
Roller Derby (1)
Rain Light
Prince Albert in a Can
Old Fashioned Ice Maker
Library Card
Hi Grandma
Fiber Light
Chicago O’Hare Postcard
Praying before Dinner
Playing in the Creek
1960’s Kitchen
Cubs Tickets 1973-74
Lawn Furniture
Life Before the Computer
Long Haired Freaky People
Nickel Bag
Parking Meter
Pay Toilets
Poppy Sales (1)
Poppy Sales (2)
Public Bathroom Towel Dispenser
Sears Charm School
United Airlines 1960’s
Photo Booth
Oak Lawn Early 70’s
IHOP Cubs Placemat
Far Out
Ernie Banks Day 1964
4 Leaf Clovers
Love Is
Helicopter
Bottle Caps with Cork
Blowing on a Dandylion
Movies and TV Memories
60s and 70s TV Shows
Annette (1)
Annette (2)
Annette (3)
Brians Song
Cabinet TV
Chicago TV Forecast 1948 (1)
Chicago TV Forecast 1948 (2)
Chicago TV Schedule 1964 (1)
Chicago TV Schedule 1964 (2)
Chicago TV Week 1965
Chicago TV Week 1976
Dark Shadows
Hardy Boys (1)
Hardy Boys (2)
Hardy Boys (3)
Hardy Boys (4)
Jimmy Dean
Johnny Carson
Off The Air
Rocky and Bullwinkle
Rudolph
Saturday Morning Cartoons
Spin and Marty (1)
Spin and Marty (2)
The Ghost and Mr Chicken
TV Trays
TV Tuner
WLS Batman Club
Cartoon Classics
Classic Westerns
The Wonderful World of Disney
Rin Tin Tin
Mr Bill and Sluggo
Hollywood Squares
Dragnet
Bullwinkle
Cheech and Chong
Chico and the Man
Happy 4th From the Andy Griffith Show
It’s About Time (1)
It’s About Time (2)
It’s About Time (3)
It’s ON
Love Him and Squeeze Him
Mannix
Marlin Perkins Wild Kingdom
Morning Ralph
Please Rewind
poster-780
Roller Derby
The Muppets
The Rifleman
The Wonder Years
Clint Howard as Leon
Barney and Leon
Andy and Leon
TV Antenna
The Wonderful World
The Unknown Comic
Mr Bill
Lost In Space
Beaver
Andy Griffith Show (2)
Weekend TV
Thumper From Bambi
The Monkees
Rocky and Bullwinkle (2)
Batman
Baretta
Annette Mickey Mouse Club
Andy Griffith Jello Commercial with Leon (Clint Howard)
Music Memories
8 Track (1)
8 Track (2)
8 Track (3)
8 Track (4)
8 Track (5)
45 RPM Records (1)
45 RPM Records (2)
1969 Record Chart
1985 Super Bowl Shuffle 45rpm Jacket Chicago Bears (1)
1985 Super Bowl Shuffle 45rpm Jacket Chicago Bears (2)
Cool Music
CTA
Davy Jones Love Beads
Helen Reddy
Ides of March – Vehicle
Mac Davis
Play Guitar
Poplar Creek
Record Player (1)
Record Player (2)
Sweet Caroline
TGIF Movie Soundtrack
The Archies – Sugar Sugar
The Monkees
The Partridge Family
Toshiba 1984 Auto Reverse Cassette
Car 8 Track Player
KTel Records – Looney Tunes
The DeFranco Family
Hear the Click
John Denver
Record Store
Walkman
Columbia Record and Tape Club
Discwasher
Jukebox
Record Store (1)
Record Store (2)
45 RPM Adapters
How to Download Music
Turn It Up
School Memories
The Pledge of Allegiance
Commas Save Lives
Dick and Jane
Eraser
Home Economics
Pledge of Allegiance
School Lunch
Typing Class
1970s Notebooks
Google in the Early Days
Movies in Class
Library
I Will Not Talk In Class
School Cafeteria
Fun with Dick and Jane (1)
Fun with Dick and Jane (2)
Pencil Sharpener
Chalk Holder
Dodgeball
Library Book Card
Mimeograph Machine
Passing Notes (1)
Passing Notes (2)
Rope Climbing
Stars for Good Word
Typewriter
Typing Class
Wall Map
Lunch Boxes
Paper Chains
Silhouette
Why English is Hard to Learn
Sports
Ernie Banks and Hank Aaron
Shopping Memories
1955 Car Receipt Ford Tudor
Carsons
Cash Register
Century Electronics
Corner Store
Credit Card Machine
Green Stamps Store
Green Stamps
Mechanical Horse Ride
Green Stamps (3)
Online Shopping
Shoe Store
White Hen Pantry (2)
White Hen Pantry
White Hen Pantry 1967
Zayre
Green Stamps
Carson’s Box
Telephone Memories
How to Dial
The Phone Cord
Pay Phone (2)
Pay Phone (3)
Pay Phone (4)
Phone (1)
Rotary Phone – How to Block Someone
Rotary Phone
Dialing the Phone in the Old Days
Let Your Fingers Do the Walking in the Yellow Pages
phone book
Phone Booth
Pay Phone (1)
Really Old Stuff
Oh No I Have to Start Over
Princess Phone
Telephone Table
Pay Phone (5)
1970 Barrington High Pay Phone
1948 Party Line Pointers
Party Lines
More Television and Movie Memories
Annette
Aquanauts (1)
Aquanauts (2)
Assignment Underwater
Born Free
Cinderella (1)
Cinderella (2)
Cinderella (3)
Cinderella (4)
Dog and Cat (1)
Dog and Cat (2)
Empire
Everglades
Flynn and Daly
Getting Together
It’s About Time
Lucas Tanner
Mannix (1)
Mannix (2)
Mannix (3)
Mannix (4)
Mickey Mouse Club (1)
Mickey Mouse Club (2)
Mickey Mouse Club (3)
Overland Trail
Pepper Curtis (1)
Pepper Curtis (2)
Sam Benedict
Spin and Marty
That Girl
The Bill Cosby Show
The Courtship of Eddie’s Father
The DA
The Good Life
The Hardy Boys (1)
The Hardy Boys (2)
The Hardy Boys (3)
The Hardy Boys (4)
The Hardy Boys
The Nurses (1)
The Nurses (2)
The Nurses (3)
The Nurses (4)
The Outsider
The Trials of Obrien
TV Preview 1976
Wild Kingdom
Barney Miller and Kotter Kids
The Birds
Mr Rogers
Thanksgiving
WKRP Thanksgiving Ad
Thanksgiving – Sitting at the Kids Table
Sanford and Son Thanksgiving
Peanuts Thanksgiving
Herman Munster Thanksgiving
Peanuts Thanksgiving
Toys
Six Finger Toy
Ball and Jacks (1)
Ball and Jacks (2)
Balsa Wood Glider
Cap Gun
Cap Rockets
Creepy Crawlers
Dick Tracy
Going in Circles
Kay Bee Toys
Lost In Space Robot – Danger Will Robinson
Magic 8 Ball
Major Matt Mason
Mooooo
Online Shopping
Oscar Mayer Wiener Whistle
Pet Rock
Play Doh
Rockets
Roller Skates
SuperElasticBubblePlastic
Toy Gun (1)
Toy Gun (2)
Toy Gun (3)
YoYo
Spirograph
Submarine
Star Trek Gun (1)
Star Trek Gun (2)
Super Ball
Toy Cigarettes
1969-Triple Thingmaker
Can You Smell It
Creeple People (2)
Creeple People
Creepy Crawlers
Gumby and Pokey
Paddle Ball
Rabbit’s Foot
Thingmaker Dollymaker
Thingmaker Fun Flowers
Thingmakers (2)
Thingmakers
Troll Dolls
Hula-Hoop
Remember These
Slinky
View-Master
Weebles
Bozo Punching Bag
Crissy
Drinking Bird
Fuzzy Wuzzy
Jacks
Lost In Space Robot
Lots of Models
Old Style Fidget Spinner
Red Wagon
Good Bye Tonsils
Mexican Jumping Beans
Rock Em Sock Em Robots
Vac U Form
Big Wheel
GI Joe
Lionel Trains(1)
Lionel Trains(2)
Marbles
Model Rockets (1)
Model Rockets (1)
Model Rockets (2)
Mystery Date
Play Doh (2)
Sear’s Racing Sets
Wacky Packages (1)
Wacky Packages (2)
Water Rocket
Valentine’s Day
Valentine Card (2)
Valentine Card (1)
Valentine Hearts
Images from the 1978 Sears Spring and Summer Catalog
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