Well, I remember most of that stuff. And collecting pop (what you easterners call "soda") bottles and taking them after they got rinsed off, sorta, under the garden hose spigot to the grocery store, where we traded them in for a nickel a piece, then proceeded to blow all our loot on candy; a nickel for Butterfingers, or a dime for a package of 2 Butterfingers, 2 cent bubblegum, and typewriters that had that cent symbol on 'em.

I also remember the bad stuff, too. But I have to go now, so I won't dwell on it.
Jim