alt.culture.us.1970s: I.D. bracelets?

I.D. bracelets?
message from G. Jeffrey Gower on 1996/08/25
Remember when everyone wore those silly I.D. bracelets? I had one. Weren't they a product of the 70s? or earlier? Jeff

djd replied to G. Jeffrey Gower on 1996/08/26

Don't remember ID bracelets, but I remember the solid bracelets that
had the names of Vietnam POW's and MIA's on them along with their date
of disappearance.

Duane
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Perry and Lauri replied to djd on 1996/08/27

I still have one of those. You can still get them for people who were
never accounted for and may still be MIA. Along with the name and
ranks and branch of svc is the date they disappeared and their
homestate and where they disappeared.

Lauri

Michele Scheel replied to G. Jeffrey Gower on 1996/08/26

Do you mean those silver ones you could order thru schools? I had
one...it had my name, address, and phone number on it. I guess you could
also get them to include specific medical information. Is that what
you're talking about? I had to wear one all thru grade school. Could
never take the damn thing off! I still have it in my box of memorabilia!
I remember the clasp because it was next to impossible for me to undo
myself (guess that appealed to my mother!), so I was truly STUCK wearing
it forever! <sigh> I suppose now those wouldn't go over so well, what
with the media telling all parents not to put your child's name on
anything (in case of kidnapping, you know).

Gee...I just had a thought...are you instead talking about those bracelets
that girls often bought for their boyfriends...the kind you engrave their
names onto? <sigh> Sadly, I remember both fads.......

Michele

Brian replied to Michele Scheel on 1996/08/27

Yeah, I remember those! I remember asking my mother to get me one. She
refused, and in about a month the fad passed and I forgot about it.

Here's another one: Anyone remember the game "Feely Meely?" You had a
bunch of obects in a box, and you had to draw a card that would show you
an object, and the players had to feel around in the box for the object.

Brian

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Jeff Gower replied to Michele Scheel on 1996/08/27

Yep, that's the ones. Actually, after I posted about these things, I
realized that they were around in the 50s, so they must not be a product
of the 70s after all. But I do remember several guys that wore them then.

Jeff

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