 Fun Vintage Blue and Green Kitchen Utensils Fabric Tablecloth US $14.00 
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Do you remember flannel-backed oilcloth tablecloths or rubberized sheeting?
The everyday kitchen tablecloth was always flannel-backed oilcloth. For some reason, large cabbage roses were often the decoration of choice.
Rubberized sheeting was used to make waterproof sheets for a crib (soft fabric bonded to rubber). I made sheets, lap pads, etc when my daughter couldn't wear disposable diapers OR rubber pants due to severe diaper rash.
These items were always bought at the "five & dime" (Woolworth's, Belmont's, Ben Franklin's, or what-have-you). Now that those stores have gone the way of the dodo bird, are these products still available?
Oil-cloth sheets were required as part of the stuff you needed in first grade around here. Think we had these until maybe 4th grade. Had a certain smell and when you went to the store to buy it along with pencils(#2)) and erasers, paste ( that you could eat and it didn't hurt you),colored pencils and a Roy Rogers lunch Box along with those writing pads with about an inch between the lines and yellow paper. This stuff was so rough, it still had wood splinters in it.
You also had you normal water colors and some other stuff including a wood ruler with a metal strip along the edge.( Great weapon but I always got to be the victim when Teach got me across the knuckles with one.)
Yes , we got them at the local 5 and dime along with some other stores. My guess is, nowadays, something in the oil-cloth is not "green friendly" and it is against the law to have it. If you ate the paste, you'd be kicked out of school and possibly your parents would be reported to dept. of Children and Family Services and you'd go to jail.
Yep I remember those BETTER times.
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