DO YOU REMEMBER WHEN...?
All the girls had ugly gym uniforms?
It took five minutes for the TV to warm up?
Nearly everyone's Mom was at home when the kids got home
from school?
Nobody owned a purebred dog?
When a quarter was a decent allowance?
You'd reach into a muddy gutter for a penny?
Your Mom wore nylons that came in two pieces?
All your male teachers wore neckties and female teachers
had their hair done every day and wore high heels?
You got your windshield cleaned, oil checked, and gas
pumped, without asking, all for free, every time? And
you didn't pay for air? And, you got trading stamps to
boot?
Laundry detergent had free glasses, dishes or towels
hidden inside the box?
It was considered a great privilege to be taken out to
dinner at a real restaurant with your parents?
They threatened to keep kids back a grade if they
failed. . . And they did?
When a 57 Chevy was everyone's dream car...to cruise,
peel out, lay rubber or watch submarine races, and
people went steady?
No one ever asked where the car keys were because they
were always in the car, in the ignition, and the doors
were never locked?
Lying on your back in the grass with your friends?
And saying things like, 'That cloud looks like a... '?
Playing baseball with no adults to help kids with the
rules of the game?
Stuff from the store came without safety caps and
hermetic seals because no one had yet tried to poison a
perfect stranger?
And with all our progress, don't you just wish, just
once, you could slip back in time and savor the slower
pace? Share it with the children of today.
When being sent to the principal's office was nothing
compared to the fate that awaited the student at home?
Basically we were in fear for our lives, but it wasn't
because of drive-by shootings, drugs, gangs, etc. Our
parents and grandparents were a much bigger threat! But
we survived because their love was greater than the
threat.
Can you still remember Nancy Drew, the Hardy Boys,
Laurel and Hardy, Howdy Dowdy and the Peanut Gallery,
the Lone Ranger, The Shadow Knows, Nellie Bell, Roy and
Dale, Trigger and Buttermilk?
. .as well as summers filled with bike rides, baseball
games, Hula Hoops, bowling and visits to the pool, and
eating Kool-Aid powder with sugar.
Didn't that feel good, just to go back and say, 'Yeah, I
remember that'?
How many of these do you remember?
Candy cigarettes
Wax Coke-shaped bottles with colored sugar water inside.
Soda pop machines that dispensed glass bottles.
Coffee shops with tableside jukeboxes.
Blackjack, Clove and Teaberry chewing gum.
Home milk delivery in glass bottles with cardboard
stoppers.
Newsreels before the movie.
P.F. Flyers.
Telephone numbers with a word prefix...(Raymond 4-601).
Party lines.
Peashooters.
Howdy Dowdy.
Hi-Fi's & 45 RPM records.
78 RPM records!
Green Stamps.
Mimeograph paper.
The Fort Apache Play Set.
Do you remember a time when...
Decisions were made by going 'eeny-meeny-miney-moe'?
Mistakes were corrected by simply exclaiming, 'Do
Over!'?
'Race issue' meant arguing about who ran the fastest?
Catching the fireflies could happily occupy an entire
evening?
It wasn't odd to have two or three 'Best Friends'?
The worst thing you could catch from the opposite sex
was 'cooties'?
Having a weapon in school meant being caught with a
slingshot?
Saturday morning cartoons weren't 30-minute commercials
for action figures?
'Ally-Ally-in-fey' made perfect sense?
Spinning around, getting dizzy, and falling down was
cause for giggles?
The worst embarrassment was being picked last for a
team?
War was a card game?
Baseball cards in the spokes transformed any bike into a
motorcycle?
Taking drugs meant orange-flavored chewable aspirin?
Water balloons were the ultimate weapon?
If you can remember most or all of these, then you have
lived!!!!!!!
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