Trip down memory lane- come on, join me!
Trip down memory lane- come on, join me! (6/3/2006 8:28:34 PM)
DO YOU REMEMBER WHEN...? 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? 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 " and playing baseball with no adults to help kids with the rules of the game? 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. 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. Remember that the perfect age is somewhere between old enough to know better and too young to care. How many of these do you remember? Candy cigarettes - we were so cool! Wax Coke-shaped bottles with colored sugar water inside - YUMMY Soda pop machines that dispensed glass bottles - I miss these Coffee shops with tableside jukeboxes Blackjack, Clove and Teaberry chewing gum - YUM Home milk delivery in glass bottles with cardboard stoppers Newsreels before the movie P.F. Fliers Telephone numbers with a word prefix...(Raymond 4-601). Party lines - Hated these! except you could catch up on the neighborhood gossip! Peashooters Howdy Dowdy 45 RPM records - I miss these! Green Stamps - were soooo cool Hi-Fi's Metal ice cubes trays with levers - could never get them to work Mimeograph paper Beanie and Cecil Roller-skate keys Cork pop guns Drive ins Studebakers Washtub wringers - used to get my arm stuck in the stupid things The Fuller Brush Man Reel-To-Reel tape recorders Tinkertoys Erector Sets The Fort Apache Play Set Lincoln Logs - were the best 15 cent McDonald hamburgers 5 cent packs of baseball cards - with that awful pink slab of bubble gum - GROSS but we ate it anyway, didn't we? Penny candy 19 cent a gallon gasoline - I don't remember this one but I do remember when it was 99 cents a gallon Jiffy Pop popcorn Do you remember a time when... Decisions were made by going "eeny-meeny-miney-moe"? ummm I still do?lol Mistakes were corrected by simply exclaiming, "Do Over!"? - simple times "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? A foot of snow was a dream come true? not anymore Saturday morning cartoons weren't 30-minute commercials for action figures? "Oly-oly-oxen-free" 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!!!!!!! Pass this on. . .I double-dog-dare-ya! AAAAAH the Good OIe' Days. I miss 'em!
DO YOU REMEMBER WHEN...? 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? 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 " and playing baseball with no adults to help kids with the rules of the game? 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. 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. Remember that the perfect age is somewhere between old enough to know better and too young to care. How many of these do you remember? Candy cigarettes - we were so cool! Wax Coke-shaped bottles with colored sugar water inside - YUMMY Soda pop machines that dispensed glass bottles - I miss these Coffee shops with tableside jukeboxes Blackjack, Clove and Teaberry chewing gum - YUM Home milk delivery in glass bottles with cardboard stoppers Newsreels before the movie P.F. Fliers Telephone numbers with a word prefix...(Raymond 4-601). Party lines - Hated these! except you could catch up on the neighborhood gossip! Peashooters Howdy Dowdy 45 RPM records - I miss these! Green Stamps - were soooo cool Hi-Fi's Metal ice cubes trays with levers - could never get them to work Mimeograph paper Beanie and Cecil Roller-skate keys Cork pop guns Drive ins Studebakers Washtub wringers - used to get my arm stuck in the stupid things The Fuller Brush Man Reel-To-Reel tape recorders Tinkertoys Erector Sets The Fort Apache Play Set Lincoln Logs - were the best 15 cent McDonald hamburgers 5 cent packs of baseball cards - with that awful pink slab of bubble gum - GROSS but we ate it anyway, didn't we? Penny candy 19 cent a gallon gasoline - I don't remember this one but I do remember when it was 99 cents a gallon Jiffy Pop popcorn Do you remember a time when... Decisions were made by going "eeny-meeny-miney-moe"? ummm I still do?lol Mistakes were corrected by simply exclaiming, "Do Over!"? - simple times "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? A foot of snow was a dream come true? not anymore Saturday morning cartoons weren't 30-minute commercials for action figures? "Oly-oly-oxen-free" 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!!!!!!! Pass this on. . .I double-dog-dare-ya! AAAAAH the Good OIe' Days. I miss 'em!
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