posted on May 7, 2006 04:07:24 PM new
Hope you get the music with this
Subject: Fw: A Walk Down Memory Lane
DO YOU REMEMBER WHEN...?
All the girls had ugly gym uniforms?
It took five minutes for the TV 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 "
and 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,
and 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.
Send this on to someone who can 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"?
I am sharing this with you today
because it ended with a double dog dare to pass it on.
To remember what a double dog dare is, read on.
And 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
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. Fliers
Telephone numbers with a word prefix...(Raymond 4-601).
Party lines
Peashooters
Howdy Dowdy
45 RPM records
Green Stamps
Hi-Fi's
Metal ice cubes trays with levers
Mimeograph paper
Beanie and Cecil
Roller-skate keys
Cork pop guns
Drive ins
Studebakers
Washtub wringers
The Fuller Brush Man
Reel-To-Reel tape recorders
Tinkertoys
Erector Sets
The Fort Apache Play Set
Lincoln Logs
15 cent McDonald hamburgers
5 cent packs of baseball cards -
with that awful pink slab of bubble gum
Penny candy
35 cent a gallon gasoline
Jiffy Pop popcorn
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?
A foot of snow was a dream come true?
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 to anyone who may need a break from
their "grown-up" life . . .I double-dog-dare-ya!
posted on May 7, 2006 04:49:57 PM new
I DO REMEMBER when I started selling on eBay almost 9 years a ago, and nearly everything sold, and with multiple bids. They were the good old days!!
posted on May 7, 2006 06:16:50 PM new
Another Goody For The Oldtimers
My Mom used to cut chicken, chop eggs and spread mayo on the same cutting board with the same knife and no bleach, but we didn't seem to
get food poisoning.
My Mom used to defrost hamburger on the counter AND I used to eat it raw sometimes, too. Our school sandwiches were wrapped in wax paper in a brown paper bag, not in icepack coolers, but I can't remember getting e.coli.
Almost all of us would have rather gone swimming in the lake instead of a pristine pool (talk about boring), no beach closures then.
The term cell phone would have conjured up a phone in a jail cell, and a pager was the school PA system.
We all took gym, not PE... and risked permanent injury with a pair of high top Ked's (only worn in gym)
instead of having cross-training athletic shoes with air cushion soles and built in light reflectors. I can't recall any injuries but they must have happened because they tell us how much safer we are now..
Flunking gym was not an option... even for stupid kids! I guess PE must be much harder than gym.
Speaking of school, we all said prayers and sang the national anthem, and staying in detention after school caught all sorts of negative attention.
We must have had horribly damaged psyches. What an archaic health system we had then. Remember school nurses? Ours wore a hat and everything.
I thought that I was supposed to accomplish something before I was allowed to be proud of myself.
I just can't recall how bored we were without computers, Play Station, Nintendo, X-box or 270 digital TV cable stations.
Oh yeah... and where was the Benadryl and sterilization kit when I got that bee sting? I could have been killed!
We played 'king of the hill' on piles of gravel left on vacant construction sites, and when we got hurt, Mom pulled out the 48-cent bottle of Mercurochrome (kids liked it better because it didn't sting like iodine did) and then we got our butt spanked.
Now it's a trip to the emergency room, followed by a 10-day dose of a $49 bottle of antibiotics, and then Mom calls the attorney to sue the contractor for leaving a horribly vicious pile of gravel where it was such a threat.
We didn't act up at the neighbor's house either because if we did, we got our butt spanked there and then we got butt spanked again when we got home.
I recall Donny Reynolds from next door coming over and doing his tricks on the front stoop, just before he fell off. Little did his Mom know that she could have owned our house. Instead, she picked him up and swatted him for being such a goof. It was a neighborhood run amuck.
To top it off, not a single person I knew had ever been told that they were from a dysfunctional family. How could we possibly have known that?
We needed to get into group therapy and anger management classes? We were obviously so duped by so many societal ills, that we didn't even notice that the entire country wasn't taking Prozac! How did we ever survive?
posted on May 7, 2006 07:08:55 PM new
Our gym uniforms were the ugliest shade of green, one piece, too. Yuk! I remember all of those things.
Candy cigarettes
Wax Coke-shaped bottles with colored sugar water inside. . .
We have a candy store here that sells all the candy from way back when! I just finished off some of those wax bottles! They have chocolate candy cigarettes. Talk about a walk down memory lane. I spent over $50 there on items I haven't seen since I was a kid. Remember the candy dots on the long piece of paper? Remember eating each dot along with some paper still attached to the back of them? I have a package of these here on my desk.
posted on May 7, 2006 07:16:47 PM new
A double feature at the local theatre on a Saturday afternoon was 20 cents. Once inside, popcorn was a nickel, unless you wanted butter, then it was a dime. Buy a coke for a nickel and a tube of Flicks candy and you were set for the rest of the day. And don't even think about causing trouble and giving the manager an excuse to call your parents to come and pick you up!!
If Murphy's law is correct, everything East of the San Andreas Fault will slide into the Atlantic
posted on May 7, 2006 07:51:40 PM new
I remember it all too .... and more! Remember the wax red lips? Those were great! And Charms suckers at the movies for 5 cents that lasted through the double feature? (Seems like Francis the Talking Mule was always one of them in my small town in Nebraska).
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posted on May 7, 2006 08:01:32 PM new
I remeber it all, but we had stomach flu all the time and I blame it on the old cutting board. It's so sad now. I wonder what age my son is safe to explore our urban neighborhood on his own. He's telling me- not now!
posted on May 8, 2006 08:33:29 AM new
And remember when:
Saturday morning cartoons came on at 6:00 am, so you woke up bright and early and your mother would always say, "Why can't you get up like this on school days?".
Each teacher hand wrote your grade on your report card ...and used red ink for 'F' to make sure your parents saw it. If you 'lost' your report card, you had to pay to replace it.
You had gym class EVERY DAY and you had to participate.
It was a 'treat' to get a coke or a candy bar.
You had three TV stations. They all played the National Anthem and signed off every night before midnight.
NOTHING was open on Sundays or holidays except the church doors.
You did something stupid and you were TOLD you did something stupid.
Personal responsiblity wasn't the exception, it was the rule.
posted on May 8, 2006 11:27:29 AM newSaturday morning cartoons came on at 6:00 am, so you woke up bright and early and your mother would always say, "Why can't you get up like this on school days?".
ROFL!!! YES!!
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People put their hand on the bible, and swear to uphold the constitution. They do not put their hand on the constitution, and swear to uphold the bible.
posted on May 8, 2006 03:52:35 PM new
Remember your first "color TV"
A piece of soft plastic in green, flesh color & blue that fit over your B&W TV screen.
TV figural lamps that sat on top of your TV sometimes filled with plastic flowers.
Quite collectable now!
Wish I still had that light up black panther.
posted on May 9, 2006 02:34:10 AM new
Silver Christmas trees that changed color because of the old wheel that was covered with different colors of foil and made the constant squeaking noise
Dinners on Sunday at Grandmas was actually something to look forward to.
Nehru jackets with a mini skirt - cinnamon colored stockings (2 pieces) and white Go-Go Boots!!
Dad yelling your full name from the front porch struck terror in your heart
Going to church and dressing up for church was not an option
All 3 TV stations went off at 11:30 PM with the playing of the National Anthem and a picture of the waving flag.
My grandkids love hearing the stories of what life was like when I was a kid (I'm 54) just as I loved hearing the stories from my Grandparents.
