Remember when ???

[Jimbo]

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

[gonzomania]

Jimbo,
I remember like it was yesterday. My wife will love this she's pretty much stuck in the 50's. I guess that's why I love the cruiser so much my dream in high school was to have a panel truck (not a van)

[Gary04GT]

Sure do. Just like I remember some of the good "Crusining Tunes" . [?]
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[VellianPT]

nope i don't remeber it becuase i wasn't alive till the mid 80's but i have always heard about, and i love the cars from the time period.
I do remeber the Studebaker, my parents had one when i was little, didn't run and in the winter we used the hood as a sled. the car is now in a Studebakers resturant in Australia.

[Jimbo]

There is a Studebaker resturant?

[Mike-in-Orange]

quote:If you can remember most or all of these, then you have lived!!!!!!!

Hmmmm, don't know if this means you have lived or you have lived a long time! I remember almost all of these, but I also remember gas WAY cheaper than 35 cents a gallon though - I hate to admit. Oh yeah, we ran around barefoot, rode out bikes without helmets, didn't use seatbelts (didn't HAVE shoulder belts), moms carried babies in their arms in the car 'cause baby/child seats didn't exist. In fact, with the dangers we lived through, it's amazing that any of us are alive today!

[Hooligan]

See edit below.

[Hooligan]

Leaded Gasoline;
Paint with lead in it, lots of baby cribs were painted with it.

It's a wonder we lived at all.

I remember once when I was in high school, carrying a unloaded 16 gauge shotgun on the school bus for a safety demostration, storing it in my locker, taking it into the classroom and then home on the bus.
Now they have a "LOCKDOWN" because a kid takes a 1" keychain gun and he his expelled. Something is wrong here!!! My .02 cents worth[xx(]!!

[Jimbo]

I agree, last year a girl got suspended from school for having safty sissors. How wrong is that?
Mike I remember paying 9 cents a gallon for gas during the gas wars.

[Nova69]

Chemistry sets with REAL chemicals - ones you could do some serious damage with! They came with alcohol lamps to cook up what you created. Let's see, was that add acid to water, or water to acid?