REMEMBER when...

[Gary04GT]

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 occu

[bigdogdad]

Sent a copy to my daughter up north who promply said, "what dorks"! Also sent one to my son who remembers me telling him some of them. He got a kick out it. It was a less stressful time. The living was easy. Nice one Gary

[PTRON]

[quote]quote:Originally posted by Gary04GT

DO YOU REMEMBER WHEN...

All the girls had ugly gym uniforms? YES

It took five minutes for the TV warm up? YES

Nearly everyone's Mom was at home when the kids got home from school? YES

Nobody owned a purebred dog? YES

When a quarter was a decent allowance? YES

You'd reach into a muddy gutter for a penny? YES

Your Mom wore nylons that came in two pieces? YES

All your male teachers wore neckties and female teachers had

their hair done every day and wore high heels? YES

You got your windshield cleaned, oil checked, and gas pumped,

without asking, all for free, every time? YES

And you didn't pay for air? And, you got trading stamps to boot? YES

Laundry detergent had free glasses, dishes or towels hidden inside the box? YES

It was considered a great privilege to be taken out to dinner

at a real restaurant with your parents? YES

They threatened to keep kids back a grade if they failed. . and they did? YES

When a 57 Chevy was everyone's dream car...to cruise,

peel out, lay rubber or watch submarine races, and people went steady? YES YES YES

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? YES

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? YES

Stuff from the store came without safety caps and hermetic seals

because no one had yet tried to poison a perfect stranger? YES

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? YESYESYESYESYESYES

When being sent to the principal's office was nothing

compared to the fate that awaited the student at home? YES!!!!

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 the chocolate one were my favorites

Wax Coke-shaped bottles with colored sugar water inside YUM

Soda pop machines that dispensed glass bottles & a .02 deposit

Coffee shops with tableside jukeboxes 5 cents a song/6 for .25

Blackjack, Clove and Teaberry chewing gum yuk

Home milk delivery in glass bottles with cardboard stoppers YES

Newsreels before the movie

P.F. Fliers yes

Telephone numbers with a word prefix....(Raymond 4-601).

Party lines

Peashooters OUCH

Howdy Dowdy ONE OF MY ALL-TIME FAVORITES

45 RPM records IF I ONLY SAVED THEM

Green Stamps YES

Hi-Fi's YES

Metal ice cubes trays with levers YES

Mimeograph paper YES

Beanie and Cecil YES

Roller-skate keys LOST TOO MANY

Cork pop guns BE CAREFUL OR YOU'LL PUT YOUR EYE OUT

Drive ins AAHH

Studebakers YES (sometimes I wish I had one now)

Washtub wringers caught my arm in one (not a very bright child)

The Fuller Brush Man yes

R

[Kruza]

A friend and I were talking just yesterday about how much things have changed since the "Leave It To Beaver" days. Too ironic.. thanks for posting!! [^]