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 hadtheir 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 dinnerat 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
Doody 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"?
Remember that the perfect age is somewhere
betweenold 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
Hi-Fi's
45 RPM
records
78RPM records!
Green
Stamps
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
25
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?
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 at the
best
of
time in the history of the United States.