Those were the days
Apr 10, 2022 08:55:55 #
This is long and if you're under 65 it might mean little or nothing to you. For those over that age, take a walk down memory lane.
Remember when?
It took three minutes for the TV to warm up?
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?
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 it!
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...'?
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 savour 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.
...as well as summers filled with bike rides, Hula Hoops, 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?
Newsreels before the movie.
Telephone numbers with a word prefix...( Yukon 2-601).
Party lines.
Peashooters.
Hi-Fi's & 45 RPM records.
78 RPM records!
Green Stamps.
Mimeograph paper.
The Fort Apache Play Set.
Do You Remember a Time When...
Decisions were made by going "one potato, two potato...."
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'?
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-flavoured chewable aspirin?
Water balloons were the ultimate weapon?
Candy cigarettes
Wax Coke-shaped bottles with coloured sugar water inside.
Soda pop machines dispensed glass bottles.
Coffee shops with Table Side Jukeboxes.
Blackjack, Clove and Teaberry chewing gum.
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 am sharing this with you today because it ended with a Double Dog Dare to pass it on.
And remember that the perfect age is somewhere between old enough to know better and too young to care.
Send this on to someone who can still remember Howdy Doody and The Peanut Gallery, the Lone Ranger, The Shadow Knows, Nellie Bell, Roy and Dale, Trigger and Buttermilk.
Remember when?
It took three minutes for the TV to warm up?
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?
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 it!
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...'?
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 savour 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.
...as well as summers filled with bike rides, Hula Hoops, 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?
Newsreels before the movie.
Telephone numbers with a word prefix...( Yukon 2-601).
Party lines.
Peashooters.
Hi-Fi's & 45 RPM records.
78 RPM records!
Green Stamps.
Mimeograph paper.
The Fort Apache Play Set.
Do You Remember a Time When...
Decisions were made by going "one potato, two potato...."
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'?
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-flavoured chewable aspirin?
Water balloons were the ultimate weapon?
Candy cigarettes
Wax Coke-shaped bottles with coloured sugar water inside.
Soda pop machines dispensed glass bottles.
Coffee shops with Table Side Jukeboxes.
Blackjack, Clove and Teaberry chewing gum.
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 am sharing this with you today because it ended with a Double Dog Dare to pass it on.
And remember that the perfect age is somewhere between old enough to know better and too young to care.
Send this on to someone who can still remember Howdy Doody and The Peanut Gallery, the Lone Ranger, The Shadow Knows, Nellie Bell, Roy and Dale, Trigger and Buttermilk.
Apr 10, 2022 09:19:16 #
nimbushopper wrote:
This is long and if you're under 65 it might mean ... (show quote)
And Pat Brady!.....
Dang! I guess I can go ahead and open all the AARP bulletins now.
Apr 10, 2022 09:24:10 #
Apr 10, 2022 09:27:03 #
Apr 10, 2022 09:33:17 #
Yep. Wonderful but there were trade offs. Don’t forget the absolute terror of Polio - especially when the girl down street was diagnosed. I was one of the first to get a Salk shot.
But yes, I miss the innocence of it all.
But yes, I miss the innocence of it all.
Apr 10, 2022 09:36:30 #
I am of the vintage that I remember them all. Others from my younger days were:
- The fellow that would push the cart down the street to sharpen knives and scissors.
- Corner Confectionaries where folks had a little store in their homes.
- Penny candy.
- The Fuller Brush Man.
- Bottle milk and eggs delivered to your home.
- The produce truck ringing its bell.
- Fluoroscopic to X-ray your shoes to see how they fit your feet.
- The glow of the tubes at night from the tubes inside the radio and TV.
- City Cars and Street Cars.
- Police that walked neighborhood beats.
- Milk machines in the school where milk was two cents a carton.
- Kids building forts or digging holes to be their "club house".
- School athletic tracks are covered with cinders.
- Bowling pin spotters.
- And lastly....every kid had a dog that would follow them wherever they would go.
- The fellow that would push the cart down the street to sharpen knives and scissors.
- Corner Confectionaries where folks had a little store in their homes.
- Penny candy.
- The Fuller Brush Man.
- Bottle milk and eggs delivered to your home.
- The produce truck ringing its bell.
- Fluoroscopic to X-ray your shoes to see how they fit your feet.
- The glow of the tubes at night from the tubes inside the radio and TV.
- City Cars and Street Cars.
- Police that walked neighborhood beats.
- Milk machines in the school where milk was two cents a carton.
- Kids building forts or digging holes to be their "club house".
- School athletic tracks are covered with cinders.
- Bowling pin spotters.
- And lastly....every kid had a dog that would follow them wherever they would go.
Apr 10, 2022 09:54:00 #
Leave out the comic books that we traded with each other, only to see them on Ebay with prices that could have helped us retire very early.
Apr 10, 2022 09:55:43 #
Apr 10, 2022 10:12:27 #
bikinkawboy
Loc: north central Missouri
We didn’t have an indoor toilet until I was ten, 1956. Before that we took a bath in a big galvanized wash tub. And we were all an important part of our family because on the farm, everyone had their responsibilities, even at very young ages. I was raising a garden at 5, keeping chickens at 6 and driving a tractor putting in crops at 10 ( dad was on another tractor in the same field). And believe it or not, we kids all turned out just fine.
Apr 10, 2022 10:14:18 #
Big John @ Sparky. The Lepricahn (sp) Marching Band. The ice cream cart being pushed down the street. Saturday double features with serials between the movies, all costing 50 cents, sometimes with pop corn & coke included.
Apr 10, 2022 10:17:03 #
Stephan G wrote:
And Pat Brady!.....
Dang! I guess I can go ahead and open all the AARP bulletins now.
Dang! I guess I can go ahead and open all the AARP bulletins now.
Yep!
Apr 10, 2022 10:17:22 #
Apr 10, 2022 10:18:21 #
RoswellAlien wrote:
Yep. Wonderful but there were trade offs. Don’t forget the absolute terror of Polio - especially when the girl down street was diagnosed. I was one of the first to get a Salk shot.
But yes, I miss the innocence of it all.
But yes, I miss the innocence of it all.
Yes, the polio thing was terrifying.
Apr 10, 2022 10:19:14 #
sippyjug104 wrote:
I am of the vintage that I remember them all. Oth... (show quote)
Nice additions Sippy!
Apr 10, 2022 10:19:55 #
jtm1943 wrote:
Remember it all, and missing it - well most of it. Peace. John
Thanks John!
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