bigwolf40 Loc: Effort, Pa.

When Life Was Fun

All the girls had ugly gym uniforms? And wore tennis shoes not $200 Nike's!

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 savor the slower pace, and share it with the children of today.



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.



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.

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.

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 Table Side Jukeboxes...

Blackjack, Clove and Teaberry chewing gum...



Home milk delivery in glass bottles with cardboard stoppers...



Newsreels before the movie...


Telephone numbers with a word prefix...( Yukon2-601). 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...
'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'..

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!!!!!!!

Pass this on to anyone who may need a break from their 'Grown-Up' Life..
I Double-Dog-Dare-Ya!


I must be older then I thought because I remember everything here....Rich

SharpShooter Loc: NorCal

Rich, except for the weapon at school thingy, all of those still happen in Montana!! :lol. :lol: :lol:
Let's see if I get hate mail?!?!
SS

RWR Loc: La Mesa, CA

You win. I wouldn't pass something like this on to any photographer I know.

oldtigger Loc: Roanoke Virginia-USA

on the subject of weapons
In high school i carried a shotgun to school in the fall months and kept it in my locker so i could get in some birding on the way home and no classmate or adult ever commented on it.

But if you got caught with a sharpened motorcycle chain in your locker it meant expulsion.

Mac Loc: Pittsburgh, Philadelphia now Hernando Co. Fl.

:thumbup: :thumbup:

juicesqueezer Loc: Okeechobee, Florida

Ah, I remember them all! Those were really the GOOD OLD DAYS!

Beowulf Loc: Aquidneck Island, RI

Me, too!

LouT Loc: Maryland

I also remember walking to school instead of riding-- and it was two miles, uphill both ways.

boberic Loc: Quiet Corner, Connecticut. Ex long Islander

Going out and playing with friends,and not having to go home untill the street lights came on. When parents asked where are you going, the proper answer was OUT. When you got a black and white TV with 4 chanels, and you really did have to tune them in. I remember when life was a lot simpler and a lot better. Kids today don't know what kind of freedom us old farts enjoyed. The music was better then also. Still like the Five Satins " In The Still Of The Night" Our first phone number was Ravenswood 8-2491. I will never forget it. There were no zip-codes and stamps cost a nickle.

robertjerl Loc: Corona, California

Same here, but a weapon in school wasn't a sling shot. This was Western Kentucky in the early 60s.
1. almost all boys/male teachers and many girls/female teachers carried pocket knives. Agriculture students were required to have one as part of a farmers basic tool set.
2. the first day of school and the first day of hunting season were the same. The high school principal would lock your rifle or shotgun in his security closet (with his) so you didn't have to leave it in your car or pickup (the parking lot was next to US 60 and had no fence or guard out of state crooks, from St Louis or Chicago used to cruise the highway looking for stuff to steal). If you didn't get it by 3:15, too bad, wait until tomorrow, he would be gone hunting himself.

An older friend who went to high school in LA in the late 30s remembers riding the bus or street car in JrROTC uniform with his 22 match rifle to go to the LAPD academy range for practice or competitions on weekends.

J. R. WEEMS Loc: Winchester, Virginia

HA! can go just one better---you belonged to the school rifle team and the range was UNDER the school :) Yeah, I am old- :)

robertjerl Loc: Corona, California

His school's stadium was being rebuilt and the range under the football field was blocked off by construction. So the LAPD called them and invited them to use the academy range. They were in the running for the state championship and LA(PD) wanted them to win.

My last school, James Garfield HS in East LA, had it's JrROTC range under the football field. Only airguns were kept in the ROTC vault, another school had it's vault torched open and the guns stolen so the "real" rifles were locked up elsewhere, I think it was a National Guard Armory.

BHC Loc: Strawberry Valley, JF, USA

Your friends called your mother, "Mrs. ______", children were born nine months after marriage (in itself a disappearing word today), you didn't need a house key (even if the house was locked, there was a spare key on a nail inside the unlocked back garage door), hemp was used for tree swings and the swimming pool was the wide spot in the river. I can even remember being called, "Sir" by my children's friends!

And just to keep this where it started, film and flash bulbs (no blue ones; you had a blue cover for your flashgun).

OddJobber Loc: Portland, OR

Does anyone remember a time when this thread would not last for 8 hours in Main Photography Discussion? :roll:

BHC Loc: Strawberry Valley, JF, USA

Well, it's in GCC now! But, for me at least, it's run its course.