edwdickinson Loc: Ardmore PA

Thanks Graham, this was my childhood.

dcampbell52 Loc: Clearwater Fl

Wow! I remember them too... Had a "used" 53 Chevy and my first "new" car was a 72 Dodge Charger... fully loaded Paid $3,500 cash for it off the show room floor. Gas was 19 cents a gallon and I traded the car the first time it cost me more than $20 to fill the tank with regular gas (NO! Not unleaded or gas-o-hol )… pure regular gas (lead and all).

paulrph1 Loc: Washington, Utah

[quote=Graham Thirkill]If you have seen it before it's because it's nostalgia and I don't need to know.......(;-))


How's This For Nostalgia????/

It took three minutes for the TV to warm up?


Nobody owned a purebred dog?


When a quarter was a decent allowance? And made with real Silver!



You'd reach into a muddy gutter for a penny? Made with real copper! Looking to see if it was a 1943 copper 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?
Not to mention Cracker Jacks!


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.


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'?


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.


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...( Yukon 2-601). Or, some of us remember when there were just 4 numbers with no word prefix at all. And, nearly everyone had a party line.



Peashooters


Hi-Fi's & 45 RPM records.


78 RPM records!


S&H 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!


Awe! Progress? (SARCASM)
I liked the ones about the movies. Personally I like the cartoons. They were always the best part.

kerry12 Loc: Harrisburg, Pa.

Remember them all very well.

surfdog

Well then that settles it...............I am old. Knew every one of them. Thanks Graham.

TomC. Loc: Bel Air, MD

Ah, yes, Graham, I do remember those days. Thanks for the memories.

donrosshill Loc: Delaware & Florida

Thank you Graham.
I am 83 and I have all of these as great memories.
Don

Earnest Botello Loc: Hockley, Texas

Thanks for the MEMORIES Graham, I remember all of them.

GlenBose Loc: NE Florida, formerly Limerick, PA

Having remembered all on this list I want to add playing 'Bottle Caps' in the middle of a side street (with a chalked rectangle like a pool table's pockets). We can't forget marbles and the collections of special ones. The Lone Ranger map layout where you placed assembled buildings cut from the inside of a cereal box. Two cent bottle deposits. Cap gun caps taped to a trolley track. I'm sure there are others you UHH's can add.
Thanks, Graham, Larry.

DragonsLady Loc: Los Alamos, NM

I remember most of these; a few were in my parents' time.

RainierView Loc: Eatonville, WA

Guess I'm one of the younger ones that remembers all of them, I'm only 71. As a teen I worked at a gas station, wore a paper hat and a white shirt with an Esso emblem. Ran out when a car pulled in, greeted the customers with a smile. All the services we did for free was when gas was 17 cents a gallon. Thanks for the memories.

DJ Mills Loc: Idaho

Ditto. However not enough people remember Bob Hope.

PRETENDER Loc: Micanopy,Florida

Wouldn't be nice turn back time. Or see the future just to try and straighten up this screwed up world. oh yes thanks for the memories.

tinwhistle

At 73 I remember them all. Grew up in small town America in central Wisconsin. Would leave the house in the morning, be gone all day and my parents didn't worry. Ah, yes...….

RS Loc: W Columbia, SC

Sadly I know that feeling well - both friends and family are mostly gone.
I'm 76 and grew up with nine siblings, lots of cousins, and, of course,
a few old school friends.
Those were the days, and I have to say, "Thanks for the memories!"
Makes me want to plan a game of 'hide and seek' for this evening . . .