DO YOU REMEMBER WHEN....?
All the girls had ugly gym uniforms? Mine was red and one piece!!
It took five minutes for
the TV warm up?
Nearly everyone's Mom was
at home when the kids
got home from school?
When a quarter was
a decent allowance?
You'd reach into a muddy
gutter for a penny? I still do a penny is a penny!
Your Mom wore nylons
that came in two pieces? Oh dear that's how I started out!!
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? I got lots of glasses and towels this way! How exciting to open the box and see what surprise you had.!!!
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? Those chevys were great parking cars too!!
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?
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? I dreaded coming home lots!! Yes I was known for not keeping my mouth shut!
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
Laurel and Hardy,
Howdy Doody & the Peanut Gallery,
the Lone Ranger,
The Shadow Knows,
Nellie Bell ,
Roy and Dale,
Trigger and Buttermilk. I really wanted to ride with Roy Rogers how cool would that have been?
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 Clove was my favorite
Home milk delivery in glass bottles with cardboard stoppers
Newsreels before the movie
P.F Fliers
Telephone numbers with a word prefix...(Twilight 7-7328).
Party lines
Howdy Doody
Hi-Fi's
45 RPM records
78 RPM records!
Green Stamps Oh the stuff you could get I got a high chair for my baby!!!
Metal ice cubes trays with levers
Roller-skate keys
Cork pop guns
Studebakers
Washtub wringers-- My first washing machine!!
Erector Sets- these things cost a fortune today!!
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 - What a bargin!!
Do you remember a time when...
'Race issue' meant arguing about who ran the fastest?
Catching the fireflies could happily occupy an entire evening?
The worst thing you could catch from the opposite sex was 'cooties'?
Having a weapon in school meant being caught with a slingshot?
'Oly-oly-oxen-free'
made perfect sense?
Spinning around, getting dizzy, and falling down was cause for giggles? I still do this but not on purpose now!!
The worst embarrassment was being picked last for a team? I think this one is still good today.
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!
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