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 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?

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?

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.
 

Can you remember when the top book sellers and shows were....
 

Nancy Drew

The Hardy Boys

Laurel and Hardy

Howdy Dowdy and the Peanut Gallery

The Lone  Ranger

The Shadow Knows

Nellie Bell

Roy and Dale, Trigger and Buttermilk.
 

Do you remember summers filled with
 

Bike rides

Baseball games

Hula Hoops

Visits to the neighborhood pool

Eating Kool-Aid powder with sugar.
 

Didn't that feel good, just to go back and say, "Yeah, I remember that"?
 

Do you 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

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

45 RPM records

Green Stamps

Hi-Fi's

Metal ice cubes trays with levers

Mimeograph paper

'Beanie and Cecil'

Roller-skate keys

Cork pop guns

 Drive-ins

Washtub wringers

Clothes Lines

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

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?

A foot of snow was a dream come true?

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?

Schwin 'sting ray' bicycles with banana seats?

Contest with how many "wheely's" you can do?

Taking drugs meant orange-flavored chewable aspirin?

Water balloons were the ultimate weapon?
 

With everything in our world changing so rapidly, it is important to remember a time that was. Yes of course it is important to remain fluid and flex with time and change, but it is just as important to remember experiences which brought us to this point.

Sometimes life really doesn't suck!
 

                                                                Thought For The Day
 

A tribute to Bob Hope. He died today at age 100.

"If you haven't got any charity in your heart, you have the worst kind of heart trouble."
     - Bob Hope

"I love flying. I've been to almost as many places as my luggage."
     - Bob Hope

"A bank is a place that will lend you money if you can prove that you don't need it."
     - Bob Hope
 
 

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