Do you remember

  YOU REMEMBER WHEN...? All the girls had ugly gym uniforms?

It took five minutes for the TV to 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?

 

 

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?

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.

Laurel and Hardy, Howdy Dowdy and the Peanut Gallery, the Lone Ranger, The Shadow Knows,

Nellie Bell , Roy and Dale, Trigger and Buttermilk.

 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 table side 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

 

Howdy Dowdy

Hi-Fi's

45 RPM records

78 RPM records!

Green Stamps

Metal ice cubes trays with levers

 

Roller-skate keys

Cork pop guns

Studebakers

Washtub wringers

 

Erector Sets

15 cent McDonald hamburgers

5 cent packs of baseball cards - with that awful pink slab of bubble gum

Penny candy&nbs p;

25 cent a gallon gasoline

 

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?

The worst embarrassment was being picked last for a team?

 

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!