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?
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.
Send this on to someone who can
still remember 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.
As well as summers filled with bike rides, baseball games, Hula Hoops, bowling 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"?
Hmmmm . . . . . . . .
Do you remember?
Candy cigarettes, Wax Coke-shaped bottles with colored sugar water inside
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, Howdy Dowdy, 45 RPM records
Hi-Fi's, Metal ice cubes trays with levers, Mimeograph paper
Beanie and Cecil, Roller-skate keys, Cork pop guns
Drive ins, Studebakers, Washtub wringers
Hide & seek, kick the can, spin the bottle, knocky-knocky- 9 door
The Fuller Brush Man, Reel-To-Reel tape recorders, Tinkertoys
Erector Sets, The Fort Apache Play Set, Lincoln Logs
25 cent McDonald hamburgers,
5 cent packs of baseball cards - with that awful pink slab of bubble gum
Penny candy, 35 cent a gallon gasoline, Jiffy Pop popcorn . . . . . . . .
Hmmmmmm
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?
The most annoying word in road hockey was . . . . . . . "CAR" ?
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?
The only time the front door was locked was when you were asleep?
You could wonder away from home with your friends, lose track of time, but as long as you were home for dinner, it was all right?
Saturday morning cartoons weren't
30-minute commercials for action
figures?
"Oly-oly-oxen-free" made perfect sense?
Spinning around and 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!
And remember that the perfect age is somewhere between old enough to know better
and too young to care.