Do YOU remember

[SPEEDO]

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 ....." and 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.

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"?

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

Howdy Dowdy

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

Studebakers

Washtub wringers

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 35 cent a gallon gasoline 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?

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!

Thanks

[Bob The Great]

Decisions were made by going "eeny-meeny-miney-moe"?

Thats how I make decisions when fixing PC's. It seems to work sometimes. Really unerves the costumer if he's standing there. I'm giving him this very descriptive talk about everything I'm doing then I go "hmm...which one" he waits for me to inevitably go "ahh this one" but since I really don't know I do"eeny-meeny-miney-moe" to figure it out! lol

Inspires confidence!

Yeah people have gotten so uptight nowadays. I mean you spill coffee on yourself and you get a few million dollars! Whats up with that?

10 cent hamburgers at McDonalds
Perry Mason
Huntley Brinkley Report
Japanese stuff meant shoddy cheap stuff
1964 T-Bird

[osprey4]

I remember when McDonald's advertised that you could order a hamburger, fries and soda and get change for a dollar.

Whenever I'm teaching jr. high or high school kids and I want to make a point about how long ago something was, I just say, "Back before there were VCRs".

[M_Six]

I remember when TV was first broadcast in color and how disappointed I was that we couldn't see it that way.

I remember lying in bed listening to the Dragnet theme and smelling my uncle's cigarette smoke coming up the stairs.

I remember when having pizza for dinner was a major treat.

I remember very quiet classrooms and the horrifying thought of being sent to the principal's office.

I remember the annual fair coming to the local fairgrounds (now a large neighborhood).

Sadly, I also remember Walter Cronkite reporting on Viet Nam, the Apollo launchpad fire, the MLK, Jr. and RFK assassinations, and Watergate.


BTW, SPEEDO, thanks for the flashbacks. You must have lived my life.

man soda from a glass bottle always seems to taste better IMHO

I remember when having pizza for dinner was a major treat.

After 35 years,it still is.

[kenyg]

Crystal Radio sets
Mickey Mantle
Chamberlain vs. Russell
Cigarette ads on TV
Perculator coffee pots

[skuz]

Ah going on bike without any padding...

Though my memories are more recent than some of you, I do have fond ones.

In my childhood (early 80s), my dream was to meet KITT.

Organizing expeditions to go in the wood to find the famed "monster", which was discovered later to be a lynx...

The ultimage bike had 6 or even *drools* 12 gears !!!

Candies were a major luxury, as was chocolate.

Having to put a speaker on the window in drive ins...

Bikes brakes on the handles was a major change in our lives, we crashed a few times before getting it right as we tried to brake with our feet as usual.


aaaaaaaahhhhh

[Graham]

Other than the specifically US ones,

YES I remember.

G