Memory lane for, say 35-55 year olds.

[John Prophet]

I accidently got on this dudes mailing list, lol. I think he is around 57ish.

He sent this today..sort of a trip down memory lane...I am 36...I remember right much of it...a few things r before my time.





(I numbered em in case someone wants to comment about any of them, lol..I didnt know there were so many when I started numbering, hehe)




DO YOU REMEMBER WHEN...?

1 All the girls had ugly gym uniforms?

2 It took five minutes for the TV warm up?



3 Nearly everyone's Mom was at home when the kids got home from school?

4 Nobody owned a purebred dog?



5 When a quarter was a decent allowance?

6 You'd reach into a muddy gutter for a penny?

7 Your Mom wore nylons that came in two pieces?

8 All your male teachers wore neckties and female teachers had
their hair done every day and wore high heels?




9 You got your windshield cleaned, oil checked, and gas pumped,
without asking, all for free, every time?


10 And you didn't pay for air? And, you got trading stamps to boot?

11 Laundry detergent had free glasses, dishes or towels hidden inside the box?

12 It was considered a great privilege to be taken out to dinner
at a real restaurant with your parents?

13 They threatened to keep kids back a grade if they failed. . ..and they did?



14 When a 57 Chevy was everyone's dream car...to cruise,
peel out, lay rubber or watch submarine races, and people went steady?


15 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?


16 Lying on your back in the grass with your friends
and saying things like, "That cloud looks like a ."

17 and playing baseball with no adults to help kids with the rules of the game?

18 Stuff from the store came without safety caps and hermetic seals
because no one had yet tried to poison a perfect stranger?

19 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?

20 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.

21 Our parents and grandparents were a much bigger threat!
But we survived because their love was greater than the threat.

22 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.


23 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"?



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?

24 Candy cigarettes
25Wax Coke-shaped bottles with colored sugar water inside
26 Soda pop machines that dispensed glass bottles
27 Coffee shops with table side jukeboxes
28 Blackjack, Clove and Teaberry chewing gum
29Home milk delivery in glass bottles with cardboard stoppers
30 Newsreels before the movie
31 P.F. Fliers


32 Telephone numbers with a word prefix....(Raymond 4-601).
Party lines


33 Peashooters
34 Howdy Dowdy
35 45 RPM records
36Green Stamps
37 Hi-Fi's

38 Metal ice cubes trays with levers
39 Mimeograph paper
40 Beanie and Cecil
41 Roller-skate keys
42 Cork pop guns
43 Drive ins
44 Studebakers


45 Washtub wringers
46 The Fuller Brush Man
47 Reel-To-Reel tape recorders
48 Tinker toys
49 Erector Sets
50 The Fort Apache Play Set
51 Lincoln Logs
52 15 cent McDonald hamburgers


53 5 cent packs of baseball cards -
with that awful pink slab of bubble gum

54 Penny candy

55 35 cent a gallon gasoline
56 Jiffy Pop popcorn

Do you remember a time when...

57 Decisions were made by going "eeny-meeny-miney-moe"?
58 Mistakes were corrected by simply exclaiming, "Do Over!"?
59 "Race issue" meant arguing about who ran the fastest?
60 Catching the fireflies could happily occupy an entire evening?
61 It wasn't odd to have two or three "Best Friends"?

62 The worst thing you could catch from the opposite sex was "cooties"?
63 Having a weapon in school meant being caught with a slingshot?
64 A foot of snow was a dream come true?

65 Saturday morning cartoons weren't 30-minute commercials for action figures?
66 "Oly-oly-oxen-free" made perfect sense?
67 Spinning around, getting dizzy, and falling down was cause for giggles?

68 The worst embarrassment was being picked last for a team?
69 War was a card game?
70 Baseball cards in the spokes transformed any bike into a motorcycle?
71 Taking drugs meant orange-flavored chewable aspirin?
72 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!

[Bovon]

Originally posted by John Prophet
I accidently got on this dudes mailing list, lol. I think he is around 57ish.

He sent this today..sort of a trip down memory lane...I am 36...I remember right much of it...a few things r before my time.


(I numbered em in case someone wants to comment about any of them, lol..I didnt know there were so many when I started numbering, hehe)

(Without responding to each one, here is a few of my "memories").


DO YOU REMEMBER WHEN...?

1 All the girls had ugly gym uniforms? I remember when there was NO GYM's

2 It took five minutes for the TV warm up? What TV?


13 They threatened to keep kids back a grade if they failed. . ..and they did? Absolutely!!

14 When a 57 Chevy was everyone's dream car...to cruise,
peel out, lay rubber or watch submarine races, and people went steady? Ohhh man!! yessssss!..later it was a GTO!..then of course, there was the T-bird and Corvette for the real playboys.

19 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? Yep...just for a short visit

20 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. Parents were GOD back then...some were too harsh, and is part of the reason we do not have the authority today.

How many of these do you remember?

24 Candy cigarettes
25Wax Coke-shaped bottles with colored sugar water inside
26 Soda pop machines that dispensed glass bottles
27 Coffee shops with table side jukeboxes
28 Blackjack, Clove and Teaberry chewing gum
29Home milk delivery in glass bottles with cardboard stoppers
30 Newsreels before the movie
31 P.F. Fliers
(All of those plus many more)

32 Telephone numbers with a word prefix....(Raymond 4-601).
Party lines How about the wooden ones with the crank on the side...and when it was turned a voice said "Operator!"


33 Peashooters
34 Howdy Dowdy
35 45 RPM records
36Green Stamps
37 Hi-Fi's

38 Metal ice cubes trays with levers
39 Mimeograph paper
40 Beanie and Cecil
41 Roller-skate keys
42 Cork pop guns
43 Drive ins
44 Studebakers


45 Washtub wringers
46 The Fuller Brush Man
47 Reel-To-Reel tape recorders
48 Tinker toys
49 Erector Sets
50 The Fort Apache Play Set
51 Lincoln Logs
52 15 cent McDonald hamburgers


53 5 cent packs of baseball cards -
with that awful pink slab of bubble gum

54 Penny candy

55 35 cent a gallon gasoline
56 Jiffy Pop popcorn

Do you remember a time when...

57 Decisions were made by going "eeny-meeny-miney-moe"?
58 Mistakes were corrected by simply exclaiming, "Do Over!"?
59 "Race issue" meant arguing about who ran the fastest?
60 Catching the fireflies could happily occupy an entire evening?
61 It wasn't odd to have two or three "Best Friends"?

62 The worst thing you could catch from the opposite sex was "cooties"?
63 Having a weapon in school meant being caught with a slingshot?
64 A foot of snow was a dream come true?

65 Saturday morning cartoons weren't 30-minute commercials for action figures?
66 "Oly-oly-oxen-free" made perfect sense?
67 Spinning around, getting dizzy, and falling down was cause for giggles?

68 The worst embarrassment was being picked last for a team?
69 War was a card game?
70 Baseball cards in the spokes transformed any bike into a motorcycle?
71 Taking drugs meant orange-flavored chewable aspirin?
72 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!

I remember them all...not as clearly today as I did...say, 50 ~ 60 years ago, but I remember...some fondly, some not so fondly...today they are referred to as "the good ole days".. I think I can assure anybody who lived thru the great depression..there wasn't nothing good about those days!

[RayH]

I"m old enough to remember when they did things and WHY they changed them!

The reason kids were advanced in school whether or not they passed a grade was because of funding. The feds/state wouldn't pay for the kid's education the second time in a grade. So to collect funds, they would pass a kid.

I remember when the cops picked kids up for truancy. First, the school doesn't get any money if you're not in class. Second, what no good are kids not in school up to?

[nomaxim]

I remeber when 'Bathroom Tissue' was called 'Toilet Paper',l can't remeber when they snuck that one in thou.

[Optimus Prime]

Still called Toilet Paper over here Maxim!

[Cyclone2]

53 5 cent packs of baseball cards -with that awful pink slab of bubble gum

that stuff was awful

Remember when your phone had a DIAL and your neighbour had a cool wired remote for their tv

[John Prophet]

I remember getting a comic book or something..and in the back they would have ads and stuff, like for little army men and telescopes and stuff...all that stuff seems like magic to me....the whole process....ordering it, waiting 4-8 WEEKS for it to arrive (can you even IMAGINE that today?????)...by the time it would show up you'd have forgotten about it....youd be out playing and your mom would hollar for you...you come home and there'd be a package for you....man, what a feeling.


Now, I coldly punch in the #'s and the order is at my door in 2 days, lol.

I remember trips to the library were like going to another world...reading about europe and castles and stuff....seemed so far off..the internet helped shrink it a bit, lol.


Then again a lot of stuff people back then were VERY alarmed about.....like the govt 'watching you thru your tv' (see---internet, wireless internet,webcams,the "traffic" cams being tried in some states etc)...or 'putting a tracking device in you'...(rfid and others)that stuff is here now but we seemed strangely UNALARMED by it.

[Bill in SD, CA]

I remember for years we would hitch hike to the town shopping center to go to the soda fountain at the local drugstore to have a cherry coke or snowcone for 5¢.

Never though about safety.

Then right before I turned 16 I got beat up and robbed of my $1.30. Newspaper reported I had $130.00.

Bill

P.S. Come to think of it, I remember typewriters that did not have a "character map" so you could use the freaking "¢" sign.

And when "penny" candy was a penny. Sometimes 2 for a penny.

Remember the old black pay phones where you could drop in a nickel and if you were fast enough you could slam the receiver against the coin return and trick the phone into thinking you had put in 2 nickels.

[no1_vern]

Originally posted by John Prophet
Then again a lot of stuff people back then were VERY alarmed about.....like the govt 'watching you thru your tv' (see---internet, wireless internet,webcams,the "traffic" cams being tried in some states etc)...or 'putting a tracking device in you'...(rfid and others)that stuff is here now but we seemed strangely UNALARMED by it.

I agree, I know I am alarmed by it!! But so many people want "security from the terrorists" and they are willing to trade their freedom for the incremental increase of safety all those options afford.

In fact I havent seen any real increase in safety. All I have seen is our rights being taken away in the name of security.

[Bovon]

Originally posted by John Prophet
....the whole process....ordering it, waiting 4-8 WEEKS for it to arrive (can you even IMAGINE that today?????)...by the time it would show up you'd have forgotten about it....

ROFLMAO!!

It obvious you don't do eBay!! LOL......