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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?
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.
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?
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Candy cigarettes
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Wax Coke-shaped bottles with
colored sugar water inside
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Soda pop machines that dispensed glass bottles
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Coffee shops with tableside
jukeboxes
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Blackjack, Clove and Teaberry
chewing gum
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Home milk delivery in glass bottles
with cardboard stoppers
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Newsreels before the movie
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P.F. Fliers
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Telephone numbers with a word prefix...(Raymond 4-601).
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Party lines
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Peashooters
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Howdy Dowdy
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45 RPM records
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Green Stamps
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Hi-Fi's
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Metal ice cubes trays with levers
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Mimeograph paper
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Beanie and Cecil
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Roller-skate keys
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Cork pop guns
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Drive-ins
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Studebakers
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Washtub wringers
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The Fuller Brush Man
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Reel-To-Reel tape recorders
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Tinkertoys
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Erector Sets
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The Fort Apache Play Set
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Lincoln Logs
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15 cent McDonald hamburgers
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5 cent packs of baseball cards with that awful pink slab
of bubble gum
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Penny candy
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35 cent a gallon gasoline
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Jiffy Pop popcorn
Do you remember a time when...
Decisions were made by going "eeny-meeny-m iney-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!!!!!!!
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