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 55 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.

Send this on to someone who can still remember
Nancy Drew, the Hardy Boys, Laurel and Hardy,
Howdy Doody 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"?

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?

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 Doody
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!

Have a great weekend!

Mary

Oh, my gosh! The glasses in laundry soap! I forgot all about that until you brought it up. Anyone remember the air raid sirens that used to sound off at noon every Monday (at least in our little town that's when it was)?
Groceries used to come home in boxes. My brother and I would line them up in the kitchen and play "Going On A Vacation" because the boxes became a train to us.
Look at your Mom & Dad's old, old Christmas photos. The Christmas trees weren't as trimmed and shaped as they are now. Our trees always looked kind of wild but they were normal to us then.

"Those were the DAYS"

Seems progress has made life VERY complicated.

LOL

Ahhhh, the "Time Saving" devices and appliances.

Time saving for what ?

"They" promised us more leisure time - HA !

Turns out the time saving was time to do "More Work"

I guess progress is a good thing. When you look at the faces of people in photos at the turn of the century, etc. they look like life was tough for them, not to mention that they died so much younger. I say we keep our modern technology and go back to some of the morals and protocal of yesteryear. But, I don't know if that's possible since technology has isolated us making our social skills real....poopy.

those where the days we thought they would never end

teach us to think

Thanks for the walk back into the past.Those were the days.

Oh Yeah...those were the days

I was just talking to a neighbor about some of those things this morning...go figure aye

I didn't notice mention of ice cream trucks and the bells...gotta love that Good Humor...geesh now I want ice cream.

Anyway thanks for the memories...

Thanks Popcorn and Merit.

Merit, welcome to Mingle!

Thanks Mary was trying to remember what they called thoughs green stamps. Yes life was simple :) green stamps. I miss it we did grow up in the best of times :)

Those sure brought back memories. I remember getting my first pair of go go boots. I thought I was so cool. I couldn't wait to get the surprise out of the Cracker Jack box. We were so happy to go to Sandys for a hamburger and shake, piling in the car to see where the fire was, babysitting so I could buy that 45 record. Mom made a lot of our clothes. Do you remember the paper dresses?

I miss those green stamps too. I remember the first Christmas when we were married. We were so much in love, yet dirt poor. Green stamps bought our presents. Got lots of cool stuff over the years with those stamps!

Weren't those stamps called S&H green stamps?

Oh those go go boots wore them till they wore out :) Baby sitting for records lol.

OMG....I thought I was so "GROVEY" with my paperdress, and YES....I had GO GO boots too....danced up a storm...LOL

Remember the WHITE lipstick, GIANT sunglasses, and wearing jean cutoffs with an army shirt?

I remember the extra things my parents did for Christmas cash. We use to pick up corn the farmes left behind. My dad would take it to the elevator. My parents made Christmas corsages to sell. They were beautiful. No one wears them anymore. People dressed to the hilt for the Christmas Plays. Now we don't even have Christmas plays anymore. It is really sad. How about school carnivals in the gym. We even had a kissing booth. Threw cream whip pies at the teachers. Remember getting together to decorate the floats for Homecoming parades? We don't even have floats anymore. These kids are missing so much fun.

yeah something like that

Yeah, the young people (well most of them) are missing out on a lot of the simple joys of life unless we, the ones that remember, make an effort to share with them.

I still do May Baskets with my grand-kids and kids I teach...it's sad that "A LOT" of kids don't know what they are! We always put popcorn, Penny candy and Violets in ours, and still do!

I am forever 5 and take my kids on Fairy hunts, hatch dragon eggs, and lots of other imaginary, magical journey's. Kids need to be kids and in today's world, they seem to be pushed to grow up too fast. In my little world, at least they still believe in Santa, flying reindeer, fairies, the Easter Bunny, Peter Pan, and that you really can hatch a dragon egg!

So 5X10, are you a grade school teacher?

Yes, Special Ed Associate for the past 23 years, I am in my last term in College to be a certified teacher. I Student Teach in August.