Do You Remember?

[Studlover (imported)]

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. 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

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!

[Christina (imported)]

Yes, I guess I am old enough to remember most all of these. A nice trip down memory lane.

Here are a few more to the list.

Doctors made house calls

The drug store delivered your prescriptions

returnable bottles

Jack Purcells

rubber bathtub stoppers

milk and eggs were left at your doorstep once a week

newspaper drives

ink wells

slide rules

3 speed English racer

little red wagon

mini bikes

8 track tapes

Radios and TV's that had tubes in them (you had to wait for them to warm up first)

$0.15 was all you needed for school lunch money

book straps

wearing rubber bands on your pants leg while riding a bike (kept your pants from getting caught in the sprocket)

balloon tires

hairstyles: ducktail, beehive, flattop

street cars

5 & 10 stores

RC cola

Tab cola

Squirt Cola

moon pies

churchkey

skeleton keys

soda bottles you need and opener for

pull tabs on cans (that came off)

beer and soda cans that didn't have a pull tab

rubbers (worn on your feet when it rained)

[Patient (imported)]

Do you remember . . .

Girls had to wear ugly gym uniforms?

Elementary school boys wore knickers (Knickerbockers) and long socks?

Everybody wore shoes with leather soles?

At least once a year someone running in the halls would hit a wet spot and go flying out of control?

Most mothers were home when the kids got back from school?

Nobody you knew had a pedigreed dog?

25 cents was enough for a Sunday matinee, including bus fare, admission and popcorn?

Few people had cars and most of them had only "A" gas rationing cards? (Five gallons per month!)

All your male teachers wore coats and ties and all your female teachers wore dresses and high heels?

Your shop teacher took his tie off only when actually working with the machines?

The national convention of high school principals announced that the most serious discipline problem in high schools nationwide was talking in the halls?

What the Principal did to you for misbehaving was nothing compared to what your parents did later?

We were in fear for our lives, but not because of drive-by shootings, drug dealers or gangs.

You got your gas pumped, windshield washed, oil checked without asking, every time?

And free road maps if you asked?

The adhesive on cereal boxes was so strong you had to use a knife to open them?

You never had to ask

where the car keys were because they were always in the

ignition with the doors unlocked?

"Pepsi-cola hits the spot, 12 full ounces, that's a lot;

twice as much for a nickel too, you know Pepsi is the one for you.

Nickel nickel nickel nickel nickel."

Soda vending machines dispensed cold glass bottles for five cents?

Peanut vending machines gave you half a handful for a penny?

Five-cent candy bars gave you at least three mouthfuls of candy?

Cafes had counter-top juke box controls that gave one play for a nickel and six for a quarter?

Home delivery of milk

in glass bottles with cardboard stoppers

that rose an inch or so out of the bottle when the cream froze?

Newsreels and cartoons between the features at movie theaters?

Telephone numbers starting with a name (e.g., RAndolph 6-3996)?

It was illegal to own a phone (you had to rent them from the phone company) and the phone company could cut off your service if they caught you with one?

Only rich people had more than one telephone in their homes?

Even rich people didn't have telephones in their cars?

Aluminum ice cube trays with levers that broke within a year?

Plastic ice cube trays that split within a year?

The smell of mimeograph ink?

Clamp-on roller skates and their keys?

Cork pop guns, drive-in movie theaters, Studebakers, Tuckers, the Spruce Goose, the Flying Wing?

Home-made toy pistols that fired rubber bands cut from auto inner tubes? For that matter, auto inner tubes themselves?

Washing machines and washtubs equipped with wringers?

"Ice boxes" that ran on ice instead of making it?

Retail store clerks had to do the addition themselves? Cash registers only registered the amount of the sale and stored the cash.

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