REMEMBER WHEN.....

• All the girls had ugly gym uniforms

• It took five minutes for the TV to warm up.

• When you could leave your front door unlocked during the day.

• Nearly everyone's mom was at home to greet the kids coming from school.

• Nobody owned a purebred dog.

• When a quarter was a decent allowance.

• You'd reach into a muddy gutter for a penny.

• All your male teachers wore dresshirts and neckties and your female teachers wore dresses and heels.

• You got your windshield washed, oil checked and gas pumped without asking.

• Laundry detergent had had free glasses, dishes or towels inside the box.

• When being sent to the principal's office was nothing compared to the fate that awaited the student when he got home.

I sometimes wonder if all of the items above were ever anyone's reality or do I just remember it from decent family programming like Father Knows Best or Leave it to Beaver.

• All the girls had ugly gym uniforms

TOTALLY TRUE. Damn, they used to wear those goofy terry-toweling boy-cut shorts... I always thought they looked so goofy.

MacTheWolf (imported) wrote: Wed Sep 12, 2007 4:23 pm • It took five minutes for the TV to warm up.

Yep, took awhile, but we had colour TV as early as I can remember

MacTheWolf (imported) wrote: Wed Sep 12, 2007 4:23 pm • When you could leave your front door unlocked during the day.

Actually, I've never done that, and our house was always locked.

MacTheWolf (imported) wrote: Wed Sep 12, 2007 4:23 pm • Nearly everyone's mom was at home to greet the kids coming from school.

Yep, score one there. I can't remember ever coming home or to a friends home with no mom around.

MacTheWolf (imported) wrote: Wed Sep 12, 2007 4:23 pm • Nobody owned a purebred dog.

Heinz (57) variety dogs and nameless cats were indeed all over my neighbourhood.

MacTheWolf (imported) wrote: Wed Sep 12, 2007 4:23 pm • When a quarter was a decent allowance.

I got a raise to 50 cents when I was 9! I remember that 'gift' to this day, I was exstatic!!

MacTheWolf (imported) wrote: Wed Sep 12, 2007 4:23 pm • You'd reach into a muddy gutter for a penny.

I just saw my friends kid (8 years old) do the same; that still happens

MacTheWolf (imported) wrote: Wed Sep 12, 2007 4:23 pm • All your male teachers wore dresshirts and neckties and your female teachers wore dresses and heels.

Damn, yep... fuddy mixed with lots of duddy. Although, I kinda like the more relaxed dress now.

MacTheWolf (imported) wrote: Wed Sep 12, 2007 4:23 pm • You got your windshield washed, oil checked and gas pumped without asking.

Hehehe... ok, you are definitely older than I

MacTheWolf (imported) wrote: Wed Sep 12, 2007 4:23 pm • Laundry detergent had had free glasses, dishes or towels inside the box.

... WAY older!

• When being sent to the principal's office was nothing compared to the fate that awaited the student when he got home.

I missed the strapping days by a few years; they were eliminated in Manitoba by the time I hit 2nd grade.

That was fun, thanks

Yes Mac. I remember all of that and more.

My father kept a tag with his name and address on his keys. He lost them once while on vacation. When we got home they were in our mailbox. Sombody put them in a mailbox and the post office shipped them to us free. If you did that today you would come home to an empty house.

I remember milk deliveries to our door.

Diaper service companies.

We didn't have calculators. We used pencil and paper.

I remember my dad complaining about 25 cents per gallon gas.

124 octane at the pump.

Three channels to chose from on the TV and they went off the air at 2:00 a.m.

Quarters were real money. They were silver!

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StefanIsMe (imported) wrote: Wed Sep 12, 2007 5:14 pm I got a raise to 50 cents when I was 9! I remember that 'gift' to this day, I was exstatic!!

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I remember my sister gave me 50 cents when I was 5 years old and I went right away and bought a pack of Garbage Pail Kids.. lol.. 50 cents was like a fantastic amount of wealth back then to me (~20yrs ago).

I suddenly have a strong craving for a Charleston Chew.

Also when pop/soda changed from glass bottles (that caused many a mangled lip for me) to plastic bottles which made pop taste like abject nastiness. I seriously miss glass bottles.

Oh, also

Growing up in the 80s/90s.

1. You've ever ended a sentence with the word "PSYCHE!"

2. You can sing the rap to "The Fresh Prince Of Bel Air"

3. You know that "WOAH" comes from Joey from "Blossom" and that "How Rude!" comes from Stephanie from "Full House"

4. You remember when it was actually worth getting up early on a Saturday to watch cartoons.

5. You got super excited when it was Oregon Trail day in computer class at school.

6. You remember reading "Goosebumps"

7. You were there for the Yo-Yo craze and had to have the Bumble Bee

8. You know the profound meaning of "Wax on, wax off"

9. You took plastic cartoon lunch boxes to school.

10. You remember the craze then the banning of slap bracelets and slam books.

11. You still get the urge to say "NOT" after (almost) every sentence...Not...

12. You knew that Kimberly, the pink ranger, and Tommy, the green Ranger were meant to be together.

13. You remember "I've fallen and I can't get up"

14. You remember going to the skating rink before there were inline skates

15. You ever got injured on a Slip 'n' Slide

16. You remember when almost every guy owned a skateboard and the video game tony hawk.

17. You wore socks over leggings scrunched down

18. "Miss Mary Mack, Mack, Mack, all dressed in black, black, black, with silver buttons, buttons, buttons, all down her back, back, back. SHE ASKED HER MOTHER MOTHER MOTHER FOR FIFTY CENTS CENTS CENTS TO SEE THE ELEPHANTS ELEPHANTS ELEPHANTS JUMP OVER THE FENCE THE FENCE THE FENCE"

he jumped so high high high he touched the sky sky sky and he didnt come back back back til the forth of july ly ly he jumped so low ow ow he stumbed he's toe oe oe and thats the end end end of the elephants show ow ow"

19. You remember boom boxes vs. cd players

20. You knew what it meant to say "Care Bear Stare"

21. You remember Alf, the little brown alien from Melmac and Vicki the Robot from "Small Wonders"

22. You remember New Kids on The Block when they were cool

23. You knew all the characters names and their life stories on "Saved By The Bell"

24. You played and or collected "Pogs" and had to have the best "slammer"!

25. You used to pretend to be a MIGHTY MORPHIN Power Ranger and you owned a Skip It

26. You had at least one GigaPet or Nano and brought it everywhere

27. You watched the original Care Bears, and Ninja Turtles

28. Yikes pencils and erasers were the stuff.

29. You remember when the new Beanie Babies were always sold out.

30. You remember a time before the WB.

31. You've gotten creeped out by "Are You Afraid of the Dark?"

32. You thought it would be so cool to be Alex Mack.

33. You know the Macarena by heart

34. "Talk to the hand" ... enough said

35. You thought Brain would finally take over the world

36. You always said, "Then why don't you marry it!"

37. You remember a time when you didn't own a computer

38. Best of all you remember the computers with black screens and green letters.

I remember life with 3 channels and no remote control. I would be outside and I would hear my dad call my name and I'd go running to the house. Then he'd say' "change the channel and see what else is on!" Luckily, we only had 3 channels and it didn't take long to surf all the channels.

I remember the first time I saw a VCR and how cool I thought that was. It was so unreal to be able to rent a movie and watch in at home. Since we didn't have cable (and MTV), I would record Friday Night Videos on NBC and had several tapes full of videos. It was pathetic , but such a break in the reality of living in the sticks of south east texas.

Reel to reel tape recorders were "The" high tech recording devices of the day.

"Hi-Fi" stereos, (pre-FM stereo days) where one channel was broadcast on FM, the other channel was on AM. The radio itself had two separate tuner controls so that you tune FM and AM separately.

Having a three speed "English" bike was cool. Most of us had the bulky 24" bikes with the full fenders and balloon tires.

All radios had a CD (Civil Defense) emblem imprinted on them for the emergency stations. Every Monday at 1 PM they would sound the sirens in the neighborhood for a test.

Fishing for coins in a storm drain with a stick and some bubble gum.

Pitching baseball cards at school.

Mini bikes.

Only one phone in the whole house (and the phone company owned it), some had no phone.

My TV still takes 5 minutes to warm up, and I never mastered the tv time thing on the VHS recorder.

I remember my first car which was a 1953 Plymouth station wagon and it was onlt 11 years old at the time. I remember buying gas at 18.9¢ a gallon in California. I got 50¢ a week for my allowance and it went a long way. I got my first job when I was 13 delivering the Reno Evening Gazette. I collected 50¢ a week for the subscription. Most people paid for the month. I had a lot of silver dollars in my pockets when I collected. I remember spending liberty standing quarters, buffalo nickels, mercury dimes, liberty walking half dollars and silver dollars. I remember a pay phone was 5¢ also a newspaper. I remember when Pez candy first came out.:-\

skivvynine (imported) wrote: Thu Sep 13, 2007 6:42 am I remember my first car which was a 1953 Plymouth station wagon and it was onlt 11 years old at the time. I remember buying gas at 18.9¢ a gallon in California. I got 50¢ a week for my allowance and it went a long way. I got my first job when I was 13 delivering the Reno Evening Gazette. I collected 50¢ a week for the subscription. Most people paid for the month. I had a lot of silver dollars in my pockets when I collected. I remember spending liberty standing quarters, buffalo nickels, mercury dimes, liberty walking half dollars and silver dollars. I remember a pay phone was 5¢ also a newspaper. I remember when Pez candy first came out.:-\

Skivvynine, you, Mac and I are all about the same age. My first car was a 52 olds coupe. Gas was 16.9. yes they serviced the car, My dog was a mutt, our tv was black and white but we had 8 chan. My teachers dressed up to come to school, we called them sir or mam, we never locked our door, we knew everybody on the block, our phone numbers started with letters, like PO or ST or DU. we did not have area codes or zip codes because the post office knew where we lived and real people sorted the mail.

LA was a nice place to live then too.

River