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".
It wasn't odd to have two or three "Best Friends".
Street Cars.
Roller Skate Keys
Wash Tub Wringers
The Fuller Brush Man
15 Cent McDonald Hamburgers
Penny Candy
Blue Dot Flash Blubs
Newsreels before the movie
Do You Remember When ....?.
All the girls had ugly gym uniforms.
It took five minutes or the TV to warm up
Nearly everyone's Mom was at home
when the kids got home from School
Nobody owned a purebred Dog or Cat
When a quarter was a decent allowance.
You'd reach into a muddy puddle for a penny
Your Mom wore nylons that came in two pieces
All male teachers wore neckties and
female teachers had their hair done each day and wore high heels.
You got your winshield cleaned, oil checked and gas pumped without asking, all for free, every time
and you didn't pay for air
And, you got green stamps to boot
It was considered a great privilege to be taken out to dinner at a real restaurant with your parents
Laundry detergent had free glasses,
dishes or towels hidden inside the box
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
Catching Fireflys could happily occupy the entire evening,
( we called them lightening bugs )?
Lying on your back in the grass with your friends,
looking up at the sky and saying things like:
"That cloud looks like a...."
Stuff came from the store without safety caps or 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 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..
Do you remember:
The lone Ranger, Tonto, Nancy Drew,the Hardy boys,
Laurel and Hardy, Howdy Dowdy and the Peanut Gallery,
The Shadow knows, Nellie Bell, Roy and Dale, Trigger and Buttermilk, Amos and Andy, Fibber McGee and Molly,
How about Stella Dallas
.
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,
or was it Poly Pop
Didn't that feel good to go back and say,
"Yeah, I remember that".
Remember the perfect age was somewhere between
old enough to know better and too young to care.
and the double dog dare
How many of these do you remember?.
Model "T" Fords
Studebakers
Reel-To-Reel tape recorders
Tinkertoys
Erector Sets
Fort Apache Play Set
Lincoln Logs.
35 cent gasoline
Jiffy Popcorn
5 cent pack of baseball cards
with that awful pink bubble gum.
The worst thing you could catch from the oposite 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 a cause for giggles.
The worst embarrasment was being picked last for the team.
War was a card game.
Baseball cards in the spokes transformed any bike into a motorcycle.
Taking drugs meant orange flavored chewable asperin.
Water balloons were the ultimate weapons.
Flying kites made of sticks tied with string, newspaper glued with flour paste, and tail made of old cloth strips.
Playing mumble peg, marbles with your favorite tawl, and spinning tops.
I hope you've enjoyed your trip back to the past with me.
Sign the guest book, give us your opinion.....
Join us,.... I double dog dare you!.
Candy cigarettes
Wax Coke-shaped bottles with colored sugar water inside
Soda pop machines that despensed glass bottles
Coffee shops with tableside jukeboxes
Blackjack, Clove, and Teaberry chewing gum
Home milk delivery in glass bottles with cardboard stoppers
Ice boxes and ice delivery 25, 50 or 100 pounds
P.F Fliers
Telephone numbers with the peprefix ...Whitehall 4-401
Party lines
Peashooters
45 RPM records
Hi Fi's
Memograph paper
Metal ice cube trays
Beanie and Cecil
Cork pop guns
Drive In Movies
