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Offline David L

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« on: August 15, 2003, 04:10:09 AM »
I diden't write this but when I read it I smiled and had a flash-back. I really enjoyed it but your enjoyment of this work will be directly related to your Um.........(your age).....*smile*

Enjoy !

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DO YOU REMEMBER WHEN...?
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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 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 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.
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 Dowdy
45 RPM records
Green Stamps
Hi-Fi's
Metal ice cubes trays with levers
Mimeograph paper
Beanie and Cecil
Roller-skate keys
Cork pop -FILTERED- "
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!

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I do remember and it makes me feel honered to have grown-up during this time period......My grandparents was the greatest influence on me while I was growing-up in the small village of Pampa Texas, Thank-You Granny and Pawpa for giving me my childhood...................

David L

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« Reply #1 on: August 15, 2003, 05:56:13 PM »
I remember ALL of them and my first car was a Studebaker.

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« Reply #2 on: September 02, 2003, 12:11:52 PM »
I remember alot of em...not all.  But I am sure someone under the age of 35 that can is a rarity...I got my brother to lick one of those aluminum ice trays....once. :-D
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« Reply #3 on: September 02, 2003, 12:57:34 PM »
I am 35 and I remember a lot of those in fact most of those, and I still have a refrigerator with those aluminum ice trays and it still works been through several of the new cheapies.....

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« Reply #4 on: September 02, 2003, 02:02:40 PM »
I hate to say it, but it makes me sad.  Those WERE the good days!  And these aren't.  What do my kids have to look forward to.

Gary

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« Reply #5 on: September 02, 2003, 02:20:28 PM »
I know what you mean.... Remember playing Cowboys and indians as a kid with a capgun and holsters? and not fearing getting shot by a trigger happy policeman? Remember when we all thought Atari was so cool?

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« Reply #6 on: September 02, 2003, 02:33:19 PM »
Yukiko greets.

Memories are always times that loved to be cherished in our heart.  With each page of my diary chapter, my life belongs to the past, the present as well as the future.  April is always a special time for me to reread letters, recall sweet memories and ease with the fluttering falling cherry blossoms.   Sometimes, after the death of so called "winter feeling" in our heart, the reread of letters and the recall of past memories would stir a sweet sense of spring in our hearts.    Maybe, that is the beautiful time of those remembered love that has been buried so deepest in our hearts...forever and forever.

Yukiko

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« Reply #7 on: September 04, 2003, 02:12:19 AM »
:D

 I remember all of the above, they forgot a few!! ROLLING ROCK BEER was 20 cents a bottle and GASOLINE was 19.9 a gallon.SNUFF was 14 cents a can. Cigarettes were 20 cents a pack. MILK was 21 cents a quart and so ON........

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« Reply #8 on: September 15, 2003, 03:34:35 AM »
what about---
13 cent gas
peanuts in a real coke
tom steele
lash larue
randolf scott
couldn't wear shoes in tha summer-had to make em last
riding your bike out of town to a creek and playin all day without anybody worrying
when any adult could-and would-give ya awhuppin-call your mother and get another when ya got home.
playin in a feed barn
grassburrs--tha purple ones
killing armadillo's with baseball bats(lots of em)
sunday school
real wednesday night prayer meetin
not knowin your first two names was not one name--ie williamlayton-til ye were pretty old
playin baseball in a field
gittin a shotgun--an being able to buy your own shells at tha hardware store before ya could geta drivers liscense( at 14 )
bein able to see stars--lots and lots of em
swimmin naked in a creek
oh well--but tha best part was being told about tha good ol days by yer grandparents
tha worse part about tha old days--no indoor plumbing and washtub baths
blessings
TEXAS, by GOD

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« Reply #9 on: September 15, 2003, 03:39:02 AM »
a ps to tha washtub bath---especially if'n ya was the third, fouth, or fifth in tha tub.
blessings
TEXAS, by GOD

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« Reply #10 on: October 15, 2003, 05:53:30 AM »
I can remember them all and I agree it was the best time to grow up.
What about
1. greenie stick'm caps
2. Fanner Fifties
3. lik-m-aid
4.Popcorn Balls as a Halloween treat (without worry of getting razor blades
6. Aggies, clearies, cherries, cats eyes, shooters, fish eye, and chase-um
    For you young guy's This is marbles when everyone carried marbles
    to school in a leather bag tyed to their belt.
7. Plastic army men
8. Red Ryder BB gun was your dream gun
9 leaving for a two week vacation and not locking the house.
10. The Dodgers were still in Brooklyn the Braves were still in Milwaukee,
the athetic were still in Kansas City
well I better quit while I'm ahead but Thanks for having remember my childhood.
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Youth and Skill.

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« Reply #11 on: October 15, 2003, 11:24:26 AM »
how about boston braves
remember when humble oil and refining gave metal pennant from s/w conference schools
free road maps from gas stations
meeemoirieeees---
blessings
TEXAS, by GOD

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« Reply #12 on: October 15, 2003, 01:40:17 PM »
You sure cleaned out some cobwebs for sure: playing stoop ball, flippin baseball cards, tinkertoys, matchbox cars, dinky toys the first toy race car track was a round plastic guide loop wire with powered battery cars?  The movies were 25 cents and big 5 cent candy bars and  $1 was enough for the trip,  and haircuts were 50 cents too? In the late 60's a date on a saturdaynite costed $10 that filled the car with gas fed us at McDonalds and had money to spare? We sure grew up in a great era??  Give me the old days back anyday??  
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The 50's sure were awesome in the 60's I seen #7 in left field playing in Yankee Stadium yes Micky Mantle and i was in day camp with Moose's kids too.

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« Reply #13 on: October 16, 2003, 04:13:32 AM »
Yup!  They were fun.  

When I went to school, every boy had a pocket knife, to cut the hay strings, morning and night at chore time.  I still feel naked without one and my kids are always asking me, Dad, can I borrow your knife? when I am out feeding with them.  

We used to take our guns to school every day.  You never knew when you would get a chance at a pheasant, deer, coyote, or jack rabbit.  And when you forgot to take it, everyone else would skip school that day to go hunting.  

If you got a new gun you was considered unsociable if you didn't carry it to class to show the male teachers and your friends.

Somehow we are now upside down.

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You can only hit the target if the barrel is pointed in the right direction when the bullet leaves the barrel.