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    Wave Do you remember when ...?

    Okay guys, what were PF Shooters??

    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"?
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    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

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    I remember people once got dressed up when the went on planes!

    Jacket Tie - dresses etc

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    Men in hats and Totes

    Don't forget men's hats. I rmember dad had some form of hat for every season and he rarely went out without one. I don't know if they were officially Fedora's or what they technically were but they were hats not baseball caps; one felt, one for rain, one tweed hat, a felt cossack hat for bad winters and eventually he added a tweed cap. If it was a casual day, he wore a fishing hat.

    Totes back then were ugly, black matte, rubber galoshes that you pulled over your dress shoes. We all had a pair of them.

    I also don't remember Dad ever going out to dinner without a sport jacket on.

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    I rememeber when going downtown to shop was a big deal. My mom would make me and my sister dress up, have our hair done nice and our shoes polished.

    The other thing I remember is Saturday cartoons that were fun and non-violent..(The Jetsons, the real scooby doo, quick draw mcgraw etc and not to forget the The Super Friends)


    Christina

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    I remember when popscicles, life savers, and gum were only a nickel.Comic books were a dime, and fvc meant the AO ful vue with a curved top! :):)

    I remember when you could buy a gallon of gas for 11 cents during a gas war, and when we went cruising everyone chipped in a quarter for gas. Those WERE the days!!
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    I remember when I felt I was young, and thanks to this thread i do again ;)
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    I remember buying my first NEW car in 1969, driving to the station across the street from the dealer, buying 20 gallons of gas and getting change from a $5 dollar bill. Had to have a new car to get to my new job at AO. :)

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    I still have never had a new car....
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