| Nov 13, 2006 @ 2:06 PM |
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twotall911
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SOME OF YOU ARE TOO YOUNG TO REMEMBER THESE
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Sit back, relax, listen, read, & smile Kind of of reminds you to stop & smell the roses of life, and to give Thanks to God for Life and Memories!!!!
Do You Remember?
Turn your sound on. How many do you remember?
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 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.
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 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!!!!!!!
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| Nov 13, 2006 @ 3:25 PM |
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beckyiv42000
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yes I do and  cause my kids cant .....they missed so much
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| Nov 13, 2006 @ 3:38 PM |
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MICHIGANGIRL11
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I remember most everything you mentioned. Thanks for the memories.
(Wax lips at Halloween time...they were cool.)
Migirl11
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| Nov 13, 2006 @ 3:39 PM |
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TiNkErGrRrRrR
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 I remember most of them..
When a 57 Chevy was everyone's dream car especially this one..my dad had one it was black and white.
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| Nov 13, 2006 @ 5:43 PM |
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TRS1958
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Yep...I've lived. Remember almost every one. I wore out many playing cards riding my homemade harley 
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| Nov 13, 2006 @ 5:52 PM |
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st93
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dunno wot you are goin' on about....!
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| Nov 13, 2006 @ 5:56 PM |
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kattsmeow
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Laundry detergent had free glasses, dishes or towels hidden inside the box?
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| Nov 13, 2006 @ 5:59 PM |
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Silvertongue62
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Sure do !
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| Nov 13, 2006 @ 6:15 PM |
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grumblebear
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heck I remember when my folks "nice" car was a 53' chev....
nickel candy bars,
white castles were .07, with cheese were .10
heck my dad had a "Henry J"
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| Nov 13, 2006 @ 6:31 PM |
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Heaveninawildflower
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We only had a 1949 Nash
But I remember poodle skirts, twin sets, saddle shoes with white anklets, and all the girls had pony tails and all the boys had either crew cuts or their hair slicked back with brylcreem...dancing the lindy and watching American Bandstand with the world's oldest teenager (who must have a picture of a reeeeeeeeeeally old man in his attic...see below, he was born in 1929)
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| Nov 13, 2006 @ 6:43 PM |
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Jankia
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Those are good TwoTall 
I can remember when pa would give ma a break and take us out for a big time treat.
Six boys in the back of the 49 Studebaker pickup truck for supper at the A&W.
We got to have root-beer instead of koolaid. 
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| Nov 13, 2006 @ 6:44 PM |
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carpediem48
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I remember when my ole grandpappy used to come out and grab my 'beau' offn that there 'porch swing' and say""""Just whateryer Intentions???!!!"""""  
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| Nov 13, 2006 @ 7:00 PM |
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luvmycats
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Oh Twotall, what wonderful memories you have brought back. 
I remember my sister and I saving green stamps to get our first non White sheet. Mine had purple flowers on it, hers had pink.
I have done the cloud thing with my daughter. My son couldn't lay still long enough.
I can't remember all of them, but too many to share.
Thanks Two!
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| Nov 13, 2006 @ 7:15 PM |
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daisy315
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gosh... that was a wonderful post... thanks for bringing back such wonderful memories 
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| Dec 9, 2006 @ 10:23 AM |
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twotall911
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toasting marshmellows on a stick with a fire going
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| Dec 9, 2006 @ 10:39 AM |
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Snappygoddess
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It's wonderful remembering all of those things..... like playing forts in trees with my 7 siblings... cowboys and indians with PLAY guns......*sigh* the change of times
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| Dec 9, 2006 @ 10:46 AM |
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Heaveninawildflower
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pitching a tent in the backyard (broomsticks and a sheet)
The whole family sleeping on the porch during the summer, in cots and rocking chairs.
Kool Aid stands
Bringing a bunch of books home and spending the night reading them under the blankets with a flashlight
The movie theatres gave out free dishes too, and we didn't have a 'bought' glass in the house (jelly jars, giveaways as premiums)
Nothing, but nothing, got thrown away until it was falling apart. Bread wrappers were primo for school lunches. My favorite was when my dad's heavy cream for his chocolate pudding went sour before he finished it...mashed potatoes with sour cream...yummmm (dad was 5'11" and never weighed more than 135 - he needed all the calories he could get!). Stale bread went into a sack in the pantry, then got ground in the meat grinder for bread crumbs.
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| Dec 9, 2006 @ 1:52 PM |
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sierramist710
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Thanks for the memories! I don't remember all of them, firsthand, but quite a few.
Off to bake some cookies with my daughter and make some memories for her.... 
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| Dec 9, 2006 @ 3:03 PM |
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encorrgbl
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(Wax lips at Halloween time...they were cool.)
Yes! Loved those... And the wax tubes with liquid in em'.
I also remember when a small bag of 6 gumballs were a quarter, and they were big! Now you get ONE gumball for like .50 cents... Bah...
I also remember when there wasn't cable, or color TVs (that you could afford to have mind you)...
green stamps
OMGosh! I totally forgot about those! I remember helping my mom put the stamps in the books and always wondering what she was gonna do with em' all
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| Dec 9, 2006 @ 3:12 PM |
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luvmycats
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toasting marshmellows on a stick with a fire going
I still do this, and hot dogs, nothing better than a fire cooked dog! My "sticks" are now man made tho, the kind with metal prongs. A little safer, don't have to worry about the kids cutting themselve with a pocket knife. They aren't brought up anymore to know how to use them properly.
Heaven, our stale bread got put in the crisper drawer until there was enough to make bread pudding or dressing at Holiday time.
Enc, the black and white Tv's didn't have remotes either. It was the kid's job to get up and change the channel.
cowboys and indians with PLAY guns....
We all had cork shooting rifles. What fun...until we lost all of our corks. 
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