| Jun 5, 2007 @ 2:03 AM |
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twotall911
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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.
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"?
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...(HEmstead 7-1538 ).
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!!!!!!!
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| Jun 5, 2007 @ 2:33 AM |
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beckyiv42000
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remember damn near all of them thanks for the memories TT
Coffee shops with tableside jukeboxes
place in Culver city Johnnies Pastrami still has the original ones on the tables i love going there and have been for damn near all my life
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| Jun 5, 2007 @ 2:37 AM |
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twotall911
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you like pastrami  
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| Jun 5, 2007 @ 2:40 AM |
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beckyiv42000
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I LOVE GOOD pastrami OMGGGGGGG  and Johnnies is THE best 
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| Jun 5, 2007 @ 2:51 AM |
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beckyiv42000
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http://web1.ls.sp1.yahoo.com/details?id=20469383
omg soooo good
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| Jun 5, 2007 @ 10:06 AM |
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luvmycats
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Oh my goodness TT...
  Mutts are STILL the best dogs.
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?
I miss those days.
A heart!
Thanks for the reminders.
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| Jun 5, 2007 @ 11:45 AM |
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kattsmeow
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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?
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| Jun 5, 2007 @ 12:05 PM |
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7times196
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Hell I remember in school ( public ) the teachers and principle could hit you or you go the honor of picking which paddle you wanted to be hit with.. I miss those days
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| Jun 5, 2007 @ 12:15 PM |
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MICHIGANGIRL11
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And your parents encouraged the teachers to discipline their kids. Not like the parents of today.
Kat.....I remember the glasses/dishes in the soap box. What about when jelly came in those cute little glasses w/Tom & Jerry, The Flintstones on them. I'm only 46 years old, but remember these memories well.
Thank you so much for the memories.
Migirl11
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| Jun 5, 2007 @ 12:20 PM |
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TiNkErGrRrRrR
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I don`t miss those days 7..
That ruler hurts when applied to the hand... 
All because I slapped a boy for lookin` up my skirt.. 
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| Jun 5, 2007 @ 12:22 PM |
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7times196
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now you hit the guys for not looking
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| Jun 5, 2007 @ 12:25 PM |
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TiNkErGrRrRrR
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Not I...
I don`t wear a skirt..so they can`t look.. 
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| Jun 5, 2007 @ 8:17 PM |
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blueyes101
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Tink, we are never going to put you on a pedestal if you won't wear a skirt......   
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| Jun 5, 2007 @ 9:00 PM |
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twotall911
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we should
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| Jun 5, 2007 @ 9:30 PM |
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blueyes101
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Sorry TT, excellent post, I do remember many of those things, in fact missing those things, was what made me move to where I live now..........I can't bring back the past, but if you live far enough away, you can prevent modernization from moving next door.
( at least for a while )
[Edited on 6/5/2007 9:40 PM]
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| Jun 5, 2007 @ 9:38 PM |
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SallyF
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I remember all of those things, too. In fact, my 84 year old uncle is STILL a Fuller Brush Man in Ventura :-)
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| Jun 5, 2007 @ 10:25 PM |
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nightrider3281
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The old malt shops and soda fountains
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| Jun 5, 2007 @ 11:22 PM |
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username57
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DAMN! I'm old! Y'all remember doing something bad at a friend's house? Your friend's mom would scold you. And then, you dreaded going home because you knew you couldn't beat the phone call to your Mom. And then, when your Father got home...busted 3 times for 1 crime! Even the Constitution says something about double jeopardy....didn't apply to parental law back then...I miss those days!
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| Jun 5, 2007 @ 11:47 PM |
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signme
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I still remember our old phone number, TUXEDO 8-1857. Wonder if it still works??
I've often wondered how kids of today would turn out if we still had the morals and characters of the 1950s. I wish some parents today still punished their kids at home and didn't leave it all up to the schools. I also still have my old record albums and some of my 45s. I have an old record player at school and my 2nd graders were fascinated with it this past year when I played some records for them! How funny, huh? Things were so much more relaxed when we were kids but I doubt it would be the same if we were able to go back. Darn!!
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| Jun 6, 2007 @ 12:24 AM |
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username57
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sign, I see you are a teacher. You are around the kids today. Maybe you can help me with my big question lately? These kids today...the ones we like to belittle..."they're disrespectful." "they have no respect" etc, etc....My question is...These kids are kids of our generation's kids. We didn't rear our kids this way. We didn't act like that...we wouldn't dare... and our kids didn't either...so why are the kids today "that" way? Did we not teach "our" kids properly? No brag, just fact, but my grandkids DO NOT act that way, and I am VERY proud of my daughter for not allowing them to...is it the kids today, or is political correctivness destroying things? "don't scold Little Johnny...he might get his feelings hurt."
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