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georgiapeach42
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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?
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?
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
Laurel and Hardy, Howdy Dowdy and the Peanut Gallery, the Lone Ranger, The Shadow Knows,
Nellie Bell , Roy and Dale, Trigger and Buttermilk.
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). (Ours was Woodland 8-6616 – I think)
Party lines
Howdy Dowdy
Hi-Fi's
45 RPM records
78 RPM records!
Green Stamps
Metal ice cubes trays with levers (I still have a couple of these!)
Roller-skate keys
Cork pop guns
Studebakers
Washtub wringers
Erector Sets
15 cent McDonald hamburgers
5 cent packs of baseball cards - with that awful pink slab of bubble gum
Penny candy
25 cent a gallon gasoline!
Do you remember a time when...
YOU WENT TO CHURCH and PRAYED AS A FAMILY!
"Race issue" meant arguing about who ran the fastest?
Catching the fireflies could happily occupy an entire evening?
The worst thing you could catch from the opposite sex was "cooties"?
Having a weapon in school meant being caught with a slingshot?
"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?
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!
WIPE THE TEAR FROM YOUR EYE and BE GRATEFUL THAT YOU LIVED TO EXPERIENCE ALL THIS!
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| Jul 21 @ 12:13 PM |
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kattsmeow
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Remember when you couldn't trust anyone over 30?
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| Jul 21 @ 12:13 PM |
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Loreli
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Kids still do baseball cards in the spokes here....
and I'm sure I remember much of the above, but it was long, and I'm multi tasking... 
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| Jul 21 @ 12:23 PM |
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georgiapeach42
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yeah 30 was OLD 
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| Jul 21 @ 1:41 PM |
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beckyiv42000
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I remember them all and actually got to take my kids to a drive in..  my son just got some PF flyer lookin shoes  cept now they are calling them kickers  both the kids are big fans of the movie Sandlot so the shoes are like WHOAAA to them haha I remember the street light coming on being the call for everyone to get home it was time to go in for dinner and in the summer we could hang out after playing hide and seek in the dark Im lucky to live where my kids can play outside like that under the streetlights and the neighbors all look out for the kids and im really lucky cause all the kids watch after the others .. they CARE .. I think if we raise our kids like our parents did us .. t o be respectful and caring we can have that calm back in the world... eventually .. but Thank God in my little corner of the world its there..
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| Jul 21 @ 2:18 PM |
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graywolf
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Remember them all and oftne think about the kids today missing out all of those wonderful times.
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| Jul 21 @ 9:58 PM |
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Heaveninawildflower
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Absolutely...I'm old enough to remember trolleys in NYC, horse drawn wagons, milk straight from a cow and fesh-killed poultry (yes, within the NYC limits). Free drinking glasses when you bought gas, dinnerware when you went to a movie...which had not only a newsreel, but TWO FEATURES! Three D movies with the cardboard glasses too, and harmonizing on the street corner with 'the gang'.
And no dang cell phones!!
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| Jul 21 @ 10:15 PM |
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grumblebear
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PF Flyers.... Chuck Taylor all stars... those were sneakers
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| Jul 21 @ 10:43 PM |
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burnslikethesun
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Baseball cards were 75 cents and came with a stick of gum. Today its yugio card, ya get 9 to a pack, not the 12, and no gum for 6.99
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| Jul 21 @ 10:43 PM |
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burnslikethesun
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A permission slip from mom would get you a pack of smokes no problem at age 12.
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| Jul 21 @ 11:13 PM |
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SallyF
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There were horse-drawn snowplows for the sidewalks in the town nearby.
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| Jul 21 @ 11:19 PM |
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signme
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Gray said: often think about the kids today missing out all of those wonderful times.
I agree!
Edited to add: drinking right from the hose when you got thirsty. Pulling up rhubarb from the neighbor's garden, rinsing with the hose then eating it. Knowing that if something happened, any of the neighbors would take care of you.
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| Jul 22 @ 1:23 AM |
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beckyiv42000
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I still drink from the garden hose.. so do my kids.. hose water ROCKS!!  so cold and cool on a hot summer day
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| Jul 22 @ 5:34 AM |
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Heaveninawildflower
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Not in AZ Becks!! It's HOT, and I mean to scalding!!
When I was a kid though, on grandma's farm, it was from a pump...you'd pump the water into a dipper and everybody used the same dipper. Germs? Hah! We shared everything, including the outhouse unless the weather was really bad, then we'd use the indoor plumbing. Water shortages were the norm - we saved the rainwater for hair washing and laundry, and baths were a weekly event, We kids would climb up into the loft and jump down into the big pile of hay below, or hike to the lake to go fishing, or down to the creek, where we'd dammed it up to form a pool, if the water was high enough, or else just get our feet wet if it was a really dry year.
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| Jul 23 @ 11:59 AM |
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warrior674
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I remember back when MTV played music... 
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| Jul 23 @ 12:58 PM |
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signme
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