DO YOU REMEMBER WHEN...?

[BillyVance 35]

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.

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...( Hillcrest 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!!!!!!!

Take a break from your "grown-up" life... I double-dog-dare-ya!

"Mediocre people don't like high achievers, and high achievers don't like mediocre people." - SIX TIME National Champion coach Nick Saban

[Icon134 0]

I remember most of this stuff... and I'm not that old...

I was in more or less an old fashioned family environment.

Livin' on the Edge... sleeping with my rigger's wife...

[SkiD_PL8 0]

I remember some of them but just because they are timeless.

Greenie in training.

[aprilcat 0]

Decisions were made by going "eeny-meeny-miney-moe"?
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When did that change???

There are some things on that list I would love to do today...like lay in the grass with others and see if I can see what they do in the clouds...and I'd go for an hour of Beanie and Cecile..I want to know why that Captains eyes were always slammed shut.

Nice list~~April

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[BillyVance 35]

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Decisions were made by going "eeny-meeny-miney-moe"?
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When did that change???

I dunno... did the paper, rock, scissors decision process take over?

"Mediocre people don't like high achievers, and high achievers don't like mediocre people." - SIX TIME National Champion coach Nick Saban

[Cornholio 0]

Shouldn't this be moved to the "You know you were born in the 60's when... " thread ??

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[jceman 1]

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Shouldn't this be moved to the "You know you were born in the 60's when... " thread ??

Nope! If you were born in the '60s (not propre use of the apostrophe here), you may very well have missed a significant number of these things.

Thanks for playing, though.

Johny Olson, what do we have as a lovely parting gift for our fine contestant?

Jack
(Born in the '40s -- and remembers every last one of those and more but can't remember why he went into the loving room five minutes ago)

[MichaelC 0]

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DO YOU REMEMBER WHEN...?
Blackjack, Clove and Teaberry chewing gum

Man, Teaberry gum was awsome!

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Metal ice cubes trays with levers

Those were the coolest! Do you remember the cool cups in the picture below?

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[Icon134 0]

I still know where I can find some cool multicolored aluminum cups like that...

we still use them at my family cottage in Michgan.

Livin' on the Edge... sleeping with my rigger's wife...

[RastaRicanAir 0]

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Your Mom wore nylons that came in two pieces?

Ya just lost me.


...........In fact, I'm a little creeped out.


.....................Yyyyyeah. ....I'm gonna go take a shower and scrub REAALLLY RREEALLY hard.

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-"and ladies....messin with Robbie is venturing into territory you cant even imagine!-cuz Robbie is

[aprilcat 0]

Johny Olson, what do we have as a lovely parting gift for our fine contestant?
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Do you remember when a years supply of Rice-O-Roni was a respectable parting gift?Heheh~~April

Camelot II, the Electric Boogaloo!

[BillyVance 35]

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Your Mom wore nylons that came in two pieces?

Ya just lost me.

...........In fact, I'm a little creeped out.

.....................Yyyyyeah. ....I'm gonna go take a shower and scrub REAALLLY RREEALLY hard.

I think this referred to thigh high stockings with garter belts... Weren't they quite popular back in the 40's and 50's, even for housewives? Not that I'm saying they were popular among the women, but certain things were expected of them back then... eh?

"Mediocre people don't like high achievers, and high achievers don't like mediocre people." - SIX TIME National Champion coach Nick Saban

[MichaelC 0]

They do keep drinks really cold! I just bought some last week that I found on ebay. They look like the ones my grandmother use to have when I was a kid!

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[ham 0]

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Mimeograph paper

boy i loved that smell!

[Guest]

"Now they make new movies in old black and white,
With happy endings, where nobody fights,
So if you find yourself in that nostalgic rage,
Honey, jump right up and show your age.

I wish I had a pencil-thin mustache,
the "Boston Blackie" kind, or a
two-toned Ricky Ricardo jacket,
and an autographed picture of Andy Divine.

Oh, I remember bein' buck toothed and skinny
Writin' fan letters to Sky's niece Penny.
Oh, I wish I had a pencil-thin mustache,
then I could solve some mysteries too.
Oh it's Bandstand, Disneyland, growin' up fast,
Drinkin' on a fake I.D.
And Rama of the jungle was everyone's Bawana,
But only jazz musicians were smokin marijuana.
Yeah, I wish I had a pencil-thin mustache,
then I could solve some mysteries too.

But then it's flat-top, dirty bop, copin' a feel'
grubbin on the living room floor;
They send you off to college to try to gain
a little knowledge,
But all you want to do is learn how to score.
Yeah, but now I'm gettin' old, don't wear underwear,
I don't go to church, and I don't cut my hair;
But I can go to movies and see it all there,
Just the way that it use to be.

That's why I wish I had a pencil-thin mustache
the "Boston Blackie" kind, or a
two-toned Ricky Ricardo jacket,
And an autographed picture of Andy Divine.

Oh, I could be anyone I wanted to be,
Maybe suave Errol Flynn or the Sheik of Araby.
If I only had a pencil-thin mustache,
then I could do some cruising too.

Yeah, Brylcream, a little dab'll do yah,
Oh, I could do some cruising too.

--- A pirate looks at 43..heh...
I remember watching "The All-Night Show" from Miami / Ft Lauderdale when I was a kid living in Daytona. Jackie Gleason was a night owl, and sometimes he'd call in to the show just to goose the hosts...

mh

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"The mouse does not know life until it is in the mouth of the cat."

[peacefuljeffrey 0]

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Mimeograph paper

boy i loved that smell!

How about the smell of that Green Slime they sold in the two-piece plastic orbs?! Unforgettablle!

-Jeffrey

-Jeffrey
"With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

[skybill 22]

Hi Wild Willie V!!,
Hey Guy, you have to be at least as old as me!! Also remember watching Captain Midnight on Saturday morning and having your decoder ring to figure out the clues to the mystery.!!

I'll add a couple of more "oldies but goodies!!"
Going to the movies on Saturday and before the "Double Feature," there was a Serial "Cliff hanger!!" Tune in next week boys and girls to find out if our hero lives thru this perilous event!!

Having a cane pole with some drugstore string, a cork, hook and a can of worms on your bicycle and peddling to the fishing hole with your buddies on Saturday afternoon without adult supervision!! Hell, we'd go on overnight fishing/hunting/camping trips, (same bunch of guys between 11 and 17 years old!!) with fishing gear, guns, ammo and our parents trust!! Hell, most of the time it was our job to bring back food for the family to eat!!!!

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