1. Blackjack chewing gum
2. Wax Coke-shaped bottles with colored sugar water
3. Candy cigarettes
4. Soda pop machines that dispensed bottles
5. Coffee shops with tableside jukeboxes
6. Home milk delivery in glass bottles with cardboard stoppers
7. Party lines
8. Newsreels before the movie
9. P.F. Flyers
10. Butch wax
11. Telephone numbers with a word prefix (Olive -6933)
12. Peashooters
13. Howdy Doody
14. 45 RPM records
15. S&H Green Stamps
16. Hi-Fi's
17. Metal ice trays with levers
18. Mimeograph paper
19. Blue flashbulbs
20. Beanie and Cecil
21. Roller skate keys
22. Cork popguns
23. Drive-ins
24. Studebakers
(Armacost has over 20 of these in his museum!)
25. Wash tub wringers
26. Carbon paper
If you remembered 0-5 = You are still young
If you remembered 6-11 = You are getting older
If you remembered 12-16 = Don't tell your age
If you remembered 17-26 = You are older than dirt!
REMEMBER WHEN (#2)...
1. Decisions were made by going "eeny-meeny-miney-mo."
2. Mistakes were corrected by simply exclaiming, "do over!"
3. "Race issue" meant arguing about who ran the fastest.
4. Money issues were handled by whoever was the banker in "Monopoly."
5. Catching fireflies happily occupied an entire evening.
6. It wasn't odd to have two or three "best" friends.
7. Being old, referred to anyone over 20.
8. The net on a tennis court was the perfect height to play volleyball,
rules didn't matter.
9. The worst thing you could catch from the opposite sex was cooties.
10. It was magic when dad would "remove" his thumb.
11. It was unbelievable that dodgeball wasn't an Olympic event.
12. Having a weapon in school, meant being caught with a slingshot.
13. Nobody was prettier than Mom.
14. Dad was the strongest man alive.
15. Scrapes and bruises were kissed and made better.
16. It was a big deal to finally be tall enough to ride the "big people"
rides at the amusement park.
17. Getting a foot of snow was a dream come true.
18. Abilities were discovered because of a "double-dog-dare."
19. Saturday morning cartoons weren't 30-minute ads for action figures.
20. No shopping trip was complete, unless a new toy was brought home.
21. "Oly-oly-oxen-free" made perfect sense.
22. Spinning around, getting dizzy and falling down was cause for giggles.
23. The worst embarrassment was being picked last for a team.
24. War was a card game.
25. Water balloons were the ultimate weapon.
26. Baseball cards in the spokes transformed any bike into a motorcycle.
27. Taking drugs meant orange-flavored chewable Flintstone vitamins.
28. Ice cream was considered a basic food group.
29. Older siblings were the worst tormentors, but also the fiercest protectors.
If you remembered 0-5 = You are still young
If you remembered 6-11 = You are getting older
If you remembered 12-16 = Don't tell your age
If you remembered 17-29 = You are older than dirt!
And
How 'Bout This One...
Close your eyes.....And go back........
Before the Internet or the MAC,
Before semi automatics and crack
Before chronic and indo
Before SEGA or Super Nintendo
Way back........
I'm talkin' bout hide and go seek at dusk.
Sittin' on the porch,
Hot bread and butter.
Eatin' a 'super dooper sandwich',
Red light, Green light.
Chocolate milk, Lunch tickets,
Penny candy in a brown paper bag.
Hopscotch, butterscotch, doubledutch
Jacks, kickball, dodgeball, y'all!
Mother, May I?
Hula Hoops and Sunflower Seeds,
Jaw breakers, blowpops, Mary Janes,
Running through the sprinkler (I can't get wet! All right, well don't wet
my hair....)
The smell of the sun and lickin' salty lips....
Wait......
Catchin' lightening bugs in a jar,
Playin sling shot and Red Rover.
When around the corner seemed far away,
And going downtown seemed like going somewhere.
Bedtime, Climbing trees,
A million mosquito bites and sticky fingers,
Cops and Robbers,
Cowboys and Indians,
Sittin on the curb,
Jumpin down the steps,
Jumpin on the bed.
Pillow fights
Being tickled to death
Running till you were out of breath
Laughing so hard that your stomach hurt
Being tired from playin'.... Remember that?
I ain't finished just yet...
What about the girl that had the big bubbly hand writing??
Licking the beaters when your mother made a cake.
Didn't that feel good.. just to go back and say, Yeah, I remember that!
There's nothing like the good old days! They were good then, and they're
good now when we think about them.
Remember when...
When there were two types of sneakers for girls and boys (Keds & PF
Flyers), and the only time you wore them at school, was for "gym."
When nearly everyone's mom was at home when the kids got there.
When nobody owned a purebred dog.
When a quarter was a decent allowance, and another quarter a huge bonus.
When you'd reach into a muddy gutter for a penny.
When girls neither dated nor kissed until late high school, if then.
When your mom wore nylons that came in two pieces.
When all of your male teachers wore neckties and female teachers had their
hair done, everyday.
When you got your windshield cleaned, oil checked, and gas pumped, without
asking, for free, every time. And, you didn't pay for air. And, you got trading stamps to boot!
When laundry detergent had free glasses, dishes or towels hidden inside the
box.
When any parent could discipline any kid, or feed him or use him to carry
groceries, and nobody, not even the kid, thought a thing of it.
When it was considered a great privilege to be taken out to dinner at a
real restaurant with your parents.
When they threatened to keep kids back a grade if they failed ...and did!
When being sent to the principal's office was nothing compared to the fate
that awaited a misbehaving student at home.
Basically, we were in fear for our lives but it wasn't because of drive by
shootings, drugs, gangs, etc. Disapproval of our parents and grandparents was a much bigger threat!
Share some of these thoughts with a friend who can relate.
One can't be serious ALL the time, eh?
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