When a quarter was a decent allowance and made with real Silver!
Your Mom wore nylons that came in two pieces
You got your windshield cleaned, oil checked, and gas pumped, without asking, all for free, every time and you didn’t pay for air
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 it!
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…’
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. as well as summers filled with bike rides, Hula hoops, 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’?
Remember Howdy Doody and The Peanut Gallery, the Lone Ranger, The Shadow knows, Nellie Bell, Roy and Dale, Trigger and Buttermilk.
Candy cigarettes
Wax Coke-shaped bottles with colored sugar water inside.
Soda pop machines that dispensed glass bottles. Coffee shops with Table Side Jukeboxes. Blackjack, Clove and Teaberry chewing gum.
Home milk delivery in glass bottles with cardboard stoppers.
Newsreels before the movie.
Telephone numbers with a word prefix…( Yukon 2-601). Or, some of us remember when there were just 4 numbers with no word prefix at all. And, nearly everyone had a party line.
Peashooters
Hi-Fi’s & 45 RPM records.
78 RPM records!
S&H Green Stamps.
Mimeograph paper and how it smelled
The Fort Apache Play Set.
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’
Having a Weapon in School meant being caught with a Slingshot
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 in your imagination
