Do you remember when life was a lot better?

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 Dowdy 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....(Temple

4-601).



Party lines



Peashooters



Howdy Dowdy



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!!!!!!!



Pass this on to anyone who may need a break from



their "grown-up" life . . .



Do you remember when life was a lot better?
I also remember when England was lived in by English people, there are too many foreign people here now, bringing with them their food and ways.....


I remind myself that the act of forgetting is a wondrous thing. Memory tends to be selective, thank goodness. NOW is the good old time.Do you remember when life was a lot better?
True, very true. Life was so much easier. Just imagine the time we had in hand those days. Your posting brought back sweet memories of those days and the things that gradually vanished from today's life.
Thanks for the memory tickler.

On the one hand it recalls what seemed like a simpler time,

but on the other hand it make me feel really really "auld"Do you remember when life was a lot better?
Gone are those days of old, and never will it ever return considering the moral values of the present society.
Got into the reverie of the moment and back to the old times ~~ what was the question ?
Hello, Thank you for the memories of my yesterdays.
It does not get any better.
A-h-h-h-h the good old days.
Those were the days.
yep the good old days!=P
yes, those were the good old days..

do you remember when there was no war...??

amazing peaceful feeling....
The only thing I envy about young people to-day is that they are young. I do not envy them the problems some are going to have to face, but I also feel that when the chips are down they will come true
A lot of crap went along with those "better" days.



Women were mostly expected to stay at home and breed now that the men folk had returned from war.



There was no treatment for cancer except hacking off/out the affected body part. There were few 5-year survivors.



People of color, and gays had "their places" and were at risk if they dared stray a foot outside of them.



Women who were raped HAD to bear the baby. Imagine the cruelty of being forced to relive that horror every day for 9 months.



I could go on, but I don't want to. The good old days were good if you were white and male. Not so good if you were anything else.
Yes, I remember many of those things and they bring back happy memories. If you lived in England, you forgot the rag and bone man coming round offering "free" goldfish for your old clothes, the man on a bike selling hot chestnuts in winter, girls with their skipping ropes at school and playing conkers when there were no health and safety rules saying that skipping ropes and playing conkers were too dangerous. When children out with their family were "seen and not heard" and obeyed their parents instantly, with no shouting or arguing because in those days, parents, teachers etc. were respected. When children were "children" until they were at least 16 years old and were not allowed out of the home after dark at all unless with someone the parents knew and approved of. 10pm home time meant just that and you could not by any kind of alcolhol in a supermarket but only at Off Licences or pubs, which you could not even go inside until you were of age. Life was so much safer then, with few knives and guns. People say that you cannot stop progress, but to me many aspects of modern life seem to have gone back to the dark ages.
Ahhhh! Those were the days %26amp; we'll never see those days again. I'm so glad that I grew up in that era. Thank you so much for that walk down Memory Lane. It's a walk I take often %26amp; I enjoy doing so each time. :D
Oh for crying out loud.

I am old enough to remember every one of those things.

What an amazing trip down memorie lane. I'm copying that.

Thank you so much for the time %26amp; thought put into that question.

How refreashing. I'll smile the rest of the day.

Bless You ~~~~~
I am only in my 30's and already miss the days when things were more relaxed. Pop in glass bottles was sooo good, Saturday mornings were the best, and I had almost forgotten about those little wax bottles! I would get up in the morning and disappear into the woods (when we lived in the country) or on my bicycle all day and nobody ever worried.



Remember when people were polite? When businesses actually cared about their customers? When you could talk to a live person instead of struggling through 30 minutes of menus and holds and transfers and untrained customer service representatives? When teenage girls didn't have to sleep around to be accepted? When people didn't fight over Halloween and Christmas?



I do.




Yeah life used to be a lot better... I had a job I was happy in for starters!! (I got made redundant from it though)



Driving used to be fun - the roads weren't in the state they are now with their constant potholes and badly fitted drain covers so that small cars crash through them and spend a fortune in tyres and wheel-balancing. There were less cars and people weren't such gits when driving them!



Things were cheaper and there wasn't endless reality TV shows... I could go on but I feel old now... LOL



Great post, thanks! :)
As Maurice Chevalier would say, "Ah yes, I remember it well!". I remember when girls (and boys) gym uniforms and bathing suits covered all of their bits and pieces. I almost cried when I got to the gasoline at 35 cents per gallon.

Well done!
Oh! Me Gosh Suzie - you have done it now. I remember all of these

and that makes me feel very old! But you are right - they were good days and I treasure the memories. (BTW I have kept - don't ask why -an old black rotary phone - so many good memories on the other end of the line! Hugs and a Star CJ
I can re -call whenever we left our homes we didn't need to lock the back or front doors as crime was hardly heard of, go down the town get your money out the bank or post office without being bashed on the head and robbed. play in the woods in the evenings and not get attacked or raped, the good times have gone and there are to many wicked evils blighters that haven't a good care in there body, but i cant wait until the lord walks the earth again and wipes away all evil people and evil things and make it a paradise once more and for good.
I read this list to hubby when he came in. He was raised in the country in the back woods, they had few friends and never went anywhere except church and to town on Saturday. But I was raised in the city and remember almost all of the list, but never had Teaberry gum. Thank you Suzie for the memories. Poppy
I got half way through your question and I lost the will to live. It's not what I remember, I thing you was a posh kid, television and car. Whatever next.

Good question, I bet you started typing that out a week last Thursday!
Very well...and I miss not letting my granddaughters ride their bikes without me looking out the door constantly because of child molesters!!! It's awful when they have the rights and the kids don't!!
Jeez! I just teared up. You don't know how many times while my kids were sitting there in front of video games, or how I would sit on the front porch of my house all day long on weekends just so they wouldn't be outside alone that I thought of all those things, and wished that they could experience what I did as a child.

Thanks for the memories...
life may not have been better but it was much more simpler..i miss chasing fireflies..they've been gone since skeeter trucks started spraying neighborhoods..kits aren't paper anymore..unless you really hunt for them..thanks now i'll go sit on the porch with a toothpick in my mouth and think about simpler times it is going to be a beautiful day...
I remember all of those thing. And I would be willing to give up some of our so called modern conveniences to have the peace we had back them. We felt safe and not afraid to leave out homes or our doors unlocked. Children got the discipline they needed and parents gave their children unconditional love and plenty of quality time. Children respected authority and so did adults. We looked after our neighbors and families stayed together and enjoyed each other. Everything was peaceful and quiet and God was the head of our homes.



The ironic part is that we thought the world was in terrible shape. But now we know we have just begun to see the real evil in this world. And how little car about one another. It is a very selfish world now and it could never go back to the wonderful way it was when I was growing up.I truly worry about what is going to happen in the future.



May God help us and Bless America
And banger fireworks really did BANG



And the cinema show lasted 3 hours with 2 films



And uncles and aunts gave you half a crown



And buses were as frequent as if on a conveyor belt



And girls wore 18 inch long miniskirts



And train journeys were fast, by steam and cheap



And you safely asked an stranger to take you in to an adult rated film



And getting sex was a challenge, not on a plate



And petrol was a pound a gallon



And people could take a joke



And you said sorry if you slightly hit someone's car, and that was it



And we went scrumping



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But wait!!

We had diphtheria, croup, smallpox, rickets, measles, teachers with canes, bombs falling on us, typhoid in ice cream!!!!



But what the hell - we're still here!