Do you remember when?

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... '?

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? 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 LoneRanger, 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 %26amp;nb sp;c i garettes



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.

P. F. Fliers.



Telephone numbers with a word prefix...(Raymond 4-601). Party lines.



Peashooters.

Howdy Dowdy.



Hi-Fi's %26amp; 45 RPM records.



78 RPM records!



Green Stamps.



Mimeograph paper.

The Fort Apache Play Set.

Do you remember a time when....

De c isions 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?



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 c a rd 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 . .

I double-dog-dare-ya!

Do you remember when?
Thank you my friend for sharing those wonderful memories you belong like me in what I call THE LUCKY GENERATION I often tell my kids(not little anymore) that in those days we had real pleasure doing all the things you mention %26amp; more like chasing butterfly's %26amp; polishing my school shoes for going out they were the only pair I had and a pair of runners and one pair of denim overalls...and you know what I was a happy kid and grew up to be a happy grown up to say that my nick name is BUBBLES...I hate how fast all that changed and wish that we could turn back the time I raised my kids simple not because I couldn't afford thing but because I wanted them to appreciate things in life to have respect %26amp; to be happy with simple things...and I must say I did a bloody good job they all turn out fine caring loving simple adults hard working %26amp; very giving with others who need.You know when I got married I some of the presents I received were tea towels %26amp; others like 2 pillows cases...now newly weds expect to have a plasma as a gift in every room...by the way every year for Halloween I accompany the children of my street when they go Trick or treat as I don't like them going along %26amp; I love seeing them enjoy something so simple...Happy halloween to all!!!!
wow this is a great posting and yes i remember all of thes things thanks a lotDo you remember when?
i wish i was alive back then- sounds great!!
Yea those were the days for sure brought back quite a few memories lol felt young again while I was reading that.WOW happy halloweenDo you remember when?
Those were the days my friend. Happy Halloween.
Thank you. It is great to know that somehow, somewhere, someone shares my memories.



Could I add -

Sample cereal boxes left on the front door knob

Clotheslines in the back yard

2 for a penny candies

Parking meters that took only pennies

Listening to records before purchasing them in the store

Nurses wore white uniforms, stockings and shoes

The Big Band Era with those real musicians

Typewriters, carbon paper and onion skin paper for copies

The breadman and his big wicker basket of goodies

Telegraph boys on bicycles



Thanks again