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?
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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?
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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 ..."
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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?
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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.
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Our parents and grandparents were a much bigger threat!
But we survived because their love was greater than the threat.
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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" ?
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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
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Telephone numbers with a word prefix....(Raymond 4-601).
Party lines
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Peashooters
Howdy Dowdy
45 RPM records
Green Stamps
Hi-Fi s
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Metal ice cubes trays with levers
Mimeograph paper
Beanie and Cecil
Roller-skate keys
Cork pop guns
Drive ins
Studebakers
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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
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5 cent packs of baseball cards -
with that awful pink slab of bubble gum
Penny candy
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35 cent a gallon gasoline
Jiffy Pop popcorn
Do you remember a time when...
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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?
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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?
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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!!!!!!!
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Pass this on to anyone who may need a break from
their " grown-up" life . . ....I double-dog-dare-ya!
wiininkweGreat one Toni!
While I don t remember them all, most I do...
wiininkwe" Help, Cecil! Help!"
" I m coming, Beanie!"
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Ab Diver-- who s (Way!) old enough to know better... and *still* (No-Way!) too young to care! [;)]
Ab DiverDang it, Ab Diver! You beat me to it!!![:D]
Humble 9-2218 & Albany 2-8555. The first 2 phone numbers I was old enough to remember. Same phone in my parents home (can t recall why but they had the number changed at some point). Black bakelight plastic, mounted on the wall beside the refridgerater. Looked like everybody elses phone and it was the only one in the house (the idea of children having or needing a phone was unheard of). Don t believe I ll ever forget no matter how old I get.
wiininkweremember camping as a kid, in a musty tent , with no AC, no toilet and a cooler that would hold ice for just a day?? Man I don t misss those days one bit...
jpreiser
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remember camping as a kid, in a musty tent , with no AC, no toilet and a cooler that would hold ice for just a day?? Man I don t misss those days one bit...
Hey my cooler still holds the ice for one day ! Wanna have it ? only 400 bucks for you [8D][8D][8D]
wiininkweThanks - now I really feel old[;)]
wiininkweAh the good ole days, I remember everything on this list, it brings back a warm comfortable feeling. One thing that was left out was collecting empty soda bottles for the penny or nickle deposit, some days I d make 80 whole cents and I was loaded back then. The one good thing is that I don t feel as old as I guess I am. I also remember when your signature ended with Pimaztiwin whatever it meant. The wierd thing is what we are now living is the product of those times, which keeps me concerned for whats in store for our children. Oh well the answer is at the end of our signature.
Happy Camping
wiininkweThat s Pimatiziwin, Papaso, and it means loosely, Living Life in a Spiritual Way. I dropped it a while back becuase it seemed to upset someon (no, I don t know who) during that rough patch we went thru over the board changes. It s a special word for me and I didn t want to see it get diminished by anger. But thanks for remembering.
When I first saw that little ditty about remembering, I thought of a lot of things that weren t on it, like the huckster wagon that used to come thru our neighborhood selling produce, and taking a sunday drive to nowhere, just getting in the car as a family and going, maybe stopping at a roadside table to eat. My Dad used to flood our backyard with the hose in the winter so that we could skate, and I remember when my Mom wouldn t let us run thru the sprinkler in the summer because we might get polio. (My generation was also the one that tested the Saulk polio vaccine) And those telephones, yes, on the wall by the fridge, but with a short 2 ft cord so that you couldn t get any privacy unless you put your face against the wall. OMG, I think I m turning into my Grandma, I used to listen to her talk about the old days!!!
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Papaso
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Ah the good ole days, I remember everything on this list, it brings back a warm comfortable feeling. One thing that was left out was collecting empty soda bottles for the penny or nickle deposit, some days I d make 80 whole cents and I was loaded back then. The one good thing is that I don t feel as old as I guess I am. I also remember when your signature ended with Pimaztiwin whatever it meant. The wierd thing is what we are now living is the product of those times, which keeps me concerned for whats in store for our children. Oh well the answer is at the end of our signature.
Happy Camping
AND 80 cents you felt rich -- all you could get with that 80 cent -- now-a-days, you can t even buy a cup of coffee[:@]
wiininkweHere s some more on the same thought.....
100 Years Ago...........
The year is 1903, one hundred years ago... what a difference a century makes. Here are the U.S. statistics for 1903....
The average life expectancy in the U.S. was forty-seven.
Only 14 Percent of the homes in the U.S. had a bathtub.
Only 8 percent of the homes had a telephone.
A three-minute call from Denver to New York City cost eleven dollars.
There were only 8,000 cars in the U.S. and only 144 miles of paved roads.
The maximum speed limit in most cities was 10 mph.
Alabama, Mississippi, Iowa, and Tennessee were each more heavily populated than California. With a mere 1.4 million residents, California was only the 21st most populous state in the Union.
The tallest structure in the world was the Eiffel Tower.
The average wage in the U.S. was 22 cents an hour!
The average U.S. worker made between $200 and $400 per year.
A competent accountant could expect to earn $2,000 per year, a dentist $2,500 per year, a veterinarian between $1,500 and $4,000 per year, and a mechanical engineer about $5,000 per year.
More than 95 percent of all births in the U.S. took place at home.
Ninety percent of all U.S. physicians had no college education. Instead, they attended medical schools.
Sugar cost four cents a pound. Eggs were fourteen cents a dozen. Coffee cost fifteen cents a pound.
Most women only washed their hair once a month and used borax or egg yolks for shampoo.
Canada passed a law prohibiting poor people from entering the country for any reason.
The five leading causes of death in the U.S. were
1. Pneumonia and influenza
2. Tuberculosis
3. Diarrhea
4. Heart disease
5. Stroke
The American flag had 45 stars. Arizona, Oklahoma, New Mexico, Hawaii and Alaska hadn t been admitted to the Union yet.
The population of Las Vegas, Nevada was 30.
Crossword puzzles, canned beer, and iced tea hadn t been invented.
There were no Mother s Day or Father s Day.
One in ten U.S. adults couldn t read or write. Only 6 percent of all Americans had graduated from high school.
Marijuana, heroin, and morphine were all available over the counter at corner drugstores. According to one pharmacist, " Heroin clears the complexion, gives buoyancy to the mind, regulates the stomach and the bowels, and is, in fact, a perfect guardian of health."
Eighteen percent of households in the US had at least one full-time servant or domestic.
There were only about 230 reported murders in the entire U.S.
Just think what it will be like in another 100 years. It boggles the mind !!
wiininkweToni thanks for posting this thread. DH was home tonight and I read it to him.
We still have the following in our area.
QuoteORIGINAL: wiininkwe
Party lines
Drive ins
Washtub wringers
The Fuller Brush Man
Tinkertoys
Erector Sets
Lincoln Logs
Jiffy Pop
tlhdoc
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Toni thanks for posting this thread. DH was home tonight and I read it to him.
We still have the following in our area.
QuoteORIGINAL: wiininkwe
Party lines
Drive ins
Washtub wringers
The Fuller Brush Man
Tinkertoys
Erector Sets
Lincoln Logs
Jiffy Pop
A close friend of ours mother (God rest her sole - recently deceased) always used a wringer washer and about 4yrs ago, their basement got flooded and needless to say the only thing still working was her wringer washer. But since it was very old, she wanted a new one and we found a new one -- I can t remember who we got it from, but we were able to find one at a store[8D]
wiininkweWhen we moved into our present home (almost 27 yrs ago) we didn t have an automatic washer, and with moving expenses didn t want to rush out and buy one right away. My Aunt had an old wringer washer that she wanted to get out of her basement, so we took it. It sounds strange now, but at the time I didn t want to haul it into our basement laundry room, I think because I was afraid that if I got too comfy with it, it would take longer to get a new one. So, I had DH just roll it into the garage. Since it was spring, on laundry day I would just roll it into the driveway, fill it with the hose, and drag over the big washtub and get to work. (of course my daughters were mortified) We didn t find out until years later that everyone in the neighborhood thought we came from some very rural farm country somewhere and that this was the way we did things.
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wiininkwe
QuoteJust think what it will be like in another 100 years. It boggles the mind !!
And as my father says, " My only regret in life is that I won t be here to find out."
gsm x2
wiininkweI keep telling myself that one of these days I am going back to the very first house my parents bought and getting my " Superball" out of the fence post in the back corner of the yard. I was about 5 years old, and we were getting a new chain link fence. In the right hand corner there was a drain, so there were two corner posts with a small section cutting off the corner of the layout. I was walking along the fence line and bouncing my Superball on the open top of the small posts along the side. When I got to the end where the larger corner post was, the ball slipped out of my hands and fell down the open pipe. It is still there today, after 40 years!
And I am not going to tell any of ya what the address is to keep ya ll from going and getting my prize toy!!!
Dayton Dave
QuoteORIGINAL: Dayton Dave
I keep telling myself that one of these days I am going back to the very first house my parents bought and getting my " Superball" out of the fence post in the back corner of the yard. I was about 5 years old, and we were getting a new chain link fence. In the right hand corner there was a drain, so there were two corner posts with a small section cutting off the corner of the layout. I was walking along the fence line and bouncing my Superball on the open top of the small posts along the side. When I got to the end where the larger corner post was, the ball slipped out of my hands and fell down the open pipe. It is still there today, after 40 years!
And I am not going to tell any of ya what the address is to keep ya ll from going and getting my prize toy!!!
I ve felt like doing that about our old house growing up. Back then, we used to collect baseball cards and flip them. Up in our attic, there were loose floor boards and we used to hide our stash of cards up there. We also hid our money up there and at that time most of the coins were silver. Well, time went by, and there were train tressels near the house and sometimes the house would vibrate. Our cards and cash was in jars and they must have gotten knocked over and rolled; by the time we decided to go get them, they had rolled somewhere and we had always swore that we would tear up every board till we found them. Now, I bet we d have a fortune in baseball cards alone. Back in the 50 s and 60 s and all the rookie cards from the oldies. I just keep dreaming and waiting for the house to be torn down, and then I ll be there and search[8D]
wiininkweTransition years-Don t forget Hula Hoops,Waddle Boards,Flavor Straws,Abba Zabbas,Buckey Beaver,Sputnik shaped transistor radios with antenna wire to attach to window screen,One Eyed-One Horned Flying Purple Eaters,neighborhood gatherings to watch the first color tv on the block.Great Memories....Now it s Geritol,Carter s Little Liver Pills....
wiininkweHahahahaha!!! LMBO!! I wasn t sure what reaction you guys would have when I posted this thread, but now I m really glad I did. It seems that no matter what part of the country we re from, or even if we are exactly from the same era or not, we all have the same kind of memories, good ones. I m noticing that no one has offered any depressing stuff, and that s great!!! I m thinking that s a commentary on our abilities to make the best of things when things are not at their best. You Go, PUTers you guys are the greatest!
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wiininkweYeah, seems we all have the same memories, of 40 , 50 s & 60 s. Wonder what the kids growing up today will remember....
wiininkweI want all of you to know that I am only 28 years old and I can remember most of the things on wiininkwe s list. Maybe it was because I ve always lived in a rural area and we were just a little behind the times.
aw738I attended my 35th high school reunion yesterday, so I m really into the " remembering" mode this weekend! What a blast--all us " old fogies" out on the dance floor doing the Twist! Right after doing the Electric Slide! LOL!!
My high school graduating class was pretty close (there were only 100 of us), so we ve had regular reunions--10th, 20th, 25th, 30th, and now 35th. At each reunion, we try to get information about the classmates and put it into a booklet that we give each person that attends. For the 10th reunion (in 1978), I typed the info up on my portable electric typewriter and we ran the copies off on a mimeograph machine!! For the 20th reunion (1988), one of the guys on the reunion committee had one of the 1st Apple computers--the tiny one with about an 8-inch screen! He typed everything up in his word processor, and we made copies with a big Xerox machine where one class member worked. For the last couple, we ve had color covers for the booklet that I printed on my color inkjet printer. Quite a change over the last 25 years!
I was checking out at Wal-Mart yesterday afternoon, and the lady in front of me had purchased a big container of Lincoln Logs! Kind of gave me a warm, fuzzy feeling to know they were still around...and still made of wood.
Most of the people I work with are in their 20 s and 30 s so their memories are a lot different than mine. However, the guy that sits right next to me is only 3 months younger than me, so we can relate pretty well. We were talking the other day about TV--I can remember when we got our first one (black and white, of course!). We only got two channels. We had a huge antenna in the front yard that was taller than the house. In order to change channels, you not only had to turn the dial on the TV set, you had to go over to the window and throw a blade switch to change the line from the antenna!
I live in a small town in a fairly rural area in Southwestern Virginia, so we re not always first in line for progress! We didn t get the dial system until I was in high school. Before then, we had the operator who said " Number, please?" and our home phone number was 182. My grandmother was on a party line, and had a wooden phone on the wall! We had a coal-burning hot water heater, and a bathroom with one of those wonderful old bathtubs that stood on four legs.
We once owned a 57 Chevy (red with a white top), but we didn t know it was a collector s item them, because it was only 1960! I learned to drive on a 1960 Dodge Matador with HUGE tail fins and a push-button transmission...and I got my driver s license when I was 15.
If my mother hadn t been such a good housekeeper, I d probably be independently wealthy now. I used to love to read comic books (I called them " funny books" ) and would always beg my mother to buy me one or two when we went shopping. They were only 10 cents then (25 cents for the big double issues). I had two big cardboard boxes full of comic books that I kept under my bed...I had Superman, Batman, etc., from the 1950 s and early 1960 s! And I had an original Barbie doll---with the blonde ponytail and the striped bathing suit. When I got older my mother gave the comic books and the Barbie doll away! YIKES! I wonder what those would be worth now! LOL!!
aw738My 30th reunion is in 2 weeks and it s funny, I too have a lot of memories flowing[:(][:(][:(][:(]-- boy do I miss those years
wiininkweI remembered eveyone of those things.....that means we must be about the same age.
We use to babysit for $.50 an hour.
I used to eat maryjanes and the squirrel nut candy at the movie house.
Enjoyed your topic[:D]
aw738This is great! LOL....I remember a lot of these...however, until I was in elementary school we lived in larger cities so even both my grandparents had real electric washing machines and everyone had a television..although, each house had ONE TV and it was black and white.
Check out this website for some of the old candies and foods that are hard to find now.... http://www.hometownfavorites.com/shop/index_dyn.asp. Found it one day looking for something and it brought back memories of my Uncle s little store in Jacksonville Florida and getting to go in there as a child. Uncle Harley would give me a little tiny brown paper bag and tell me to get a quarters worth of candy. Good grief...that was 25 pieces of candy!!! [;)]