RE: Remember When (kinda long)

[wiininkwe]

 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 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!
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

[Tim5055]

 wiininkwe
Great one Toni!
 
 While I don t remember them all, most I do...

[Ab Diver]

 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! []

[Turn Key]

 Ab Diver
Dang it, Ab Diver!  You beat me to it!!![]
 
 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.

[jpreiser]

 wiininkwe
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...

[birol]

 jpreiser

 

ORIGINAL:  jpreiser
 
 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]

[angelsmom10]

 wiininkwe
Thanks - now I really feel old[]

[Papaso]

 wiininkwe
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

[wiininkwe]

 wiininkwe
That 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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[angelsmom10]

 Papaso

 

ORIGINAL:  Papaso
 
 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[:@]

[angelsmom10]

 wiininkwe
Here 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 !!
 

[tlhdoc]

 wiininkwe
Toni thanks for posting this thread.  DH was home tonight and I read it to him.
 
 We still have the following in our area.
 
 

ORIGINAL:  wiininkwe
 Party lines
 Drive ins
 Washtub wringers
 The Fuller Brush Man
 Tinkertoys
 Erector Sets
 Lincoln Logs
 Jiffy Pop
 

[angelsmom10]

 tlhdoc

 

ORIGINAL:  tlhdoc
 
 Toni thanks for posting this thread.  DH was home tonight and I read it to him.
 
 We still have the following in our area.
 
 

ORIGINAL:  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]

[wiininkwe]

 wiininkwe
When 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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[gsm x2]

 wiininkwe

Just 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