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A TEST FOR OLD KIDS
I was picky who I sent this to. It had to be those
who might actually remember. So have some fun
my sharp-witted friends. This is a test for
us ‘old kids’! The answers are printed below,
but don’t cheat..

01.After
the Lone Ranger saved the day and rode off into
the sunset, the grateful citizens would ask, Who
was that masked man? Invariably, someone would
answer, I don’t know, but he left this behind.
What did he leave
behind?________________.

02.When
the Beatles first came to the U.S. In early
1964, we all watched them on The _______________
Show.

03‘Get
your kicks, __________________.’

04.‘The
story you are about to see is true. The names
have been changed to
___________________.’

05.‘In
the jungle, the mighty jungle,
________________.’

06.After
the Twist, The Mashed Potato, and the Watusi, we
‘danced’ under a stick that was lowered as low
as we could go in a dance called the
‘_____________.’

07.Nestle’s
makes the very best . . . .
_______________.’

08.Satchmo
was America’s ‘Ambassador of Goodwill.’
Our parents shared this great jazz trumpet
player with us. His name was
_________________.

09.What
takes a licking and keeps on ticking?
_______________.

10.Red
Skeleton’s hobo character was named
__________________ and Red always ended his
television show by saying, ‘Good Night, and
‘________ ________. ‘

11.Some
Americans who protested the Vietnam War did so
by burning
their______________.

12.The
cute little car with the engine in the back and
the trunk in the front was called the VW. What
other names did it go by? ____________ &
_______________.

13.In
1971, singer Don MacLean sang a song about, ‘the
day the music died.’ This was a tribute to
___________________.

14.We
can remember the first satellite placed into
orbit. The Russians did it. It was called
___________________.

15.One
of the big fads of the late 50′s and 60′s was a
large plastic ring that we twirled around our
waist. It was called the __
______________.

ANSWERS
:
01.The
Lone Ranger left behind a silver
bullet.
02.The
Ed Sullivan Show
03.On
Route 66
04.To
protect the innocent.
05.The
Lion Sleeps Tonight
06.The
limbo
07.Chocolate
08.Louis
Armstrong
09.The
Timex watch
10.Freddy,
The Freeloader and ‘Good Night and
God Bless.’
11.Draft
cards (Bras were also burned. Not flags, as some
have guessed)
12.Beetle
or Bug
13.Buddy
Holly
14.Sputnik
15.Hoola-hoop

Send
this to your ‘old’ friends, (better known as
Seniors.) It will drive them crazy ! And keep
them busy and let them forget their aches and
pains for a few
minutes.

How’s This For Nostalgia?

It took three minutes for the TV to warm up?

Nobody
owned a purebred dog?

When
a quarter was a decent allowance?

You’d
reach into a muddy gutter for a penny?

Your Momwore 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? And, you got trading
stamps to boot?

Laundry detergenthad 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
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 withbike 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’?


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.

Send
this on to someone who can still remember Howdy
Doody and The Peanut
Gallery, theLone
Ranger, The Shadowknows, Nellie Bell ,
Roy and Dale, Trigger
andButtermilk.

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 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). Party lines.

Peashooters.

Howdy
Doody.

Hi-Fi’s
& 45 RPM records.

78
RPM records!

Green
Stamps.

Mimeograph
paper.

TheFort
ApachePlay Set.

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?

CatchingThe FirefliesCould 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?

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!!!!!!!

Ever been walking through the woods at night and had the sensation that something was following……

This picture is from
Peterborough area, where someone set out a motion sensor camera to see if any big bucks were passing in the area.

It’s a one in a million shot!