How’s This For Nostalgia – Do You Remember When?

May 30, 2010

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?