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 .."

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?

When being sent to the principal's office was nothing compared to the fate that awaiting 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 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"?

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

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

Peashooters
Howdy Dowdy
45 RPM records
Green Stamps
Hi-Fi's

Metal ice cubes trays with levers
Mimeograph paper
Beanie and Cecil
Roller-skate keys
Cork pop guns
Drive ins
Studebakers


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


5 cent packs of baseball cards -
with that awful pink slab of bubble gum

Penny candy

35 cent a gallon gasoline
Jiffy Pop popcorn

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?
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?

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!!!!!!!

Pass this on to anyone who may need a break from
their "grown-up" life . . .I double-dog-dare-ya!

Had to share......I know some of us are elderly enough to remember.

YES!! I remember, and those were THE DAYS!!! graemlins/beers.gif

I've always liked the line:

Do you remember when sex was safe and racing was dangerous?

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I remember all of that; unfortunately I also remember "For Whites Only" drinking fountains, rest rooms and lunch counters; the early struggles of the civil rights movement; McCarthyism; men who were paid more than women "because they had families to support" and so on.

Some of what we have today is much worse that we remember it, some of what we have today is much better than it was. Now if I could pick and choose between what I liked about that eralier time and what I like about today, THEN we'd have something!

Nope. Don't remember one of those things. But, with what's going on in the world today, I wish had been there. Although, I think that some of things that you mentioned are universal in that everyone was an innocent kid once and oblivious to what was happening outside our carefree worlds.

Duck and Cover
Reefer Madness
Bias ply tires
No ATM's (what did we do for cash?)
No www (aaaarrrrrggghhhh!!)
TB tests
Polio vaccine (sugar cube?)
Beer cans you had to open with a can piercer!!

PS Did Howdy Doody REALLY have a wooden a.....oh, nevermind!

Everett, good post...I remember that the street lights coming on meant time to come in. Hide and seak, water balloon wars, heats (sp?), dodge ball, 4 square, rock fights, flying kites, (my favorite was the yellow dragon), balsa wood glider planes...What did we do before microwaves or ESPN?... graemlins/sad.gif I wish my kids had grown up during my time... Mike smile.gif

How about these,

No Sunday shopping.

Gay meant happy.

The stores always took your cheque.

If you were bad you got a spanking, & nobody tried to call it child abuse.

Kids stayed up all night reading, not surfing the web.

When you went out, you were dressed properly & had clean clothes (even though they were hand me downs.)

I'm sure I could think of more, but one thing is for sure.

I do remember. It was a simpler life in some ways, more difficult in others.

As Archie & Edith Bunker said, "Those Were The Days".

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Well, I was born the last year of the 70s and grew up in the 80s and 90s...I've got my own memories, but, I can just imagine how much more "freedom" you guys had then we had in my "years." It's sad that today, instead of being greated by the milk man or even the mail man, you can easily be visited by a stray bullet from a gun fired miles away. I used to work with elemtary kids about 3 years ago...there was this kid everyone called "bullet head"...turns out when he was about 5-6 years old, he just missed getting shot in the head while playing outside. Instead the bullet grazed the upper part of his forehead and scalp. He's fine and came out only with a couple of stitches....if only those "days" were back!

Getting swats in school for being bad. And one thing I miss is sitting down for dinner together at night with a home cooked meal with my dad sitting at the head of the table.

I remember all of that. It was a slower, fun time with seemingly very little cares (easy to say since I was less than 10.) Things seemed to change after JFK's assasination. Soon afterward the Viet Nam war started in earnest and things started going down in a hurry. Our innocense seemed to leave us. I don't think Kennedy would have let us get in a ground war over there-or at least not to the extent that we became involved. In any case the 50's and part of the 60's were, for me, a great time to grow up.

Theres only one word that can sum it up.....EXCELLENT !!!! 2 thumbs up ! graemlins/thumbsup.gif graemlins/thumbsup.gif

Except theres something missing, remember 'creepy crawlers' and 'fright factory' and using gobblety goop???

Excellent. Put a smile on my face. :D :D :D

You opened beer cans with a "church-key" AND you put your mouth over the top of the can while opening it if the can had been the least bit shaken up... Or the sucker would spew all over everybody and everything..

Yes, this stuff is kinda what I'm getting at in my "Michelle and Romy" thread.. But a lot more personal, at least to me..

Probably a little-bitty mid-life crisis deal?? I donno sorta thing....

pdq67

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What that Lassie, Jimmie fell down the well.

Do you know what Helen Kellers favorite color is?

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"Corduroy"

Sorry just an old one I had to share graemlins/clonk.gif

When Helen Keller fell down the well.....she screamed her hand off :D

1st run (not reruns) gilligan's island in black and white??
1st color tv WITH remote control
johnny socko and the giant robot
ultra man
speed racer!! my mentor
Apollo 13 pulling the whole world together
Vietnam, even though i was too young to really understand it, but seeing it in the news every night. my uncle coming home on leave from over there then going back.
HIPPIES, FLOWER CHILDREN and the PEACE SIGN
BRAND NEW 67,68,69 CAMAROS!!! HERE, HERE
getting up at 3 a.m. with a flashlight to see what santa brought.
wondering how santa got all those packages in my house when we had no chimney. (still trying to figure that one out) :D

Well, well... memories.

I was born in '57 so I missed some of that but lived thru the sixties with pretty much the same memories.

The years after WW2 had an enormous growth and expansion in western Europe and America. Everything was positive and nothing was impossible. Nuclear power was the greatest thing to mankind and environmentalists was unheard of.

The kids of today will probably have memories of an lost time when everything was good. They will laugh about the computer stuff we are adoring today.

If you think about it, didn't our grand parents also say "-It was much better in the old days."

The sad thing is that we can now look more pessimisticly at the future, where are we going? We are abusing our selves, the planet and everything else. Moral is going down the drain and only the guy with the sharpest elbowes will survive.


We can at least be happy about our Camaros. graemlins/thumbsup.gif


Jan

Jannes,

I gotta bad feeling you are right about the elbow thing!!

pdq67

Ahhh:

cap guns
working in gas stations and then meeting up with the buddies/girlfriend at the drive-in.
Washing parts in gasoline at gas station!
B-B guns
Dancing to Moon River at the high school dance ( how's that pdq !)

Lots of good ones, guys. I just thought of another good pastime -- homemade ice cream !!
I stil have my Daisy Pump BB rifle, $10.98 price tag from Western Auto.

I was ten when the very firts IROC-Z's were made in 1985 and have loved them since.
Regan's second term
Madonna launche the Virgin Tour
Back to the future (great movie)
49ers beat Dolphins for the Super Bowl(cheaters)

Friday night cruisin was based on how much change your buddies had in their pockets...gas at 29.9 cents..gas stations guys knew how to speak english and give directions...an all american was a McDonalds burger, fries and shake for 50 cents...outdoor movies were 50 cents per person and your buddies were all stuffed in the trunk...security guys at the drive in had flashlights used to look in on the steamed up windows...twinkies were 10 cents...UNO candy bars were 3 cents

Doin' Wheelies at the McDonalds on our Schwinn Krate bicycles.

Collecting Coke Bottles for 3 cents each and 4 bottles got you a kings ransom in candy. Watchin Johnny Carson late in the summertime with your Dad when he got home from work late. Covered dish suppers with all of your neighborhood friends families.
Massive dodge ball games in the street with ALL of the neighborhood kids. And the Police did not care.
The "HUNKY" man (Ice Cream man)at 2:00 every day.
Pleasant memories indeed.

banana seat bikes with the extended front forks and tall sissy bar in back so they looked like a chopper, and playing cards in the spokes.

Rick,

Like I said, I never danced at either the Jr./Sr. Prom us Jr's put on for the graduating Sr's or the Sr. Prom the Jr's put on for my graduating Sr. class.

That's what I mouthing about b/c it was a waste b/c YOU only can do this if you are lucky twice like I had the chance at and passed on b/c I was a green kid..

I NEVER did get a dance with my female classmate that I think about!!

It was funny though b/c the girls of the class did line me up with another classmate for the night but as soon as I could I broke free and did my own thing after the Prom was over...

I just got in my '57 and burned rubber leaving town...

pdq67

Back again, a funny thing is that the 3-man, R&R group that played at the Prom we put on in '64 for the Sr's is still around and they play R&R at a lot of the small town homecomings, and festivals.

I expect to see them this weekend at Centralia, Missouri's Anchor Festival playing just like they did when I was a kid...

They are called "The Krazy-Kats" and are from Moberly, MO and Lee Dresser is the lead-man/singer. My wife knows all three of them b/c she was born and raised there..

It's a small world b/c my Buddy from St. Louis went to Church Summer Camp with my wife when we were kids before I ever met her...

pdq67

49ers beat Dolphins for the Super Bowl(cheaters)graemlins/sad.gif No Way!!! Niners best team ever!! Game wasn't even close... :D Speaking of sports...going to the stick' with my coach and fellow little leaguers, getting in with christopher milk game tickets on the cartons, and watching Mays, Mcovey, Marichal, and the rest of the Giants come in second to the Dodgers year after year... graemlins/clonk.gif Going to old Keiser Stadium, and watching Brodie and the Niners get pelted by bottles and by the seaguls.... ;)

Well, I'm not too old yet, but I will say that the original artists to the song "Louie-Louie" played at my HS prom. They are still alive I think(the Kingsmen). I was too young to appreciate them back then :rolleyes: I also remember saddle shoes, corduroy bell bottoms and stupid shirts with ring zippers down the front that had stupid logo's all over them...blech

Dano graemlins/beers.gif

The Kingsmen - - Rose City natives graemlins/thumbsup.gif --although I think "Louie Louie" was a cover for them...

Yea, Great memories.

Run269, You forgot Astro Boy and does anybody remember 8th man?

I feel sorry for the kids today. Everything is right in front of them, they don't have to use their imagination.

I remember making up games to play. I don't think the kids today will ever have the imagination of anyone who grew up before the 80's.

The Etch-A-Sketch, Rock Em' Sock Em' Robots and how about Carrols, which was before Burger King. I remember their orange soda tasted like water. When HBO first came out I watched "The Posideon Adventure" seven times. Wow, having the movies in you very own house, LOL!! Strange how some things never go away, my favorite, we all still "dial" a phone # even though the ROTORY phone went out in the 70's. Rember when Gatorade was only one flavor, now its hard to decide which one you will try next.

We have these "when we were kids" discussions with our boys every now and then. We were telling them about etch-a-sketch. Remember those with all the gears to make designs ? I ended up getting one in the original box with the pens and all off ebay. The kids love it. That and the old mustang pedal car that they are too big for....why didn't chevy do a pedal car ?

I still have Rock Em' Sock Em' Robots that I bought in early 80's for my son.

Hey jackr, do you mean a "Spirograph" ? I used to have one of those !

How about when your mother gave you 50 cents, you walked to the movies, went in in the middle of the movie, had enough left over for a cup of soda and a small bag of popcorn and watched the movie twice. :D

Remember when cigarettes in machines were 22 cents a pack? You put in a quarter and got your cigarettes with three pennys taped to the celophane. I swore I'd stop smoking when they got up to 25 cents! :mad:

Buy a six-pack of cheap, but still decent tasting, Gluke Beer for 89 cents cold!!

Not the high-priced, 12 percent alcohol Glukestite Malt Liquor, (however you spell it)?? That stuff was strong enought that it would knock you down and then jump up and down on you!!!

pdq67

:(I have missed everything. What does my generation have? That is a good question. You guys got it ALL.

I could write a book on how terrible times are now.:sad:

I do have a reproduction "Muscle Bike" aka: "Sting-Ray". It is a Micargi Hero in a metalflake navy blue. With sissy bar, bannana seat and the ability to open up a can of whoop-ass on any kid wants to race it, finishing the kill with a rubber-scorching burnout/skid. To bad its not a Chevy Sting Ray. I will be hauling some old original bikes out of a barn in Ky. this spring break. They will be restored and auctioned off.:yes:

Again, I wish I had something to contribute. I won't be telling of any "those were the days" stories to my kids because I won't have good ones to tell.:sad:

Holy old thread!

WTH, I'll add this. Remember these? This is why they are called 'clickers'!
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Holy old thread!


I like old things, the older the better!:hurray:

How many of you remember "BC"?
I'm talking "before cable"
We had two clear channels and one grainy channel that could sometimes be made better by turning the rabbit ears slightly.
No seat belts in cars. We used to stand up in the front seat. When mom started to slow down, she held her right arm up to keep us from falling forward into the dash.
Remember the milkman?
If you had a paper route, you were the envy of everyone.
I still remember where I was when I heard John Kennedy was assassinated........ 6th grade.
No central air. In the 110+ summer heat, we slept under the swamp cooler.
45's and 33's

I didn't have a newspaper route but I did sell Grit. Does anyone remember that?

Remember Risk, when your friends became your enemies, you got mad, they got mad, then after someone won, everyone forgot about the backstabbing?


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Players 2–6
Age range 10+
Setup time 5–15 minutes
Playing time 1–8 hours (player dependent)
Random chance Medium (dice, cards)
Skills required Tactics, Strategy, and Negotiation
Risk is a commercial strategic board game, produced by Parker Brothers (now a division of Hasbro). It was invented by French movie film director Albert Lamorisse and originally released in 1957, as La Conquête du Monde (The Conquest of the World), in France.

Risk is a turn-based game for two to six players and is played on a board depicting a stylized Napoleonic-era political map of the Earth, divided into forty-two territories, which are grouped into six continents. Players control armies with which they attempt to capture territories from other players. The goal of the game is "world domination," to control all the territories—or "conquer the world"—through the elimination of the other players. Using area movement, Risk ignores limitations such as the vast size of the world and the logistics of long campaigns.

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Nope. Don't remember one of those things. But, with what's going on in the world today, I wish had been there. Although, I think that some of things that you mentioned are universal in that everyone was an innocent kid once and oblivious to what was happening outside our carefree worlds.

Amen Judd, AMEN!!!

My car is actually a year older than I am though :D

I remember all of that; unfortunately I also remember "For Whites Only" drinking fountains, rest rooms and lunch counters; !

Now it's called NAACP, BET, & United Negro College Fund.
Funny how things change:rolleyes:

Funny how the times change... we change... but the memories don't.

capt

how about dirt roads, screen doors open at night, laundry drying rack beside the central heat unit, box type record players, no time out for being bad...just getting your butt beat, clothes line, never by no means never missing church on Sunday, Sunday lunches with whole family, tin foil around rabbit ears and me holding rabbit ears to get reception so dad could watch ball game, remote control was me getting up to change channel for dad, all my uncles were serving in Vietnam, diaper service at door and also milk bottle service at door, hardware store was the local convience store not nice stores like Lowes or Home Depot, oh yes, I rememer some of those days

I remember Rose Colored Glasses.....oh wait, we still use those.....

green stamps

sears and jc penny's toy catalog making circles for three gifts from Santa

S&H Green Stamps as well as Blue Chip Stamps + going to the store with the full books to get items that were available in the catalog.

Buying guns thru the mail.

If you grew up in Los Angeles then you had to buy bread and donuts (and such) from The Helms Bakery truck.

Doctors that made house calls.

Older cars (40's and back) that only used a key to lock the ignition not to start the car.

Damn I'm old (LOL)......

When being sent to the principal's office was nothing compared to the fate that awaiting 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.



Wow, wasn't that the truth.

Wow what a good post! I remember all of that stuff. It would be cool to show kids that time and know what we are talking about. It seems weird to me when I hear the radio jocky say ( your listining to the oldys station) now. It seems like yesterday. Tunes were so good back then. Now it is NOT love songs thats for sure.

How pleasant to bring it all back.I can remember most all of that,I was born in 61.How about the black and white TV that got 3 channels and dad always sent one of us out to turn the antenna and we would spin the hell out of it just to hear him yell,"you went too far ,go back the other way,now back the other way,now back the other way,till he finnally came out and seen that wire twisted and broken at top of the antenna,.....well guess we lost that job!How about when the Big Wheel came out and some kids big brother came up with the idea to flip it over and make a real racer out of it.Man those were fun to petal as fast as you could and then grab the brake and spin out!

How pleasant to bring it all back.I can remember most all of that,I was born in 61.How about the black and white TV that got 3 channels and dad always sent one of us out to turn the antenna and we would spin the hell out of it just to hear him yell,"you went too far ,go back the other way,now back the other way,now back the other way,till he finnally came out and seen that wire twisted and broken at top of the antenna,.....well guess we lost that job!How about when the Big Wheel came out and some kids big brother came up with the idea to flip it over and make a real racer out of it.Man those were fun to petal as fast as you could and then grab the brake and spin out!

Believe it or not, this 90s child had a Big Wheel. It was called "Midnight Thunder" I think. Or maybe "Blue Thunder"?:)

ok guys heres a great link a friend sent me..

http://oldfortyfives.com/TakeMeBackToTheFifties.htm