I Have “LIVED”! Have You?

I Remember Most of These. Imagine That? This has been around several times, but I always enjoy reminiscing again…

How's This For Nostalgia? I Double-Dog-Dare-Ya to take a walk down memory lane with me! All the girls had ugly gym uniforms It took three minutes for the TV to warm up Nearly everyone’s Mom was at home when the kids got out of school Nobody owned a purebred dog 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 they 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 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 with bike rides, baseball games, Hula Hoops, bowling, visits to the pool, and eating Kool-Aid powder with sugar or jello straight from the box Didn't that feel good, just to go back and say, 'Yeah, I remember that'? 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? Do you remember Laurel and Hardy, Nancy Drew, The Hardy Boys, 5 Little Peppers and How they Grew, Howdy Dowdy and the Peanut Gallery, The Lone Ranger, The Shadow Knows, Nellie Bell, Roy and Dale, Trigger and Buttermilk?

 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

P.F. Fliers

 

Telephone numbers with a word prefix (Raymond 4-601)

or Party lines

Howdy Doody

Hi-Fi's

45 RPM records with spindles

78 RPM records!
 

Green Stamps  

 

Mimeograph paper 

 

 Beanie and Cecil

 

Metal ice-cube trays with levers

Roller-skate keys

Cork pop guns


 
 

Drive-In movies

Newsreels before the movie

Drive-In Restaurants

Car Hops

Studebakers

 

Washtub wringers

The Fuller-Brush Man

 

 

Sky King

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


 

25 cent a gallon gasoline

Jiffy-Pop Popcorn

5 cent stamps




 

Gum wrapper chains - (hell yeah, I had some of these)

Chatty Cathy Dolls

5 cent Cokes

Speedy Alka-Seltzer

Cigarettes for Christmas

(They actually used Santa to advertise Cigarettes? Does Santa smoke?)

 

 Falstaff Beer

(if it’s no longer around it must mean it had to have tasted awful) 

Burma Shave Signs

Brownie camera

Flash bulbs

TV Test patterns



 

Topo Gigio

(nope…who the hell was that?)

 





Old Yeller

(Yep, I cried!)


 

Chef Boy-AR-Dee

Fire Escape Tubes


 

Timmy and Lassie

Ding-Dong Avon calling

  

Brylcreem… “a lil dab will do ya”

Aluminum Christmas Trees with the color wheel - (oh-yeah, we had us one of these. Now they are in catalogs for over $400 Dollars!)

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?

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 and no stupid jerk would have ever thought to fill em with anything other than good ole water?

If you can remember most or all of these, Then You Have Lived!!!!!!!