[Rhodes22-list] FW: Nostalgia... Part 32

[Steve Alm]

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From: Dave Pengra <dpengr1 at mail.isd77.k12.mn.us>
Date: Tue, 22 Apr 2003 15:14:39 -0500
To: GoofyGroup <dpengr1 at mail.isd77.k12.mn.us>
Subject: Nostalgia... Part 32

I am not sure who collects these tidbits but I usually get suckered right
in....usually to see if I have early stages of Alzheimer's or if there is
something really cool I would love to remember.  I have probably sent this
or something like it before ... so... sorry... and enjoy again.
Dave

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 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.

 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"?

 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 table side 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....(Raymond 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?

I double-dog-dare-ya!



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