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Title: DAYUM, am I old! Post by ClusterChuck on Aug 1st, 2006, 1:01pm I have been getting some awesome email messages of late. (The "Bawstin" post) This is another one that I just HAVE to pass on: 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 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...(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? 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! And I remember every single one of them. As a matter of fact, I remember when gas was 28 cents a gallon. An old geezer Chuck |
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Title: Re: DAYUM, am I old! Post by georgej on Aug 1st, 2006, 1:07pm Mimeograph paper. Nothing nowadays SMELLS like those purple sheets. Probably killed brain cells, though. Best, George |
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Title: Re: DAYUM, am I old! Post by jimmers on Aug 1st, 2006, 1:07pm That some cool stuff Chuck! I guess I'm old to. Jimmers |
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Title: Re: DAYUM, am I old! Post by JeffB on Aug 1st, 2006, 1:12pm Thanks alot!!!!!!!!!! After turning 40 this weekend and just now able to convince myself that I'm not losing my youth you bring these things up. I remember about 99.9% of those things, especially the metal ice trays with those friggin levers. The thin pice of bubble gum that cracked like dry wall from the bb cards was horrible. ;;D Thanks for the memories ;;D |
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Title: Re: DAYUM, am I old! Post by pattik on Aug 1st, 2006, 1:29pm ;;DThanks, Chuck. I still do some of those things--like the cloud thing. [smiley=mellow.gif] |
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Title: Re: DAYUM, am I old! Post by Paul98 on Aug 1st, 2006, 1:40pm I Just couldn't resist. he, he http://www.woodstockcandy.com/retro-candy.html I remember saving my allowance for summer vacation and we would walk in to town (~ 7 mi. and we were 7 years old, didn't have to worry about being grabbed off the road) and we would go to the penny candy store and spend an hour choosing what we wanted. Always walked out with a huge bag of loot. Never remember any stomach aches from it though. -P. |
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Title: Re: DAYUM, am I old! Post by chewy on Aug 1st, 2006, 1:43pm I'll be 49 next week and really dont give a damn. I alkways thought that those old little black and white TVs came with coat hangers for antennas. |
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Title: Re: DAYUM, am I old! Post by ClusterChuck on Aug 1st, 2006, 2:30pm on 08/01/06 at 13:43:43, chewy wrote:
OMG!!! Ya mean they DON'T ?? ?? ?? Next thing ya know, youngster, you will be telling me there is no Santa Claus or Easter Bunny! Older than Dirt Chuck |
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Title: Re: DAYUM, am I old! Post by Mattrf on Aug 1st, 2006, 2:40pm That brings back a lot of good memories but it depresses me to know that my kids will never feel the freedom that I did as a child. We would leave home on a summer day in the morning and go all over the city and not come home until dark and no one worried about getting abducted or killed, it is sad that our world has become a dangerous place for our kids and that they will never know the true freedom of being a child with no fear. Matt |
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Title: Re: DAYUM, am I old! Post by ExplodingEyeBall on Aug 1st, 2006, 2:57pm My wife taught our 5 year old daughter how to use a hoola hoop last week while we were camping. I remember most of those other things too. |
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Title: Re: DAYUM, am I old! Post by Charlotte on Aug 1st, 2006, 3:46pm I remember when self serve gas was $0.26 a gallon. I remember when the nickle Hershey bar became the dime Hershey bar. Charlotte |
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Title: Re: DAYUM, am I old! Post by Mosaicwench on Aug 1st, 2006, 4:22pm >Stuff from the store came without safety caps and hermetic seals because >no one had yet tried to poison a perfect stranger? October 4, 1982 was the first instance of cyanide in a tylenol bottle. That's 24 years ago. How do I know? Brewcrew and I were married on October 2nd, 1982 and were in Chicago on our honeymoon when they started posting signs at drug stores about tylenol being unavailable . . . . seems like we've had tamper-proof packaging forever! |
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Title: Re: DAYUM, am I old! Post by LadyLuv on Aug 1st, 2006, 4:50pm Great stuff, great times... Damn I'm old 2, because I remember all of those things!!! LadyLuv |
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Title: Re: DAYUM, am I old! Post by Sandy_C on Aug 1st, 2006, 6:08pm Chuck, I remember every single one of those things. DAYUM! I'm old too! Let's you and me grab our wheelchairs and roll over to the Senior Center where we can have a cup of tea, maybe a little game of cards, and laugh about the old coot sitting next to us drooling into his oatmeal. Oh, and maybe we can get us a dish of prunes to keep us regular, you know ;;D Sandy |
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Title: Re: DAYUM, am I old! Post by Jackie on Aug 1st, 2006, 6:13pm Yep......I'm old and remember most all of those too.... :) Ahhhh, the good old days.... :D I also remember when people knew how to do a good hard days work and didn't think they were being punished for doing so. Oh well.... Jackie |
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Title: Re: DAYUM, am I old! Post by BarbaraD on Aug 1st, 2006, 8:04pm I'm older than all of you and lived with those things. And I remember when gas was $.19 a gallon, Cokes were a nickle and it only cost $.09 to get in the movies (and you could stay all day). My Dad said he knew he was getting better in his old age. When he was young and went to the grocery store and spent $20, it took four young boys to carry it out. In later years when he went to the grocery store and spent $20, he could carry it out all by himself. ;) Hugs BD |
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Title: Re: DAYUM, am I old! Post by maffumatt on Aug 1st, 2006, 8:07pm You guys are old.......... |
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Title: Re: DAYUM, am I old! Post by Charlie on Aug 1st, 2006, 8:18pm I remember it Chuckles. Gas was 23 cents here though. I'd like a corridor to 1957 or so. I'd have to watch my language! even phraseology. If you want real TV, you'd have to bring a DVD and monitor, (scare your neighbors) Everybody smoked, even on the bus sometimes. Pepsi was 12 ounces for a nickel. 5 cent phone calls, cream top milk bottles, the egg man (yes, we had one) Electrolux salesmen, actually getting help from sales clerks, drug stores, etc. with no eyes rolling and trains...lots of trains. Charlie |
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Title: Re: DAYUM, am I old! Post by Kevin_M on Aug 1st, 2006, 8:49pm on 08/01/06 at 13:01:57, ClusterChuck wrote:
Most all of those were in my hands or in my life, lot of good stuff. Before we could drive when we were teenagers hanging out in winter, this new McDonalds opened and we could walk there to warm up for an hour with 37 cents a piece, a burger, coke and tax, but only on nights when we could come up with that much cash between us few. |
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Title: Re: DAYUM, am I old! Post by DonnaHar on Aug 1st, 2006, 9:18pm Does anyone remember horse drawn milk wagons or the "Paper-Rags man? Or the Ice man who had a swarm of overheated kids following him around for chips of ice? How about long white stockings on school girls.....the dinky school bus, or hearing planes overhead and hiding in a ditch in fear of the "war" planes? I am probably the oldest person on this site. Wow. What an honor (or not). |
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Title: Re: DAYUM, am I old! Post by Charlotte on Aug 1st, 2006, 11:28pm I remember little white nylon ankle sox. Bee hive hair do - yes I did. Cats eye glasses. Charlotte |
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Title: Re: DAYUM, am I old! Post by tanner on Aug 2nd, 2006, 12:03am I remember every single one of them :( Thanks Bro, I guess I will just head down the block to the vacant lot LOL and start digging my final resting place. Older than developments (they were suburbs).....Tim |
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Title: Re: DAYUM, am I old! Post by imnotbub on Aug 2nd, 2006, 2:10pm Yeah, I remember them all. RAZZLES! I forgot all about them. Almost 49 and almost grown up. ;;D Steve |
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Title: Re: DAYUM, am I old! Post by Mattrf on Aug 2nd, 2006, 2:14pm I also remember the ice-cream man, he wore a white uniform and had a white hat and drove a truck that was built to be an ice-cream truck, oh ya and he spoke English. [smiley=laugh.gif] Matt |
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Title: Re: DAYUM, am I old! Post by Charlie on Aug 3rd, 2006, 1:35am When I was a kid paperback books were 25 cents....less when I was a toddler around 1950. I come from 1946 which makes me a first year boomer. More stuff: Flit "I Married a Communist." "I Led Three Lives." Science Fiction Theater A little dab'll do ya Betty Furness Bridey Murphy Roger Bannister Halo Shampoo See It Now Dyna Flo Lobsters in Maine for $1.50 (I kid you not) Fun stuff. Charlie http://www.netsync.net/users/charlies/gifs/yummy.gif |
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Title: Re: DAYUM, am I old! Post by Kirk on Aug 3rd, 2006, 4:30am Gas was .20 a gallon at Barry Sturgill's Rocket Gas. |
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Title: Re: DAYUM, am I old! Post by deltadarlin on Aug 3rd, 2006, 8:02am Lucy and Ricky and Rob and Laura slept in twin beds. |
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