How's This For
Nostalgia?
All the girls had ugly gym uniforms? And wore tennis shoes not $200
Nike's!
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?
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.
And our summers were filled with bike 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 link on to someone who can still remember Howdy Doody and The Peanut Gallery, the Lone Ranger, The Shadow Knows, Nellie Bell , Roy and Dale, Trigger and Buttermilk.
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...( Frontier 2-1280). Party
lines...
Peashooters...
Hi-Fi's & 45 RPM records...
78 RPM records...
Green Stamps...
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Mimeograph paper...
The Fort Apache Play 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?
Catching The Fireflies Could Happily Occupy An Entire Evening?
It wasn't odd to have two or three 'Best
Friends'...
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?
If you can remember
most or all of these, Then You Have Lived!!!!!!!
Pass this link on to anyone who may need a break from their 'Grown-Up'
Life...
I Double-Dog-Dare-Ya!
Smile every day: you're only as old as you feel!