Bring Back Memories for US Older guys

[Kaptain]

How's This For Nostalgia?

All the girls had ugly gym uniforms? And wore tennis shoes not $200 Nike's!

It took three minutes for the TV to warm up?

Nobody owned a purebred dog?

When a quarter was a decent allowance?

You'd reach into a muddy gutter for a pen

Your Mom wore nylons that came in two piec

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 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...( Yukon 2-601). Party lines...

Peashooters...

Hi-Fi's & 45 RPM records...

78 RPM records...

Green Stamps...

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 on to anyone who may need a break from their 'Grown-Up' Life...

I Double-Dog-Dare-Ya!

[wayne1218]

I'm not old enough for the 57 Chevy stuff but i am for most of the others and they all hit home when i read them. It actually makes me pretty sad to see how simple things were compared to today, and how much fun they were. Younger ones wouldn't understand or think any of it was great but the stuff like never locking doors or the things they did at gas stations ... with a smile. There was nothing better and nothing today compares to most of that. It was all so much less stressful in those days.

I remember little mom & pop stores or drug stores used to have a couple big video games out back and i used to play them all the time when mom and dad shopped. I would get $1 and it would be a half hour of fun .... and the parents never worried about someone abducting me and shit. When we went home, i actually WENT OUTSIDE TO PLAY and i didn't go sit in front of a $500 video game system for 12 hours .... and i was fine with that. Now, not so much!

[ravenmaniac]

Yep Kapt. I remember many of those things. Those were sure the good old days.

[knowlez]

Boy how i wish we could go back to them days

[wayne1218]

Boy how i wish we could go back to them days

I miss the old Herbie stories too!

[Spark]

I'm not old enough for the 57 Chevy stuff but i am for most of the others and they all hit home when i read them. It actually makes me pretty sad to see how simple things were compared to today, and how much fun they were. Younger ones wouldn't understand or think any of it was great but the stuff like never locking doors or the things they did at gas stations ... with a smile. There was nothing better and nothing today compares to most of that. It was all so much less stressful in those days.

I remember little mom & pop stores or drug stores used to have a couple big video games out back and i used to play them all the time when mom and dad shopped. I would get $1 and it would be a half hour of fun .... and the parents never worried about someone abducting me and shit. When we went home, i actually WENT OUTSIDE TO PLAY and i didn't go sit in front of a $500 video game system for 12 hours .... and i was fine with that. Now, not so much!

Spot on dude

[Kaptain]

I not only remember em, I lived em, course I'm almost 70 yrs old.....catching up to PAPI....LMAO.....so much clean innocent fun in those days.....Mom had to come get us from outside to go in an eat supper...........we loved it outside.....when it rained we played a baseball game with dice I made up....kept records, stats of HR's, RBI's, ERA's etc......basicly we entertained ourselves........wqe were all in pretty good trim and fit shape.....I was 6"4" and weighed between 190-195.......we didn't have high class weight rooms, we just never stopped......we ate all the things they say are bad for us, drank water from the garden hose, put our peanuts in our lil coke bottles, etc...

I've raised 6 sons and they constantly tease me when we visit, by mocking me in a humorous way, by opening up a statement with, "I remember when back in the day"....they crack me up with that kind of stuff....

I remember the family gathering around the front porch, in the Bayous, houses were built with porches all around the house, and we all just visited and talked to one another....that is one big part of life today I think is missing badly and our kids are hurting from it.....Parents too busy to help a kid with home work, listen to his/her accomplishments and heartaches at school. hell; just listening to em at all nowadays.....

We never once visualized having a means of staying in touch no matter where we were (cell phones)...we used to regularly call back home and tell Mom we were OK, and could we stay a lil longer....Permission was asked, and usually denied......

We've vastly improved in a ton of technical things, and drasticly lost a lot of the communication aspects with our own children.....

Good to look back sometime and remember those "good old days", and then appreciate what we have today........

[PhilJr]

Don't forget the old TV shows

Leave it to Genie and I dream of Beaver

[Mark Richt]

I can relate to a lot of those and appreciate them. Time never waits on any of us though. I am sure our kids will have the same thoughts, under different circumstances ofcourse?

example... Remember when we used to have a remote control to turn the channels
Or Remember the days when you could not see the person you were talking to on the phone? Or, doesn't this remind you of the days when we had a 6 disc CD changer (ofcourse this is prob. already the case with some of the younger ones)