lmfao...Beanie and Cecil rocked!!! Thanks for this! made me giggle :) Hmmm im sure a page idea is hidden in that nostalgia trp somewhere!!
Tracy
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?
>
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> 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.
>
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>
> 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
>
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>
> 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?
>
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>
> If you can remember most or all of these, then you have lived!!!!!!! > >