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| Author: | Fulltimer [ Fri Dec 12, 2008 12:43 pm ] |
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Most of you won't remember these. But the "old farts" like me do! Terry How's This For Nostalgia? All the girls had ugly gym uniforms? It took five minutes for the TV to warm up? Nearly every-one'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 it! When a 57 Chevy was every-one'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 principals 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.. . .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 Send this on to someone who can still remember Nancy Drew, the Hardy Boys, Laurel, 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..(Raymond 4-6011). Party lines. Peashooters. Howdy Dowdy. 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'? The worst thing you could catch from the opposite sex was cooties'? 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!!!!!!! and Hardy And making a car turn involved sticking your hand and arm out the drivers side window!!! Pass this on to anyone who may need a break from their 'Grown-Up' Life . . I Double-Dog-Dare-Ya! |
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| Author: | KJ Taz [ Fri Dec 12, 2008 12:51 pm ] |
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I remember almost all of them................................ |
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| Author: | JJsTJ [ Fri Dec 12, 2008 2:05 pm ] |
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I remember too many of them and not even 40 yrs old yet. Good times. |
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| Author: | LoganSix [ Fri Dec 12, 2008 3:49 pm ] |
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Quote: Wax Coke-shaped bottles with colored sugar water inside.
I have some in my fridge right now. There is a place in the NC mountains that still sell those and candied cigarettes. |
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| Author: | Xodius [ Fri Dec 12, 2008 4:22 pm ] |
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Yeap I remember about 95% of those and love the memories and often wish I was back then. As for the candy cigs I might have to send you some money for a pack. My wife used to get yelled at by her dad when she had them and to have her eat one in front of him would be priceless 
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| Author: | bugnout [ Fri Dec 12, 2008 4:40 pm ] |
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we knew every kid within 5 years of our age and within 5 blocks of our house. Time to go home was when the street lights came on. my friends parents were as likely to correct/punish/discipline me as my own parents, and if they did my parents were 100% behind them. There were only three TV channels and nothing good on until Saturday morning. We walked or rode our bikes everywhere, the baseball diamonds and pool were 3 miles away, the local cow pasture 9 hole golf course was 5 miles. We spent our money on baseball cards and pop. one of the worst punishments was being restricted to the backyard. We got dirty
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| Author: | Burchie [ Fri Dec 12, 2008 7:13 pm ] |
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bugnout wrote: We got dirty
Yes we did. And you learned not to do things by getting hurt the 1st time you did it. |
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| Author: | Tokyojoe [ Fri Dec 12, 2008 10:56 pm ] |
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When you could leave your back door open with just the screen door there (not locked) Cartoons were all on Saturday morning (somewhat mentioned earlier) You were in no hurry while dialing the rotary dial phone Summer days included leaving the house at 9am and not returning until 9pm. (Playing baseball all day, hanging out with friends) Being outside the whole time. The most wanted toys for a boy were a Red Ryder BB Gun (though my dad never got me one), Electric Football (the guys buzzing around a steel football field), HO train set, or slot cars. Baseball cards had bubblegum powder on them and there was only Topps. Beverage cans had the pull off tab and you would fling the round part using the tear-drop shapped part GI Joe and Johnny West were BIG (in size)! Pedal tractors and cars were made of cast-iron. People actually wrote letters and mailed them. You could turn out the lights and listen to scary stories on the radio and be scared The SS Kresge's stores were around before K-Mart (same guy started both) Halloween night didn't include finding razors and needles in your candy or ever talked about on the late night news. The Beatles were happy together and Keith Richards of the Rolling Stones only looked half dead. You typed your school papers on a typewriter. Your parents could spank you and teach you a lesson when you talked back to them (blame the hippie peace loving freaks that became Psychologists for the problems now) Home cooking (kinda mentioned earlier with mom being home) School yards and parks had swings, slides, monkey bars, teeter totters, and merry go rounds Teachers could paddle you (see above regarding the peace loving psychologists) Your town had a downtown and it was the happening place |
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| Author: | rangerd77 [ Sat Dec 13, 2008 12:10 am ] |
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LoganSix wrote: Quote: Wax Coke-shaped bottles with colored sugar water inside. I have some in my fridge right now. There is a place in the NC mountains that still sell those and candied cigarettes. some people in NC are still living out these things  
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| Author: | Jeep4me99 [ Sat Dec 13, 2008 5:13 pm ] |
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Hey Terry, remember when that T-Rex was gonna eat you, but then a brontasaurus came and kicked it square in its dinosaur nuts!!!! Saved your butt!
Remember when dirt was invented. Man you were STOKED!!!!
Those were the good ole' days
hahahhahaha...gotta get my shots in on Terry when I can. |
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| Author: | Fulltimer [ Sat Dec 13, 2008 6:49 pm ] |
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Jeep4me99 wrote: Hey Terry,
remember when that T-Rex was gonna eat you, but then a brontasaurus came and kicked it square in its dinosaur nuts!!!! Saved your butt! Remember when dirt was invented. Man you were STOKED!!!! Those were the good ole' days hahahhahaha...gotta get my shots in on Terry when I can. Get you butt down here boy! I wanna have a talk to ya! Terry |
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| Author: | Jeep4me99 [ Sat Dec 13, 2008 7:47 pm ] |
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Fulltimer wrote: Jeep4me99 wrote: Hey Terry, remember when that T-Rex was gonna eat you, but then a brontasaurus came and kicked it square in its dinosaur nuts!!!! Saved your butt! Remember when dirt was invented. Man you were STOKED!!!! Those were the good ole' days hahahhahaha...gotta get my shots in on Terry when I can. Get you butt down here boy! I wanna have a talk to ya! Terry
There is a very tiny chance I may be making my way down to Orlando in late January for the superbowl of motorsports. And you bet that trip would include stopping by to see you!!!! I'm scared you're KJ is taller than mine now though. |
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| Author: | tjkj2002 [ Sun Dec 14, 2008 12:18 am ] |
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Up till about 3 years ago my Aunt that lives in Kansas still had party lines,drove me nuts everytime I visited since the phone would ring all the time and they would be "nope not our ring". |
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| Author: | Fulltimer [ Sun Dec 14, 2008 12:54 am ] |
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I remember the party lines. We were only allowed to be on the phone for 5 min. at a time. Then cut off. If you got caught swearing over the phone your line was disconnected. Times have changed haven't they. Terry |
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| Author: | Guest [ Sun Dec 14, 2008 3:36 am ] |
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I remember: Getting paddled in school the candy cigarettes... Getting in trouble for drawing a dog pooping, and showing it to the girl seated next to me (see: Paddled) the Challenger blowing up on my birthday Leaving a green crayon in the back seat of my mom's new Escort...BLACK Escort...with a BLACK interior...in the summer... Monster trucks actually being built up trucks, and not tube-chassis monstrosities! drooling over my neighbor's new 4-headlight Mustang GT with T-tops it costing $.25 to make a payphone call My dad being too much of a cheapskate to get A/C in his new Dodge pickup...and a manual transmission and bench seat were commonplace Seeing CJs too new to have any rust! Calling the YJ a Yuppie Jeep and snubbing their owners...all because they had square headlights, and their leaves were too far apart (and now I own a KJ...karma? LOL) Mistakenly believing carburetors are better The thing is...it's progress. Things happen. If ya don't like it, build a wayback machine to prevent your generation from doing this stuff, Mr. Peabody! |
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| Author: | CrossBones [ Sun Dec 14, 2008 9:25 am ] |
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Let's not forget the public education system of the early 60's either. You remember - when they instructed you to get under the desk when you saw the big bright white flash. Yes siree, now that was one fine education system! okay, okay, chill out - times were better back then....... well except for Vietnam... (but we'll pretend that didn't happen) |
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