Remember These??

  • Tent dresses were all the rage in the Spring of 1967.  Darla has challenged the ladies to post a picture of yours!  Let's see how many we can get.  (See gallery of pictures under this heading.)
  • All the girls had ugly gym uniforms
  • It took three minutes for the TV to warm up
  • 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
  • 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.
  • Summers filled with bike rides, Hula Hoops, and visits to the pool, and eating Kool-Aid powder with sugar
  • Still remember....
    • Howdy Doody and The Peanut Gallery
    • The Lone Ranger
    • The Shadow knows
    • Roy and Dale, Trigger and Buttermilk 
  • How about....
    • Candy cigarettes and 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) and Party lines
  • Peashooters
  • Hi-Fi's & 45 RPM records & 78 RPM records
  • Green Stamps
  • Mimeograph paper
  • The Fort Apache Play Set
  • Decisions were made by going 'eeny-meeny-miney-moe'
  • Mistakes were corrected by simply exclaiming, 'Do Over
  • Catching The Fireflies Could Happily Occupy An Entire Evening
  • 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
  • Baseball cards in the spokes transformed any bike into a motorcycle