Remember When?

Sneakers were only made of canvas and came in black or white?

When moms were always home and didn't have to "work"? Their job was "being mom".

Your friend's mother had the authority to spank you?

Jeans were called dungarees?

You knew the words to "Purple People Eater" ?

Toys worked with mind power, not battery power?

You respected your teachers?

Remember when?

     Everybody had one phone, in one color (black), only one phone number and there was one phone company? Remember having a party line? You only had to dial 4 digits?

Remember slumber parties? A bunch of girls sleeping over at a girlfriend's house, staying up all night talking about boys, and doing each other's hair, and listening to their favorite music?

 It snowed more on your TV than outside your house?

On TV you saw more "Please Stand By" than the actual shows?

Do you remember you put on your ears to watch The Mickey Mouse Club?

Do you remember?

Froggie

I Remember Mamma

Beat the Clock

The Honey Mooners    

Flash Gordon

Leave It To Beaver

Father Knows Best

The Ozzie and Harriet Show

How about this question: "What time is it boys and girls?...

It's Howdy Doody Time!!"

The Lone Ranger

Sky King

Rin Tin Tin

Gun Smoke

Lassie

The Patty Duke Show

Superman & Mighty Mouse

The Little Rascals

Does anyone remember the tv show with Wink Dink"? 

The Magic Toy Shop

Shirley Temple's StoryBook

Captain Kangaroo?

 Dobie Gillis?

Sky King?

Love That Bob?

I Married Joan?

Romper Room?

Ding Dong School?

Have Gun Will Travel?

Father Knows Best?

Paladin?

Gunsmoke?

Wagon Train?

Death Valley Days?

Ed Sullivan Show?

Loretta Young Show?

Tales of Wells Fargo?

Annie Oakley?

Queen For A Day?

Broken Arrow?

Cheyenne?

Mr. Ed?

Jim Bowie?

Batt Masterson?

Walt Disney's Swamp Fox and Texas John Slaughter?

Spin and Marty?

The Invaders?

Topper?

The Life of Riley?

Branded?

Fury?

Zorro?

Laurel & Hardy?

   Roy and Dale, Nellie Belle, Trigger and Buttermilk?

  The Thin Man?

 "You Are About To Enter...The Twilight Zone"

"Good Evening Ladies and Gentleman"... Alfred Hitchcock Presents?

 The Millionaire?

 Beanie and Cecil?

 Perry Mason?

 The Ray Milland Show?

(click on the tv for more)

 

 Those were the good ol' days for TV. There were so many great programs back then.    

 

  Remember when?

                          Cars had fins, but they didn't make them seaworthy?

Your two-wheeler was a Schwinn and it only had one speed?

You know why kids rolled up the right leg of their dungarees?

A computer was something you saw in a movie and it took up the whole room?

Every neighborhood had a girl named "Cookie."

Ice cube trays were metal and had levers?

Leather was black and T-shirts were white?

You had to get up to change the channel?

You knew a girl had a Saturday night date if she spent the day in rollers and a kerchief?

We wished we looked like Sandra Dee, surfed and had a boyfriend like Moondoggie?

"Duck and cover" drills were as common as recess? 

In a box of laundry Detergent you would get a towel?

Remember 'Snap Jacks'? (shoes?)

Butch wax?

Penny loafers? (Mercy girls can't forget.) 

Saddle shoes?

Horseshoe taps?

Cars that had continental kits & skirts?

Suicide knob on your steering wheel? (Huh?)

 

Remember the games we played?

Hopscotch?

Kick the can?

Hide-N-Go-Seek?

Stickball?

 Kickball?

Red Light, Green Light?

Statue?

May I?

Simon Says?

Guys did you play "Stretch"?

Jump rope?

Double Dutch Jump Rope?  

   Red Rover?  

 What about the ball game, Hit the Penny...where two people would take turns trying to hit/bounce a pink Spalding ball on a penny?

  Climbing trees!      

Building Go Carts and Forts in the woods? 

 

   Do you remember?

Penny candy?

Turkish taffy?

"B-0-N-O-M-O, BONOMO, 0H, OH, OH, IT'S BONOMO...CANDY!"

Button candy on a sheet? 

Pixie Stix?

 Candy cigarettes?

Wax coke-shaped bottles with colored sugar water inside?

  

   Do you remember when? 

You could go to the gas station to get gas, and they cleaned your windows, pumped your gas, and even gave you S & H Green Stamps and a glass?

The supermarkets all gave you trading stamps of some kind, too?

Taking drugs meant having your Polio injection in school? 

Having a weapon in school meant being caught with a  pea-shooter or  elastic bands stretched on your ruler?

When you collected all the Flintstones glasses from the empty jelly jars?

   Soda machines that dispensed glass bottles? (DING, DING,DING,DING DING!!!!! We ALL remember that!)

 Remember Farfel?

 Farfel sang "N-E-S-T-L-E-S, Nestles's makes the very best...chocolate!!"

 Halloween, like it was.. Not having to worry about how far we went in the neighborhood, or what you got from people, and filling up at least one grocery bag FULL of candy? A paper bag!

    Woolworth's!!! where you could buy anything, cheap! Like PINK lipstick?

Being out collecting beer and soda bottles for 2 cents each?

   Lick-a-maid? It was like sweetened jello powder, came in different colors, flavors, which ALL stained your hands.

Coffee shops with tableside juke boxes? 

Do you remember?

Roller skate keys?

Cork pop guns?

Wash tub wringers?

  The Fuller Brush man? The smell of the Fuller Brush catalogue?

Reel-to-reel tape recorders?

Tinkertoys?

The Erector Set?

The Fort Apache Playset?

Lincoln Logs?

15 cent McDonald hamburgers?

5 cent packs of baseball cards...with that awful pink slab of bubblegum?

35 cent-a-gallon gasoline?

 I WANT TO GO BACK TO THE TIME WHEN:

Decisions were made by going "eeny-meeny-miney-mo"?Mistakes were corrected by simply exclaiming, "do over"?

"Race issue" meant arguing about who ran the fastest?

Money issues were handled by whoever was the banker in "Monopoly"?

Catching the fireflies could happily occupy an entire evening?

It wasn't odd to have two or three "best" friends?

Being old referred to anyone over 20?

The net on a tennis court was the perfect height to play volleyball and rules didn't matter?

The worst thing you could catch from the opposite sex was "cooties"?

It was magic when dad would "remove" his thumb?

Nobody was prettier than Mom?

Scrapes and bruises were kissed and made better?

It was a big deal to finally be tall enough to ride the "big people" rides at the amusement park?

It was a treat to be taken out to dinner in a 'real' restaurant by your parents?

A foot of snow was a dream come true?

Abilities were discovered because of a "double-dog-dare"?

Saturday morning cartoons weren't 30-minute ads 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?

Water balloons were the weapons of mass destruction?

Baseball cards in the spokes transformed any bike into a motorcycle.

Marbles?

Taking drugs meant orange-flavored chewable aspirin.

You made music with a comb and waxpaper?

It took five minutes for the TV to warm up?

Older siblings were the worst tormentors, but, also the fiercest protectors?

Home milk delivery in glass bottles, with Cardboard stoppers?

Newsreels before the movie?

P. F. Flyers? Buster Brown and Tye?

Telephone numbers with a word prefix ... (ATLANTIC-8047)?

Peashooters?

45 RPM Records?

Hi-fi's?

Mimeograph paper?The smell of mimeographed paper?

Blue flash Bulbs?

 

 REMEMBER:

When the worst thing you could do at school was smoke in the bathrooms, flunk a test or chew gum?

  Kids went steady and girls wore a class ring with an inch of yarn wrapped around it so it would fit her finger?

And no one ever asked where the car keys were 'cause they were always in the car, in the ignition, and the doors were never locked? And you got in big trouble if you accidentally locked the doors at home, since no one ever had a key?

Remember lying on your back on 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? Back then, baseball was not a psychological group learning experience-it was a game?

Remember when stuff from the store came without safety caps and hermetic seals 'cause no one had yet tried to poison a perfect stranger?

The sound of a reel mower on Saturday morning, and summers filled with bike rides, playing in cowboy land, baseball games, bowling and visits to the pool...and eating Kool-Aid powder with sugar.

When being sent to the principal's office was nothing compared to the fate that awaited you 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 all survived because their love was greater than the threat.

And... with all our progress...don't you just wish... just once... you could slip back in time and savor the slower pace...?

Didn't that feel good, just to go back and say, Yeah, I remember that! And was it really that long ago?

Yes, those were the days!

 

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3	336	186	207	297	171	135	030	279	183	134	294	110
4	099	094	117	037	240	042	059	300	231	266	039	305
5	033	097	299	124	301	233	287	064	295	166	286	027
6	285	016	296	312	268	153	164	251	021	078	245	198
7	159	025	141	142	029	169	365	263	265	131	072	162
8	116	127	079	267	105	007	106	049	108	045	119	323
9	053	187	278	223	357	352	001	125	313	302	176	114
10	101	046	150	165	146	076	158	359	130	160	063	204
11	144	227	317	178	293	355	174	230	288	084	123	073
12	152	262	024	089	210	051	257	320	314	070	255	019
13	330	013	241	143	353	342	349	058	238	092	272	151
14	071	260	012	202	040	363	156	103	247	115	011	348
15	075	201	157	182	344	276	273	270	291	310	362	087
16	136	334	258	031	175	229	284	329	139	034	197	041
17	054	345	220	264	212	289	341	343	200	290	006	315
18	185	337	319	138	180	214	090	109	333	340	280	208
19	188	331	189	062	155	163	316	083	228	074	252	249
20	211	020	170	118	242	043	120	069	261	196	098	218
21	129	213	246	008	225	113	356	050	068	005	035	181
22	132	271	269	256	199	307	282	250	088	036	253	194
23	048	351	281	292	222	044	172	010	206	339	193	219
24	177	226	203	244	022	236	360	274	237	149	081	002
25	057	325	298	328	026	327	003	364	107	017	023	361
26	140	086	121	137	148	308	047	091	093	184	052	080
27	173	066	254	235	122	055	085	232	338	318	168	239
28	346	234	095	082	009	215	190	248	309	028	324	128
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by Robert Fulghum