Remember This?
TV in the 60's
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Do you remember...?
When the worst thing you could do at school was smoke in the bathrooms, flunk a test or chew gum.And the banquets were in the cafeteria and we danced to a juke box later, and all the girls wore fluffy pastel gowns and the boys wore suits for the first time and we were allowed to stay out till 12 p.m.
When a '57 Chevy was everyone's dream car. . . to cruise, peel out, lay rubber and watch drag races.And people went steady and girls wore a class ring with an inch of wrapped yarn coated with pastel frost nail polish so it would fit her finger. . . or on a chain around her neck to hide it from her parents!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.And everyone knew about Nancy Drew, The Hardy Boys, Laurel & Hardy, Howdy Doody and The Peanut Gallery, The Lone Ranger, The Shadow Knows, Nellie Belle, Roy and Dale, Trigger and Buttermilk.When everyone was familiar with the sound of a real 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 a misbehaving 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 all survived because their love was greater than the threat.And...with all our progress...don't you wish...just once...you could slip back in time and savor the slower pace...and share it with the children of today...Didn't that feel good, just to go back and say, Yeah, I remember that!
And was it really that long ago?
When a '57 Chevy was everyone's dream car. . . to cruise, peel out, lay rubber and watch drag races.And people went steady and girls wore a class ring with an inch of wrapped yarn coated with pastel frost nail polish so it would fit her finger. . . or on a chain around her neck to hide it from her parents!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.And everyone knew about Nancy Drew, The Hardy Boys, Laurel & Hardy, Howdy Doody and The Peanut Gallery, The Lone Ranger, The Shadow Knows, Nellie Belle, Roy and Dale, Trigger and Buttermilk.When everyone was familiar with the sound of a real 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 a misbehaving 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 all survived because their love was greater than the threat.And...with all our progress...don't you wish...just once...you could slip back in time and savor the slower pace...and share it with the children of today...Didn't that feel good, just to go back and say, Yeah, I remember that!
And was it really that long ago?
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Funny......yet sad...55 years ago....
Comments made in the year 1955!
That's only 55 years ago!
'I'll tell you one thing, if things keep going the way they are, it's going to be impossible to buy a week's groceries for $10.00.
'Have you seen the new cars coming out next year? It won't be long before $1, 000.00 will only buy a used one.
'If cigarettes keep going up in price, I'm going to quit. 20 cents a pack is ridiculous.
'Did you hear the post office is thinking about charging 7 cents just to mail a letter
'If they raise the minimum wage to $1.00, nobody will be able to hire outside help at the store.
'When I first started driving, who would have thought gas would someday cost 25 cents a gallon. Guess we'd be better off leaving the car in the garage.
'I'm afraid to send my kids to the movies any more Ever since they let Clark Gable get by with saying DAMN in GONE WITH THE WIND, it seems every new movie has either HELL or DAMN in it.
'I read the other day where some scientist thinks it's possible to put a man on the moon by the end of the century. They even have some fellows they call astronauts preparing for it down inTexas .
'Did you see where some baseball player just signed a contract for $50,000 a year just to play ball? It wouldn't surprise me if someday they'll be making more than the President.
'I never thought I'd see the day all our kitchen appliances would be electric. They are even making electric typewriters now.
'It's too bad things are so tough nowadays. I see where a few married women are having to work to makeends meet.
'It won't be long before young couples are going to have to hire someone to watch their kids so they can both work.
'I'm afraid the Volkswagen car is going to open the door to a whole lot of foreign business.
'Thank goodness I won't live to see the day when the Government takes half our income in taxes. I sometimes wonder if we are electing the best people to government.
'The drive-in restaurant is convenient in nice weather, but I seriously doubt they will ever catch on.
'There is no sense going on short trips anymore for a weekend, it costs nearly $2.00 a night to stay in a hotel.
'No one can afford to be sick anymore, at $15.00 a day in the hospital, it's too rich for my blood.'
'If they think I'll pay 30 cents for a hair cut, forget it.'
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Test Your Memory
01.**After the Lone Ranger saved the day and rode off into the sunset, the grateful citizens would ask, "Who was that masked man?" Invariably, someone would answer, "I don't know, but he left this behind." What did he leave behind?**________________.**
02.**When the Beatles first came to to the US in early 1964, we all watched them on The ______________ Show.**
03**'Get your kicks on route _________________.**
04.**'The story you are about to see is true. The names have been changed to __________________.'**
05.**'In the jungle, the mighty jungle, ______________.'**
06.**After the Twist, The Mashed Potato, and the Watusi, we 'danced' under a stick that was lowered as low as we could go in a dance called the ____________.'*
07.**Nestle's makes the very best . . . . ______________.'**
08.**Satchmo was America's 'Ambassador of Goodwill.' Our parents shared this great jazz trumpet player with us. His name was _________________.**
09.**What takes a licking and keeps on ticking? _______________.**
10.**Red Skeleton's hobo character was named __________________ and Red always ended his television show by saying, _____________. '**
11.**Some Americans who protested the Vietnam War did so by burning their_____________.**
12.**The cute little car with the engine in the back and the trunk in the front was called the VW. By what other names did it go?___________.**
13.**In 1971, singer Don MacLean sang a song about, 'the day the music died.' This was a tribute to _________________.**
14.**We can remember the first satellite placed into orbit. The Russians did it. It was called ___________________.**
15.**One of the big fads of the late 50's and 60's was a large plastic ring that we twirled around our waist. It was called the ______________.**
ANSWERS:
01.**The Lone Ranger left behind a silver bullet.**
02.**The Ed Sullivan Show**
03.**On Route 66**
04.**To protect the innocent**.**
05.**The Lion Sleeps Tonight**
06..**The limbo**
07.**Chocolate**
08.**Louis Armstrong**
09.**The Timex watch**
10.**Freddy, The Freeloader and 'Good Night and God Bless.'**
11.**Draft cards (Bras were also burned. Not flags, as some have guessed)**
12.**Beetle or Bug**
13.**Buddy Holly**
14.**Sputnik**
15.**Hoola-hoop**
