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From: "Bunny" <>
Subject: [NEWGEN] Remember When . . .
Date: Fri, 7 Nov 2003 23:16:50 -0500
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Let's go back in time...... kick back and remember when........

Remember those teenage years. Ah the music, dances, drive-ins, all the
crushes and the special young love. I'm stuck in the 60's and sometimes
listen to the oldies radio station as I drive to and from work. How about
White Castle hamburgers.

We rode our bikes around the neighborhood with all the other kids, and
played in the fields or woods near our home. We wandered much more freely
in the streets back then than what we would allow our own children to do
today.

It's hard to imagine sometimes how much our world has changed in a very
short time. Gosh, life was simple back then, wasn't it? Simple, maybe, but
definitely a lot of hard work. It was nothing like the Ozzie and Harriet
lifestyle portrayed on television.

My husband didn't have the luxurious growing up as I did as a child. He
didn't have television, his family were northern MI farmers. He grew up in
an age when even recreational activities had a useful component: Fishing and
hunting were very real sources of food for their family. As young boys,
along with his brother, they would wake up, shoot some birds, then walk back
in time for school. Or they'd take a skiff out on the lake hoping to catch
a "mess of fish" for dinner.
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For some cool memories, do you remember .

Those ugly gym uniforms?

Nobody owned a purebred dog?

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?

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?

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.

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 was sent to me and 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?

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
Telephone numbers with a word prefix....(Luzon 4-601).
5 cent packs of baseball cards with that awful pink slab of bubble gum

Candy cigarettes, P.F. Fliers, Telephone party lines, Peashooters, Howdy
Dowdy, 45 RPM records, Green Stamps, Hi-Fi's, Metal ice cubes trays with
levers, Mimeograph paper, Beanie and Cecil, Cork pop guns (my son still
makes some of these), Roller-skate keys, Drive in movies, Studebakers,
Edsels, Washtub wringers, The Fuller Brush Man, Reel-To-Reel tape recorders,
Tinkertoys, The Fort Apache Play Set, Lincoln Logs, Erector Sets, Penny
candy, 15 cent McDonald hamburgers, Jiffy Pop popcorn, 35 cent a gallon
gasoline

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?

If you can remember most or all of these, then you have lived!! !! !!!

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