Remember when?

Frannie Banannie

DO YOU REMEMBER WHEN...?All the girls had ugly gym uniforms? It took five minutes for the TV warm up? Nearly everyone's Mom was at home when the kids got home from school? Nobody owned a purebred dog? When a quarter was a decent allowance?

When it cost a dime and then a quarter to see a double feature, a serial and 6 cartoons?

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? 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. Send this on to someone who can still remember
Nancy Drew, the Hardy Boys, Laurel and Hardy, The Cisco Kid,
Howdy Dowdy and the Peanut Gallery, Hopalong Cassidy,
Pinkie Lee, the Lone Ranger, The Shadow Knows, Zorro,
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"? And remember that the perfect age is somewhere between
old enough to know better and too young to care. 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 ..........for 5 cents!
Coffee shops with tableside jukeboxes
Blackjack, Clove and Teaberry chewing gum
Home milk delivery in glass bottles with cardboard stoppers
Newsreels before the movie
P.F. Fliers Telephone numbers with a word prefix..(Raymond 4-601).
Party linesPeashooters
Dick Tracy
45 & 78 RPM records & albums Green Stamps
Hi-Fi's
American Bandstand?

Metal ice cubes trays with levers
Mimeograph paper
Beanie and Theethil, the thee-therpent

Kookla, Fran & Ollie
Roller-skate keys
Cork pop guns
Drive ins
Studebakers Washtub wringers
The Fuller Brush Man
Reel-To-Reel tape recorders
Tinkertoys Erector Sets
The Fort Apache Play Set
Lincoln Logs
15 cent McDonald hamburgers

Tiny tears dolls

scooters 5 cent packs of baseball cards -
with that awful pink slab of bubble gum running boards
penny candy17 cents a gallon gasoline & gas wars victrolas you had to crank Do you remember a time when...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?
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!!!!!!! Pass this on to anyone who may need a break from
their "grown-up" life . . .I double-dog-dare-ya!

Frannie Banannie

Crying Into Tissue nobody remembers......(sniff, sniff)

FlyingHighNow

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?

"You can trust your car to the man who wears the star. The big, bright Texaco star."

Laundry detergent had free glasses, dishes or towels hidden inside the box?

"Candy striped towels in boxes of Breeze." Dolly Parton

Okay, the cheapest I can recall buying a glass bottled coke for was a nickel and two pennies. In our town, it cost kids a quarter to see a double feature and adults paid 75 cents. Candy bars were a nickel and finding a quarter on the sidewalk was like finding gold.

My roller skates adjusted to fit my Ked's sneakers, or tennis shoes as we called them down south, and I wore a key around my neck on jute. 45 records were like magic. Going to the drive-in movies was good Friday night entertainment for our family. I loved Captain Kangaroo. He was my babysitter in the mornings when mom snuck back to bed.

Frannie Banannie

"You can trust your car to the man who wears the star. The big, bright Texaco star."
"Candy striped towels in boxes of Breeze." Dolly Parton
Okay, the cheapest I can recall buying a glass bottled coke for was a nickel and two pennies. In our town, it cost kids a quarter to see a double feature and adults paid 75 cents. Candy bars were a nickel and finding a quarter on the sidewalk was like finding gold.
My roller skates adjusted to fit my Ked's sneakers, or tennis shoes as we called them down south, and I wore a key around my neck on jute. 45 records were like magic. Going to the drive-in movies was good Friday night entertainment for our family. I loved Captain Kangaroo. He was my babysitter in the mornings when mom snuck back to bed.

You're singin' to the choir, FHN! I used to save some of those towels and glasses. And the 2 cents was the deposit on the glass coke bottles, because they were returnable and recycled. I was paying a dime for the double feature when they went up to a quarter (to my shock!)

I LOVED the drive-ins! They were heaven! My mom used to grill hotdogs with cheese melted in 'em to take with us! I don't believe the mosquitoes were as bad back then as they are now either.

Frannie

Leolaia

I'm a young'un, so little of this is familiar to me, but it helps give me a sense of what it was like to live in the '50s and early '60s.

All your male teachers wore neckties and female teachers had their hair done every day and wore high heels?

Were there also cliques like the Pink Ladies?

restrangled

Do you remember having a "Milk Man" that would deliver fresh milk in glass bottles also fresh eggs?

Do you remember diaper trucks that would deliver fresh and pick up the used before there were disposable diapers?

Do you remember big fins on the back of cars and lots of beautiful chrome?

Double Dutch jump rope, or the game Red Rover, Red Rover let...................come over?

Your mother in curlers all day with a Babooshka covering it all?

Polyester clothing, minis and maxis, black light posters and lights?

Smiley buttons, LP's, singles with a possible great song on the other side, and AM radio stations that played all the latest music?

r.

megsmomma

...And Armegedon was coming in 1975?

LOL... I wish I could go back in time for a while. It is sort of funny though, I do feel fond of certain things you mentioned from my childhood too.

hambeak

Thanks for the memories as Bob Hope would say and yes I do remember the wonderful 50's and the 60's I lived 30 miles north of San Francisco in the 60's and was there in 67 during the summer of love. AW those coke bottles in CA we got 5cents for the big ones and 3 cents for the small ones. If you were diligent you might get a whole dollar from scrounging for those bottles and you could go to the movies have candy. soda, and popcorn and still come home with change.

restrangled

And...how about smoking lounges in grade school for the teachers?!

r.

FlyingHighNow

I LOVED the drive-ins! They were heaven! My mom used to grill hotdogs with cheese melted in 'em to take with us! I don't believe the mosquitoes were as bad back then as they are now either.

We still have a drive-in here. I have to drive about 40 miles to get to it. The big, original screen was taken down last summer because it had deteriorated. There are three small newer screens. I took my grandsons to see a movie at the end of the summer. It rained, but we stayed through the whole storm.

When we were kids, I remember wearing pajamas and bringing along blankets and pillows. My sister was 8 years older than me so she could take me to sit on the "patio" outside the snackbar and watch the movie there. I loved the playground. There were six of us kids and we paid by the car load. Cheap way to entertain six kids. I think it was like 2 bucks a car or so. The Getty drive-in here still has it's original snackbar and playground. You can use a speaker or you can tune in on your car to the FM radio.

I still recall going to the drive-in one night and hearing Herman's Hermits' Mrs. Brown and Sherry by The Four Seasons on the car radio in our VW microbus. Ah the halcyon days of youth.

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