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For Those Born 1930 - 1979 Remember The Good Old Days ?
by AWAKE&WATCHING 33 Replies latest watchtower beliefs
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joelbear69
great thread born 1958. I remember: looking forward to Saturday cartoons (when I somehow figured out how to avoid service) playing outside til dark. throwing clorox bottles up to watch the bats fly at them eating blackberries, plums and grapes in the woods. chewing on sourweed, against my mother's wishes building go carts, anything that would roll down a hill fast kickball, playing HORSE and Around the World basketball, tag, hide and go seek after dark, dirt bomb wars, dirt piles we used for actually playing with cars and trucks (do kids know what dirt is anymore, is there any such thing as a dirt pile anymore) exploring any area forbidden by my mother riding my bike everywhere i could get to in my little town pick up football
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Prometheus2
Gawd! How I miss polio!
And remember when spousal abuse or beating your kids was nobody's business but Dad's.
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AlphaOmega
Excellent - so many memory joggers there !
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Gopher
A&W,
I think you ought to heed the wise words of Solomon. Please turn with me to Ecclesiastes 7:10:
Say not thou, What is the cause that the former days were better than these? for thou dost not inquire wisely concerning this.
Just funnin' ya !!
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greendawn
Those were less bureaucratic days but then we shouldn't romanticise things too much some of the restrictions imposed are reasonable eg we and our acquaintances may never have suffered an accident while not using car belts but statistically many other children did hence the safety belt law.
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Gopher
"OLD DAYS" by Chicago (record released in 1974)
Old days
Good times I remember
Fun days
Filled with simple pleasures
Drive-in movies
Comic books and blue jeans
Howdy Doody
Baseball cards and birthdays
Take me back
To a world gone away
Memories
Seem like yesterday
Old days
Good times I remember
Gold days
Days I'll always treasure
Funny faces
Full of love and laughter
Funny places
Summer nights and streetcars
Take me back
To a world gone away
Boyhood memories
Seem like yesterday
Old days - in my mind and in my heart to stay
Old days - darkened dreams of good times gone away
Old days - days of love and feeling fancy free
Old days - days of magic still so close to me
Old days - in my mind and in my heart to stay
Old days - darkened dreams of good times gone away
Old days - days of love and feeling fancy free
Old days - days of magic still so close to me -
Gopher
These ARE the good old days.
ANTICIPATION - Carly Simon
We can never know about the days to come
But we think about them anyway
And I wonder if I'm really with you now
Or just chasing after some finer day.
Anticipation, Anticipation
Is making me late
Is keeping me waiting
And I tell you how easy it is to be with you
And how right your arms feel around me.
Bit I rehearsed those words just late last night
When I was thinking about how right tonight might be.
Anticipation, Anticipation
Is making me late
Is keeping me waiting
And tomorrow we might not be together
I'm no prophet, I don't know natures way
So I'll try to see into your eyes right now
And stay right here, 'cause these are the good old days. -
Prometheus2
... and remember those cute little water fountains that had signs that said: "For Whites Only"
... and "people of color" had to ride in the back of the bus!
... and don't forget the Cold War and the McCarthy Hearings and World War II.
... the Vietnam War and Korea ...
... and how long has it been since there's been a public lynching?
... Oh! I'm getting so nostalgic ... somebody hand me a Kleenex!
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RisingEagle
Prometheus2:
So, you jump into a thread about things people experienced as kids by dredging up history that should have been handled better by adults? Nicely played.
You're a troll. Go hang out on an OBVES thread.
Eagle