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?

Cokes cost a nickel apiece. You could buy a six-pack for a quarter?

You could go to the movies and get popcorn and a coke for a quarter?

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, burn 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, isn't it nice to just slip back in time and savor the slower pace?

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 what happened on the evening news because there wasn't any evening news only movie newsreels on Saturday night.

Our parents with a belt were a much bigger threat!

But we thrived because their love was greater than the threat.

Can you remember:

Nancy Drew, the Hardy Boys, Laurel and Hardy,

Howdy Doody and the Peanut Gallery, the Lone Ranger, The Shadow Knows, Roy Rogers and Dale Evans, Trigger and Buttermilk?

Summers filled with bike rides, baseball games, roller skating on the sidewalks, bowling and visits to the pool, and eating Kool-Aid powder straight out of the pack?

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

Coffee shops with tableside jukeboxes

Blackjack, Clove and Teaberry chewing gum

Home milk delivery in glass bottles with cardboard stoppers. Cream on the top of the milk.

Snowballs (snowcones) that came in a square dish?

Licorice sticks? Mary Janes? Kits? Bit-o-Honeys?

Newsreels before the movie {our evenings news]

Half hour Serials (cliffhangers) between movies? Like Superman, Sir Galahad?

P.F. Fliers, Keds, and high top tennis shoes that cost $2 a pair

Telephone numbers with a word prefix. University 6- 5521

Party lines with special rings: 2 short rings and you answered.

Howdy Doody

45 RPM records

Green Stamps

Hi-Fi's

Metal ice cubes trays with levers

Mimeograph paper

Beanie and Cecil

Roller-skate keys

Cork popguns Home made chinaball popguns

Rubber guns made with spring clothespins and rubber strips cut from inner tubes. Remember rubber inner tubes? Great raw material for all kinds of projects.

Drive ins

Studebakers

Henry Js

Washtub wringers

The Fuller Brush Man

Reel-To-Reel tape recorders

Tinkertoys Erector Sets

Lincoln Logs

15 cent McDonald hamburgers 5 cent packs of baseball cards - with that awful pink slab of bubble gum

25 cent a gallon gasoline

Making pop corn on the stove top

Do you remember a time when...

Decisions were made by going "eeny-meeny-miney-moe"?

Mistakes were corrected by simply exclaiming, "Do Over!"?

Catching lightning bugs (fireflies) could happily occupy an entire evening?

Catching mosquito hawks (dragonflies) a whole afternoon? And there were green ones, blue ones, orange ones, tiny ones, and great big huge ones?

It wasn't odd to have two or three "Best Friends"?

The worst thing you could catch from the opposite sex was a cold?

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 aspirin?

Water balloons were the ultimate weapon?

If you can remember these fondly, consider yourself fortunate. Share them with your children and let them know that what they experience today will bring them just as fond memories when they are your age.

You were sent to the drugstore to test vacuum tubes for the TV.

When Kool-Aid was the only drink for kids, other than milk and sodas.

When there were two types of sneakers for girls and boys (Keds & PF Flyers), and the only time you wore them at school, was for "gym".

When it took five minutes for the TV to warm up.

When nearly everyone's mom was at home when the kids got there.

When nobody owned a purebred dog.

When you'd reach into a muddy gutter for a penny.

When girls neither dated nor kissed until late high school, if then.

When your mom wore nylons that came in two pieces.

When all of your male teachers wore neckties and female teachers had their hair done, everyday.

When you got your windshield cleaned, oil checked, and gas pumped, without asking,.... for free, every time. And, you didn`t pay for air. And, you got trading stamps to boot!

When laundry detergent had free glasses, dishes or towels hidden inside the box.

When any parent could discipline any kid, or feed him, or use him to carry groceries, and nobody, not even the kid, thought a thing of it.

When it was considered a great privilege to be taken out to dinner at a real restaurant with your parents.

When they threatened to keep kids back a grade if they failed ...and did!

When being sent to the principal's office was nothing compared to the fate that awaited a misbehaving student at home.

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