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Remember When?? Probably not
22WRF
Member Posts: 3,385
Do you remember when?
Stroll with me.... Close your eyes ... and go back ... before the Internet ...
before bombings, aids, herpes before semiautomatics and crack ... before SEGA
or Super Nintendo ... way back!
I'm talking about sitting on the curb, sitting on the stoop...about
hide-and-go-seek; Simon says and red-light-green-light. Lunch boxes with a
thermos ... chocolate milk, going home for lunch, penny candy from the
store, hopscotch, butterscotch, skates with keys, jacks and Cracker Jacks,
hula hoops and sunflower seeds, wax lips and mustaches, Mary Jane's, saddle
shoes and Coke bottles with the names of cities on the bottom.
Remember when it took five minutes for the TV to warm up. When nearly
everyone's Mom was at home when the kids arrived home from school. When nobody
owned a purebred dog. When a quarter was a decent allowance. When you'd reach
into a muddy gutter for a penny. 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 and wore high heels.
Remember running through the sprinkler, circle pins, bobby pins, Mickey Mouse
Club, Rocky and Bullwinkle, Kookla, Fran and Ollie, Spin and Marty...Dick
Clark's American Bandstand ... all in black and white and your Mom made you
turn it off when a storm came. When around the corner seemed far away, and
going downtown seemed like going somewhere. Climbing trees, making forts,
backyard shows, lemonade stands, cops and robbers, cowboys and Indians,
staring at clouds, jumping on the bed, pillow fights, ribbon candy, angel
hair on the Christmas tree, Jackie Gleason, white gloves, walking to the
movie theater, running till you were out of breath, laughing so hard that
your stomach hurt...remember that?
Not stepping on a crack or you'd break your mother's back ... paper-chains at
Christmas, silhouettes of Lincoln and Washington, the smells of school, of
paste and Evening in Paris.
What about the girl who dotted her i's with hearts? (that was before that
stupid smiley face)! The Stroll, popcorn balls and sock hops? Remember
when there were just two types of sneakers for girls and boys - Keds and
PF Flyers, and the only time you wore them at school was for gym. And the
girls had those ugly gym uniforms.
When you got your windshield cleaned, oil checked, and gas pumped, without
asking -- all for free -- every time! And, you didn't pay for air either,
and you got trading stamps to boot!
When laundry detergent had free glasses, dishes or towels hidden inside the
box. When it was considered a great privilege to be taken out to dinner at
a real restaurant with your parents. When the worst thing you could do at
school was flunk a test or chew gum. And the prom was in the gym or the
lunchroom and you danced to a real orchestra. 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 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 so much greater than the threat.
Remember when a '57 Chevy was everyone's dream car -- used to cruise, peel
out, lay rubber, scratch off or watch the submarine races? When people went
steady; and girls wore a class ring with an inch of wrapped Band-Aids,
dental floss, or yarn coated with pastel-frost nail polish so it would fit
their finger.
When no one ever asked where the car keys were because they were always in
the car, in the ignition, and the car and house doors were never locked!
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 needed to enforce the rules of the game.
Remember when 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, that just once you could
slip back in time and savor the slower pace...and share it with the
children of today?
So send this on to someone who can still remember Nancy Drew, The Hardy
Boys, Laurel and Hardy, Howdy Doody and The Peanut Gallery, The Lone
Ranger and Tonto, The Shadow Knows, Nellie Belle, Roy and Dale, Trigger
and Buttermilk... As well as the sound of a real mower on Saturday
morning, and Summers filled with bike rides, baseball games, bowling,
visits to the pool ... and eating Kool- Aid powder with sugar from the
palm of your hand.
There, didn't that feel good? Just to lean back and say: "Yeah...I
remember......."
I Refuse to be a VictimGrumpy old man
Life, Liberty, and Pursuit of All Those that Threaten it
Stroll with me.... Close your eyes ... and go back ... before the Internet ...
before bombings, aids, herpes before semiautomatics and crack ... before SEGA
or Super Nintendo ... way back!
I'm talking about sitting on the curb, sitting on the stoop...about
hide-and-go-seek; Simon says and red-light-green-light. Lunch boxes with a
thermos ... chocolate milk, going home for lunch, penny candy from the
store, hopscotch, butterscotch, skates with keys, jacks and Cracker Jacks,
hula hoops and sunflower seeds, wax lips and mustaches, Mary Jane's, saddle
shoes and Coke bottles with the names of cities on the bottom.
Remember when it took five minutes for the TV to warm up. When nearly
everyone's Mom was at home when the kids arrived home from school. When nobody
owned a purebred dog. When a quarter was a decent allowance. When you'd reach
into a muddy gutter for a penny. 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 and wore high heels.
Remember running through the sprinkler, circle pins, bobby pins, Mickey Mouse
Club, Rocky and Bullwinkle, Kookla, Fran and Ollie, Spin and Marty...Dick
Clark's American Bandstand ... all in black and white and your Mom made you
turn it off when a storm came. When around the corner seemed far away, and
going downtown seemed like going somewhere. Climbing trees, making forts,
backyard shows, lemonade stands, cops and robbers, cowboys and Indians,
staring at clouds, jumping on the bed, pillow fights, ribbon candy, angel
hair on the Christmas tree, Jackie Gleason, white gloves, walking to the
movie theater, running till you were out of breath, laughing so hard that
your stomach hurt...remember that?
Not stepping on a crack or you'd break your mother's back ... paper-chains at
Christmas, silhouettes of Lincoln and Washington, the smells of school, of
paste and Evening in Paris.
What about the girl who dotted her i's with hearts? (that was before that
stupid smiley face)! The Stroll, popcorn balls and sock hops? Remember
when there were just two types of sneakers for girls and boys - Keds and
PF Flyers, and the only time you wore them at school was for gym. And the
girls had those ugly gym uniforms.
When you got your windshield cleaned, oil checked, and gas pumped, without
asking -- all for free -- every time! And, you didn't pay for air either,
and you got trading stamps to boot!
When laundry detergent had free glasses, dishes or towels hidden inside the
box. When it was considered a great privilege to be taken out to dinner at
a real restaurant with your parents. When the worst thing you could do at
school was flunk a test or chew gum. And the prom was in the gym or the
lunchroom and you danced to a real orchestra. 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 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 so much greater than the threat.
Remember when a '57 Chevy was everyone's dream car -- used to cruise, peel
out, lay rubber, scratch off or watch the submarine races? When people went
steady; and girls wore a class ring with an inch of wrapped Band-Aids,
dental floss, or yarn coated with pastel-frost nail polish so it would fit
their finger.
When no one ever asked where the car keys were because they were always in
the car, in the ignition, and the car and house doors were never locked!
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 needed to enforce the rules of the game.
Remember when 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, that just once you could
slip back in time and savor the slower pace...and share it with the
children of today?
So send this on to someone who can still remember Nancy Drew, The Hardy
Boys, Laurel and Hardy, Howdy Doody and The Peanut Gallery, The Lone
Ranger and Tonto, The Shadow Knows, Nellie Belle, Roy and Dale, Trigger
and Buttermilk... As well as the sound of a real mower on Saturday
morning, and Summers filled with bike rides, baseball games, bowling,
visits to the pool ... and eating Kool- Aid powder with sugar from the
palm of your hand.
There, didn't that feel good? Just to lean back and say: "Yeah...I
remember......."
I Refuse to be a VictimGrumpy old man
Life, Liberty, and Pursuit of All Those that Threaten it
Comments
When a man's word was truely his bond.
When Omerta was the most important thing.
...........................
Let them sleep with the fishes.
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"It was like that when I got here".
Edited by - 4wheeler on 08/28/2002 22:29:57
Then he would talk us into doin` it again.
Then he would give us all a trink of cod liver oil,that had been in the shed for a decade,or so....sayin` how it makes you strong.
Remember that stuff?
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"Not as deep as a well, or as wide as a church door, but it is enough."
Boomer
"Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as it is by the obstacles which one has overcome while trying to succeed."NRA Life Member
"Reminisce" is a very good magazine. I enjoy it but I've BTDT.
Them people had a lunchbox and a thermos? Allrightttt!
I remember it all, you guys are just pups. "But good pups". LOL
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AD ASTRA PER ASPERA
To the stars through difficulties
I would like to see the pace slowed down a bit, and simpler...(is that a word?) yes.. but to go back to when I was a kid... Nope... not a chance... I can remember getting gas, having my oil checked etc though as in some parts of Canada its still done... and when I was travelling to the states I did have the luck to fill up at a couple of those gas stations that still do it...
I have come to the conclusion that no matter how old or young you are in years.. when you start remembering your childhood... Damn you feel old...*LOL
Lil' Stinker's Opinion
Black Roses - The show was called "Leave it to Beaver". Now I think they remade it into a Porn Movie.
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If I knew then, what I know now.
1.A near miss is still a miss!
2.Before I got married I spent half my money on women and guns,THE REST I WASTED!
3.Wasn't me!
4.KILL EM' ALL AND LET ALLAH SORT EM' OUT!
Charlie
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A balanced diet is a cookie in each hand
Edited by - He Dog on 08/29/2002 18:39:38
Roy Rogers was in diapers, think Tom Mix an I betcha don't no the name of his horsey. Someone mentioned the Shadow, if U R talkin about the original, what nite was he on. Not much on Buck Rogers, the Green Hornet an Kato did it for me. Music? Rap, as in stiff or bum. Real music, Frank Sinatra with Tommy Dorsey an the Pied Pipers at the Paramount in NYC. Glen Miller before the plane went down If U paid more'n fifty bucks for a set of wheels U came from a wealthy family.
Depression, but somehow we had 3 sqares a day, still don't know how mom did that. Everybody seemed to get along, NO DRUGS unless U went to the drug store, an the family dr. made house calls....but I digress
A good subject tho', should be trotted out more often before these tired old heads forget it all....thas all....
trukr
Jimmy Rodgers....Honeycomb
The Browns...Three Bells
Canadian Sunset, Anne Murray, Hugo Winterhalter, Andy Williams
I have 600+ Oldie country and pop mp3's on this machine
I Refuse to be a VictimGrumpy old man
Life, Liberty, and Pursuit of All Those that Threaten it
A balanced diet is a cookie in each hand
Edited by - He Dog on 08/29/2002 19:04:51
I Refuse to be a VictimGrumpy old man
Life, Liberty, and Pursuit of All Those that Threaten it
Uncle Don, Gracie Allen Murder case, Cyclops who used the deadly poison Copper Thiacide, $.10-.12 movies with two features plus a cartoon, Movietone News, Sports and a serialized thriller like The Green Hornet.
The good old days? Not at all. The rubber band guns made from orange crate ends and cut up red rubber inner tubes shot 1"x1" pieces of linoleum. When someone threw out a linoleum there was warfare in the streets.
"It was like that when I got here".
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