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How's ?This For Nostalgia??
All ?the girls had ugly gym uniforms?



It ?took five minutes for the TV to 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?


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 ?it!


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... '??

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?


Teach ?these kids some respect.
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. ?

. .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 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. ?

Send ?this on to someone who can still??remember ?Nancy Drew,?the ?Hardy Boys, ?Laurel ?and Hardy,?Howdy ?Doody,??The ?Peanut?Gallery,?the Lone Ranger,?The Shadow Knows,?Nellie Bell,?Roy and ?Dale,??Trigger ?and Buttermilk.??


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 Table Side 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 lines


Peashooters.

Howdy ?Dowdy.


Hi-Fi's ?& 45 RPM records.


78 ?RPM records!


Green ?Stamps.


Mimeograph ?paper.

The Fort Apache Play Set.?



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'?





Having ?a Weapon in School meant being caught with a ?Slingshot?


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!??

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