Remember these?

Submitted by Bob Rodgers

To Those of You Born 1930-1979...

Thanks to June Hunter Ekelund for sharing this.

To Those of You Born
1930 - 1979

TO ALL THE KIDS WHO SURVIVED THE
1930's, 40's, 50's, 60's and 70's!!

First, we survived being born to mothers who smoked and/or drank while they were pregnant.

They took aspirin, ate blue cheese dressing, tuna from a can and didn't get tested for diabetes.

Then after that trauma, we were put to sleep on our tummies in baby cribs covered with bright colored lead-base paints.

We had no childproof lids on medicine bottles, locks on doors or cabinets and when we rode our bikes, we had baseball caps not helmets on our heads.

As infants & children, we would ride in cars with no car seats, booster seats, seat belts or air bags.
Riding in the back of a pick up truck on a warm day was always a special treat.
We drank water from the garden hose and not from a bottle.
We shared one soft drink with four friends, from one bottle and no one actually died from this
We ate cupcakes, white bread, real butter and bacon. We drank Kool-aid made with real white sugar. And, we weren't overweight. WHY?

Because we were always outside, playing...that's why!

We would leave home in the morning and play all day, as long as we were back when the streetlights came on.

No one was able to reach us all day. And, we were O.K.

We would spend hours building our go-carts out of scraps and then ride down the hill, only to find out we forgot the brakes. After running into the bushes a few times,we learned to solve the problem.

We did not have Playstations, Nintendo's and X-boxes. There were no video games, no 150 channels on cable, no video movies or DVD's, no surround-sound or CD's, no cell phones, no personal computers, no Internet and no chat rooms. WE HAD FRIENDS and we went outside and found them!

We fell out of trees, got cut, broke bones and teeth and there were no lawsuits from these accidents.

We ate worms and mud pies made from dirt, and the worms did not live in us forever.

We were given BB guns for our 10th birthdays, made up games with sticks and tennis balls and, although we were told it would happen, we did not put out very many eyes.

We rode bikes or walked to a friend's house and knocked on the door or rang the bell, or just walked in and talked to them.

Little League had tryouts and not everyone made the team. Those who didn't had to learn to deal with disappointment. Imagine that!!

The idea of a parent bailing us out if we broke the law was unheard of. They actually sided with the law!

These generations have produced some of the best risk-takers problem solvers and inventors problem solvers and inventors ever.

The past 50 years have been an explosion of innovation and new ideas.

We had freedom, failure, success and responsibility, and we learned how to deal with it all.

If YOU are one of them? CONGRATULATIONS!

You might want to share this with others who have had the luck to grow up as kids, before the lawyers and the government regulated so much of our lives for our own good.

While you are at it, forward it to your kids so they will know how brave and lucky their parents were.

Kind of makes you want to run through the house with scissors, doesn't it ?

Take Me Back to the Sixties

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Take Me Back To The Sixties

Do You Remember These?

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Do You Remember These

Close your eyes and go back...

Thanks to Art Sullivan for sharing this.

Close your eyes and go back...

...Before the Internet or PC or the MAC...
....Before semi-automatics and crack...
....Before Playstation, SEGA, Super Nintendo, even before Atari...
....Before cell phones, CD's, DVD's, voicemail and e-mail....
....Go way back......way.....way.....way back.....

Go back.

I'm talkin' bout hide and seek at dusk
Red light, Green light

Red Rover....Red Rover.....
Playing kickball & dodgeball until the first
...no...second... no...third
street light came on

Ring around the Rosie
London Bridge
Hot potato
Hop Scotch
Jump rope
YOU'RE IT!!

Parents stood on the front porch and yelled (or whistled) for you
to come home - no pagers or cell phones

Take One Giant Step..... May I?
Seeing shapes in the clouds.
Endless summer days and hot summer nights (no A/C) with the windows open.
The sound of crickets.

Running through the sprinkler.
Cereal boxes with that GREAT prize in the bottom.
Cracker jacks with the same thing.
Ice pops with 2 sticks you could break and share with a friend.

…but wait…there's more...

Watchin' Saturday Morning cartoons Tom and Jerry, serial adventures,
Captain Midnight, Cisco Kid, The Lone Ranger, Boston Blackie.
Catchin' lightning bugs in a jar
Christmas morning.

Your first day of school.
Bedtime Prayers and Goodnight Kisses.
Climbing trees.
Swinging as high as you could in those long swings to try and reach the sky.
A million mosquito bites and sticky fingers.

Jumpin' down the steps.
Jumpin' on the bed.
Pillow fights.
Runnin' home from the western movie you just saw 'til you were out of breath.
Laughing so hard that your stomach hurt.

Being tired from PLAYING.

WORK: meant taking out the garbage, cutting the grass, washing the car,
or doing the dishes.

Your first crush.
Your first kiss (I mean the one that you kept your mouth CLOSED and your eyes OPEN)
Rainy days at school and the smell of damp concrete and chalk erasers

Oh, I'm not finished yet....

Kool-Aid was the drink of the summer.
So was a swig from the hose.
Giving your friends a ride on your handlebars of your bike.
Attaching pieces of cardboard to your bike frame to rub against your spokes.
Wearing your new shoes on the first day of school.
Class Field Trips with soggy sandwiches.
When nearly everyone's mom was at home when the kids got there from school.
When a quarter seemed like a fair allowance, and another quarter a MIRACLE
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 your parents took you to the cafeteria and it was a real treat.
When being sent to the principal's office was nothing compared to the fate that awaited you at home.

Basically, we were in fear for our lives but it wasn't because of drive by shootings, drugs, gangs, etc. We simply did not want our parents to get mad at us.

Didn't that feel good? Just to go back and say, "Yeah, I
remember that!" Well, let's keep going!!

Let's go back to the time when...

Decisions were made by going "eeny-meeny-miney-mo"
Mistakes were corrected by simply exclaiming, "do over!"
"Race issues" meant arguing about who ran the fastest.
Catching 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.
Nobody was prettier than Mom.
Scrapes and bruises were kissed by mom and made better.
Getting a foot of snow was a dream come true.
Abilities were discovered because of a "double-dog-dare"
Spinning around, getting dizzy and falling down was cause for giggles.
The worst embarrassment was being picked last for a team.
Water balloons were the ultimate, ultimate weapon.

If you can remember most or all of these, then you have lived during a more pleasant simpler time !

I wonder how many of you that I have sent this to remember all of these things. I know some of you are my vintage.

Those of you who remember will have lived in an era that no one else will ever experience. The era has passed and slowly those of us who lived it are passing also. If you do not remember, then ask your parents, grand parents or great grand parents. We went from am radio to the stars. Your era is here, be part of it. Make it worthwhile for future generations to build on.

Woolworth's Menu From the 1950's.

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Do You Remember When...

Thanks to Mike Sellazzo for sharing this.

Do you remember when...

• 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?
• 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.

Share this with someone who can still remember...

• Nancy Drew, the Hardy Boys, Laurel and Hardy, Howdy Doody and 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 4-6051)
  
• Party lines
• Peashooters
• 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'?
• The worst thing you could catch from the opposite sex was 'cooties'?
• 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!!!!!!!