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Posted: 7/31/2006 3:18:33 AM | Long long time ago......before computer games.....lol....we played...Board games.....pick up sticks...jacks....shoot marbles.....we made stilts ....Play meant going outside...not to the computer desk. We went fishing for fish..( not people ) lol.....played with a jump rope...went sledding without a sled...no helments, knee pads, or elbow pads..when riding a bike. Transister radios were cool. Ahhhhhhh.....those 45's.....good music.....
P.S. I love reading your memories everyone....thank-you. | |
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Posted: 7/31/2006 3:35:32 AM | The good old days
If you were born between 1940 and 1955, this is for you! .... If not, pass it on to someone who was. :)) We were born before television, penicillin, polio shots, frozen foods, Xerox, contact lenses, Frisbees and the PILL. We were born before radar, credit cards, split atoms, laser beams and ball-point pens ... before pantyhose, dishwashers, clothes dryers, electric blankets, air-conditioners, drip-dry clothes -- and before man walked on the moon. We got married first -- and THEN lived together. How quaint can you be??
In our time, closets were for clothes, not for "coming out" of. Bunnies were small rabbits, and rabbits were not Volkswagens. Designer jeans were scheming girls named Jean or Jeannie. And having a meaningful relationship meant getting along with our cousins. We thought fast food was what we ate during lent, and Outer Space was the back of the Riviera Theatre. We were born before househusbands, gay rights, computer dating, dual careers and computer marriages. We were born before day-care centers, group therapy and nursing homes. We never heard of FM radio, tape decks, electric typewriters, artificial hearts, word processors, yogurt, and guys wearing earrings. For us, "time sharing,” meant togetherness -- not computers or condominiums, a "chip" meant a piece of wood, hardware meant hardware, and software wasn't even a word! In 1940, "Made in Japan" meant JUNK and the term "making out" referred to how you did on your exam. Pizzas, McDonalds and instant coffee were unheard of. We hit the scene when there were five and Dime stores where you bought things for 5 and 10 cents. You could buy ice cream cones for a nickel or a dime, and for one nickel you could ride a streetcar, make a phone call, buy a Pepsi, or buy enough stamps to mail one letter and TWO postcards! You could buy a new Chevy Coupe for $600.... but who could afford one?? A pity, too, because gas was only 11 cents a gallon. In our day, Cigarette smoking was fashionable; Grass was mowed; Coke was a cold drink; Pot was something you cooked in; Rock Music was a grandmother's lullaby; and AIDS were helpers in the Principal's office. We were certainly not born before the difference between the sexes was discovered, but we were surely before the sex change -- we made do with what we had. And we were the LAST generation that was so dumb as to think you needed a husband to have a baby.
Hmmmmmmmmmmm…So what happened to those “good old days???” | |
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Posted: 7/31/2006 10:58:50 AM | Gezz now that is going back a bit to the true good old days, days at the later end of your era the 50-54 and 55-57 chevys Icons of the days. Much simpler times.
When i spoke of growing up in the 80's there were no cell phones expect for the rich, or the police. I remember my uncle bringing home one that Rcmp had, thoes old brick types phoens. Like daffy my first computer was a casset type;Mine had a keybord you pluged into a old black and white tv set. I think i stilll have that somewhere. It took a hour to type in a code to make a basic 30 sec show happen on it.
Any one remember the peddle car done up like the knight rider car, where you could push a button and make the red light in front move just like kit? My cousin had one, i wanted one so bad. My first two wheel bike , this was oh about 82. It was green with a bananna seat and sissy bar in back with a bit of a high rise handle bar, man i was a bad a$$ 4 year old. LOL if only my mom did not dress me in strips shirts so much back then!
I am just old enough to own records, cassests, and cds. I remeber when there was time when Beta and vhs where both going for the video marktes. I rember Micheal Jackson black and at the top of the charts. Had to leave a little jab on the end lol | |
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Posted: 7/31/2006 11:31:00 AM | Fuzz was a substance, real fluffy, like lint.
Mooning meant staring listlessly off into space.
Inflation was something to do with a balloon.
A Saturday Night Special was a double dip chocolate soda.
Freeze-dried meant the family laundry had hung all day on the clothesline.
A Big Mac was a truck.
A drug problem was trying to get a prescription filled on Sunday.
Bicycles and chickens came fully assembled.
The quality of music wasn't measured in decibels.
"Is it a boy or girl?" was only asked about newborn babies.
A floppy disk was something to see a chiropractor about.
Marriage problems were solved, not dissolved.
Health foods were whatever your mother said you'd better eat or else.
A man wore a pink shirt only after a laundry foul-up.
It was more important what a girl measured up to, than what she measured out to.
Instant recall was a sign of good intelligence, not bad manufacturing.
Trouble in the street meant potholes.
Movies were rated on how good they were, not who was allowed to see them.
Lights, not people, were turned on and off.
A compact was something girls used to repair their complexions.
A movie did not boom just because of a bust.
Cigarettes were called coffin nails and it was a joke.
A girls unmentionables were also unobservable.
The saltiest thing you got in a movie was popcorn.
People worried about how much it took to buy something instead of how long.
It was the patient that needed insurance, not the doctor.
Campers were people, not trucks.
When high school girls talked about the pill, They were discussing their teachers.
The only energy crisis was kids having too much of it.
The back seat driver had enough room to sit there.
The postman not only rang twice, but also delivered twice.
Jokes that couldn't be told in mixed company weren't.
Paperbacks had more passion on the cover than in the contents.
The only thing kids needed batteries for was reading comic books under the bed-covers.
Charity was a virtue, not a telethon.
People were more intelligent than machines.
It was people who were cooperative instead of apartment houses.
A person saved up for his old age instead of April 30.
The last thing you needed after a day's work was exercise. | |
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Posted: 8/4/2006 4:53:23 PM | I remember when girls wore leg warmers, bell bottoms (my cruel mother made me wear them), 45's, real Metal Tonka trucks (YES!), My sister listening to music of The Monks and Flock of Seagulls. My Dads stationwagon having Wood panelling, Mork and Mindy, my bicycle looking like a motorbike AND....................
The Movie "Cannonball Run" | |
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| You Might Be Older Than Dirt.........IF.........
Posted: 8/5/2006 11:02:13 AM | I remember:Penny loafers, Poodle skirts, "faltsies" when ya didn't have real boobies, gas cost 15¢ a gallon, and the value of a dollar was almost 6 gallons of gas, running with your parking lights on meant you were looking to drag anyone on Main Street, Superman, Mighty Mouse, Popeye, Felix the cat, animated funny cartoons, "Buck Rogers", "Phantom Rangers", and "Lone Ranger" serials on Saturday mornings. 5¢ movie matinee's and giving away dishes to get cha to go to grocery stores and the b&w movies, "Port-a-wall" white walls for your tires, real wood running boards you actually rode on from the bottom of the driveway to the house when yer Dad came home from work, "Curb feelers", Ford-o-matic and Powerglide 2-spd transmissions, "Shoebox" cars,('55-'57 Chevys) Buster Brown shoes and "Plunk yer magic twanger Froggy"(Boiiinnngg) , Dick, Jane, Sally & SPOT, Archie, Veronica & Jughead, Little Black Sambo, "Rat Fink", Fender skirts, Coontails on whip antennas, Bubble skirts on '57 Chevys, Retractable hardtop on '57 Fords, "portholes" on '56 T-birds, DAD was the bread winner and MOM stayed home, Castor Oil, teaspoon of Cod Liver Oil AFTER supper, Double-Bubble gum, "cooties", "Dibs" on yer candy, swimmin in the creek along with the frogs and snakes, Lakes Pipes and Zoomies, Oklahoma "credit card" was a siphon hose for stealin gas, Cheater slicks, prayers in school and the Pledge of Allegiance every morning in school, walking to school in ANY weather, roller skates with steel wheels, "Submarine" races & "Spooning" at Lover's Lane, Spitballs, Pigtails in the Ink wells, Spaceships made out of the inverted picnic table, 2 handed touch football, Sourballs, gumballs, and "Atomic Blaster's" that were red hot tasting, loaf of bread wuz 2¢, pack of gum wuz 1¢, Smith Bros. cough drops, taffy pulls, Popcorn done on a stove or campfire by shakin it in a metal box with a screen on top, sleepin out in the backyard under a sheet hung over the clothesline that your Mom dried the clothes on after washing them in the ringer washer, coal furnaces, "Kix are for kids" commercial, DA hair-do's, button down collars, "Fruit loops" on the back of your shirts, Green pants worn on Thursday meant you were "Queer", "corn silk" cigarettes, two roller skates mounted on a board with a wooden milk crate for a home made scooter, Stickball in the street using a rock as the ball, Cowboys and Indians, Roy Rogers & Dale Evans, "Trigger, Bullet, & Buttermilk, Lassie, Gene Autry & Champion, Johnnie "Mack" Brown, Gabby Hayes, Wild Bill Hickok, "The Green Hornet" & "Only the Shadow Knows" & "Amos and Andy" on the radio, '78 rpm records, 6" reel to reel tape recorders, brush cuts, white bucks, Pink carnations at school dances, "goin' steady" when ya wore his ring around yer neck, "Spare the rod and spoil the child", Blackboard erasers with chalk inserted in them so the teacher got po'ed, black sneaker's for gym class, family meals where everyone ate together at the same table after the prayer, I'll wash and you dry fights with your sisters and/or brothers, hi-test 100 octane gas (Ethel) 20¢ a gallon, 15¢ cheeseburgers, brown paperbag lunches to school, shoveling the driveway for 5¢, 10¢ allowance IF ya did all yer chores, Your father wore a suit and tie to work, and whenever ya went anywhere, real tires swings over the pond, and a ton of other thangs that I really can't remember right now.. CRS has set in lately..  | |
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Posted: 8/13/2006 7:14:21 AM | HMMMMM MY FOR THE MEMORIES OF DAY'S GONE BY IN SOME WAYS IT IS LIKE YESTERDAY TO REFLECT.BUT IT TELLS US WE LIVED BETTER CHILDHOODS THAN SOME. AND WE PLAYED ELSWHERE THAN IN FRONT OF THE TELEVISION ,OUR IMAGINATIONS WERE EXPANSE,AND WE USED OUR MINDS MUCH MORE THAN BEING IN FRONT OF THE COMPUTER AS WE ARE TODAY .
You remember cartoons like "marine boy",The original johnny quest series,frankenstien junior,"the wacky racers",THE FRIENDLY GIANT,"KUCKLA-FRAN AND OLIE",DIALING FOR DOLLARS,BILL KENNEDY AT THE MOVIES,"MUTUAL OF OMAHA'S WILD KINGDOM","the banana split's",early bozo the clown,captain cangaroo&mr green jeans,soupy sales,"the monkees",the guns of will sonnet,or the LASSIE SERIES,"GILLIGAN'S ISLAND", have gun will travel,"the original DR-WHO series,"the outer limits early tv series,"monster week",SUPER MAN,GREEN LANTERN,AND BATMAN, "the saturday night disney movies on channel 7",going to the theater / drive-in to see;WALT DISNEY'S "the shaggy d.a." or "the absent minded proffesor" or "the computer that wore tennishoes"(early CURT RUSSELL FILM ).MUSIC WAS AVAILABLE ON REEL TO REEL,8-TRACK TAPES,45rpm records,331/3rpm LP's(albums as we called them).You wore decent clothes to school not revealing clothes,"especially not clothes that fall off your butt",or jackets with gang colors and the like,or $100.00 items just asking for the less fortunate to steal!.
ALL CHILDREN SHOULD EXPERIENCE WHAT WE ALL HAD MAYBE THEY WOULD NOT TAKE FOR GRANTED WHAT THEY HAVE TODAY AND MAKE FOR BETTER TOMORROW'S TO COME. | |
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Posted: 8/13/2006 7:19:46 AM | WHEN YOU GO INTO GIBRALTER TRADE CENTER TAYLOR;AND YOU FIND A STORE THAT SELL'S CANDY YOU HAD WHEN YOU WERE LITTLE.
LIKE RAZZLES, AND SLOW POKES A CANDY COMPANY IS BRINGING SOME OF THEM BACK TO REALITY . | |
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Posted: 8/14/2006 7:53:31 AM | I miss walking along the road on visits to my Grandmothers and collecting pop bottles to trade in for money to by penny and nickle candy with.
We still have bubblegum cigars and Wax lips here. Candy cigarettes too....I always smoked Lucky stripes :) | |
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Posted: 8/14/2006 9:03:14 AM | 1748) Captain Kangaroo
1749) Wood paneled Stationwagons that sat 12 or 14 comfortabley....lol
1750) Being spanked in elementary school
1751) Floor length fringed vests | |
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Msg: 46 | |
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Joined: 3/22/2006
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| You Might Be Older Than Dirt.........IF.........
Posted: 8/14/2006 2:41:41 PM | | Kaiser was a car, not a roll..Studebaker Silver Hawks , Hudson Super Jets, Henry J's..Nash Ramblers and the tiny car that Nash made in 1949..and best of all Willys Jeeps.. | |
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Posted: 8/14/2006 10:31:04 PM | I think I read them ALL and no one has mentioned ...ta da da
pop tops that really came off....as imortalized in the Jimmy Buffet tune
"blew out my flip flop
steped on a pop top
cut my heal had to cruise on back home"
You are old if you had to explain to some member of your family what the heck he was talking about when he wrote that! | |
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