1. All the girls had ugly gym uniforms?
This was fun to read, the memories came flooding back. Here is picture of the gym uniform I wore in jr. high only it was a sky blue gymsuit2.jpg
2. It took five minutes for the TV warm up?
I remember the repair man putting in new tubes in the back of our TV too.
3. Nearly everyone's Mom was home when kids got home from school?
I know all the Mom's on our street were home
4. Nobody owned a purebred dog?
We did, but didn't mean to..lol We had a Boston Terrier and a Manchester Terrier
5. When a quarter was a decent allowance? I
remember when I only got a dime and when my brother and I asked for a quarter, we actually got it
6. You'd reach into a muddy gutter for a penny?
LOLOL still would
7. Your Mom wore nylons that came in two pieces?
I remember her showing me how to put on a garterbelt and clipping the hosiery to stay up
8. All male teachers wore neckties and female teachers had their hair done every day and wore high heels?
True, but the only teacher I remember not wearing high heals was Mrs. Clark, she wore those big black shoes, I think for support or something
9. 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?
Yes, I remember my parents getting green stamps and another kind at the gas station and we also use to get a yellow stamp called 'Top Value' stamps from some place.
10. Laundry detergent had free glasses, dishes or towels hidden inside the box?
I remember after my sister got married, she thought she was so cool getting all these towels in the detergent box. Mom didn't like the towels so much...lol
11. It was considered a great privilege to be taken out to dinner at a real restaurant with your parents?
We use to go out about once a month to a place called Michigan Townhouse. It was so good and looked forward to it so much.
12. They threatened to keep kids back a grade if they failed and they did?
I remember quite a few kids failing a class
13. When a 57 Chevy was everyone's dream car...to cruise, peel out, lay rubber or watch submarine races, and people went steady?
This one I don't remember having personal experience with
14. 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?
True, ours was laying on the floorboard and once in awhile they would hang on a hook right inside the back door.
15. Lying on your back in the grass with your friends and saying things like, “That cloud looks like a...”?
Yes and I've done it recently too
16. Playing baseball with no adults to help kids with the rules of the game?
We did this all the time...everyone knew the rules and we didn't argue about it
17. Stuff from the store came without safety caps and hermetic seals because no one had yet tried to poison a perfect stranger?
True
18. When being sent to the principal's office was nothing compared to the fate that awaited the student at home?
Big true on this one. We knew if we got a smack at school (which was allowed then) we would get an even bigger smack at home
19. Nancy Drew
Yes books and on the Mickey Mouse Club show
20. the Hardy Boys
Yes books and on the Mickey Mouse Club show
21. Laurel and Hardy
Didn't really watch them all that much that I remember
22. Howdy Dowdy and the Peanut Gallery
Yes...every Saturday
23. the Lone Ranger
Loved The Lone Ranger and Tonto
24. The Shadow Knows
For a kid, sometimes this was scary. If I remember right, it was on the radio first and was tried on TV, but didn't do as well.
25. Nellie Belle
The jeep that Roy and Dale rode in
26. Roy and Dale
Wonder if this is on DVD??? Loved it
27. Trigger and Buttermilk
Roy and Dale's horses
28. Hula hoops
I used to be so good with my big red one, then my nephew used a saw and cut it up
29. Eating Kool-Aid powder with sugar
What a treat, though we were getting the works...lol
30. Candy cigarettes
Those were so good, back then. I use to pretend for about two seconds and then eat it
31. Wax Coke-shaped bottles with colored sugar water inside
Yes, I always got the red and the purple
32. Soda pop machines that dispensed glass bottles
Yes and the bottle would freeze and break too if you left them outside in the winter to get cold faster..lol
33. Coffee shops with tableside jukeboxes
Had these at Woolworth's Dept. Store too. They had a counter to get shakes just like at Hook's Drug Store
34. Blackjack, Clove and Teaberry chewing gum
This I don't remember at all
35. Home milk delivery in glass bottles with cardboard stoppers
yes and then they went to foil. This kind of box sat outside our front step for the delivery man to put the milk, cheese and cottage cheese in.
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36. Newsreels before the movie
Yes, we would go to the free show every Saturday
37. P.F. Fliers
We couldn't afford brand name shoes
38. Telephone numbers with a word prefix...(Raymond 4-601)
Didn't have this when I was a child
39. Party lines
Use to be a cranky old lady on ours, I remember Mom telling us to be nice and hang up gently if she was on
40. Peashooters.
I didn't have one, but my older brother did
41. Hi-Fi's & 45 and 78 RPM records
Still have them
42. Green Stamps
Can't remember for sure where we got them....at the store or gas station
43. Mimeograph paper
I use to pretend I was a secretary when my 6th grade teacher would have me make copies
44. The Fort Apache Play Set
Didn't have one of these
45. Decisions were made by going 'eeny-meeny-miney-moe'?
So many times
46. Mistakes were corrected by simply exclaiming, 'Do Over!'?
At home and at school
47. 'Race issue' meant arguing about who ran the fastest?
True
48. Catching the fireflies could happily occupy an entire evening?
What fun and what memories
49. It wasn't odd to have two or three 'Best Friends'?
True, Judy, Cindy and Sherry were mine
50. The worst thing you could catch from the opposite sex was 'cooties'?
If only that was true now
51. Having a weapon in school meant being caught with a slingshot?
Yes or a peashooter
52. Saturday morning cartoons weren't 30-minute commercials for action figures?
I don't remember a Mighty Mouse or Felix the Cat action figure
53. 'Oly-oly-oxen-free' made perfect sense?
Still does....to me
54. Spinning around, getting dizzy, and falling down was cause for giggles?
We did this all the time, now I would throw up
55. The worst embarrassment was being picked last for a team?
Yes unles it was the red stain when we 'became a woman'...lol
56. War was a card game?
True
57. Baseball cards in the spokes transformed any bike into a motorcycle?
That use to be so cool until the VRRRROOOM motors came out
58. Taking drugs meant orange-flavored chewable aspirin?
I don't think we even heard of drugs
59. Water balloons were the ultimate weapon?
And still were as of this past summer...lol
Sorry so long, but I was just having such a great time and wanted to share.