Do You Remember When.....

[Tiramisu]

I couldn't figure out how to format the list and you've probably seen it before, but it's neat. I remember 56 of the 59 items - can't remember the gum, milk delivery because we were in the country milking our own, and the war card game.

1. All the girls had ugly gym uniforms?
2. It took five minutes for the TV warm up?
3. Nearly everyone's Mom was home when kids got home from school?
4. Nobody owned a purebred dog?
5. When a quarter was a decent allowance?
6. You'd reach into a muddy gutter for a penny?
7. Your Mom wore nylons that came in two pieces?
8. All male teachers wore neckties and female teachers had their hair done every day and wore high heels?
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?
10. Laundry detergent had free glasses, dishes or towels hidden inside the box?
11. It was considered a great privilege to be taken out to dinner at a real restaurant with your parents?
12. They threatened to keep kids back a grade if they failed and they did?
13. When a 57 Chevy was everyone's dream car...to cruise, peel out, lay rubber or watch submarine races, and people went steady?
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?
15. Lying on your back in the grass with your friends and saying things like, “That cloud looks like a...”?
16. Playing baseball with no adults to help kids with the rules of the game?
17. Stuff from the store came without safety caps and hermetic seals because no one had yet tried to poison a perfect stranger?
18. When being sent to the principal's office was nothing compared to the fate that awaited the student at home?
19. Nancy Drew
20. the Hardy Boys
21. Laurel and Hardy
22. Howdy Dowdy and the Peanut Gallery
23. the Lone Ranger
24. The Shadow Knows
25. Nellie Belle
26. Roy and Dale
27. Trigger and Buttermilk
28. Hula hoops
29. Eating Kool-Aid powder with sugar
30. Candy cigarettes
31. Wax Coke-shaped bottles with colored sugar water inside
32. Soda pop machines that dispensed glass bottles
33. Coffee shops with tableside jukeboxes
34. Blackjack, Clove and Teaberry chewing gum
35. Home milk delivery in glass bottles with cardboard stoppers
36. Newsreels before the movie
37. P.F. Fliers
38. Telephone numbers with a word prefix...(Raymond 4-601)
39. Party lines
40. Peashooters.
41. Hi-Fi's & 45 and 78 RPM records
42. Green Stamps
43. Mimeograph paper
44. The Fort Apache Play Set
45. Decisions were made by going 'eeny-meeny-miney-moe'?
46. Mistakes were corrected by simply exclaiming, 'Do Over!'?
47. 'Race issue' meant arguing about who ran the fastest?
48. Catching the fireflies could happily occupy an entire evening?
49. It wasn't odd to have two or three 'Best Friends'?
50. The worst thing you could catch from the opposite sex was 'cooties'?
51. Having a weapon in school meant being caught with a slingshot?
52. Saturday morning cartoons weren't 30-minute commercials for action figures?
53. 'Oly-oly-oxen-free' made perfect sense?
54. Spinning around, getting dizzy, and falling down was cause for giggles?
55. The worst embarrassment was being picked last for a team?
56. War was a card game?
57. Baseball cards in the spokes transformed any bike into a motorcycle?
58. Taking drugs meant orange-flavored chewable aspirin?
59. Water balloons were the ultimate weapon?