Do You Remember When.....

[Janet]

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 BoysYes 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.