| All the girls had ugly gym uniforms? And wore tennis shoes not $200 Nike's! |
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| It took three minutes for the TV to warm up? |
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| Nobody owned a purebred dog? |
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| When a quarter was a decent allowance? |
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| You'd reach into a muddy gutter for a penny? |
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| Your Mom wore nylons that came in two pieces? |
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| 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? |
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| Laundry detergent had free glasses, dishes or towels hidden inside the box? |
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| It was considered a great privilege to be taken out to dinner at a real restaurant with your parents? |
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| They threatened to keep kids back a grade if they failed... And they did it! |
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| When a 57 Chevy was everyone's dream car... to cruise, peel out, lay rubber or watch submarine races, and people went steady? |
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| 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? |
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| Lying on your back in the grass with your friends... And saying things like, 'That cloud looks like a...'? |
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| Playing baseball with no adults to help kids with the rules of the game? |
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| Stuff from the store came without safety caps and hermetic seals because no one had yet tried to poison a perfect stranger... |
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| 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. |
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| When being sent to the principal's office was nothing compared to the fate that awaited the student at home? |
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| 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. |
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| And our summers were filled with bike rides, Hula Hoops, and visits to the pool, and eating Kool-Aid powder with sugar. |
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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. |
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| Send this on to someone who can still remember Howdy Doody and The Peanut Gallery, the Lone Ranger, The Shadow Knows, Nellie Bell, Roy and Dale, Trigger and Buttermilk. |
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How Many Of These Do You Remember?
Candy cigarettes... |
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Wax Coke-shaped bottles with colored sugar water inside...
Soda pop machines that dispensed glass bottles...
Coffee shops with Table Side Jukeboxes... |
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| Blackjack, Clove and Teaberry chewing gum... |
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| Home milk delivery in glass bottles with cardboard stoppers... |
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| Newsreels before the movie... |
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| Telephone numbers with a word prefix...(Yukon 2-601). Party lines... |
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| Peashooters... |
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| Hi-If's & 45 RPM records... |
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| 78 RPM records... |
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| Green Stamps... |
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| Mimeograph paper... |
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| The Fort Apache Play Set... |
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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? |
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| Catching The Fireflies Could Happily Occupy An Entire Evening? |
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| It wasn't odd to have two or three 'Best Friends'... |
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| Having a Weapon in School meant being caught with a Slingshot? |
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| Saturday morning cartoons weren't 30-minute commercials for action figures? |
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| 'Oly-oly-oxen-free' made perfect sense? |
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| Spinning around, getting dizzy, and falling down was cause for giggles? |
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| The Worst Embarrassment was being picked last for a team? |
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| War was a card game? |
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| Baseball cards in the spokes transformed any bike into a motorcycle? |
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| Taking drugs meant orange flavored chewable aspirin? |
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| Water balloons were the ultimate weapon? |
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