How's This For Nostalgia...

All the girls had ugly gym uniforms.

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It took five minutes for the TV to warm up.


Nearly everyone's Mom was at home when the kids got home from school.


Nobody owned a purebred dog.


When a quarter was a decent allowance.


You'd reach into a muddy gutter for a penny.


Your Mom wore nylons that came in two pieces.


All your male teachers wore neckties and female teachers had their hair done every day and wore dresses.



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!


Laundry detergent had free glasses, dishes or towels hidden inside the box.


It was considered a great privilege to be taken out to dinner at a real restaurant with your parents.


They threatened to keep kids back a grade if they failed. . and they did keep them back!


When a 57 Chevy was everyone's dream car....to cruise, peel out, lay rubber or watch submarine races,
and people went steady.



Lying on your back in the grass with your friends and saying things like, 'That cloud looks like a... '

Stuff from the store came without safety caps and hermetic seals because no one had yet tried to poison a perfect stranger.


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?


When being sent to the principal's office was nothing compared to the fate that awaited the student at home.

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.

....as well, summers were filled with bike rides, baseball games, Hula Hoops, bowling, visits to the pool, and eating Kool-Aid powder with sugar.

Didn't that feel good, just to sit back and say, 'Yeah, I remember that'.


I am sharing this with you today because it ends 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 still care.

Send this on to someone who can still remember Nancy Drew, the Hardy Boys,Laurel and Hardy, Howdy Doody, The Peanut Gallery, the Lone Ranger, The Shadow Knows, Nellie Bell , Roy and Dale, Trigger and Buttermilk.



How Many Of These Do You remember?
Candy cigarettes

Wax Coke-shaped bottles with colored sugar water inside.

Soda pop machines that dispensed glass bottles.

Coffee shops with Table Side jukeboxes.

Blackjack, Clove and Teaberry chewing gum.

Home milk delivery in glass bottles with cardboard stoppers.

Telephone numbers with a word prefix...(Raymond 4-601). Party lines.


Peashooters.
Howdy Dowdy.

Hi-Fi's & 45 RPM records.


78 RPM records!


Green Stamps.


Mimeograph paper.


The Fort Apache Play Set.

Do You Remember a Time When...

Decisions were made by going 'eeny-meeny-miney-moe'
Mistakes were corrected by simply exclaiming, 'Do It Over!'


'Race issue' meant arguing about who ran the fastest



Catching fireflies could happily occupy an entire evening





It wasn't odd to have two or three 'Best Friends'.




The worst thing you could catch from the opposite sex was'cooties'..





Having a Weapon in School meant being caught with a Slingshot


Saturday morning cartoons weren't 30-minute commercials for action figures.



'Oly-oly-oxen-free' made perfect sense.


Spinning around, getting dizzy and falling down was cause for giggles.


The Worst Embarrassment was being picked last for a team.


War was a card game.



Baseball cards in the spokes transformed any bike into a motorcycle.


Water balloons were the ultimate weapon.



If you can remember most or all of these,
Then You Have Lived!

Pass this on to anyone who may need a break from their 'Grown-Up' Life.

I Double-Dog-Dare-Ya!


(i i wish i knew how to get the pictures to show in here)

LOL I remember all of those!!!! Some from when I was pretty little. Gosh I am feeling old.
Remember those pea shooters. We had them one year and the next spring there were hundreds of pea plants popping up all over the yard!!!!

My brother was so mad when my parents sold their 57 chevy nomad station wagon, cherry red, (to a surfer) when he was 13

The principal would paddle you! and then your parents would even more!!!
Crying "uncle"
Wow, took me back :lol:

Our gym suits were one piece double knit orange and white pin stripped, sleevless with snaps holding them up on the shoulders. Ugly is to kind a word for that get-up.

57 Chevy is still in my top 5 dream cars.

I have my grandma's set of laundry soap dishes.

I remember wax Coke bottle candy, real glass soda bottles from the quareter machine, the milk man, 45's, and mimeographs (YUCK!).

:)

I still play the "that cloud looks like........." with my grand kids.
It is amazing what they can see.

Oh my gosh. What memories you gave me. Thanks do much. I remember all of them. I am now playing alot of these games with my DGD.

from http://answers.yahoo.com/question/in...3083133AAYPZtN

The exact origin of the phrase is unknown, but etymologists suspect it is a childish corruption of a phrase that would have made more sense in the Hide-and-seek context; such as "all ye, all ye, oxen free!", "all in free", "out’s in free", "all set free", "All ye all ye outs in free", "All ye, all ye, outs are free", or "All the, all the outs in free"; or possibly a corruption of the German "Alle, alle auch sind frei", (literally, "Everyone, everyone also is free").

the only ones i don't remember were the chewing gum and the fort apache toy.


as i remember it, oly-oly-oxen (we said 'ox)-free was used in some games where all the kids had to be found, like hide-n-seek. those kids were 'out' but the 'it' kid had to keep looking until everone was found. while the 'it' kid was looking, one of the hiders could run out of hiding and tag the 'it' kid and yell oly-oly-ox-free. that meant the kids that had been found already were free to hide again, and the 'it' kid had to start over. the kid who tagged the 'it' kid, was taking a chance of being seen before the tag was made. so he had to sneak up from behind.

Oh Boy that takes me back! I remember almost all of them. Sometimes I wish I could have grown up in the fifties, instead of just being born halfway through them. As Bob Hope would say........Thanks for the memories.

I STILL have the 40 cup coffee pot I bought with S&H or Blue Chip Stamps - and it still works! My DH's mom made her 3 boys put the stamps in the books if they stayed home from school sick. That was enough to keep them well.

Oh - and he and his pals used to catch fire flies in a mayonaise jar and release them in the theater at the Saturday matinee. ONE guy would pay to get in and open the side door for the rest of them. I think they had enough money and just liked the thrill of sneaking in.

Thanks for all the memories! :lol:

I remember all but howdy doodie! Olly Olly oxenfree was when we tagged the tree that was the safe place(or Home) in hide and seek! Loved lick-a-maid (koolaid sugar)! Now they sell it with candy sticks, not as much fun! Still pour a pixi stick in my palm and lick it! LOL

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you poor thing. you missed out on princess summer-fall-winter-spring.
the pixie stix make my teeth run screaming out of my mouth.

this is the list that causes nostalgia for me:

The people who are starting college this fall across the nation were born in 1980. Therefore:

The Iranian hostage crisis occurred before they were conceived.

They have no memory of a time before M-TV.

"New Wave" is their PARENTS musical generation.

Cyndi Lauper, Boy George, the Pretenders, the Kinks, the Sex Pistols are all old music they have heard of, if they have heard of it at all.

They have no meaningful recollection of the Reagan era.

They were prepubescent when the Persian Gulf War was waged.

If they have heard the name "Oliver North," it was probably as a losing Congessional candidate, or perhaps in some obscure survey history text's reference, such as might be made to Huey Long or Teapot Dome.

Black Monday 1987 is as significant to them as the Great Depression.

Their world has always included AIDS.

Having not lived through the Disco Scare, they can romanticize the 1970s.

They watched "Star Wars" years ago, when they were kids - on video.

Atari predates them, as do vinyl albums and cassette audiotapes.

The oil crisis is history of which they probably know nothing and why anyone WOULDN'T buy a Suburban is beyond them.

Most of them have probably never seen a real nun, EVEN if they went to Catholic schools.

not all nostalgia is good nostalgia.

my 46-year old daughter recently told me that she can't remember a time in her life that this country wasn't at war somewhere. i guess that includes 'peacekeeping', but the cost is the same.

how sad.

does anyone remember roller skates and roller skate keys?

jumping double dutch?

just hanging around because there was nothing else to do?

street sweeper trucks with those big, round brushes?

walking into a neighbor's house because no one locked their doors except at night?

in h.s. for swimming class, i had to wear a wool bathing suit they gave us from the year of the flood. they had mothholes and when they got wet, they drooped from the weight. very attractive.

We still have a street sweeper, and my high school did not have swimming classes!
I DID jump Double Dutch, and I had skates that clipped on to my shoes and I carried my skate key on a string around my neck! We skated on the side walk and had to watch for rocks and uneven slabs around trees!

i don't suppose you'd believe that i still have my skatekey?



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WOW! I'm not sure I would recognize one anymore! I have moved a few times since I last used mine! :?

I remember them all! and proud of it :wink:

My dad used to light the end of my candy cigarettes, and I would pretend to smoke them. When I would finally eat them, they tasted like toasted marshmallows. (I've never smoked real cigarettes.)

My grandkids love candy cigarettes but they are now called candy sticks (the boxes still look the same), and I make them promise they will never smoke real cigarettes.

yes! yes! if you saw one, it would all come flooding back. every scraped knee!

Thanks for the memories, I can close my eyes and feel like I'm back there now.

Meee tooo We lived in the desert and when the milk was delivered, all the kids would raid the shaved ice from the truck :D Oh those were the good ole days. And what would one give now for that '57 Nomad.

My Mom actually threw away my comic book collection when I went away to college. It was hard to speak to her for a while. If she hadn't done that, she probably could have sold them for more than it cost for tuition!