yes, and I have been to that one.

I hated those too. My gma's had a bee hive up by the roof and we had to be careful of them. I do like indoor plumbing.

Remember catching fireflies? We loved that or catching tadpoles in the spring. A kid could be outside after dark and not be afraid.

And party lines.......I work a for a cell phone company and kids have their own phones by age 10. Parents wonder when they lost control........

And a spanking was the way kids were punished. Yes you could go over board but we knew our parents ment what they said. We weren't afraid to go to school because we knew our parents would know what we did before we got home and would be waiting for us.

I could go on and on.

Wow...I remember everything mentioned here! I guess my grandkids are right...I'm old!
The only thing I can add that I haven't seen mentioned are phones with a dial & phones without a dial. We had to push the little lever up and down a couple times to get the operators attention then told her which number (only 3 digits!) that we wanted. Just like living in Mayberry with Barney and Opie.
My friends parents (almost 90...) still have a rotary phone on their dining room wall. Their great grandkids don't know how to use it. lol.

I also miss those drive in movies. Makes me smile to think about them....

My mother, aside from all the other cooking that she did on Thanksgiving day, made about five different pies from scratch, including the crust.

i remember black & white tv, but not the plastic film! WOW

Makes me smile to remember what we did at them two :oops:

78 rpm records....

At night when the station was going off they always played that poem "Oh, I have slipped the surly bonds of earth,...etc.. May not have got the words right, but hey it's been a long time...

I only remember 45s and 33 albums :thumbup: Oh and weren't we cool with 8 tracks :wink:

=======so called "progess" is one giant step backward=========

We have a tiny one here in Florida, too.

Keeping the doors open and the windows open in the summer for a breeze

Never locking your car

Being able to trust the clergy, scout leaders, and the elderly

Trust

Sparklers, fireworks (we still have them here in our front yard) on the 4th

Kresge's - eating their WONDERFUL hot dogs and a frosted mug of root beer

I remember, a quarter would let me ride the bus to town,movie and popcorn,ride the bus back home.OOOOh.Oh and a penny back to Dad,I always had to give him some change.lol Jolo

I also remember when a 12oz.bottle of Pepsi was a nickel.Jolo

For those of you looking for memories that are in my age group.....remembering 50's/60's/70's Music Era.......I lost my favorite oldies station last week to talk radio...then I worked a shop hop at my local quilt shop and they had a great oldies station playing on their computer.....it is great! I log in to it then open up my browser to come here and other places......get to listen to the energizing music. cruisinoldiesradio.com
Enjoy.
Diana in Tx

I don't remember the film on the TV but this made me think of the 60's when Mom and Dad decided to go "modern" and bought a SILVER Christmas tree! That wasn't bad enough. They bought a color wheel to go with it so they didn't have to put on any lights. My sister and I complained that it just wasn't Christmas without the smell of the tree. Not to worry. The color wheel got stuck when a package shifted and the light bulb melted the plastic. We had plenty to smell that Christmas.

I actually don't like that last bit about the schools... I mean I do agree with what you are saying about had to learn thing in order to be passed but the second part to that is kind of hurtful... If they didn't do that "you did your best thing" I'd probably still be in 6th grade... (math is a horrid subject) And that has nothing to do with the killings... The killings are done by people who are mentally ill... (sorry I don't mean to offend I'm just stating how I feel... and you are entitled to your own opinion). And trust me, kids are not learning things they need to know... Like with history, yeah it's nice to know what happened way way way in the past but they need to learn about the stuff that has happened in the last 110 years... And most schools barely touch on it... Or you get a kid like me who can do the worksheets, that require you to use a book, with out the use of a book... Or in English and you get a Vocabulary book you had in 7th Grade (I went to a Catholic Elementary School for 2 years)... It's not the teachers though, it's the school districts hierarchy of idiots that don't know what they are doing and think that their way is best and that the kids are learning... The high School I attended was almost shut down three different times this last decade alone due to test scores... and thats another problem those standardized tests are a joke... Especially when you have students who are not test takers... I'm one of those... regular tests that you CAN study for I'm good with (unless it's math... but I can pass that with a low c or d... I'm going to need a tutor in college) but the standardized tests not so much... I should have received a 30-36 on my ACT but I received a 19, because it was timed and what killed me was the reading and math... (I'm a slow reader, I like to absorb what I read so that I can remember it later... and the math is for the rational reasoning that it is Russian) My school didn't do placement testing either, so when a student they had put in Honors English decided to drop the class for the easier one, they sat there scratching their heads, or they put a poor math student in a regular fast paced math class (By day three I was crying due to not understanding the material, my teacher asked my counselor to put me in a different class). They should have an different option for PE, like lifetime sports, Bowling, Dancing, Golf, Swimming... things like that some schools do... ours didn't ... then those of us who are too fat to run or play some of the sports could actually pass PE. The school system sucks! And I'm sorry, I didn't mean to offend you! I was just expressing my feelings... not that anyone gives a care anyways... lol (Sorry I really am I just needed to voice my opinions. Don't pelt me with sewing things please!)

I remember when my Grandma would demand silence during Jeopardy.

Wow...I love that station!
Thanks for posting the link. I don't have any good oldies stations where I live. We must be around the same age...?? 50's and early 60's were the best music ever!

Marsye - we still have a couple of drive-ins in Maine!

We had to wear ugly uniforms in gym! Yuck.

We had an ugly one piece yellow gym uniform we had to wear. Not a pretty yellow at all!!

I still have all my 45's and 33 albums. My husband bought me a replica turntable for Christmas a few years ago, and now I listen to all my old music while I sew. Memories..... :)

My DH collects these and he has Victor records and an 8 track player lots of 45s and Lps!! Remember Wolfman Jack on the radio?

For all of you oldies like me - do you remember being quaranteened (sp) at home because of the Polio scare??

We were always outside. The neibor girls and I made tents out of old sheets over the clothes line and played in them all summer. Inside was for meals, bed and punishmnet.

Sigh - I wish it were still that way. Life seemed so much simpler than or maybe it was just because I was a child and didn't have the responsibilities that I have now.

We had such UGLY gym uniforms. The smallest size was a ten and I wore a 3 so I had to alter it in the Home Ec room durring study hall. I hated that uniform!!!!!

Well, now I'm having flashbacks!! I remember grade 1, we all had to line up before class and show our hands, fingernails and our fresh hankie (with our names in the corner). Woe betide any small person with grubby mitts or minus the hankie.

High school had the dreaded maroon coloured gym dress (not too short, we had to do the get on the knees and measure thing) They also had the matching bloomers, fetching numbers with vast amounts of fabric and thick elastic waist and legs.

How about when you bought gas or groceries you got a free plate, gravy boat or something useful!
When you saved green stamps to get something 'special'!
When you & all your neighbors hung out on the porch while the kids played in the streets after dinner!
When you weren't afraid to let your 8 yr old kid walk to the corner store to buy penny candy!

I may have only been a kid, but I remember!

Dish towels and glasses came free is laundry soap.

We had the old wooden crank phone that hung on the wall. People that listened in on others' conversations were called rubberneckers.
We didn't have running water for drinking so we had to carry it in a pail from the pump and we dipped it out of the pail with a dipper. It was the best tasting, coldest water ever.
I wanted to go to the country school 1 1/2 miles from our farm but we were half mile across the cutoff line so we had to go to school in town. It was a small school though, 2 grades in one room and I remember there only being 9 kids in our class so we got alot of individual help. Not like today where there can be 30+ kids in a classroom. It's amazing kids can learn anything in today's school systems.

I'm homesick for our childhoods....we must mostly be in the same age neighborhood....similar memories. I think I remember all of that except for the colored film over the TV..too funny. Didn't have that one.

Do you all think that sense of peace and contentment will ever return? My grandsons are so tuned in to their video game devices that they don't notice us when we visit them..so sad.

I taught school for close to 20 years, 7th-10th. Man, what a shock to be in schools today after being raised in a strict school environment like you mentioned above...no respect for anybody. So sad. So hard to teach kids who don't act like they want to learn. Sad that the young lady above had such a bad experience in school. No solution in sight, either. Society has to get a grip on respect for authority, parental responsibility, etc. Young people might laugh at our simple lives from the past, but we were blessed to have lived them. Think I'll go sit on the front porch "a spell." LOL

I remember colored plastic to put over the TV, but wasn't that for a special program? I remember after school watching a program that you put colored plastic on the TV....

I remember wringer washing machine, having to empty it bucket by bucket, THEN hanging the clothes out to dry no matter what the weather

I remember walking at least a mile to school, up and down hills, on a snowy, icy, day and being sent home because I forgot to put my skirt on over my pants (we were allowed to wear pants to school but had to take them off once we got to school).

I remember being gone for HOURS upon HOURS with my friends playing in the woods, the creeks, the "sand pit"...and no one ever had to worry about whether we were safe or not

and I remember everything else that has been mentioned!!! Oh my gosh I feel old now!

:D

Deb G's memories brought back memories. Everyone drank from the same dipper and never heard of anyone getting sick from doing so. I'm from Mn. too and maybe it's a Mn. thing. The wringer washer and 2 rinse tubs and my mother would use the leftover water to wash the floor.

I remember playing out side all the time as a kid, which changed once I entered high school. I told my mom that I'm going to make it mandatory that my kids come home they can go out and play till dinner, then they eat, do homework, take a bath, and then go to bed. I'm going to try and get them into either sports or music. I'd love to have a boy who would like to be in little league!

I have received so many emails in the past that remembered "how it was" - but you ladies and maybe men - have brought up even more things that make my mind wander in such a good way!
Yes, we wore dresses - we pulled up our socks so they would touch the bottom of our dress hem so no skin was revealed BOY HAVE TIMES CHANGED!!
Before we got a tv we would gather in the "front room" and watch the radio! When we FINALLY got a tv the cabinet was soooo big and the screen was so small, but we felt sooo RICH! There were just a few programs on for maybe 2 or 3 hours a day - then there was snow!
Later - after lunch - my mother would lay on the couch with me and we would listen to her "stories" on the radio - like "The Legend Of Hilltop House" among others.

I'm a high school bus driver for Labette County High School here in Kansas. You wouldn't believe the topics the kids discuss on my bus, the comments they make, and they don't care who they make them in front of. So many of the kids today have no parenting. You can sure tell the difference between the kids whose parents are really involved in their lives and the kids who really don't have anyone who shows interest in them. It's to bad because a lot of kids are falling through the cracks. I take an interest in every child on my bus and try to encourage them
to make wise choices. For some of the kids, Having their seats warmed up a little would help cure a lot of the bad behavior, if you know what I mean. My mother told me that if I got a spanking at school, I was getting another one when I got home. Believe me, I never got spanked at school. Today, if the school tries to discipline a child the parent is up in the principals face!!

Do you ever wonder how "we" have reached this point?? It is because of the PARENTS! - Several years ago, there was a KINDERGARTEN little boy who had his hair just passed his shirt collar. The school had dress rules, and no boy could have long hair like that. He was sent home and was not allowed to come back to school until his hair conformed. His parents SUED the school administration saying that he could NOT be denied an education because of the way he dressed or wore his hair. The school lost, and it has never been the same since!

They call this making progress - sometimes "progress" is NOT a good thing.

My mother almost punched my guidance counselor for saying that I would never get into college and never be a teacher... just because I did not get good grades. I was a lazy student... but that was due to being bored and not being challenged... except for math, where I did the work... teachers didn't understand how I passed the tests with great grades and didn't do the work...

In my history class I was the only one to pass the Constitution Test the first time they took it... They had me in a class room fool of kids who were on drugs and who knows what else... some of them weren't but they were the ones who were in Special Education...

I hate how schools spend more money on their sports teams than on the music, art, band, or drama department... Also, why they don't get updated books or anything. My drivers ed book was published in 1990.

My school paid for a million dollar football field and a 3rd gym that they did not need. They took out the swimming pool since it "cost to much" and put in the 3rd gym. That school needs more classrooms... They have teachers that have to go from room to room each period... We had classrooms with 35 students and 26 desks... Even the lunch room was bad.. I remember standing at a garbage can for the first month of school cause I didn't have a place to sit... At least I got to know the security guard! lol

Our concert choir was huge, When I started freshman year, we had maybe 35 members... by the time I got to Junior year, we had a 96 member Concert Choir, I was a part of both the Concert Choir and the Honors Swing Choir (which sat at 15 members at all times and was hard to get into) Plus they added on a pre concert choir class due to the fact that the choir was so huge. so there was an extra 35 members. More kids liked choir than they did sports. Our teams were horrible never won a thing... no big awards or anything... They tried to fail my sister since she missed so much school, but her absenses were medically excused (she suffers from severe migrains...) Mom pulled her out due to the doctor telling her to try that, which has helped, she is now home schooled... I was pulled out of school when I was a junior and was still considered a freshman by the school, I was going to be 18 (i repeated 8th grade due to transferring problems) and the fact that we could not afford for me to go to a public school that charged $500 a year... so I dropped and took my GED test last year at 21, I studied on my own for three years. I passed the first time taking it.

That is basically my remember when of my teen years... it was a great time for me! Except for when I went to California for a month... that was fun!