Yeah, I remember those days.....we didn't have a dishwasher, so I had to wash and dry the dishes EVERY night. We didn't have microwaves. And wash and wear clothes were not invented and I got to iron EVERYTHING (including dad's boxer shorts!!!!!!).....yeah, the good old days.........UGH!

BTW -- I saw some of those dishes that came in the detergent box at a 2nd hand shop the other day --- they wanted a fortune for them!!!!!!

Ahhhhh the good old days :D:D:D

I remember being amazed at the first color TV I ever saw... the "snow" was multi-colored!!

Wow, I am so enjoying this "walk" we are having down a tree lined memory lane.

Thanks for the memories !!! Lots of good in what you wrote.

You nailed it. This is my life, down to the smallest detail. More than once I have said to my husband that I wish the world was like that now. Thank you for sharing this. ;)

How about Captain Kangaroo? I never left for school until it was over.

I am loving this thread. I could go downtown with my sis and spend the day there and Mom didn't have to worry. We watched out for each other. I rode my bike everywhere. Times were simpler and it seemed safer then. I miss those times. One of the saddest times for me was when I had to tell my lovely outgoing daughter that she couldn't talk to strangers. It felt like I had to teach her to be afraid of people. I never had to do that as a child. Everyone was a friend. Sigh.

Did you ever just "go for a ride"? On Sunday afternoons, my parents would say: let's go for a ride. No destination-just rode out into the country. Stopped to look a cows or horses or sheep. Now gas is expensive, the kids are playing video games, and if you slow your car down to look at something you could get blown off the road by the guy tailgating you (or in my area, they'd just shoot you).

Laurence Welk The Carol Burnett show Red Skelton and The Dean Martin Comedy Hour. Mowing as a family gardening as a family going to the A and W after church. Pot Luck after church on Sundays and playing drop the hankie at Bible School. Red Rover Red Rover and freeze tag. Movies at the drive in and picnis at the park. Playing in the timber with no adults around riding bikes down the gravel roads. Playing house with walls of piled leaves. Climbing trees and swinging to the sky as high as we could. Playing Blindman's bluff and Mother May I. Mayonnaise sandwiches and making chocolate chip cookies with mom. Playing croquet and carrom with my dad. Only time we got pop was when we went to town to get groceries and then there was only coke orange or grape to choose from. Penny candy 5 and Dime stores. All stores were closed on Sunday in deferance to the day. We said the pledge of allegiance before school every day. Teachers were respected and parents were the final authority.