Now, when I was a kid...

[dasher]

How's This For Nostalgia?

All the girls had ugly gym uniforms?


It took three minutes for the TV to warm up?



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?


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?


 



some  i do..im not that old..lol

 



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 it!


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


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?


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

Playing baseball with no adults to help kids with the rules of the game?


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

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.


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.


Newsreels before the movie.

Telephone numbers with a word prefix..( Yukon 2-601). Party lines.


Peashooters.

Howdy Doody.

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 Over!'?
'Race issue' meant arguing about who ran the fastest?


Catching The Fireflies Could Happily Occupy An Entire Evening?



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



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?

Taking drugs meant orange - flavored chewable aspirin?


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!
 
 

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[LennG]

thanks for some great memories Dale. I remember mostly all of them.

[jimv]

GREAT, Dale!!!!  I remember them all and have even forgotten some others.

[weeze]

bunch of old farts for darn's sake................................specially that dasher guy, talks like grandpa on the SImpson's. and LENN, i dont want to say hes old just cuz his social security number is a bunch of zeros and then a 1...........

[drakew]

"How about atomic fireballs? Lik-m-aid? Ma's Old fashioned rootbeer? Oscar Meyer weenie whistles? 6 transistor 'pocket' radios? DC-7s? Lockheed Constellations? Mohawk Airlines? Nash Ramblers? clam-diggers? PF Flyers? Man from UNCLE and Ilya Kuryakin? Royal Palm grape soda? Pigs in a blanket? REAL pasteurized milk (with the cream on top)
'61 Yankees? Jaxsnax?? Or if you are an old WEEZER-GEEZER, it is hard to remember yesterday..."

[dasher]

See, I get no respect from that Weezer poster.
A light hearted attempt on my part to recall what made yesteryear great and I am portrayed as Grandpa on the Simpsons.
That just ain't right.

[weeze]

hey, i couldnt lable you as GRANDMA on the simpsons cuz shes dead so in a way its actually a compliment!
boy howdy, some people yu just cant compliment!

[LennG]

bunch of old farts for darn's sake................................specially that dasher guy, talks like grandpa on the SImpson's. and LENN, i dont want to say hes old just cuz his social security number is a bunch of zeros and then a 1...........

 Look at the young 'un's talking. If my Social is 1 then Jim's must be ???-???-???? as they didn't even know what a Social Security number was.
 And look at you, you are so enthralled with you 'puter, you don't know waht life was without one, or even TV.You probably don't even remember when phone number just had 5 numbers and started with letters.

 The only thing you know of Howdy Doody was repeats, and you were NEVER a member of Andy's Gang, or changed your black and white TV to color by putting that magic screen over it, or even drew with Winky Dink. You thought Johnny Jellybean was something to snack on, and Pinky Lee wasn't Peggy Lee's husband. The first cowboy you saw was probably Ben Cartwright, completely ignoring the Cisco Kid and Pancho. You still think Wagon Train was a model RR kit, and Rin Tin Tin were some words form some country song you used to hum. And Hoppy was the name of your bunny and not the real first true TV cowboy, Hopalong Cassidy. Shows like Roy Rogers and The Lone Ranger were on way before you knew what a 6 shooter was. Shows like Gene Autry, St Preston of the Yukon, Sky King,and Death Valley Days you never even knew existed until some one told you to watch them on cable. You remember Bootd and Saddles, Broken Arrow, Branded, the Adventures of Jim Bowie and the Tales of Wells Fargo.
 And these are just the Cowboys.
 Smart ass kid. 

[dasher]

See Weeze, you can pick on the mature challenged like me, but not the silverhaired and tongued Len.

Dale Evans & Roy Rogers

 


And you don't even know who Pat Buttram is, so there!

Pat Buttram. Bubble Gum Song Gene Autry The Old Barn Dance.

[jimv]

Lenny, I don't want to tell you my SSN because it'd bring tears to your eyes.

[ps11yat14]

Lenn,  you forgot to mention one of my favorites,  Yancy Derringer.  And what about Tom Terrific with Mighty Manfred the wonder dog.

Bill

[LennG]

 Sure do Bill.

And since we are on the subject, remember the original 'Adventures of Robin Hood' with Richard Greene. Then there was the original Highway Patrol with Broderick Crawford,and the earlier Our Miss Brooks when Richard Crenna was a snot nose teen. Many people would have given up  their shot on American Idol, to be on the original Ted Mack's Amateur Hour. You couldn't get my mom away from the TV when Queen for a Day was on. Forget Uncle Milty, I was never a big fan, but Your Show of Shows, now that was comedy. I still laugh just thinking of some of the take offs they did.
 Remember Leo G Carroll as the original Topper, and we all watched Your Hit Parade to see what the #1 song of the week would be.
And what would Sunday night be without Alfred Hitchcock telling us how this guy or that woman tried to get away with murder but was always caught at the end. (Except, of course, the Leg of Lamb episode).
 And still, maybe the funniest of them all, Amos and Andy.
 Remember Loretta Young dancing thru the doorway to start her show every week, and Donna Reed was every one's sweetheart, and let's not forget Dinah Shore singing about the USA in your Chevrolet.
 Seemed everyone had their own shows,  Kate Smith, Eddie Cantor, Jimmy Durante, George Gobel and so many more
 Remember Gary Moore on I've got a Secret, and John Daly on What's My Line, Bill Cullen on To Tell the Truth, Hal March on the 64,000 question, Name that Tune, Beat the Clock with Bud Collyer, ( a trivia point. The very first episode of the Honeymooners, Alice and Ralph were contestants on Beat the Clock), 21 with Jack Barry as host.
 And how can anyone not remember William Bendix as Riley, and I Married Joan with Joan Davis (I can still hear that theme song in my head), My Friend Irma, My Little Margie with Gail Storm, and Ann Southern as Private
Secretary.
 We may not have been interested, but our parents just loved all those live dramas like Playhouse 90, Four Star Playhouse, and Kraft Television Playhouse.
 And, of course, our favorite TV show of all Time, THE GOLDBERGS. 

[weeze]

lenn modeled his life after 'crabby appleton" who stole all the holidays.
"my name is crabby appleton im rotten to the core"
or
'my name is mighty manfred, hum, the wonder dawwwwwwwwwwwwg!"

[jimv]

Lenny, I remember LISTENING to most of those shows ON THE RADIO before there was TV.  They were good on radio AND TV.

[weeze]

pretty much every night when i climb in the sack i listene to sirius 'classic radio shows" channel. some of these went a lot longer then i was aware of. i started listeniong to top 40 i guess youd call it, radio very young, prolly 6 or 7. so that would be1958. i dont understand why i didnt know about the radio shows that were on. they were pretty much national broadcasts.
odd.
my favorites:
burns and allen...of course the one the only gracie allen . she is just outrageously funny.
gunsmoke. some are really really good. some, eh!
yours truly , johnny dollar
the saint
the shadow
god so many detective ones. thyre all good.
the bob hope shows, especially the ones from during ww2. i love hearing the songs about things like 'there aint no japs on guadacanal". plus my dad, who NEVER talks about the war, does talk about seeing hope in the south of france in 45.
fibber mcgee and molly
the great gildersleeve
theres so many i havent mentioned. radio shows rock!