Remember When:

[Bullwinkle]

REMEMBER WHEN:

Close your eyes.....And go back in time....

Before the Internet or the MAC,

Before semi-automatics and crack

Before SEGA or Super Nintendo...

Way back........


I'm talking about hide and seek at dusk, The Good Humor man, Red light, green light and the corner store.

Remember hopscotch, butterscotch, double dutch, jacks, kickball, dodge ball and Mother May I?

Remember Red Rover and Roly Poly, Hula Hoops, running through the sprinkler and the smell of the sun and licking salty lips....

Remember wax lips and mustaches, an ice cream cone on a warm summer night with Chocolate or vanilla or strawberry or maybe butter pecan.

Remember having a cherry coke from the fountain at the corner drug store.

Wait......

Remember watching Saturday Morning cartoons ... short commercials, Fat Albert, Road Runner, He-Man, The Three Stooges, and Bugs, Or staying up for Gunsmoke. Or
back further, listening to Superman on the radio.

Remember when around the corner seemed far away, and going downtown seemed like going somewhere.

Remember having a million mosquito bites, sticky fingers, Cops and Robbers, Cowboys and Indians, and Zorro.

Remember climbing trees, building igloos out of snow banks, walking to school, no matter what the weather, running till you were out of breath, laughing so hard that your stomach hurt.


Remember jumping on the bed. Pillow fights, spinning around and getting dizzy and falling down was cause for giggles. Being tired from playing.... Remember that?

The worst embarrassment was being picked last for a team.

War was a card game.

Water balloons were the ultimate weapons.

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

I'm not finished just yet...

Remember eating Kool-Aid powder.

Remember when...

There were two types of sneakers for girls and boys (Keds & PF Flyers) and the only time you wore them at school was for "gym."

Remember when it wasn't odd to have two or three "best" friends, when nobody owned a pure bred dog, when a quarter was a decent allowance and another quarter a
miracle.

Remember when milk went up one cent and everyone talked about it for weeks?

Remember when you'd reach into a muddy gutter for a penny.

Remember when you got your windshield cleaned, oil checked, and gas pumped, without asking, for free, every time; you didn't pay for air, and … you got trading
stamps to boot!

Remember when laundry detergent had free glasses, dishes or towels hidden inside the box.

Remember when nearly everyone's Mom was at home when the kids got there, and when it took five minutes for the TV to warm up, if you even had one.

Remember when your Mom wore nylons that came in two pieces and it was magic when dad would "remove" his thumb.

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



Remember when girls neither dated nor kissed until late High School, if then, and when all of your male teachers wore neckties and female teachers had their hair done.

Remember when any parent could discipline any kid or feed him or use him to carry groceries, and nobody, not even the kid, thought a thing of it.

Remember when they threatened to keep kids back a grade if they failed ... and did!

Remember when being sent to the principals’ office was nothing compared to the fate that awaited a misbehaving 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! And some of us are still afraid of them!!!

Didn't that feel good just to go back and say, "Yeah, I remember that!"

Remember when............
Decisions were made by going "eenie-meenie-miney-mo", Mistakes were corrected by simply exclaiming, "do over!", "Race issue" meant arguing about who ran the fastest, Money issues were handled by whoever was the banker in "Monopoly" and the worst thing you could catch from the opposite sex was cooties. It was unbelievable that dodge ball wasn't an Olympic event and having a weapon in school meant being caught with a slingshot.

Nobody was prettier than Mom, scrapes and bruises were kissed and made better, taking drugs meant orange-flavored chewable aspirin and ice cream was considered a
basic food group.

Getting a foot of snow was a dream come true and abilities were discovered because of a "double-dog-dare."

Older siblings were the worst tormenters, but also the fiercest protectors.

If you can remember most or all of these then, you have LIVED!!!!

[Captain Maniac]

According the above list, "I have lived". I also remember when gasoline used to cost 32 cents a gallon!

[Frankenoid]

Nickel stamps

Nickel candy bars

Penny gum-ball machines

Five and dimes that had things for $.05 and $.10

One TV in the house, tuned to the evening news, not to Cartoon Network

Saturday afternoons with nothing on the tube but football, golfing and bass fishing

[HiiPERCRZ]

Also, playing Frogger on the Atari.

[Frankenoid]

Originally posted by HiiPERCRZ
Also, playing Frogger on the Atari.

Pong

[CTFrank]

I guess I too have lived.
Do you also remember "Beany and Cecil", the Original Doodyville, "Kukla, Fran & Ollie", tv test patterns??

[PaganCruiser]

Thanks, Bullwinkle - your post made me smile! Guess I've "lived," as well...anybody in the Atlanta area remember Officer Don from the Popeye Club and the "ooey-gooey" game on his show???

[Bullwinkle]

Originally posted by CTFrank
I guess I too have lived.
Do you also remember "Beany and Cecil", the Original Doodyville, "Kukla, Fran & Ollie", tv test patterns??

I'm with you re: these too, CTFrank. But aren't these memories great?

[Nova69]

"Winky Dink"
the first interactive kids' TV show!

[Sci-Fi]

Remember Sheriff John or Engineer Bill? May be just local stuff but great fun.

Here's a link to the old Kid's shows....

Lost Kid Show Recordings