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Memory Lane - Differences...
Do you Remember When?...
Sit back, relax, listen, read, smile.
Kind of reminds you to stop and smell the roses of life, and to give thanks to God for life and
memories.
Do you remember when?...
Before the internet or the MAC, before semi-automatics and crack.
Before SEGA and Super Nintendo...way back!...
The smell of the sun and licking salty lips...wax lips and mustaches?
An ice cream cone on a warm summer night - vanilla, chocolate, or strawberry or maybe butter
pecan?
A cherry coke from the fountain at the corner drugstore?
Blackjack, Clove, and Teaberry chewing gum?
Wait...
How many of these to you remember?
TV -
When it took five minutes for the TV to warm up, if you even had one?
Saturday morning cartoons weren't 30-minute commercials for action figures?
Watching Saturday morning cartoons...short commercials - Fat Albert, Road Runner, He-Man, The
Three Stooges, & Bugs?
Or staying up for Gunsmoke. Or further back, listening to Superman on the radio?
Nancy Drew, the Hardy Boys, Laurel and Hardy, Beanie and Cecil, Howdy-Doody and the Peanut
Gallery, the Lone Ranger, The Shadow Knows, Nellie Bell, Roy and Dale, Trigger and Buttermilk?
Food -
Candy cigarettes?
Wax coke-shaped bottles with colored sugar water inside?
Soda pop machines that dispensed glass bottles?
Sticky fingers?
Penny candy?
15-cent McDonalds hamburgers?
Jiffy popcorn?
Things to do -
The Good Humor man, Red Light-Green Light, the corner store. Hopscotch, butterscotch, double-
dutch, jacks, kickball, dodge ball. Mother-May-I?
Red Rover and Roly-Poly Hula Hoops?
Running through the sprinkler?
Jumping on the bed?
Pillow fights?
Lying on your back in the grass with your friends and saying things like, "That looks like a..."?
And playing baseball with no adults to help kids with the rules of the game?
Spinning around, getting dizzy and falling down was cause for giggles?
Being tired from playing... Remember that?
Hide-and-seek, or kick-the-can at dusk?
"Oly-oly-oxen-free" made perfect sense?
Peashooters?
Roller-skate keys?
Tinkertoys and erector sets and Fort Apache Play Sets?
Lincoln logs?
Cork pop guns?
Drive ins?
Cops and Robbers?
Cowboys and Indians?
Zorro?
Climbing trees?
Building igloos out of snow banks?
Newsreels before the movie?
Running until you were out of breath?
Laughing so hard your stomach hurt?
Coffee shops with tableside jukeboxes?
A million mosquito bites?
5-cent packs of baseball cards - with that awful pink slab of bubble gum?
Summers filled with bike rides, baseball games, hula-hoops, bowling and visits to the pool?
Hi-Fi's?
45 RPM records or 78 RPM records?
Reel-to-reel tape recorders?
When around the corner seemed far away...and going downtown seemed like going somewhere?
Telephones with dials?
Party lines?
Telephone numbers with a word prefix...(Raymond 4-601)?
Concerning school -
Walking to school - no matter what the weather?
Remember when there were two types of sneakers for girls and boys (Keds & PF Flyers) and the
only time you wore them was at school for “gym”? And when all the girls had "ugly" gym uniforms?
When all your male teachers wore neckties and female teachers had their “hair done” and wore high
heels?
Having a weapon in school meant being caught with a slingshot?
When any parent could discipline any kid, not even the kid thought anything of it?
When they threatened to keep kids back a grade if they failed...and did!
When being sent to the principal’s 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!
Concerning cars -
When a 57 Chevy was everybody's dream car...to cruise, peel-out, lay rubber, or watch submarine
races, and people went steady?
No one ever asked where te car keys were because they were always in the car, in the ignition, and
the doors were never locked?
Do you remember Studebakers, Edsels, Corvairs, MGs, and XKE's?
When you got your windshield cleaned, oil checked, and gas pumped, without asking, for free...
every time?
And you didn’t pay for “air”?
And you got trading stamps to boot!
35 cent a gallon gasoline?
Misc -
When laundry detergent had free glasses, dishes, or towels hidden inside the box?
When nearly everyone’s mom was at home when the kids got there?
When your mom wore nylons that came in two pieces?
It was magic when dad would “remove” his thumb?
When it was considered a great privilege to be taken out to dinner at a real restaurant with your
parents?
When girls neither dated or kissed until late high school, if then?
It wasn’t odd to have two or three “best” friends?
When nobody owned a purebred dog?
When a quarter was a decent allowance, and another quarter was a miracle?
When milk went up one cent and everybody talked about it for two weeks?
When you would reach into a muddy gutter for a penny?
Wash tub ringers?
The Fuller Brush man?
Mimeograph paper?
Home milk delivery in glass bottles with cardboard stoppers...and you could get blocks of ice from
the delivery man?
And stuff from the store came without safety caps and hermetic seals because no one had yet tried
to poison a perfect stranger?
And remember that the perfect age is somewhere between old enough to know better but too young
to care?
The worst embarrassment was being picked last for the team?
War was a card game?
Water balloons were the ultimate weapon?
Baseball cards in the spokes transformed any bicycle in a motorcycle?
Metal ice cube trays with levers?
Didn’t that feel good...just to go back and say, Yeah, I remember that?
Remember when...
Decisions were made by going “eeny-meeny-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”?
The worst thing you could catch from the opposite sex was cooties?
It was unbelievable that dodgeball wasn’t an Olympic event?
Nobody was prettier that Mom?
Scrapes and bruises were kissed and made better?
Taking drugs meant orange-flavored, chewable aspirin?
Ice cream was considered a basic food group?
Getting a foot of snow was a dream come true?
Abilities were discovered because of a “double-dog-dare”?
Older siblings were the worst tormentors, but also the fiercest protectors?
If you can remember most or all of these...then you have lived!
Sit back, relax, listen, read, smile.
Kind of reminds you to stop and smell the roses of life, and to give thanks to God for life and
memories.
Do you remember when?...
Before the internet or the MAC, before semi-automatics and crack.
Before SEGA and Super Nintendo...way back!...
The smell of the sun and licking salty lips...wax lips and mustaches?
An ice cream cone on a warm summer night - vanilla, chocolate, or strawberry or maybe butter
pecan?
A cherry coke from the fountain at the corner drugstore?
Blackjack, Clove, and Teaberry chewing gum?
Wait...
How many of these to you remember?
TV -
When it took five minutes for the TV to warm up, if you even had one?
Saturday morning cartoons weren't 30-minute commercials for action figures?
Watching Saturday morning cartoons...short commercials - Fat Albert, Road Runner, He-Man, The
Three Stooges, & Bugs?
Or staying up for Gunsmoke. Or further back, listening to Superman on the radio?
Nancy Drew, the Hardy Boys, Laurel and Hardy, Beanie and Cecil, Howdy-Doody and the Peanut
Gallery, the Lone Ranger, The Shadow Knows, Nellie Bell, Roy and Dale, Trigger and Buttermilk?
Food -
Candy cigarettes?
Wax coke-shaped bottles with colored sugar water inside?
Soda pop machines that dispensed glass bottles?
Sticky fingers?
Penny candy?
15-cent McDonalds hamburgers?
Jiffy popcorn?
Things to do -
The Good Humor man, Red Light-Green Light, the corner store. Hopscotch, butterscotch, double-
dutch, jacks, kickball, dodge ball. Mother-May-I?
Red Rover and Roly-Poly Hula Hoops?
Running through the sprinkler?
Jumping on the bed?
Pillow fights?
Lying on your back in the grass with your friends and saying things like, "That looks like a..."?
And playing baseball with no adults to help kids with the rules of the game?
Spinning around, getting dizzy and falling down was cause for giggles?
Being tired from playing... Remember that?
Hide-and-seek, or kick-the-can at dusk?
"Oly-oly-oxen-free" made perfect sense?
Peashooters?
Roller-skate keys?
Tinkertoys and erector sets and Fort Apache Play Sets?
Lincoln logs?
Cork pop guns?
Drive ins?
Cops and Robbers?
Cowboys and Indians?
Zorro?
Climbing trees?
Building igloos out of snow banks?
Newsreels before the movie?
Running until you were out of breath?
Laughing so hard your stomach hurt?
Coffee shops with tableside jukeboxes?
A million mosquito bites?
5-cent packs of baseball cards - with that awful pink slab of bubble gum?
Summers filled with bike rides, baseball games, hula-hoops, bowling and visits to the pool?
Hi-Fi's?
45 RPM records or 78 RPM records?
Reel-to-reel tape recorders?
When around the corner seemed far away...and going downtown seemed like going somewhere?
Telephones with dials?
Party lines?
Telephone numbers with a word prefix...(Raymond 4-601)?
Concerning school -
Walking to school - no matter what the weather?
Remember when there were two types of sneakers for girls and boys (Keds & PF Flyers) and the
only time you wore them was at school for “gym”? And when all the girls had "ugly" gym uniforms?
When all your male teachers wore neckties and female teachers had their “hair done” and wore high
heels?
Having a weapon in school meant being caught with a slingshot?
When any parent could discipline any kid, not even the kid thought anything of it?
When they threatened to keep kids back a grade if they failed...and did!
When being sent to the principal’s 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!
Concerning cars -
When a 57 Chevy was everybody's dream car...to cruise, peel-out, lay rubber, or watch submarine
races, and people went steady?
No one ever asked where te car keys were because they were always in the car, in the ignition, and
the doors were never locked?
Do you remember Studebakers, Edsels, Corvairs, MGs, and XKE's?
When you got your windshield cleaned, oil checked, and gas pumped, without asking, for free...
every time?
And you didn’t pay for “air”?
And you got trading stamps to boot!
35 cent a gallon gasoline?
Misc -
When laundry detergent had free glasses, dishes, or towels hidden inside the box?
When nearly everyone’s mom was at home when the kids got there?
When your mom wore nylons that came in two pieces?
It was magic when dad would “remove” his thumb?
When it was considered a great privilege to be taken out to dinner at a real restaurant with your
parents?
When girls neither dated or kissed until late high school, if then?
It wasn’t odd to have two or three “best” friends?
When nobody owned a purebred dog?
When a quarter was a decent allowance, and another quarter was a miracle?
When milk went up one cent and everybody talked about it for two weeks?
When you would reach into a muddy gutter for a penny?
Wash tub ringers?
The Fuller Brush man?
Mimeograph paper?
Home milk delivery in glass bottles with cardboard stoppers...and you could get blocks of ice from
the delivery man?
And stuff from the store came without safety caps and hermetic seals because no one had yet tried
to poison a perfect stranger?
And remember that the perfect age is somewhere between old enough to know better but too young
to care?
The worst embarrassment was being picked last for the team?
War was a card game?
Water balloons were the ultimate weapon?
Baseball cards in the spokes transformed any bicycle in a motorcycle?
Metal ice cube trays with levers?
Didn’t that feel good...just to go back and say, Yeah, I remember that?
Remember when...
Decisions were made by going “eeny-meeny-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”?
The worst thing you could catch from the opposite sex was cooties?
It was unbelievable that dodgeball wasn’t an Olympic event?
Nobody was prettier that Mom?
Scrapes and bruises were kissed and made better?
Taking drugs meant orange-flavored, chewable aspirin?
Ice cream was considered a basic food group?
Getting a foot of snow was a dream come true?
Abilities were discovered because of a “double-dog-dare”?
Older siblings were the worst tormentors, but also the fiercest protectors?
If you can remember most or all of these...then you have lived!
