I sure remember those nickle candy bars... and I remember well the day that
they jumped up to a quarter with no warning!
My earliest postage recollection was the Eisenhower .08 Cent Postage stamp
(1973 wasn't it?) I remember because I started collecting stamps as a
Pioneer and that was the rate for "first class" at the time. Didn't it jump
straight to .13 cents? I don't recall any in between..
Mark Spitz (and guns) at the olympics, Apollo 13... Nixon's resignation
speech... Ford's Pardon of Nixon... and of course.... "Tora! Tora! Tora!"
playing about once a year.
Just about everything you mention is deep in my memory banks... nice walk
down memory lane... :-)
Parson.
----- Original Message -----
From: Bill Elliott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: KIP <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>;
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; Jack Rolfe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Sent: Wednesday, August 02, 2000 3:16 PM
Subject: [RR] Remember when?
Hi -Some of you are to young to remember but it was great.
Some of you may have different Memories, Good or Bad,
Maby you would like to add it here and share them with the rest
of us.
Bill Elliott
A trip down memory lane
Close your eyes.....And go back....
Before the Internet or the MAC,
Before semi automatics and crack
Before chronic and indo
Before SEGA or Super Nintendo
Way back........
I'm talkin' bout hide and go seek at dusk.
Sittin' on the porch, Hot bread and butter.
The Good Humor man,
Red light, Green light.
Chocolate milk,
Lunch tickets,
Penny candy in a brown paper bag.
Playin' Pinball in the corner store.
Hopscotch, butterscotch, doubledutch
Jacks, kickball, dodgeball, y'all!
Mother May I?
Red Rover and Roly Poly
Hula Hoops and Sunflower Seeds,
Jolly Ranchers, Banana Splits
Wax Lips and Mustaches
Running through the sprinkler
The smell of the sun and lickin' salty lips....
Wait......
Watchin' Saturday Morning cartoons, Fat Albert, Road Runner,
He-Man, The Three Stooges, and Bugs,
Or back further, listening to Superman on the radio
Catchin' lightening bugs in a jar,
Playin sling shot.
When around the corner seemed far away,
And going downtown seemed like going somewhere.
Bedtime, Climbing trees,
An ice cream cone on a warm summer night
Chocolate or vanilla or strawberry or maybe butter pecan
A lemon coke from the fountain at the corner drug store
Long hikes/walks without adult supervision.
A million mosquito bites and sticky fingers,
Cops and Robbers, Cowboys and Indians,
Sittin on the curb,
Jumpin down the steps,
Jumpin on the bed.
Pillow fights
Runnin till you were out of breath
Laughing so hard that your stomach hurt
Being tired from playin'.... Remember that?
I ain't finished just yet...
Eating Kool-aid powder with sugar
Remember when...
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."
When it took five minutes for the TV to warm up, if you even
had one. And you didn't mind the wait.
When nearly everyone's mom was at home when the kids got there.
When nobody owned a purebred dog.
When a quarter was a decent allowance, and another quarter
a miracle. And a big candy bar cost a whole nickel.
When milk went up one cent and everyone talked about it for weeks?
When you'd reach into a muddy gutter for a penny.
When girls neither dated nor kissed until late high school, if then.
When your Mom wore nylons that came in two pieces.
When all of your male teachers wore neckties and female
teachers had their hair done, everyday.
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!
When laundry detergent had free glasses, dishes or towels
hidden inside the box.
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.
When it was considered a great privilege to be taken out to
dinner at a real restaurant with your parents.
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! and some of us
are still afraid of em!!!
Didn't that feel good.. just to go back and say, Yeah, I
remember that!
There's nothing like the good old days! They were good then,
and they're good now when we think about them.
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