Do you remember when......

[Turtle]

I remember when Davey And Goliath was the ONLY thing on TV early Sunday mornings - that show is probably why I turned out halfway decent

[LipstickLola]

I remember playing outside in summertime, after dark catching lightening bugs to keep in a jar.......and the smell the jar had the next morning

I remember playing in the snow in winter, gathering around the fire built from an old tire..........and how frozen we were and how much we smelled like the fire when we went inside to warm up

I remember how much we couldn't wait to put up the Christmas tree......the house smelled wonderful for days, and the vacuum cleaner would still smell like pine needles in July

I remember loving a song sooo much, that I'd pick up the stereo arm and start it over a thousand times (yes, vinyl)


I remember My Friend Flicka, The Horse in the Grey Flannel Suit, National Velvet and how I'd do anything to see them repeatedly

I remember my older sisters taking me to see Night of the Grizzly in our local theater and being terrified for months

[deb_U_taunt]

I remember butterscotch dipped ice cream cones at the corner store, that also had a penny candy counter.
I don't remember seat belts, booster seats or car seats.
We had a old rambler wagon which all the doors, but one back one, were tied shut with rope, since they wouldn't stay closed.
Party lines meant the whole neighborhood knew your business. (who needed facebook lol)
In the summer, we were outside early and we came in when the street lights came on.
All the parents in the neighborhood would get on you, if you were doing something you weren't supposed to. AND we listened.
Girls had to wear dresses to public school, no matter what the weather.

[Cid]

I remember
going to the drive-in in our pj's.
playing hopscotch with chalk on the sidewalks
playing hide and go seek and running to hide in the neighbours yards
staying out til the streetlights came on
watching my dad make a homemade ice rink in the backyard

[uglyboi]

Do you remember when

Elvis died

there was no call fowarding, waiting, damn if the line was busy you just called back later.

gas was .50 cents a gallon

mood rings

when penicillin was not in pill form had to have a nice shot in the rear end if you needed it.

local TV stations signed off at midnight with the National Anthem

shag carpet

most places didn't accept credit cards, if you even had a credit card

no bottled water

Bayer chewable baby aspirin, there was no ibuprofen.

no air conditioning

Buster Brown shoes

soft drinks came in bottles

[PoeticSilence]

I remember:

when the kids would get together and catch snakes by turning over all the rocks in the neighbors yards and the nasty smell on my hands afterwards.

when we'd all get together and play red rover in the street.

my parents kept us home when they had the moon landing so we could watch it on television.

after school if you ran home fast enough, you could watch the afternoon movie with dialing for dollars.

when ALL the kids talked about the big boxers in school, Muhammad Ali and Joe Frazier (and I went to an all-white school) and we watched it on television.

when space food sticks came out and my mom bought the peanut butter flavoured ones for our lunches.

after creature feature on Saturday nights we had to wait for the stupid geritol commercial to be over before we could watch WWF and root for Mad Dog Vschon.

having to wear tights and gloves and a purse to church, but after the service they had cookies and coffee or Kool-Aid for everyone and everyone hung out and talked with each other.

going to the cemetery after church with my grandma and my parents to change out flowers on all the graves of all of the family members.

begging my mom to let us have a few rolls of caps to use in our capguns and promising NOT to bang rocks on the rolls to pop them.

sunday night was always Mr Bubbles night.

when it was summer I would raid the mobile library that came to our neighborhood on Wednesdays, and then on Fridays the "playmobile" came to our school playground and taught us different art projects or games.

going to my cousins every other Saturday and the adults played canasta while we kids ran around the neighborhood playing baseball and stuff.

when my mom used to take in laundry to help make ends meet so we could move out of the projects.

we didn't have a lunchroom, they put up tables in the auditorium and we brought our lunches in paper sacks or lunchboxes and paid a nickel for milk.

at the beginning of the school year we lined up in the hall to be measured, weighed, and given a cursory eye test etc.

every week we watched films in the auditorium (sitting on the shiny wood floors) about being a good neighbor, doing civic duties, and preparedness for bombs (which ended in us doing a bomb drill down in the basement)

watching the macys parade every year with my dad.