Do you remember when......

[Gayandgray]

Do you remember when groceries were so much CHEAPER??????

[introverted1]

Do you remember when kids used to ride their bikes for at least 500 miles per summer?

[homoe]

Originally Posted by introverted1

Do you remember when kids used to ride their bikes for at least 500 miles per summer?

NOT only do I remember it but I was one of those kids

[~ocean]

do you remember when you could play outside with out looking over your shoulder life and living was safe

[introverted1]

Originally Posted by homoe

NOT only do I remember it but I was one of those kids

I was one of those kids, too! All summer long was one long adventure of biking into the country, and pretending I was an archaeologist when the nearby gravel company would blast for more limestone gravel. I found so many fossils in that place.

[Gayandgray]

Do you remember when you were a kid and went to family reunions, picnics, etc. and there was always groups of adults playing crochet, batmitton, tossing horse shoes, bean bag toss or some called it corn hole toss? You don't see people playing these kinds of outdoor games much anymore.

[Lecheloco]

Do you remember when you could ride in the back of a pick up truck, that's where my friends and I would pile up on, calling dibs on the wheel well

[homoe]

I remember when everything closed down from noon to three on Good Friday!

[~ocean]

DYR Ash Wednesday, Palm Sunday, the scent of new fabrics, twirling dress' ,pocketbooks matching your shoes , visiting family and then going to a fancy restaurant .

[easygoingfemme]

Originally Posted by introverted1

Do you remember when kids used to ride their bikes for at least 500 miles per summer?

I'm still that kid Just with much fewer urges to do things like tear through the woods and fall into ditches while riding around.

[Gayandgray]

Do you remember when people sat out on the front porch and just sat there watching the cars go by?

[introverted1]

Originally Posted by Gayandgray

Do you remember when people sat out on the front porch and just sat there watching the cars go by?

And chatted with neighbors walking by? When neighbors actually spoke to each other! And walked.

[Gayandgray]

Do you remember those Butter Rum Lifesavers that were out many years ago? I haven't seen them since I was a kid!

[cathexis]

Originally Posted by introverted1

And chatted with neighbors walking by? When neighbors actually spoke to each other! And walked.

And neighbors would play horseshoes and crochet together.

If you were a kid watching from your porch, someone would wave you over.

[Kätzchen]

Do you remember when you could get a copy of your birth certificate from the hospital, rather than pay for a copy of it from a state agency???

[introverted1]

Do you remember neighborhood-wide games of hide and seek that would go on until the street lights came on and our parents were hollering for us from our front porches?

[Chad]

Originally Posted by Gayandgray

Do you remember those Butter Rum Lifesavers that were out many years ago? I haven't seen them since I was a kid!

I love butter rum lifesavers. You can get them at Cracker Barrel restaurants.

[*Anya*]

Wrong thread, sorry!

[Kätzchen]

I remember the summer before my last year in high school, and how my mom and I shopped every weekend to find the perfect prom dress for the fall dance (my first) and being worried that my senior pictures would turn out terrible (I was SO self conscious).

I remember all the stories told at Sunday afternoon supper when our family invited other family's out to spend the day with our family.

I remember watching Shirley Temple movies at my grandparents house when I spent Saturday afternoon's with my grandmother, while she worked on quilts or sewing projects.

I remember my mother hardly ever buying us store bought clothes and how my mom took all if us to our family friend and seamstress, Mrs. Reisch, four times each year, to have clothes made for each of us.

I remember our family hardly ever buying anything at a grocery store --- we had most everything one needed at home, and of course, all the chores one could think of too.

I remember my grand father's hobbies of rock hunting and all his gadgets for rock polishing or making rock tables or other big rock projects, oil painting, or sitting quietly at the dining room table with his binder tracking stock market trends, etc.

I remember how the Sunday paper was only $1.00, which was expensive back then, but oh (!) How fun it was to read Ann Landers, Sunday Parade, the comics (Blondie! ), and all the other things you'd find for sale in the Want Ads.

I remember sitting through long Sunday sermons or attending hot summer evenings at revivals and shooting down every plausible loop hole in their sermons. It's how I entertained myself during Sunday sermons because we had to make sure we could pass a surprise Quiz during Sunday supper hour. Which in our house, failure to pass the quiz meant big trouble.

[introverted1]

Does anybody remember making "Creepy Crawlers and Fun Flowers" in the late 60's and 70's? The activity called for metal molds of critters and flowers, several bottles of latex "goop" to pour into the molds, and a heating device with which to "cook" the goop creatures/flowers. Of course, liability issues would prevent such activities nowadays, but what fun we had...especially when glow-in-the dark goop came out!