THESE SURE BROUGHT BACK MEMORIES OF THE GOOD OLE DAYS!

[orange-n-brown 365]

THESE SURE BROUGHT BACK MEMORIES OF THE GOOD OLE DAYS!

DO YOU REMEMBER WHEN...?
All the girls had ugly gym
uniforms?

It took five minutes for the TV warm up?
Nearly everyone's Mom was at home when the kids got home from
school?
When a quarter was a decent allowance?

You'd reach into a muddy gutter for a penny?

Your Mom wore nylons that came in two pieces?


All your male teachers wore neckties and female teachers had their
hair done every day and wore high heels?

You got your windshield cleaned, oil checked, and gas pumped,
without asking, all for free, every time?
And you didn't pay for air? And, you got trading stamps to boot?

Laundry detergent had free glasses, dishes or towels hidden inside
the box?

It was considered a great privilege to be taken out to dinner at a
real restaurant with your parents?

They threatened to keep kids back a grade if they failed. . and
they did?

When a 57 Chevy was everyone's dream car...to cruise, peel out, lay
rubber or watch submarine races, and people went steady?

No one ever asked where the car keys were
because they were always in the car,
in the ignition, and the doors were never locked?

Stuff from the store came without safety caps and hermetic seals
because no one had yet tried to poison a perfect stranger?

And with all our progress, don't you just wish, just once, you
could slip back in time and savor the slower pace,and share it with the
children of today?

When being sent to the principal's office was nothing
compared to the fate that awaited the 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! But we survived because their love was
greater than the threat.

who can still remember
Laurel and Hardy,Howdy Dowdy and the Peanut Gallery, the Lone
Ranger, The Shadow Knows,
Nellie Bell , Roy and Dale , Trigger and Buttermilk.



> How many of these do you remember?

> Candy cigarettes

> Wax Coke-shaped bottles with colored sugar water inside

> Soda pop machines that dispensed glass bottles

> Coffee shops with tableside jukeboxes

> Blackjack, Clove and Teaberry chewing gum

> Home milk delivery in glass bottles with cardboard stoppers

> Newsreels before the movie
> P.F Fliers

> Telephone numbers with a word prefix...( Raymond 4-601). Party
lines

> Howdy Dowdy

> Hi-Fi's
> 45 RPM records

> 78 RPM records!
>
> Green Stamps

> Metal ice cubes trays with levers

> Roller-skate keys

> Cork pop guns

> Studebakers

> Washtub wringers

> Erector Sets

> 15 cent McDonald hamburgers

> 5 cent packs of baseball cards - with that awful pink slab of
bubble gum
> Penny candy
> 25 cent a gallon gasoline

> Do you remember a time when...
'Race issue' meant arguing about who ran the fastest?

> Catching the fireflies could happily occupy an entire evening?


> The worst thing you could catch from the opposite sex was
'cooties'?

> Having a weapon in school meant being caught with a slingshot?

> 'Oly-oly-oxen-free' made perfect sense?
Spinning around, getting dizzy, and falling down was cause for
giggles?
The worst embarrassment was being picked last for a team?

> Baseball cards in the spokes transformed any bike into a
motorcycle?

> Taking drugs meant orange-flavored chewable aspirin?

> Water balloons were the ultimate weapon?

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

[biggdowgg]

When a 57 Chevy was everyone's dream car...to cruise, peel out, lay
rubber or watch submarine races, and people went steady?


ahhh, the good ole days

[biggdowgg]

I also remember, ALL OF THE ABOVE .

I sure would give ANYTHING, for my kids and grandkids to have lived in the same times

[BubbleGumTiger]

I dont remember any of these things but my dad told me all about them.....................

[Mouth's Better Half]

I remember all those things & I agree with biggdowgg that I wish times were simple for my kids and future grandkids. We just had good clean fun.

[orange-n-brown 365]

I remember alot of it and then remember hearing about it!


You got your windshield cleaned, oil checked, and gas pumped,
without asking, all for free, every time?
And you didn't pay for air? And, you got trading stamps to boot?

my mom and dad got my baby bed with top value stamps!
when I starting driving in the 80's you still got that service at some stations I loved it!


Laundry detergent had free glasses, dishes or towels hidden inside
the box?
you didn't dare touch grandma's towels they were not to be used! and the glasses..

Here is one I saw some glasses the other day at a little this and that or new to u store remember the glasses you got at the gas stations with the cave men on them.. shoot I cannot remember where that was ... but I remembered seeing them as a kid!
I have 33's that came from gas stations, my Mickey Mouse Club record came from one...
And the cereal boxes with the toys! Man oh Man you got great stuff same with Cracker jacks!
My mom got for me in the 60's a apple jack bowl and apple jack cup with lid I still have them... I ate my cereal and drank my juice out of those for years..

[grndma1]

I used to have those cave men glasses. I think it was the B.C. characters. My favorite one was Grog. We got them at the Sohio station. Mr. Adkins had a filling station on Main Street in Oak Hill where we also got Flintstone Cookie Jars. They were made like Fred and Wilma's house and you lifted the roof off to get to the cookies.

[orange-n-brown 365]

I knew someone would know what I was talking about! Those really were the good old days!

[OZZIEOHIO]

You all must be really old, I dont remember any of that stuff. LOL!!

[Philly]

Well, I am 49, so yes, I remember all of those!!! I grew up in a little village or town, called Omega, on 335, outside of Waverly. We would play water ballon fights all day long, once we ran out of ballons, we would fill up plastic glasses and throw water. Anything to get cool! WE played Hide and Seek after dark, and had a blast getting the crap scared out of us when someone found us!! Played in the creek to catch crawdaddys! So much fun. I still say that even back then we would tell our parents we were bored. Except, they would find you something to do...parents now days just make themselves miserable listening to our children whine about being bored!!

[X8XOHIOLEGENDX7X]

im only 21 so dont remember none of this lol oldies. but really i would go back and see how it was as long as i got to take.

my mom/dad
my girlfreind
and my dog buddy

[orange-n-brown 365]

You all must be really old, I dont remember any of that stuff. LOL!!

well I'm only 29 and I remember most of them

[biggdowgg]

I don't remember any of these things. I have heard biggdowgg talking about them but he's much older.

you"re memory must be going, "they say thats the first thing",,because I remember a little running mate back in the day,,Im sure you remember walking over to Mac Acres to get gas for the lawn mower, and filling up that 5 gallon can for less then 2 bucks

[biggdowgg]

I remember two things very well:

The only acre I saw you walking to was the acre of turnips you helped yourself to.

I also remember seeing you with a piece of water hose and a gas can near a station wagon.

You're right thought, 2 bucks would buy a lot gasoline and a bottle of pepsi.

I had company.

and I dont know what you say

[orange-n-brown 365]

I remember two things very well:

The only acre I saw you walking to was the acre of turnips you helped yourself to.

I also remember seeing you with a piece of water hose and a gas can near a station wagon.

You're right thought, 2 bucks would buy a lot gasoline and a bottle of pepsi.

I had company.

and I dont know what you say

now boys play nice!

[biggdowgg]

I almost forgot untill you now bring it up again, I had a good long talk with youre pops, at the reunion, he filled me in on a lot of stuff,,,,you got in trouble for

[Burg_Grad_77]

I too am 49 and I remember everything on that list. We used to love playing flashlight tag when were kids, especially when the neighborhood girls would join us. lol I remember in the summer that we would get up and be out of the house by 8:00 am and sometimes our parents wouldn't see us agian until later that evening unless we got hungry, and even then someones mom would usually take of us with a baloney or peanut butter sandwich. Man, those were the days. Riding your bike all day or playing baseball at the park or wiffle ball in someones backyard. Kids today just don't know what they are missing. Saturday mornings were spent watching cartoons until around 11:00 am and then it was out the door to play until well after dark. I can't even get my son to get up out of bed before noon on Saturdays. lol

[grndma1]

I found the best web site where you can still buy some of the things that we are talking about. Everything in the catalog and on the web site are things from our generation and even our parents generation. They have Evening in Paradise perfume which my Mom used to wear in the late fifties/early sixties. Everything nostalgic from household items to clothes to toys. It is vermontcountrystore.com

[biggdowgg]

I found the best web site where you can still buy some of the things that we are talking about. Everything in the catalog and on the web site are things from our generation and even our parents generation. They have Evening in Paradise perfume which my Mom used to wear in the late fifties/early sixties. Everything nostalgic from household items to clothes to toys. It is vermontcountrystore.com

do they have that 25 cent a gallon gas?

[orange-n-brown 365]

this was a must!



we still have one


i remember not suppose to be touching these but I did anyways they belonged to my uncles


yep had one