A Few of FR's Finest....Every Day....09-19-06....Do You Remember?

DollyCali and all of the Finest AT the Finest | September 19, 2006 | DollyCali

[DollyCali]

A Few of FR's Finest....Every Day

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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?

~ Nobody (you knew) owned a purebred dog?

~ 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?

~ Lying on your back in the grass with your friends and saying things like, "That cloud looks like a ..
~and playing baseball with no adults to help kids with the rules of the game?

~ 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.

~ Can you still remember Nancy Drew, the Hardy Boys, Laurel and Hardy, Howdy Dowdy and the Peanut Gallery, the Lone Ranger, The Shadow Knows, Nellie Bell, Roy and Dale, Trigger and Buttermilk.

~As well as summers filled with bike rides, baseball games, Hula Hoops, pogo sticks, SPUD, double dog dares, bowling and visits to th e pool, and eating Kool-Aid powder with sugar.

~ Didn't that feel good, just to go back and say, "Yeah, I remember that"?
~ Necco wafers?

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...( Hillcrest 4-601).

~ Party lines

~ Peashooters

~ Howdy Dowdy

~ 45 RPM records

~ Green Stamps

~ Hi-Fi's

~ Metal ice cubes trays with levers

~ Mimeograph paper

~ Beanie and Cecil

~ Roller-skate keys

~ Cork pop guns

~ Drive ins

~ Studebakers or Nash Ramblers

~ Washtub wringers

~ The Fuller Brush Man

~ Reel-To-Reel tape recorders

~ Tinkertoys

~ Erector Sets

~ The Fort Apache Play Set

~ Lincoln Logs

~ 15 cent McDonald hamburgers

~ 5 cent packs of baseball cards - with that awful pink slab of bubble gum

~ White out
~ Penny candy

~ 35 cent a gallon gasoline

~ Jiffy Pop popcorn

Do you remember a time when...

~ Decisions were made by going "eeny-meeny-miney-moe"?
~ Mistakes were corrected by simply exclaiming, "Do Over!"?
~ "Race issue" meant arguing about who ran the fastest?
~ Catching the fireflies could happily occupy an entire evening?
~ It wasn't odd to have two or three "Best Friends"?

~ The worst thing you could catch from the opposite sex was "cooties"?
~ Having a weapon in school meant being caught with a slingshot?
~ A foot of snow was a dream come true?
~ Eating paste in school was “cool”?

~ Saturday morning cartoons weren't 30-minute commercials for action figures?
"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?
~ War was a card game?
~ 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!!!!!!!
and for a VERY long time

07-01,02-06 ~ Hall of Fame #16

THIS WEEK'S THREADS 09-18-06 Military Monday

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[DollyCali]

I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands, One Nation, Under God, Indivisible, with Liberty and Justice for All.

[DollyCali]

[Just Lori]

OMG.... I remember too many of these. My first car was a Nash Rambler! I paid $150.00 for it. Who the heck is Howdy Dowdy?

[DollyCali]

Good Morning to all at the Finest. Well, I don't know about you ... but anymore, I have trouble REMEMBERING where I put the keys 10 minutes ago...

now, you youngsters(under 40?).. make sure you direct your parents and grandparents to this post...

And re remember that in 30 years or so, you will have your own similar list.. but of the things we NOW enjoy & just feel ARE part of life.

Now for my fellow "mature folks".. what other things do you remember from the GOOD OLD DAYS????

[luvie]

EEEEKKKK!!! I remember too many of them! My eyes..my eyes!!!

Fun thread, Dolly! (((hugs)))

[DollyCali]

[DollyCali]

http://www.doodyville.com/

[Syncro]

Howdy Doody was a freind of Princess SummerFallWinterSpring...and their cow was named Clarabell.

Buffalo Bob would start the show after you heard "It's Howdy Doody Time!"

(Legend handed down from the old folks in my family, goodness I never saw the show...)

[MEG33]

Dolly.. I remembered all but two brands of chewing gum and some toy.. I should go to bed..I am REALLY REALLY OLD!LOL!

[DollyCali]

:^)

how's the Red Eraser shirt?

[DollyCali]

I think we are about the same vintage Meg..

sigh

[DollyCali]

Thanks Luv!

[jazusamo]

Yeow! I remember every one but the Fort Apache Play Set. One that wasn't listed was the capsule of coloring to mix into the oleo. I guess I'm really old. :-)

Good thread, DollyCali.

[Syncro]

It srunk, I can't wear it no mo'!

It's in my hall of fame. Wanna trade?

LOL

I could have sworn I saw Clarabell the Cow on the HD show, but I may be wrong. She had a horn like Harpo Marx.

[DollyCali]

jazusamo, I didn't have a Fort Apache Play Set either (nor did my friends)...but maybe i just "cant remember"?

but I did play with these!

[DollyCali]

Laundry Tips

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1. When washing dark clothes for the first time use cold water and put salt in the water. The salt helps set the color. To brighten dark clothes after they have been washed several times, repeat the procedure.


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9. When you first switch from store-bought detergent to homemade, wash laundry once with washing soda alone to get rid of the detergent residue and avoid yellowing of fabric.


10. Even your washer needs to be washed once in a while. Run the machine on hot water, normal cycle, and add a bottle of vinegar to clean the soap film and scum that's built up inside.


11. Wash and dry clothes inside out to prevent fading.


12. Tie or pin socks together for easier sorting.


13. Use a mesh bag when washing/drying socks, especially baby socks.


14. Close zippers, button buttons, and tie strings before washing and drying. This keeps clothes from being tangled together.


15. Spot cleaning - Use Tilex Shower Spray (mildew) to spot bleach on clothes that can be bleached, but you don't want to bleach the whole load.


16. Always empty the lint trap every single time you dry clothes in the dryer.


17. If instructions aren't printed on the washer lid, type, laminate, and hang them over the machine.


18. Label or color-code bedroom baskets to prevent laundry room mixups.


19. Pilling is caused by items rubbing against each other in the washer and dryer. Prevent it by turning susceptible clothes inside out and washing them in a mesh bag or a drawstring pillowcase.


20. The difference between "Dry Clean" and "Dry Clean Only" is fragile fabric, but washable. Dry cleaning fluids are tough on fabrics, so whenever they can be avoided, the life of a garment is prolonged.

[Diver Dave]

~ Catching the fireflies could happily occupy an entire evening?

[Just Lori]

That's Howdy Doody, not Howdy Dowdy. I never heard of Howdy Dowdy.

(Busted!) :o

[Mama_Bear]

Here's a couple I didn't see mentioned - Sock Hops in the Gym and Poodle skirts. Gosh, I positively feel ancient. LOL

Fun thread, Dolly. But, like MEG, I'm too old to be up this late. Nitey nite. ;-)

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