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

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[GretchenM]

[Feiny]

"Oly-oly-oxen-free" made perfect sense?"

OK, that NEVER made sense.

[GretchenM]

We said "Olly olly osskins, all in free!" And no one I ever met could say what that meant in its original definition. Maybe it was named after Oliver Osskins, who invented the game? ;-)

[Feiny]

Now, you are jess making stuff up.
Tee Hee

[GretchenM]

Not the "Olly olly osskins all in free" part! Whoever got to the can, while the person who was "it" was out stalking us runaway chilluns, would kick the can, then yell that famous refrain, so we'd know we were safe to come out of hiding, run to home base and start anew.

The rest, as they say, is pure conjecture. One more urban legend set out into the world of ideas. =)

[MEG33]

Thank you! I can't resize on this computer...I would love to see your flower pictures. Really cold winter days are the very best time to look through flower pictures!

[jaycee]

I think I must be older than dirt because I remember nearly everything. I live in Tennessee and my phone no. was 2432-J. Isn't it funny how we can remember these numbers. I love those days!

[DollyCali]

Lots of memories huh jaycee.. some good & some bad. It is amazing how if we don't dwell on the bad, it can rather melt away to be replaced with the good thoughts.

I noted on your profile page you are a recent widow.. and so tragically...not sure HOW recent, as it all depends on when you make the entries to your page.. but in any event, let me offer you my deepest thoughts of sympathy. Free Republic has been a great source of friendship to many men & women both who have lost their mates in the past couple years.

Might be nice to have an ongoing "support type thread" ... men/women could come/go & just have a place to let loose with their frustrations, grief, anger, whatever.. and also for others to "be there" for them.

Quite a few of us here at the Finest are older n dirt!!!!

[DollyCali]

will be in contact.. usually more involved than merely resizing, although that is an important step.

I'll try to do a couple a week for you beforehand.. check your FReepmail later today.

[DollyCali]

All olivers are A-OK in my book Gretchen!

[DollyCali]

Hi feiny.. good to see you again. thanks for stopping by. I thought of you earlier today when I was going thru the massive disorganization of my server/pictures & came across the pix of your "furry kids".

Hope you are well..

[DollyCali]

It is amazing how much we pick up from movies also.. even if you weren't part of the era, the period movies will "fill us in".. I am sure this is true of tv also, but I haven't watched any series for years so am not up on the shows/time-year frame of the progarms now on

AND you are considerably younger than I am!!!!

[GretchenM]

Sigh. Your Oliver.

I'll be dog-sitting Lulu next week while her people are in a tropical paradise, vacationing. She's the coolest pooch I ever met.

[DollyCali]

more like a blonde "decade" - unfortunately. Since I came to "help" mom, things are just turned upside down most of the time it seems!

[DollyCali]

Like the setting of that pix. Black Lab? Labs are such nice pups. My Toby is a golden retriever mix & oliver was half germ shep & half lab. He had the best qualities of each breed it seems.

I was pooch sitting this week. Neighbor went to France with is girlfriend & I watched snowflake (her pix on my profile page).

Older sweet pup that LOVES to play with my & friend John's pups on our rigorous outings.

[GretchenM]

It's like going to a resort to me to stay at Lulu's house. ;-) Her people live on Puget Sound, overlooking the main shipping lane between Seattle and Tacoma. It's a lovely home in a gorgeous setting, lots and lots of trees, neighbors not too near. I've walked up and down the coastline and haven't found any place with a better view except their next door neighbor's house, which juts out a few more feet toward the Sound. They thought about moving to a place with a better view but after searching all around, realized they had the best possible deal where they are.

They got Lulu as a rescue animal at the animal shelter. She's part black Lab but the vet couldn't ID the rest of the breed/s. She sheds like there's no tomorrow, but she's a wonderful dog, with the best of the Lab qualities. Her first family had children (Lulu loves kids big time) but apparently the family was moving and couldn't take her. It sounded like you could almost feel the family's tears on her back when my friends discovered her at the shelter. She'd been well cared for.

[DollyCali]

well, good for Lulu with the family who has her. Labs & goldens are normally great with kids.

And yes, the setting looks wonderful.. have fun!!!!

[MEG33]

That is a gorgeous view! Enjoy your dog sitting!

[MEG33]

Thank you, Bob!

[DollyCali]

the blonde is atop the grey Onxy.. so I have both!