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

Opinions by our own 'King of Ping' Every Thursday at the Finest The guy's good, folks!

[DollyCali]

I wish I could show my kids just one day out of my childhood summer.

such a true statement.. as much as I tried when my son was growing up.. it was all, well, different!

[DollyCali]

yes, that little jingle has been going through my mind all day!!!!

[DollyCali]

Hi Lonestar.. for some reason I was thinking you were in your 30s. guess you are a little closer to my vintage though..

hope your house & yard are almost 100%..and it looks like hurricane season is closing with hopefully no further assaults to your area.

always nice to have you drop in to say hi (you too weinie!)

[DollyCali]

such a tender post.. I read once a statement from another tender man.. to the effect that the further he advances in technology & life the more homesick he is for the good old days of simplicity, more smiles & less hassle.

Thanks for your wonderful poetry & I hope you like the way I decided to "showcase" it..

[TASMANIANRED]

I think I'm a fossil.

[DollyCali]

Hi Nord.. sorry for delay in responding.. I was gone for PM... I saw recent pix of the "guys" who do the trade shows for star trek.. sad to see them so aged. WEll, of course we have all aged.. but they in our minds are like the pix you posted!

wasn't that story a hoot......? and cant you just picture POTUS saying that???

[DollyCali]

but I am sure a very pretty fossil.. and fossils are sturdy, tough, not wishy washy? they are what they are w/o excuses.

I want to be a fossil too, okay?

[DollyCali]

there you are! have been thinking of you.. how is pee wee doing? My two pups are energetic, flea bags! (yes, I use ALL the expensive meds from vet etc).. but I love them, scratching & all

[Jack Deth]

Hi, Dolly!

I remember sitting at the Comic Book rack at the local Grand Union and paging through 10 cent Sgt. Rock, Batman, generaly any DC comic. Wasn't much of a Superman fan.

10 cent 6 1/2 oz. Cokes in bottles.

Spending the day collecting NeHi, RC Cola, Coke, Upper Ten bottles at nearby consruction site. Taking them to the liquor store and getting at least $1.01 for a Monogram, Revelle, Hawk or Airfix model.

Mattel "Fanner 50" Cowboy pistols that could be loaded with spring loaded 'bullets" that reqired "Greenie-Stick On Caps" stuck on the base of the brass cartridge to make the pistol go "Bang!" an let the small plastic bullets fly.

Kenner Construction sets with bases, beams, struts and angles to create building or houses. The also made pretty neat Spaceships!

"Blue and Grey" Civil War sets with cannons that fired and bridges that blew up.

Buying a few sacks of Green Army Men and placing them in battle scenes. Then taking BB Guns and rifles to them.

Taking Renwal Model Warships out in the back yard. Putting firecrackers all over them. Squeezing a few tubes of glue over the firecrackers and models. Then setting them on fire.

Getting only three local and three Baltimore stations on our old Zenith B&W set.

Popping bags of popcorn. Filling the cooler with sodas. Loading my brother, sister, our friends and I into our Falcon Station Wagon and going to the Dusk to Dawn horror shows at local Drive-Ins.

Jack.

[MS.BEHAVIN]

Dusk to dawn horror shows at the Drive-in!!
I remember dat too!
Ms.B

[.30Carbine]

Far better to trust ourselves to Jesus

Bump that!

[JustAmy]

Thanks for the Memories Thread, Dolly.

It was a fun thread to read.

I don't remember any of those things. :)

[Temple Owl]

Hello Dolly;
I hope your pups get over the itchs. Pee wee is doing great. He is still the funniest dog in the world, but every once in a while he'll bite someone for no apparent reason.. My grandson is afraid of him after getting nipped and my new daughter-in-law got nipped on her wedding day. Asode frpm that and being a one-dog wrecking crew, he's barrells of fun and energy,

[DollyCali]

you are very welcome Amy.. many have shared some things here that brought smiles to me. How nice it is to think of those little things of years past.

I did bookmark this thread. There is a LOT of good material from everyone for another project I have in mind.

Hope Marissa is doing well & enjoying her new school year. Is she in 2nd grade this year?

[DollyCali]

Hi sweetie.. ah the old drive ins. I went a few years ago for the heck of it & wow how things had changed. THE SOUND was from your car radio.. set to a designated frequency NOT THE SPEAKERS..

I guess I am really spoiled with good sound, pix etc at the top theaters. It didn't really cut it for me. But as a teen on a date & little kid with my parents, it was fun!

I don't recall ever going to the regular theater with my parents.. just m;y friends on a Sat matinee..

[DollyCali]

Temple Owl.. what you are saying about Pee Wee brought back a few memories of Oliver. He never really BIT anyone but on a few occasions, without any negative influence he would growl & snap at someone ...often folks who were petting him & being nice to him. Only a few times did that happen but it did concern me that one day he would tear into someone.

In the months since his death, part of my thoughts are that God took him before he would do something like that. Maybe he had a small brain tumor or what not. I still mourn him deeply. I cannot go anywhere or do anything it seems without having powerful memories of our companionship & explorations.

I love Josy & Toby.. they are dear, precious pets. But no person .. nor no pet can be replaced once they have carved their essence into your soul. I know you feel that way about Ink.. Part of the walk down memory lane must include the people & the animals who perhaps shared part of the years past

nice to see you!

[DollyCali]

sometimes very hard to give control of our lives as we in America try to be so self sufficient.. and there is a balance in the Christian life of doing the things we should as stewards & at the appropriate time turning over the helm of our life/ship.

Thanks for dropping by...

[GodBlessUSA]

Warm & Fuzzy Wednesday

[Kitty Mittens]

Thank you for the Fantastic Thread, Dear Dolly; I Remember Many of those Things, and it was Like Going Back in a Time-Warp to Read them!

On Another Subject, you Said, "But no person .. nor no pet can be replaced once they have carved their essence into your soul," and it is So True! I Immediately Thought of my Sweet Friend, Fang-Face, and Several Other Friends I have Known Over the Years. At 46 Years of Age, I still Miss my Friend Spot, and will Never Forget him Standing in the Middle of the Country Road in Front of our House, Watching us Drive Away. I was 9 Years Old, and my Parents couldn't Afford to Feed 2 Dogs, so they Gave my Dog to a Neighbor when we Moved. My Spot Walked a Ways After us, and then just Stood there in the Road, Almost as if he Knew we wern't Coming Back. The Neighbor Later Said he Disappeared; he may have Tried to Follow us, but we were Moving about 50 Miles Away. :(

I have Known So Many 'Pets,' both Dogs and Kitties, and have Raised Several Batches of Kittens on a Bottle. Each Friend has his or her Own Special Place in my Heart. : )

[DollyCali]

Oh my what a sad story of leaving your poor pup when You were nine.. how confused he/she must have been. It breaks my heart when people do that.. or just dump them somewhere. I have had 3 dogs & countless "drop off" kitties.. and they are all precious.

I know you miss Fang-Face.. there are always a few that exp touch you til you breath your last breath & I like to think that the step into eternity is reunion time with out departed pets as we meet our Master.

Thanks for dropping by. I just took a couple hour walk in woods with Josy & Toby.. we went up & down a 200 foot ravine 3 times because I got very disoriented. This is the first time this has happened.. well, I did get out as I always do, but took a bit longer this time.