[Dakotabound]

This has several anonymous postings on the web, so I have no idea who the author was.

Posted for your reminiscing pleasure on this Saturday in January.

[Willie Green]

White Castle sliders have been around since 1921.

[Commander8]

I was born in the late '70s and grew up in the 1980s. I remember the '80s as a simpler better time.

[xJones]

I remember being adjured very strongly, when starting elamentary shcool, "If you get a spanking at school, you'll get a bigger one when you come home." In those, the paddle was used, nobody was hurt but discipline was maintained.

[rooster1]

Born in 1947. Remember those days well and wish time travel was a reality and I could go back.

[LiteKeeper]

I was born in 1944 - to place myself on the time line.

I still remember that you didn't sass other kids' parents either. Because, somehow my parents found out about it before I could get home.

And we never locked our doors...how would our friends get in?

And we only had one car, Dad used it to get to work, so we had to walk everywhere, or wait for Dad to come home.

And we went to the Saturday matinee theater for a double feature and a cartoon for a dime!

We drank a lot of orange juice since we had five orange trees in our backyard, and we played in the orange groves at the end of the block (So Calif)

We would go to the other end of the block to my uncle's house and make fresh peach ice cream every Sat night during the summer. Course, we had to crank it because they hadn't put electric motors on the ice cream makers yet.

And we dressed up to go to church every Sunday morning. Coat and tie was the standard.

We would also sit around the radio in the evenings and listen to the variety and drama shows. Boy, did we have an imagination in those days. No TV screen to show us what was going on.

I'll have to keep remembering...more later, perhaps.

[Arkansawyer]

Just last week I was telling my kids that I was 14 when I first ate pizza. It was on the way back from a Boy Scout canoe trip into Minnesota & Canada (Charles L. Sommers). A couple of girls in Owatonna, MN bought it at a place called King Tut's Pizza. The girls loved our Southern accents and treating a friend and me to pizza. That was in 1966.

[SeeRushToldU_So]

Some of this sounds familiar. It gripes my butt to no end if kids don't say "sir" or "m'am", including and especially my kids.

Actually I remember an awful lot of this, except the snow. It doesn't snow much in south Georgia.

[Mike Darancette]

I tell my kids that we had to walk 5 miles to school (one way) through the deep snow watching out for ravenous wolves and bandits. We were too poor for sack lunches and the one room school didn't have a cafeteria so we had to go home for lunch.

When the kids say, "but, dad you grew up in Los Angeles", I tell them about global warming.

[mountaineer]

Pizzas were not delivered to your house back then, but the milk was.

Living in Pittsburgh in the late 1960s, we had metal milk boxes outside our front door for deliveries from the dairy man. Those boxes were especially useful in winter, when we used them to store our snowballs for the big battle with the other kids in the neighborhood.

[OldFriend]

Born in 1937 in Newark, NJ.......can't go home again.

[Conservababe]

Thanks for the chuckle and the memories, especially that tri colored screen that was taped to the tv. We always went over to my Aunt's house every Sunday evening to watch "Ponderosa" because she had one of those.

[JimRed]

Born in 1943, at the New Jersey Shore. Used to walk 1/2 mile to Hwy. 35 and catch a bus (10 cents) to Asbury Park and the amusements. My paper route paid me almost a dollar a week!

There was Little League, but no Pop Warner football or Biddy Basketball, and only foreigners played soccer. We fished, clammed, swam and played "guns" all summer.

We didn't have a telephone, but our neighbor did. Being "on relief" was shameful; military service was honorable.

We bought milk with a beautiful layer of cream on top by the gallon direct from the dairy farm a mile west of home.

We didn't have much, but since most of the folks we knew were in the same boat, we didn't think of ourselves as poor.

[lexington minuteman 1775]

Grew up in the fifties.And there was fast food, it just was not as prevelant as today.But going out to eat was for special occasions.We did have a TV and bought our first color set about 1960.And i can remember if ya moved the color TV the guy had to come out with this electric magnitized ring because moving it screwed up its color adjustment.

I do remember the forts, digging holes in backyards, having orange fights in the orchard,riding our bikes everywhere are what occupied out time after school. Oh yeah the first car i remember my folks had as a kid was a 1947 Ford and I remember my favorite place to ride in it was on the ledge behind the back seat and the window with no child restraint devises.And I survived to write this post!

[JimVT]

I must be getting old because I find myself reflecting back more and more and thinking I liked it a lot better back then

Me too.

With 50 TV channels to watch today I still can't find anything that compared to "Terry and the Pirates", or "Paul Lavalle and the Cities Service Band of America." or "Fred Allen" or "Amos and Andy"....and so many other radios greats.

I swear I got more education from 9 years with the Sisters of Mercy than some kids today get after 4 years at some liberal diploma mill.

My wife and I got our first Sears 'credit card' in 1960.

I cut it up and sent it back to them a few years ago when their interest charge hit 22%. They used to be a retail store now they're loan sharks.

Cripes I was even a Democrat back then when they stood for something other than getting re-elected every couple of years. Anybody remember Cong. Freddie St. Germain from Woonsocket, RI.

He coulda been Clinton's guru!

Ah, well....onward and upward!

[GrandMoM]

....we were expected to say thank you, please, I'm sorry, Pleased to meet you Mr., Mrs., or sir or mam.

Our aunts, uncles, teachers, priests, nuns, were allowed to correct us and we were made to listen.

We had no dishwashers but ourselves, and every night took turns washing, drying and sweeping the floor.

We had no showers so every morning we would take turns, oldest one first, and stand in the tub to wash ourselves off.

Saturday we got a full bath, but warm water was limited because of the small water heater so we were forced to top off the past bathers water to keep it warm.

We were woke up every morning by the sound of my father knocking the cold coals from the heater and refilling it with the coal in the coal bin.

We had to stand over the heater vent and dress, because there was no forced air heaters at that time, or we were to poor to own one.

Cokes were a dime and served in a fountain glass at the dime store, and twinkies were a nickel.

[facedown]

Born in 1950; this all rings true. Thanks for putting it up!

[don-o]

First American space flights. Our school did not have TV. But, I took my transistor radio to school, and teacher let me listen to the reports and scrawl them on the chalkboard.

First time I saw color television. Next door neighbor's house. We watched "The Wonderful World of Disney" At 7:00 EST on NBC.

Mickey, and Goofy, and Donald and Tnkerbell on small screen, just like in the theater was a big deal.

[SoDak]

Are you about to move to the Dakotas yet?

[Skwidd]

Born April 1975. I remember big hair and legwarmers.

[tenthirteen]

I was born in the early fifties in NYC. THe neigborhood was a melting pot, Italian, Jewish, German and Irish. Went back there three years ago, and the kid says "Dad, you grew up here"? Sadly, it's just not the same.

I really believe that the day that JFK was assassinated was the very day that all things changed here in the USA. Shortly after that, the riots broke out and the cities burned. We got LBJ and all the inherent evil things that came with him. The serenity of the fifties gave way to the insanity of the sixties and thereafter. I swear that JFK's demise was the catalyst for all this. since most Americans lost faith in the society that was left for them.

I may be wrong, but it seems that after the severe shock of that event, Americans somehow, for a time anyway, lost our way. Thats when the liberals/socialists saw their chance and they pounced. It has taken us this long to begin a correction of that, although it started with Reagan. Hopefully, this correction will continue and be successful.

Would that it be so.