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To: Dakotabound
Great thread!

Remember when phone numbers started with words? Like, Esterbrook 9-5321, or Armitage 3-2162.

Remember in school when they'd give you those pills to chew on, and they'd turn your teeth blue in the parts where you weren't brushing hard enough?

Remember when going shopping was a big deal; you got dressed up for it and went "downtown," and you went to the department stores, had lunch in a cafeteria downtown, and it was all a big treat?

Remember when you'd get in your parents' hair so they'd tell you to "go out and play," and you would -- and you were totally free?! You could ride your bike, go to a friend's house, go to the playground or candy store, whatever you wanted, totally unsupervised and totally safe, until supper time or your mother called you home. Sure, you knew to look both ways before crossing the street and not to talk to strangers, but basically you were FREE. Nowadays kids are either indoors or else they're participating in some sort of supervised activity, like soccer, where their parents drive them to the event. I don't know any parents who let their kids just "go out and play" anymore.

Would I go back to those olden days? In a New York nanosecond!!
205 posted on 01/04/2003 3:58:58 PM PST by Nea Wood
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To: Nea Wood
Remember when going shopping was a big deal; you got dressed up for it and went "downtown," and you went to the department stores, had lunch in a cafeteria downtown, and it was all a big treat?

....sure do!...most of the time we went to the dime store, the big stores were in downtown Detriot.

The rest of the family would be happy to order at the fountain, but, I had to go to the snack bar and get a Chiliburger! Oh my, that was good, it was chile and ground hamburger mixed together, not chile poured over hamburger like today!

216 posted on 01/04/2003 4:14:12 PM PST by GrandMoM
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To: Nea Wood
Remember when phone numbers started with words? Like, Esterbrook 9-5321, or Armitage 3-2162.

I'm a '46. Our home phone number was GRanville-0651.

220 posted on 01/04/2003 4:22:00 PM PST by Aeronaut
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