I CAN STILL REMEMBER...

This one might let on a bit about your age, but it could evoke some wonderful childhood memories too.

I can still remember:

nickle pickles and half-cent candy

 

12 cent comic books

 

Metal lunch buckets, penny candy, nuns in full habits.

 

prayers in school and pleadge to the flag in school.

 

air raids in grammar school..getting down on our knees in the halls and ducking our heads!!

 

when a quarter would buy you a glass bottle of RC Cola and a candy bar and you still had change left over.

 

gas at 46 cents a gallon

 

No computers or video games and kids played outside.

 

Yeh, we'd get kicked outside to play. And some moms locked the door so the kids couldn't come back inside too soon. My dad used to make an ice skating rink in our backyard every winter and we had so much fun. Our feet didn't get so cold with the house right there to warm up in. Or we'd bike to the local park in warmer weather and play on the swing sets all afternoon. Someone would inevitably get hit by a swing seat as it came flying back.
Docs sometimes made house calls.
Do you remember selling stuff to neighbors? We'd get these big acorns, paint them in bright colors, and try to sell them to neighbors for 2 cents each. My husband even tried to resell their Christmas cards when he was a kid, without the names erased.

 

When stores were closed on Sunday and you could sleep with your doors unlocked.

 

When all we had was a big radio instead of the "new" television.....

When an air conditioned car meant you had all the windows open...

Paper dolls

Metal roller skates that needed a skate key

Riding the bus to go downtown to shop for school clothes

Pin curls and rag rollers

"Cat Eye" glasses even if you were a little kid....

Licking Green Stamps to put in your mom's book

 

when TV dinners were considered fast food; they only took between 15 and 30 minutes depending on the main course. Now we all stand and tap our foot at the microwave.

 

a little John Mellencamp:

that's when coke was coke...holding hands meant something baby...

 

paper dolls
black and white television - getting a new colour one
only having one car in the family and dad took it to work every day
spending 2 hours going to the beach by train every summer weekend
when KFC was Kentucky Fried Chicken and it was a big treat to have it as take away for dinner - probably once every 6 months
I had never eaten pizza
going to the drive in movies with my parents and brothers and falling asleep in the back of the station wagon

 

Boy...all the good memories. When coke was a coke and grovin was grovin, skating on Sat. night, watching American Bandstand on my little black and white with no remote, jiffypop was so cool, Ed Sullivan Show with Elvis...saw him for the first time, Working at A&W and those fosted glasses...the good old days, wish I had them back.

 

I can remember when Cars looked interesting, lots of chrome and fins, running boards, fender feelers and a horn that didn't sound like a toy...

We used to play for hours outside until the street lights came on.

I used walk to school and back no school buses.

No fast food joints.

I had a crystal radio that I attached to my metal bed and listened for hours.

 

I can still remember when our house phone had a dial on it. No push buttons and no cordless phones!!!


Cable television with a box that had a cord attached to it.


Could buy milk and bread for under a dollar!

Platform shoes and Earth Shoes

 

Lets see....

Candy 3 for a penny
All Day suckers that lasted all day
Saturday Matinee movies with a cartoon before and lucky draws at intermission
The Pop Shoppe (bottling plant)
Milkmen delivering milk and bread (our house has a little door to put the milk in accessible from inside and out)
Knife sharpening men (we still have one that comes around with his truck once in a while)
Mail delivery
House Dresses (every mom's uniform)
Baby Doll Pyjamas
My school had a girl's playground and a boy's playground as well as a girl's staircase and a boy's staircase (no mixing allowed)
Bicycle Licenses
Girls not allowed to wear pants to school
Gaucho pants and baby doll pyjamas
Crinoline Skirts and matching slips
Wearing hats and gloves to church
White kneesocks
Rabbit ears on a TV
Requesting to make a long distance call and have the operator call you back an hour later. I remember my Mum winning a phone call to my Grandma in England- a half hour call, at that time the rates were $3.00 a minute (~1972) She thought she had won the lottery!
Remember when lottery prizes were $100,000?

I am sure I am going to remember a few more later!

 

Right on Andrea...

 

Dances in our high school gym.
Mills Brothers.
Elvis.
Bill Hailey and the Comets. Buddy Holly and the Crickets.