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CJ Prowler Junkie Posts: 18860 |
posted 06-10-2003 09:34 PM
When the worst thing you could do at school was smoke in the bathrooms, flunk a test or chew gum. And the banquets were in the cafeteria and we danced to a juke box later, and all the girls wore fluffy pastel gowns and the boys wore suits for the first time and we were allowed to stay out til 12 midnight? When a '57 Chevy was everyone's dream car....to cruise, peel out, lay rubber and watch drag races, and people went steady and girls wore a class ring with an inch of wrapped dental floss or yarn coated with pastel frost nail polish so it would fit her finger? And no one ever asked where the car keys were 'cause they were always in the car, in the ignition, and the doors were never locked. And you got in big trouble if you accidentally locked the doors at home, since no one ever had a key? Remember lying on your back on 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. Back then, baseball was not a psychological group learning experience - it was a game? Remember when stuff from the store came without safety caps and hermetic seals 'cause 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 the 80's and 90's? So to someone who can still remember Nancy Drew, The Hardy Boys, Laurel & Hardy, Howdy Doody and The Peanut Gallery, The Lone Ranger, The Shadow Knows, Nellie Belle, Roy and Dale, Trigger and Buttermilk as well as the sound of a real mower on Saturday morning, and summers filled with bike rides, playing in cowboy land, baseball games, bowling and visits to the pool....and eating Kool-Aid powder with sugar? When being sent to the principal's office was nothing compared to the fate that awaited a misbehaving 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 all survived because their love was greater than the threat. Didn't that feel good, just to go back and say, Yeah, I remember that? And was it really that long ago? |
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Thunder Prowler Junkie Posts: 456 |
posted 06-10-2003 10:05 PM
I'm having Flashbacks!  |
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Wil C. Keener Prowler Junkie Posts: 297 |
posted 06-10-2003 10:36 PM
And wasn't it GREAT! |
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tangled up in BLUE Prowler Junkie Posts: 11086 |
posted 06-11-2003 07:01 AM
...Stingray bicycles with 5 spd shifters...building model cars(still have about a thousand, mostly unbuilt)...club houses....slot car tracks....toy guns that really shot things....Bazooka only came in one flavor...no diet drinks except water...movies were 25 cents...our lawn mower didn't even have a motor....watching Bonanza in color at the neighbors house on Sunday nites...hearing the hammer shop pound 24 hours a day 7 days a week at the local Chrysler plant...now it is Metaldyne and only a few hundred people work there...a grocery store on every block ran by kindly old ladies that would sometimes slip you a few extra pieces of candy...AM transistor radios....'55/'57 Chevys on every corner...fruit loops on our shirts....fear of grade cards....and the longest summer days, seemed like summer would NEVER end.... |
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ALLEY CAT Prowler Junkie Posts: 36093 |
posted 06-11-2003 08:14 AM
MEMORIES  |
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FL Blue Kat Prowler Junkie Posts: 471 |
posted 06-11-2003 10:49 AM
And Saturday mornings were not cartoons but "real" shows: Lassie Rin Tin Tin My Friend Flicka Sky King Yancy Derringer Bat Masterson And the weekday afternoon shows: Howdy Doody The Mickey Mouse Club |
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Gene Prowler Junkie Posts: 1256 |
posted 06-11-2003 11:05 AM
CJ if you aren't careful you are going to date yourself with all these good times.What about the great music,Elvis,Chuck Berry,Beach Boys etc.Good memories. Gene |
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DR PROWLER Prowler Junkie Posts: 4079 |
posted 06-11-2003 11:38 AM
Those were the days,weren't they? Of course I wouldn't know being only 29 U.S.years old(or 40 Canadian)! |
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CJ Prowler Junkie Posts: 18860 |
posted 06-11-2003 11:55 AM
quote: LOL! Gene..........54....working on 55 and darn proud of it! Times were so much simpler then....... |
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Gary C Prowler Junkie Posts: 12017 |
posted 06-11-2003 12:27 PM
HERE'S THE BEST ONE 13 White Castles for a buck,,,yummy ------------------  |
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idive Prowler Junkie Posts: 8483 |
posted 06-11-2003 02:15 PM
Ahhhh, yes, the good old days... When did it begin to change??? For me it was the following: Typically, we left our front door open. We had a screen door that was kept shut, but unlocked. The car in the driveway was also unlocked. During the day, keys were left in the car. Mom went out to go to work one morning and found the hood up on the car. Someone had tried to steal it or to steal something off it. Ever since then, she parked with the nose of the car against the garage door so they couldn't get to the latch to open it, car doors were locked, keys were never left in it, we shut and locked the front door AND screen door, my brother and I were issued house keys to get in after school, and fear was instilled in our lives. I have a lady friend in a small town in Illinois that still leaves the keys in her car 24/7 and never locks her apartment door. Even after the train car killer was in their area a couple years back. I hate the nitelife and limited job opportunities of a small town, but living the days of old, TODAY, would sure be nice. As envy sets in, and the dream bubble bursts, I long to return to those days myself. ------------------ :flag:  |
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