Oldsailor65 Loc: Iowa

Lost innocence

HOW'S THIS FOR NOSTALGIA?

It took three minutes for the TV to warm up.


Nobody owned a purebred dog.

When a quarter was a decent allowance. And made with real Silver!
You'd reach into a muddy gutter for a penny. Made with real copper! Looking to see if it was a 1943 copper penny!

Your Mom wore nylons that came in two pieces.

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. Not to mention C*****r Jacks!


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 it!


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...'.


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.

Didn't that feel good, just to go back and say, 'Yeah, I remember that'?


I am sharing this with you today because it ended with a Double Dog Dare to pass it on. To remember what a Double Dog Dare is, read on. And remember that the perfect age is somewhere between old enough to know better and too young to care.

Send this on to someone who can still remember Howdy Doody and The Peanut Gallery, the Lone Ranger, The Shadow knows, Nellie Bell, Roy and Dale, Trigger and Buttermilk.
Candy cigarettes as well as summers filled with bike rides, Hula hoops, and visits to the pool, and eating Kool-Aid powder with sugar.

Wax Coke-shaped bottles with colored sugar water inside.

Soda pop machines that dispensed glass bottles. Coffee shops with Table Side Jukeboxes. Blackjack, Clove and Teaberry chewing gum.

Home milk delivery in glass bottles with cardboard stoppers.

Newsreels before the movie.

Telephone numbers with a word prefix...(Temple 7-1127). Or, some of us remember when there were just 4 numbers with no word prefix at all And, nearly everyone had a party line.

Peashooters

Hi-Fi's & 45 RPM records.

78 RPM records!

S&H Green Stamps.

Mimeograph paper.

The Fort Apache Play Set.

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'?

Having a Weapon in School meant being caught with a Slingshot?

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 t***sformed 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!!!!!!!

Pass this on to anyone who may need a break from their 'Grown-Up' Life.

I Double-Dog-Dare-Ya!

slatten49 Loc: Lake Whitney, Texas

Thanks

Been there, did or experienced all that

I'm curious as to what the '65 in your moniker represents.

Oldsailor65 Loc: Iowa

I joined the Navy in "65"

slatten49 Loc: Lake Whitney, Texas

I had been guessing that as a possibility.

I joined the USMC in '67, served through '69.

I'm pretty sure that BadBobby is the oldest US Sailor on OPP. He's a WWII Veteran of Pacific campaigns.

Thanks for your service

LogicallyRight Loc: Chicago

I was in the Navy from 61 to 65.

slatten49 Loc: Lake Whitney, Texas

Thank you for your service, also, Sailor.

Wonttakeitanymore

That was fun, brought smile to my face!!thank you!

Big dog

Well, now I feel Old !

EN Submarine Qualified Loc: Wisconsin East coast

Lots of 'boots' reporting in today. Says the old 1951-1961 active, then 1961-1067 USNR dude. I feel I am in great company.
Wish we could all hit the beach together and maybe 'shoot down a heavy'.

agatemaggot Loc: waterloo iowa

Com center specialist--- 65 / 75.

billy a Loc: South Florida

I'm in a twelve-step program. When working with a newcomer, I use our basic texts, and stray a bit by giving the person a copy of " The Little Train That Could". I tell him it's a pass to his youth, to a time when life was trouble-free, and to go there once in a while. These days we could all use a pass back. Love and Light, All.

teabag09

It's funny to be reading this now. Just today, while I was driving I was reliving so many things I had done as a kid. Really good memories. I guess that now that I'm on the down hill slide these things come to me more and more and brighten up my day because I realize I've had a really good and full life. What amazes me is that I actually survived it! Mike

Squiddiddler Loc: Phoenix

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USN 54 to 60.
Made a go-kart in 51 used soapbox derby wheels and a foot crank Maytag washing machine engine..Fun times back then.