badbobby Loc: texas

those were the days when


people actually talked to each other

we had it all and didn't realize it

do you remember"double dog dare"?

all the girls had ugly gym clothes

it took three minutes for the tv to warm up

no one owned a purebred dog

a quarter was an excellent allowance

you would stoop to pick up a penny in the gutter

you got your windshield cleaned,your oil checked,tires checked and gas pumped without asking,and all for free.and you even got trading stamps

laundry detergent had free glasses ,dishes or towels inside the box

they said they would keep kids back a grade if they failed--and they actually did it

a 57 chevy was every ones dream car--to cruise,peel out,lay rubber,or street race


young people went steady

lying on your back in the grass with your friends saying things like--"that cloud looks like a"--


playing ball with no adults around to make up rules

stuff from the store came without safety caps and hermetic seals,because no one then tried to poison perfect strangers

and with all our progress don't you wish,just once,that you could step back in time and savor the slower pace,and share it with the children of today

kids actually had to be selected to play on organized baseball or football teams



no one got trophys or awards just for competing

candy cigarettes,wax miniature coke bottles with colored sugar water inside,

party lines,pea shooters,78 rpm records,green stamps,mimeograph paper

do you remember when decisions were made by "eeny-meeny-miney-moe"?

mistakes were corrected by uttering "do over"

race issues meant who was the fastest runner

catching fireflies could happily occupy an entire evening

it wasn't odd to have more than one best friend

Saturday morning cartoons weren't 30 minute commercials for action figures

"olly olly action free" made perfect sense

spinning around getting dizzy and falling down was amusement

the worst embarrassment was being picked last for a sandlot team

war--was a card game

taking drugs meant orange flavored chewable aspirin

water balloons were a weapon


I am sharing this with you today because a friend "double dog dared "me to

remember the perfect age is somewhere between old enough to know better and too young to care

do you remember Howdy Doody,Peanut Gallery,The Lone Ranger,The Shadow Knows,Gene Autry,Roy Rogers,Hopalong Cassidy,Bob Steele,Tom mix ,Tim Holt,Lash Larue,Randolf Scott,Trigger

,buttermilk,Silver,Scout,and oh so many others from our past?Bob Hope,Bing Crosby,Red Skelton,Fibber Mcgee and Molly,Amos and Andy

Benny Goodman,Xavier Cugat

Clark Gable,Maureen Ohara,,Spencer Tracy,Katherine Hepburn,James Cagney,Edward G Robinson,Humphrey Bogart?

Hank Williams,Ernest Tubbs,Roy Acuff--to name just a few


Do you remember??




If you remember all or most of them

then you have lived my friend

Coos Bay Tom Loc: coos bay oregon

I remember it all. I remember when all the streets were unpaved and we had rock fights. I remember playing outside all day coming home only for lunch and supper time. The best rubber bands for our high powered rubber band guns were cut from Red inner tubes that were real rubber. I remember tree forts under ground forts and home made rockets from gun powder we swiped and pieces of copper pipe we found. We mad our own go carts with any wood we could find and old lawn mower wheels. Soda pop was a dime Hershey bars were twice the size they are now. We drank koolaid with lots of sugar and candy was not the poison mothers call it now. We all wanted to be cowboys and we played army kick the can and red rover.. The first T V I saw was a huge box with a tiny screen in one corner and every one in the neighborhood had to walk over to see it and the owner was beaming in p***e. Well I'm not that old but Ike was my best friend. Our Dads were WW2 and Korean war vets. We had bottle rockets on the 4th of July and we all had "classic" cars.

PoppaGringo Loc: Muslim City, Mexifornia, B.R.

Si. I remember them, and more, very well.

Louie27 Loc: Peoria, AZ

Man!! Since both of us reminder all of those things and some more we must be order that dirt. Have great day old friend. One other thing I did and if my dad ever caught me doing that I would be taken out to the garage and given a whooping, since we had no street lights at the time we hid in a field of weeds next to the road and would throw a hub cap out just after a car went by us. We sure got a lot or people to stop and look at there wheels to see if they had lost a hubcap. We were never seen but we never harmed anyone or anything except for the time it took those to check.