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 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?
When a 57 Chevy was everyone’s dream car..
Playing baseball with no adults to help kids with the rules of the game?
When being sent to the principal’s office was nothing compared to the fate that awaited the student at home?
Candy cigarettes
Wax Coke-shaped bottles with colored sugar water inside.
Soda pop machines that dispensed glass bottles.
Coffee shops with Table Side Jukeboxes.
Home milk delivery in glass bottles with cardboard stoppers.
Newsreels before the movie.
Telephone numbers with a word prefix…( Yukon 2-601). Or, some of us remember when there were just 4 numbers with no word prefix at all. And, nearly everyone had a party line.
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?
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’?
‘Oly-oly-oxen-free’ made perfect sense?
War was a card game?
Baseball cards in the spokes transformed any bike into a motorcycle?
I Double-Dog-Dare-Ya!
Lots of good stuff throughout this posting, Larry. Thanks.
Thanks, Liz! Always good to hear from you, and appreciate your kind words.
Larry