KWSN Orbiting Fortress

[rotciv KOTHRT]

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DO YOU REMEMBER WHEN ...?

All the girls had ugly gym uniforms?



It took five minutes for the TV warm up?


Nearly everyone's Mom was at home when the kids got home from school?


Nobody owned a purebred dog?



When a quarter was a decent allowance?



You'd reach into a muddy gutter for a penny?


Your Mom wore nylons that came in two pieces?

All your male teachers wore neckties and female teachers had
their hair done every day and wore high heels?






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?


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?


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 "

and playing baseball with no adults to help kids with the rules of the game?


Stuff from the store came without safety caps an d 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?


Wh en 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.

Send this on to someone who can still remember
Nancy Drew, the Hardy Boys, < /SPAN>Laurel and Hardy,
Howdy Dowdy and the Peanut Gallery,
the Lone Ranger, The Shadow Knows,
Nellie Bell, Roy and Dale, Trigger and Buttermilk.


As well as summers filled with bike rides, baseball games,
Hula Hoops, bowling and visits to the pool, and eating Kool-Aid powder with sugar.
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.

How many of these do you remember?


Candy cigarettes


Wax Coke-shaped bottles with colored sugar water inside
Soda pop machines that dispensed glass bottles


Coffee shops with tableside jukeboxes


Blackjack, Clove and Teaberry chewing gum



Home milk delivery in glass bottles with cardboard stoppers

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Newsreels before the movie
P.F. Fliers


Telephone numbers with a word prefix...(Raymond 4-601).
Party lines


Peashooters
Howdy Doody



45 RPM records


Green Stamps
Hi-Fi's

Metal ice cubes trays with levers
Mimeograph paper
Beanie and Cecil



Roller-skate keys
Cork pop guns
Drive ins



Studebakers



Washtub wringers
The Fuller Brush Man
Reel-To-Reel tape recorders
Tinkertoys


Erector Sets
The Fort Apache Play Set
Lincoln Logs


15 cent McDonald hamburgers


5 cent packs of baseball cards -
with that awful pink slab of bubble gum
Penny candy
35 cent a gallon gasoline


Jiffy P op popcorn

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 cou ld happily occupy an entire evening?




It wasn't odd to have two or three "Best Friends"?


The worst thing you could catch from the opposite sex was "cooties"?


Having a weapon in school meant being caught with a slingshot?


A foot of snow was a dream come true?

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 transformed 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
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Sir Rotvic Knight of the Halfround Table
MAD, MAD I tell you.They're all MAD.
I am the only sane one here, my Doctor told me I was cured after the shock treatments. Big Brother Is Aways Watching.

[Pooh Bear 27]

Wacky Packs (Same 5 cent gum but with funny stickers instead)

Mad Magazine
Cracked Magazine

Records that were on cereal boxes (floppy ones that sounded bad, but were fun to play)

Cars, rings, other "small toys" in Cracker Jack boxes (now more or less banned because of choking hazard).

3 or 4 channels, all you had to get up and change.

Cigarettes given as prizes on game shows.

Women almost never wore slacks / pants.

Long division, remainders.

I am sure I could come up with a ton more.

[KWSN imcrazynow]

I remember
And miss them for everyone,especially my kids.
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And a few that won't update for some reason.

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[mohrorless]

I remember most of them. Now I am depressed. I'm going back to bed...
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Fetch me the Holy Hand Grenade!




Keeper of the Unending keg of PGGBs
Taunter in Training
Campaign Manager for Sir Shrubbery



Plus

[Ironheart]

All of the above as well as
78 rpm's,

a separate externally attached antenna for UHF, with a variable analog tuner
and all the stations "signing off" by a certain hour

steering column shifting for manual transmissions
(and Nash seats!)

movies didn't have MPAA ratings

kids ate and enjoyed entertainment "free with a paying adult"

Advertisements were in a separate section of the newspaper

Doctors made house calls

and SLINKY!
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Klaatu... verata... n... Necktie. Nectar. Nickel. Noodle

[dolphinm]

All of the above ( well, the English variants) but especially the 78s and slinky.

My son bought a slinky a few months ago and was surprised to hear that I had enjoyed playing with my father's one when I was small.

kids being occasionally allowed to "stay up" to watch a late night program at nine o'clock - they seem to think its a right to go to bed as late as humanly possible . . .
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