Close your eyes. . .
and go back in time. . .

before the internet or the pc,
before semi-automatics and crack,
before Sega or Super Nintendo. . .

Way back. . . . .

REMEMBER?

Oh, yeah. I sure do remember!

It seems a friend and I were discussing this today. . .

"reminiscing"

SOME PEOPLE ARE TOO YOUNG TO REMEMBER THESE . . .

BUT WE'RE NOT!

Do you remember??????

Sit back, relax, listen, read, & smile.

Kind of of reminds you to stop & smell the roses of life,
and to give thanks to God for life and memories!!!!

Do You Remember?

Turn your sound on.

How many do you remember?

(If you want more music,
come to the WV66 Music page
when you're done here!)

DO YOU REMEMBER WHEN. . .?

All the girls had ugly gym uniforms?

It took five minutes for the TV warm up. . .
if you had one?

Remember . . .

watching Saturday morning cartoons,
short commercials,
Fat Albert,
Road Runner,
He-Man,
the Three Stooges,
Yogi and BooBoo,
Elmer and Bugs,
or staying up for Gunsmoke
or Bonanza?

Remember when . . .

Nobody was prettier than Mom?

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

It was magic when Dad would "remove" his thumb?

Ice cream was considered a basic food group?

Nobody owned a purebred dog?

When a quarter was a decent allowance. . .
and another quarter was a miracle?

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

Collecting empty pop bottles was a source of riches?

Your Mom wore nylons that came in two pieces?

When girls neither dated nor wore make-up until high school,
if then,
and "going steady" meant something important?

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?

Oatmeal did, too?

It was considered a great privilege to be taken out to dinner
at a real restaurant with your parents?

At school, they threatened to keep kids back a grade
if they failed. . . and they did?

When a '56 or '57 Chevy was everyone's dream car...
to cruise, peel out, drag the Ave, or lay rubber?

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 and hermetic seals
because no one had yet tried to poison a perfect stranger?

When any parent could discipline any kid,
or use him to carry groceries,
and nobody, not even the kid, thought a thing of it?

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?

Remember . . .?

When being sent to the principal's office was nothing
compared to the fate
that awaited the 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,
and some of us are still afraid of them!

But we survived because their love
was greater than the threat.

Please, send this address on to someone else
who can still remember!

But wait, go back further. . .

Remember . . .

listening to Superman on the radio?
Nancy Drew,
the Hardy Boys,
Laurel and Hardy,
Howdy Doody
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,
bowling,
camping out in the backyard,
4-H fairs,
roller skating,
and visits to the swimming hole back the creek,
or going downtown to the pool?

Being tired from playing...remember that?

I'm talking about hide and seek at dusk,
the Good Humor man,
red light, green light,
the corner store;
hopscotch,
butterscotch,
doubledutch,
jacks,
kickball,
dodgeball,
Mother may I,
freeze tag,
red rover
and roly poly.

Hula hoops,
running through the sprinkler,
work-up,
the smell of the sun,
and licking salty lips . . .

Eating Kool Aid powder,
lime popsicles,
rootbeer floats,
wax lips and mustaches,
an ice cream cone on a warm summer night,
. . . chocolate or vanilla or strawberry or maybe butter pecan,
a cherry Coke from the fountain at the corner drugstore.

Didn't that feel good . . .

. . . just to go back and say, "Yeah, I remember that"?

I am sharing this list of memories with you
because it ends with a double dog dare
to pass it 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
Jiffy Pop popcorn
Fizzies
Blackjack, Clove and Teaberry chewing gum

Remember . . .?

Home milk delivery in glass bottles with cardboard stoppers?

When milk went up one cent
and everyone talked about it for weeks?

Newsreels before the movie?

Remember when...

there were two types of sneakers for girls and boys:
Keds and PF Flyers --
and the only time you wore them at school was for gym?

we had saddle shoes for school
and dress up shoes for Sunday?

Telephone numbers with a word prefix...(GLencourt 34924)?

Party lines?

Remember . . .

Peashooters
Pogo sticks
One-speed bikes
Rambler station wagons
45 RPM records
Green Stamps
Newsreels before the movie
Hi-Fi's

Metal ice cubes trays with levers
Mimeograph and ditto paper
Beanie and Cecil
Roller-skate keys
Cork pop guns
Drive in movies
Studebakers

Washtub wringers
The Fuller Brush Man
Reel-to-reel tape recorders
Tinkertoys
Erector Sets
The Fort Apache Play Set
Lincoln Logs
15 cent (or even 19 cent!) hamburgers

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

35 cent a gallon gasoline

When around the corner seemed far away,
and going downtown seemed like going somewhere.

Do you remember a time when . . .

Decisions were made by going "eeny-meeny-miney-moe"?

Mistakes were corrected by simply exclaiming, "Do Over!"?

Scrapes and bruises were kissed and made better?

"Race issue" meant arguing about who ran the fastest?

Money issues were handled by whoever was the banker in Monopoly?

Catching the fireflies could happily occupy an entire evening?

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

Older siblings were the worst tormentors,
but also the fiercest protectors?

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

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

Getting 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?

Oh, yes! and remember these. . .

A million mosquito bites, sticky fingers, cops and robbers, cowboys and Indians, Zorro, climbing trees, building igloos out of snow banks, walking to school no matter what the weather, running till you were out of breath, laughing so hard your stomach hurt, jumping on the bed, pillow fights, and spinning around, getting dizzy, and falling down was cause for giggles?

The worst embarrassment you could think of was being picked last for a team?

It was unbelievable that dodgeball wasn't an Olympic event?

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?

Abilities were discovered because of a "double-dog dare."

If you can remember most or all of these,
then you have LIVED !!!!!

Please pass this address on to anyone
who may need a break from their "grown-up" life . . .

I double-dog-dare-ya!