Art & Inspiration HOW'S THIS FOR NOSTALGIA?

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 Cracker 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.

Do you remember summers filled with bike rides, Hula hoops, 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'?

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

Do you remember Howdy Doody and The Peanut Gallery, the Lone Ranger, The Shadow knows, Nellie Bell, Roy and Dale, Trigger and Buttermilk.




Candy cigarettes


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.


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.


Peashooters.


Hi-Fi's & 45 RPM records.


78 RPM records!


Green Stamps.


Mimeograph machines.


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?

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!!!!!!!

 

All that was great, if it happened in your demographic.

 

'57 Chevy still is my dream car!
Good stuff, glad to see you getting along ok. Fun to read. In 2nd grade, around 1972, the teachers would paddle bad kids. Like me.

 

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I have lived! I remember it all.

 

The Cracker Jacks that came inside the soap box always tasted a little funny though Tom.

 

Yep! Lived through it all.... Coke is the real thing or how about the Faygo Red Pop commercial on the Boblo boat????....

Never forget the good old days!!

 

My mom didn't have gams like that dame!

 

Yeah but polio sucks and antibiotics are great, just sayin

 

That's one thing I don't remember. Just glad to get Cracker Jacks!

 

Just green stamps? You forgot about orange stamps...and the almighty blue stamps!

I often want to "go back"...but would rather look ahead. Always figured if you try to live in the past to much, you end up dieing and never see what's around you.

It is fun to look back though..no doubt about it.

Makes you wonder in 50 years, right? Will there be a post like this some where touting the 5mph bumpers, how technology improved with all the plastic in automobiles...when everyone is cruising around in in some self driven electric thing

 

I used to see these allot on rear bumpers....
Think it had to do with our boys fighting overseas.....

 

Remember when you could tear the end off a straw wrapper and blow the rest off like a missile?

 

When I read posts like this it makes me believe that I have lived in the best time frame of this country. I think its going all down hill from here.
But maybe thats because I was accustomed to those times and the future is so different.
Nah, I just don't like where the world is heading now, hence, my signature.

 

Nostalgia's not what it used to be...

 

AMEN! I agree 100%.

 

Yup I am guessing there are/were a lot of people who don't look back on that time period quite so fondly.

 

I do have a 1945 quarter.....
Wish it could tell stories of where it's been....

 

Well, if you look closely at that penny it's called a rare 1955 "Double Die", it's worth about $1500 on average.

 

Interesting!

 

Ahh....... My Ma never looked like that!

 

Everything WASN'T that great if you were poor white, black of any socio economic strata, a woman, disabled in nearly any way, or hispanic - before the word was invented - everyone brown was treated as though they all came from the same place....kinda like we still are.

 

My fondest memory was witnessing the invention of fire.

 

Not to you, but probably did to your dad.

 

I have one of those old rotary dial phones. My kids asked how it worked after trying to push their fingers through the holes. When my granddaughter was 3-4 years old, she played with that thing for hours.

 

not that 57 Chev with the 21"

 

I'd still be using mine but the phone company changed their ringer signal.
And no, I don't have a cel phone either.
Now get off my yard!

 

Loved that mechanical sound it made.... Ma Bell sure knew how to make telephones back in the day.... And those things were heavy....