Remember When

• When nearly everyone's Mom was at home when the kids got there.
• When two dollars was a decent allowance.
• When you'd reach into a muddy gutter for a penny.
• When a penny would buy something.
• When you got your windshield cleaned, oil checked, and gas pumped, without asking, for free, every time. And, you didn't pay for air.
• Saving Green Stamps in those little paper booklets was exciting.
• When it was considered a great privilege to be taken out to dinner at a real restaurant with your parents
• When they threatened to keep kids back a grade if they failed.. And did!
• When being sent to the principal's office was nothing compared to the fate that awaited a 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!

• Decisions were made by going "eeny-meeny-miney-mo."
• Mistakes were corrected by simply exclaiming, "Do over!"
• Money issues were handled by whoever was the banker in "Monopoly."
• Being old referred to anyone over 20.
• The net on a tennis court was the perfect height to play volleyball and rules didn't matter.
• The worst thing you could catch from the opposite sex was cooties.
• It was magic when dad would "remove" his thumb.
• It was unbelievable that dodge ball wasn't an Olympic event.
• Nobody was prettier than Mom.
• Scrapes and bruises were kissed and made better.
• It was a big deal to finally be tall enough to ride the "big people" rides at the amusement park.
• Getting a few inches of snow was a dream come true.
• Abilities were discovered because of a "double-dog-dare."

• Saturday morning cartoons weren't 30-minute ads 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.
• Water balloons were the ultimate weapons.
• Baseball cards in the spokes transformed any bike into a motorcycle.
• Taking drugs meant orange-flavored chewable aspirin.
• Ice cream was considered a basic food group.
• Older siblings were the worst tormentors, but also the fiercest protectors.

• Coffee shops with tableside jukeboxes
• Home milk delivery in glass bottles with cardboard stoppers
• Newsreels before the movie
• Telephone numbers with a word prefix....(Raymond 4-601)
• How about party lines and two longs and a short ring was the cue that it was your phone call.
• 45 RPM records
• Metal ice cubes trays with levers
• Mimeograph paper
• Cork pop guns
• Studebakers
• Washtub wringers
• The Fuller Brush Man
• Reel-To-Reel tape recorders
• Tinkertoys
• Erector Sets---Mechanno Sets---The Fort Apache Play Set---Lincoln Logs
• Spinning around, getting dizzy, and falling down was cause for giggles?
• The worst embarrassment was being picked last for a team?

**Wax coke-shaped bottles with colored sugar water inside.
----Horrible tasting stuff like vanilla on steroids --didn't like it----

**Soda pop machines that dispensed glass bottles.
----Like a big floor freezer sure kept the pop cool though----

Blackjack, Clove and Teaberry chewing gum
----Remember Blackjack horrible but cheap 2 cents licorice on steroids----

Home milk delivery in glass bottles, with cardboard stoppers.
----I liked it when it got cold in winter and it would freeze and the cardboard would pop off like a mini volcano. Frozen creme at the top tasted good----

Newsreels before the movie.
----Sometimes they were more interesting than the cartoons especially Mr.McGoo Yuk----

P. F. Flyers
----Don't remember if that was the wagon or the big ballon tired bike----

Pea shooters.
----They hurt when big daddy blasted one at you. Sure sent the girls screaming for cover----

Howdy Doody
----Never had a TV until 19 yrs old but remember the cartoons; not so hot cowboys were better----

Hi-fi's
----Mom loved music and bought one. Well Dad had a deal going on 160 acres of land same price as the Hi-Fi. So no land but one mighty fine recod player----

Metal ice cube trays-with levers
----Didn't work worth a damn You had to run water over it and then pull up the lever and get water all over the place. Mom got me to do it all the time.----

Mimeograph paper
----Smelled so good; even licked it once. It was blue and would be faded out and you could talk during a test to ask what it said, and clues to the answer----
Blue Flash Bulbs
----Big things and a bright flash good for playing cops and robbers in the night----

Cork pop guns
----Always take the string off the cork and put a nail through the cork for added brutality. Went about one foot out of the rifle before taking a nosedive----

Drive ins
----Yes sir that was girl time and "hot tomatoe" checking----

Studebakers
----Yep Gold Wing was a high class outfit climbing through the mountains of B.C. in the middle of a blizzard and the heater not working right.----

Wash tub wringers
----Mom the clean freak wore out two of these machines. These big gears were actually flattened. Dad the mechanic greased them with axel grease.----

The Fuller Brush man
----Sold everything but brushes. Remember this thick syrup grape that was twice as good as Kool Aide----

Reel-to-reel tape recorders
----Stupid things kept breaking and squishing the tape...Casette tapes were the cats meow when they came out

15 cent McDonald hamburgers
----Don't remember McDonald but there was this White Spot place in Detroit that offered 5 for a dollar and they were good.

5 cent packs of baseball cards...with that awful pink slab of bubble gum
----Used to get hockey cards and give away the cards and liked the gum. Stupid me.

Penny candy
----Had 5 cents spending for the Saturday matinee. 3 jaw breakers for a penny 3ju jubes, 3 jelly beans, and 4 stawberries, and your 5 cents was gone.

35 cent-a-gallon gasoline
----Yep $1 gas and you could cruise with your steady all night not counting the necking time.