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| Red Rover..What a game !!! |
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| Money issues and the Banker
in Monopoly |
| Kool !!! Being old referred
to anyone over 20 |
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| I had the most powerful
bike with "TWO" cards in the spokes |
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| Now I have to add some more as I just got a whole bunch more sent
to me the other day, (thanks Dea !) So I will just post it at the
bottom for now and fix it up later.... |
Close your eyes...And go back.... Before the Internet or the MAC,
before semi automatics and crack cocaine, before SEGA or Super Nintendo...
Way back........
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I'm talking about hide and go seek at dusk.
..Flashlight tag, staying out late on a summer evening...At
least until the streetlights came on.
....Sitting on the porch, sharing a double-stick Popsicle with
a friend.
.....Red light, Green light.
.....Chocolate milk, Lunch tickets, Penny candy in a Brown paper
bag.
......Hopscotch, butterscotch, Chinese jump rope, jacks, kickball,
and dodgeball.
.......Mother May I?
........Red Rover and British Bulldog and Hula Hoops and Sunflower
Seeds.
.........Jolly Ranchers, Banana Splits, Wax Lips and Mustaches
...........Running through the sprinkler.
............The smell of the sun and licking salty lips....
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Watching Saturday Morning cartoons:
.... Fat Albert, Road Runner, The Jackson 5, H.R. Puff-n-Stuff,
Sylvester, Tweety, and Bugs.
......... Catching lightening bugs in a jar
............. Swinging so high your stomach tickles.
................. When around the corner seemed far away,
.................... and going downtown seemed like going somewhere.
...................... Bedtime
......................... Climbing trees
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 drug store.
.......... A million mosquito bites and sticky fingers.
............. Cops and Robbers
............... Sitting on the curb
............... . Jumping down the steps
................... Jumping on the bed.
...................... Pillow fights.
........................ Running till you were out of breath
.......................... laughing so hard that your stomach
hurt
............................ being tired from playing
............................... Eating peanut butter cookie
dough
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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!
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- 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."
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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.
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Need a break from their "grown up" life...
Then Remember back
I DOUBLE DOG DARE YA!!!!!!!!!!!!
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| Kool I love
these. Here are some of my favorites that I wanted to make sure
were included, added in August 2005. One of these days I will tidy
this page up |
- 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?
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