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Remember When...
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Roger Rayle
06-01-2005 12:48am
OLDER THAN DIRT

         'Hey Dad,' one of my kids asked the other day, 'What was your
favorite fast food when you were growing up?'
         'We didn't have fast food when I was growing up,' I informed
him. 'All the food was slow.'
         'C'mon, seriously. Where did you eat?'
         'It was a place called 'at home,'' I explained. 'Grandma
cooked every day and when Grandpa got home from work, we sat down
together at the dining room table, and if I didn't like what she put on
my plate I was allowed to sit there until I did like it.'
         By this time, the kid was laughing so hard I was afraid he was
going to suffer serious internal damage, so I didn't tell him the part
about how I had to have permission to leave the table. But here are some
other things I would have told him about my childhood if I figured his
system could have handled it:
         Some parents NEVER owned their own house, wore Levis, set foot
on a golf course, traveled out of the country or had a credit card. In
their later years they had something called a revolving charge card. The
card was good only at Sears Roebuck. Or maybe it was Sears AND Roebuck.
Either way, there is no Roebuck anymore. Maybe he died.
         My parents never drove me to soccer practice. This was mostly
because w e never had heard of soccer. I had a bicycle that weighed
probably 50 pounds, and only had one speed, (slow). We didn't have a
television in our house until I was 11, but my grandparents had one
before that. It was, of course, black and white, but they bought a piece
of colored plastic to cover the screen. The top third was blue, like the
sky, and the bottom third was green, like grass. The middle third was
red. It was perfect for programs that had scenes of fire trucks riding
across someone's lawn on a sunny day. Some people had a lens taped to
the front of the TV to make the picture look larger.
         I was 13 before I tasted my first pizza, it was called 'pizza
pie.' When I bit into it, I burned the roof of my mouth and the cheese
slid off, swung down, plastered itself against my chin and burned that,
too. It's still the best pizza I ever had.
         We didn't have a car until I was 15. Before that, the only car
in our family was my grandfather's Ford. He called it a 'machine.'
         I never had a telephone in my room. The only phone in the
house was in the living room and it was on a party line. Before you
could dial, you had to listen and make sure some people you didn't know
weren't already using the line.
         Pizzas were not delivered to our home. But milk was.
         All newspapers were delivered by boys and all boys delivered
newspapers. I delivered a newspaper, six days a week It cost 7 cents a
paper, of which I got to keep 2 cents. I had to get up at 4 AM every
morning. On Saturday, I had to collect the 42 cents from my customers.
My favorite customers were the ones who gave me 50 cents and told me to
keep the change. My least favorite customers were the ones who seemed to
never be home on collection day.
         Movie stars kissed with their mouths shut. At least, they did
in the movies. Touching someone else's tongue with yours was called
French kissing and they didn't do that in movies. I don't know what they
did in French movies. French movies were dirty and we weren't allowed to
see them.
         If you grew up in a generation before there was fast food, you
may want to share some of these memories with your children or
grandchildren. Just don't blame me if they bust a gut laughing.
         Growing up isn't what it used to be, is it?


         MEMORIES from a friend:
         My Dad is cleaning out my grandmother's house (she died in
December) and he brought me an old Royal Crown Cola bottle. In the
bottle top was a stopper with a bunch of holes in it. I knew immediately
what it was, but my daughter had no idea. She thought they had tried to
make it a salt shaker or something. I knew it as the bottle that sat on
the end of the ironing board to 'sprinkle' clothes with because we
didn't have steam irons. Man, I am old.


How many do you remember?
         Head lights dimmer switches on the floor.
         Ignition switches on the dashboard.
         Heaters mounted on the inside of the fire wall.
         Real ice boxes.
         Pant leg clips for bicycles without chain guards.
         Soldering irons you heat on a gas burner.
         Using hand signals for cars without turn signals.

Older Than Dirt Quiz -- Count all the ones that you remember not
the ones you were told about Ratings at the bottom.
         1. Blackjack chewing gum
         2. Wax Coke-shaped bottles with colored sugar water
         3. Candy cigarettes
         4. Soda pop machines that dispensed glass bottles
         5. Coffee shops or diners with tableside juke boxes
         6. Home milk delivery in glass bottles with cardboard stoppers
         7. Party lines
         8. Newsreels before the movie
         9. P.F. Flyers
         10. Butch wax
         11. Telephone numbers with a word prefix (OLive-6933)
         12. Peashooters
         13. Howdy Doody
         14. 45 RPM records
         15. S&H Green Stamps
         16. Hi-fi's
         17. Metal ice trays with lever
         18. Mimeograph paper
         19. Blue flashbulbs
         20. Packards
         21. Roller skate keys
         22. Cork popguns
         23. Drive-ins
         24. Studebakers
         25. Wash tub wringers

Scoring:
         If you remembered 0- 5 = You're still young
         If you remembered 6-10 = You are getting older
         If you remembered 11-15 = Don't tell your age,
         If you remembered 16-25 = You're older than dirt!


'Senility Prayer'
         God grant me...
         The senility to forget the people I never liked
         The good fortune to run into the ones that I do
         And the eyesight to tell the difference.'

Submitted by Pam FOX Alexander, paradise3618@excite.com



Re: Remember When...
Quote in Reply
Roger Rayle
06-01-2005 12:51am
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 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.

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,
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
Newsreels before the movie
Telephone numbers with a word prefix...(Raymond 4-1111).
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 Pop 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 could 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!

from: http://www.thestatenislandboys.com/U_thrill_me/index.htm

submitted by: Sandra (Sandy) K. TIBBITTS Davis, davisaedavis@aol.com




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