Something for RichardB

[itku2er]

I searched for this didnt find it but if its there once again I apologize. But this for RichardBEMT

How's This For Nostalgia?

All the girls had ugly gym uniforms?

It took five minutes for the TV to 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? A nd 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 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.

.... .as well as summers filled with bike rides, baseball games, Hula Hoops, bowling and visits to the pool, and eating Kool- A id 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.

Send this on to someone who can still remember 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.

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 Table Side Jukeboxes.

Blackjack, Clove and Teaberry chewing gum.

Home milk delivery in glass bottles with cardboard stoppers.

Newsreels before the movie.

P.F. Fliers.

Telephone numbers with a word prefix...(Raymond 4-601). Party lines.

Peashooters.

Howdy Dowdy.

Hi-Fi's & 45 RPM records.

78 RPM records!

Green Stamps .

Mimeograph paper.

The Fort Apache Play Set.

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 A n 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? (or spit wads)

Saturday morning cartoons weren't 30-minute com mercials 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!!!!!!!

[Richard B the EMT]

It's been around for a while. Using the "ugly uniforms" as what to look for, Google came back with over 500,000 hits, from many sites.

However...

All of that stuff is true, so true!

[scubanurse]

I dont remember any of those? lol

[FireMedic65]

mmmm schoolgirl uniform!

[Emtgirl101]

I remeber most of this stuff here they took candy cigs outta stores but u can still buy them online

[Kiwiology]

... or when NYC*EMS was run by the Health & Hospitals Corporation and you could find a bus at a station rather than parked on the side of the street at 6am with the crew turning the engine over every hour to get warm.

... and when telemetry was OLD SCHOOL which includes auctually calling for orders (something we never really got into) or when you had to call for valium or dextrose!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xV3gpRyKWLc

[mobey]

I remeber most of this stuff here they took candy cigs outta stores but u can still buy them online

We can still buy them up here in canada.... They are called "POPEYE Candy Sticks" but the red tip is gone.

I remember ... ummmm..... how do you say it now???........ Black licorice in the form of babies?

[rat115]

Ahh.....to the old times.

We have a store here that still carries the candy cigs. The kids get a kick out of em.

[emtsteve13]

"When a quarter was a decent allowance? "

When I tell people I run with that I could use that quarter allowance to go to the five & dime and buy 2 comic books and a pack of baseball cards ( which included 5 cards and a stick of gum) they think I'm crazy.

When I tell them we always went right after church before all the stores closed for the day because stores could only stay open on a Sunday for a half hour after the last service they think I gre up in another country.

[Richard B the EMT]

As for the quarter allowance, the people who I, old as I am, refer to as the older folks, could tell you of going to the store, getting a quart of milk, a loaf of bread, a pound of butter, and a candy bar, and still getting a few pennies change back from ONE Dollar.

Nowadays, you can spend a hundred dollars at the grocery store, then put the entire purchase into your jacket pocket as you leave the store.

Edited April 14, 2009 by Richard B the EMT