Ready for a stroll down memory lane?
Author unknown
Let's go back.......
Close your
eyes.....and go back........
Before the Internet or the MAC,
Before semi
automatics and crack
Before chronic and India
Before SEA or Super
Nintendo
Way back........
I'm talkin' bout hide
and go seek at dusk.
Sittin' on the porch, hot bread and butter.
the ice
cream man, Simon Says, Kick the Can,
Red light, Green light.
Lunch
Boxes with a Thermos...that broke, chocolate milk,
lunch tickets,penny candy
from the corner store,
Hopscotch, butterscotch, skates with keys, Jacks,
kickball,
dodgeball, Dixie peach and Bonnie Doon socks,
Mother May
I?
Hula Hoops and Sunflower Seeds, wax lips and mustaches,
Mary Janes,
saddle shoes and Coke bottles with the names of
cities on the bottom, running
through the sprinkler, circle pins,
bobby pins, Mickey Mouse Club, Crusader
Rabbit, Rocky & Bulwinkle,
Fran & Ollie, Spin & Marty.....all in
black & white.
Catchin' lightening bugs in a jar, playin sling
shot.
When around the corner seemed far away,
and going downtown seemed
like going somewhere.
Bedtime, climbing trees, making
forts...
coasters from orange crates and an old skate,
Backyard Shows,
Lemonade Stands, Cops and Robbers,
Cowboys and Indians, sittin on the curb,
staring at clouds,
jumpin down the steps, jumping on the bed. Pillow fights,
"company",
ribbon candy, angle hair on the Christmas tree, Mary Martin
as
"Peter Pan", Jackie Gleason as "the poor soul", white
gloves,
walking to church, walking to the library.
Being tickled to
death
Running till you were out of breath
Laughing so hard that your
stomach hurt
Being tired from playin'.... Remember that?
Not
steppin' on a crack...or you'll break your mother's back...
paper chains at
Christmas, silhouettes of Lincoln and Washington....
the smell of paste, buck
bags, and Evening in Paris.......
Crowding around in a circle around the
'after school
fight', then running when the teacher came. What
about the girl
that had the big bubbly handwriting...who dotted her "i's"
with hearts??
Bob parties, slam books, The Stroll, popcorn balls, sock
hops & hay rides.
Remember when...When there were two types of
sneakers for girls and
boys (Keds & PF Flyer) and the only time you wore
them at school, was
for "gym"....with those great blue and white gym
uniforms.
When it took five minutes for the TV to warm up.
When nearly
everyone's mom was at home when the kids got there.
When nobody owned a
purebred dog.
When a quarter was a decent allowance, and another quarter a
huge bonus.
When you'd reach into a muddy gutter for a penny.
When
girls neither dated nor kissed until late high school, if then.
When your
mom wore nylons that came in two pieces.
When all of your male teachers wore
neckties and female teachers had
their hair done, everyday and wore high
heels.
When you got your windshield cleaned, oil checked, and gas
pumped,
without asking, for free, every time. And, you didn't pay for
air.
And, you got trading stamps to boot!
When laundry detergent had
free glasses, dishes or towels hidden inside
the box.
When any parent
could discipline any kid, or feed him or use him to
carry groceries, and
nobody, not even the kid, thought a thing of it.
When pizza wasn't
delivered......and chicken was......
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.
When the worst thing you could do at school was smoke in the
bathrooms,
flunk a test, or chew gum.
And the prom was in the gym and
you danced to an orchestra, and all the
girls wore pastel gowns and the boys
wore white dinner jackets and paid
for dinner.
When a 57 Chevy was
everyone's dream car.....to cruise the strip, peel
out, lay rubber or watch
submarine races, and people went steady and
girls wore a class ring with an
inch of wrapped dental floss coated with
pastel frost nail polish so it would
fit her finger.
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 a child of the 80's and
90's...........
So send this on to someone who can still remember Nancy
Drew, The
Hardy Boys, Trixie Belden, Laurel & Hardy, Howdy Doody and The
Peanut
Gallery.......The Lone Ranger, Nellie Belle, Roy and Dale,
Trigger and
Buttermilk.........as well as the sound of a rotary mower on
Saturday
Morning and summers filled with bike rides, treasure hunts,
baseball
games, bowling and visits to the local public
pool.........
