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Guess I am! She was a "lady of the night"(learned that when I got older) who lived in a once upon a time beautiful brownstone that had been converted into miniscule apartments. She slept most of the day but often appeared on the stoop late in the afternoon just about the time I was on my way home from school. E of the headdress At 03:05 PM 9/21/2000 -0400, you wrote: >Remember!!!!!!!!!!!! A nickel to run an errand??????? >Nobody but me is that old >Bob A > >----- Original Message ----- >From: "Edith S. Love" <[log in to unmask]> >To: <[log in to unmask]> >Sent: Thursday, September 21, 2000 12:12 AM >Subject: Re: NOT PD Do you remember? > > >Lanny, thank you. Author unknown pretty well covered it, and for a few >minutes I was somewhere else, and it felt good. I'd like to add: >spin the bottle and building sand castles. How about knocking on >people's doors and running away? Or calling the neighbors and making up >something that made them run to take care of it. Or running errands for >people in the neighborhood for five cents. A ten cent bonus and one was >literally rich! >What about the penny candy store! I'm getting younger and healthier by >the minute! > >E >May we all walk in the headdress of the sun. > > >At 09:16 PM 9/19/2000 -0500, you wrote: >>>>> > >> 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......... >> >> >> >> >> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ >> Lanny D. 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