Remember

[ilovehounds]

This is not dog related but I thought I would pass it on to you guys


Remember...

The prom was in the auditorium and we danced to an orchestra, and all the girls wore pastel gowns and the boys wore suits for the first time and we stayed out all night.
When a '57 Chevy was everyone's dream car...to cruise, peel out, lay rubber or watch submarine races.
People went steady and girls wore a class ring with an inch of wrapped dental floss or yarn coated with pastel frost nail polish so it would fit her finger.
And no one ever asked where the car keys were 'cause they were always in the car, in the ignition, and the doors were never locked.
And you got in big trouble if you accidentally locked the doors at home, since no one ever had a key.
Remember lying on your back on 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. Back then, baseball was not a psychological group learning experience -,it was a game.
Remember when stuff from the store came without safety caps and hermetic seals 'cause 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 the 80's and 90's ..
So send this on to someone who can still remember Nancy Drew, The Hardy Boys, Laurel & Hardy, Howdy Doody and The Peanut Gallery,
> > The Lone Ranger, The Shadow Knows, Nellie Belle, Roy and Dale, Trigger and Buttermilk...
as well as the sound of a reel mower on Saturday morning, and summers filled with bike rides, playing in cowboy land, baseball games, bowling and visits to the pool...and eating Kool-Aid powder with sugar.
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! But, we all survived because their love was greater than the threat.
Didn't that feel good, just to go back and say, Yeah, I remember
that!
And was it really that long ago?
Count your life by smiles, not tears. Count your age by friends, not years.

[jackiesdaisy1935]

Oh my gosh you relived my life, I remember

Meeting all our friends at the drive-in restaurants and getting burgers and malts

My boyfriends white tuck and roll upholstery in his Cheve

Drag races at the old landing strip

Johnny Ray singing "Cry"

Piling as many as we could into the car and going to the drive-in movie

Senior ditch day

My, how times have changed, I would like to see more tolerance, less crime, I would like to see my three Grandsons be able to walk to school without fear and having an adult make sure they get there, but I love the new technology, when my family presented me with my first computer for Christmas I cried and said I will never learn how to make that contraption work. Now I'm on it every day with Daisy laying in her bed next to me, how great can life be.

[ July 13, 2001: Message edited by: jackiesdaisy1935 ]

[Pam]

Angie I remember most everything on that list! I remember one day watching Little House on the Prairie with my daughter. She said she would have loved to have lived back then. As we both thought about it, we realized that people back then died from the simplest things and they had no running water, etc., etc. It might have been a more stress-free life but we decided we weren't so sure any more about life back in the "good old days." If it means having to give up our computers....NO WAY!

[crow_noir]

thanks for sharing with us!!!

i remember watching re-runs of Howdy Doody about ten years ago when i was ten. i thought the show was sooooo neat. that and gumby. everyone thought i was a dork for likeing those shows. who cares though, at least i knew what real entertainment was.