All the girls had ugly gym uniforms?
And wore tennis shoes not $200 Nike's!
It took three minutes for the TV to warm up?
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?
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 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...
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.
And our summers were filled with bike rides, Hula Hoops, and visits to the pool, and eating Kool-Aid powder with sugar.
18 comments:
remember it well...lol
Remember both of these well. Hated the gym uniform at the time, but really not a bad idea. Everyone was responsible for keeping their uniform clean, and it had better be clean too. All sneakers were as seen in this photo and when it was time for gym, no excuses for not changing to uniform and being on time. Of course school was actually school when I went, you were there to learn, period. No disrespect for teachers, no droopy drawers, no cussing the teachers, no cell phones, and if you got sent to the principal that wasn't the worst of it, going home and facing parents was.
Something don't change hopefully some of these basics will come back into focus. Except waiting for the TV to warm up that did take forever
Back in the '60s the girls at Pocomoke High had the ugliest blue gym suits, even had elastic around the leg holes so the boys couldn't get a peek.
In the 50's-60's we did have a pure bred dog, a Boxer. Never chained or fenced him in. He just stayed around. All the photos we have of us as children in the yard, he is right in the mix. He ate whatever and chewed on bones. He lived to be nearly 17 years old. The Boxers in those days were stockier and had larger heads.
7:58-You mean like Mike Tyson? He was stockier and had a larger head.
I saw nothing wrong with the girls' "uniforms". It actually made them look more natural instead of the Peacocks of today.
Glad I wasn't around then.
The girls are cute regardless of their suites!
8:55 - Really! Best time of my life, glad I did experience these things.
Remember most of it, forgot some of it, but it was great! Also drinking out of the garden hose, not bottled water! My son born in 1985 was able to experience some of this good stuff also, he grew up with a BB gun, a 22, playing Army, cops and robbers, cowboys and Indians, building a tree fort, fishing, climbing trees, visiting the outhouse, getting a spanking, respecting his elders, and he is now one of the finest young men I know.
10:27 Excellent post, my memories are very similar. How politically incorrect we were!
We used to drink out of a stream that ran through our property! Probably die now if you did that.
3:11 you sure would if there was a Chicken house nearby!
And by golly, everything had to be kept clean WHITE or your grades were docked!
love it!
OH The GOOD days in America. How I wished we could go back to those days and to think how much we wanted change ??? Makes you wonder what we wished for and how we wished now we had not wished for this crap we are in now.
Twarnt all that great.It had it's moments,but there was plenty of good and bad just like there is today.
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