"::Donut::" <Chocolate@Sugar.Glazed> wrote in news:290320080352127659%
Chocolate@Sugar.Glazed:
> In article <Xns9A7040ECF2620BoyFlyingHighcom@140.99.99.130>,
> WingedMessenger <Boy@FlyingHigh.com> wrote:
>
>> "::darkshadows::" <blood@thirsty.net> wrote in
>> news:tc3ru395j2othu94jaqohfbk78ui2fs4bh@4ax.com:
>>
>> >
>> > DO YOU REMEMBER WHEN...?
>> >
>> > * All the girls had ugly gym uniforms?
>> >
>> > * It took five minutes for the TV 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?
>> > * 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 did?
>> > * 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
>> > 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?
>> >
>> > Remember 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.
>> >
>> > Can you 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. As well as
>> > summers filled with bike rides, baseball games, Hula Hoops, bowling
>> > and visits to the pool, and eating Kool-Aid powder with sugar.
>> >
>> > Didn't that feel good, just to go back and say, "Yeah, I remember
>> > that"?
>> >
>> > 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 tableside 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 Doody
>> > * 45 RPM records
>> > * Green Stamps
>> > * Hi-Fi's
>> > * Metal ice cubes trays with levers
>> > * Mimeograph paper
>> > * Beanie and Cecil
>> > * Roller-skate keys
>> > * Cork pop guns
>> > * Drive ins
>> > * Studebakers
>> > * Washtub wringers
>> > * The Fuller Brush Man
>> > * Reel-To-Reel tape recorders
>> > * Tinkertoys
>> > * Erector Sets
>> > * The Fort Apache Play Set
>> > * Lincoln Logs
>> > * 15 cent McDonald hamburgers
>> > * 5 cent packs of baseball cards - with that awful pink slab of
>> > bubble gum
>> > * Penny candy
>> > * 35 cent a gallon gasoline
>> > * Jiffy Pop popcorn
>> >
>> > 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 an 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?
>> > * A foot of snow was a dream come true
>> > * Saturday morning cartoons weren't 30-minute commercials 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?
>> >
>>
>> Yep. Sure do. And what a better state the world was in.
>>
>> Mercury.
>
>
> That depends on where and who you were.
> Did these people live in a better state:
> Blacks in the segregated US South and in South Africa.
> Native Americans (Indians).
> Most people in India.
> And the desperately poor all over the world who had nothing like the
> relief organizations we have now to try to help them?
>
> As for the world, we were all in fear of being atom bombed to death. I
> remember the "duck and cover" drills. And there were always some
> "minor" war going on someplace that could any second trigger the end of
> all life on Earth.
>
> The idealized description posted was lived by a tiny, relatively
> privileged, minority of very fortunate people, who still didn't have it
> all that nice at times, even though we didn't always know it then.
> How many of us aren't as bright as we should be, because of childhood
> exposure to lead paint and mercury? How many of us died from lung
> cancer who didn't know asbestos and smoking could kill us? How many of
> us had unsafe exposures to radiation from radium in wristwatches and
> from viewing our foot bones in shoe store fluoroscopes? How many
> children died from unsafe products that we will never really know
> because there was no reporting system for that information and no
> regulations to protect them? How many died in car crashes who could
> have lived had they used lap belts that weren't in most cars because
> the government didn't require it?
>
> So, was the world really in a better state then?
> Well, yes, in the nostalgic idealized fond memories of some of us. But
> in reality? Only the perspective the future historians will have, will
> enable them to make a usefully reasoned pronouncement. But of course,
> we reserve the right to disagree with them in advance. ;-)
>
>
> Take care,
>
>
> Donut
>
Long Live nostalgia LOL.
Mercury.
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