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Bandit
Member
07-29-2001
| Friday, September 17, 2004 - 8:42 am
I got this great email today, and I wanted to share it with all of you. I know there some nostalgia buffs here who would appreciate this. Then, why don't we reminisce about some more things we fondly remember from "back in the day." This was MY life!!! 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 threatened to keep kids back a grade if they failed. . .and 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 things like, "That cloud looks like a .." and 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? 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? 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. Send this on to someone who can still remember Nancy Drew, the Hardy Boys, Laurel and Hardy, Howdy Dowdy 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"? I am sharing this with you today because it ended with a double dog dare to pass it on. To remember what a double dog dare is, read on. And remember that the perfect age is somewhere between old enough to know better and too young to care. 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 Dowdy 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? If you can remember most or all of these, then you have lived!!!!!!! Pass this on to anyone who may need a break from their "grown-up" life . . .I double-dog-dare-ya! One of the things I miss most is going over to my best friend's house every day after school and LOVING doing nothing but "hanging out." Kids today are too darned entertained, IMO!
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Escapee
Member
06-15-2004
| Monday, September 20, 2004 - 4:53 pm
Ahhh, sweet nostalgia. Remember banana seats and handlebar streamers? Daisy baskets? Remember peaches and cream barbie? Remember chasing the ice cream man down the road Remember the family station wagon? Remember playin the Original "nintendo" Remeber going to the video store and having a choice between UHF(?) and VHS? Remeber when spandex shorts weren't just for alternative lifestyles and/or the tour de france Remember friday night high school football games? Remember being a mall rat? remember converse all stars in every different color? Remember them in black or white? Remember slouch socks? remember when the lakers wore "running shorts" and their chucks with knee socks? Remember summer vacations and camping? Remember Jean Jackets and ripped levi's? Remember big GI Joe? Remember making him Barbie's SO? Ken was a wussy and Barbie was a sucker for a man in uniform. Remember matchbox cars that weren't plastic? Remember the original pepsi and coke cans? Remember when soda came in glass bottles? Remember catching roly poly's?
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Escapee
Member
06-15-2004
| Monday, September 20, 2004 - 4:56 pm
30 sounded ancient?
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Djgirl
Member
07-17-2002
| Tuesday, September 21, 2004 - 6:20 am
Great list Escapee!!!! Remember when your bangs were 4" high??? Scary!
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Escapee
Member
06-15-2004
| Tuesday, September 21, 2004 - 1:56 pm
I remember that, but I could never get them to do it. My sister did though, we look back at pics and laugh hysterically. Ok DJ, we are about the same age, remember: Jem Barbie and the Rockers Rainbow Bright Light Brights Pop Rocks Pepsi Clear Slap bracelets Corkscrew shoe laces different colored shoes Crimping irons New Kids on the Block Debbie Gibson Chic Jeans Gitano Jordache Guess jeans in every color Bongo jeans in every color Sweatshirts with the collar cut so it hung off of one shoulder Spiral perms Lee press on nails LA Gear Brittish Knights Barbie's friend Skipper
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Sillycalimomma
Member
11-13-2003
| Tuesday, September 21, 2004 - 2:00 pm
Oh escapee- we clearly grew up in the 80's! I would put down everything on your post! Remember that show-Out of this World? or Punky Brewster? Remember wearing those colored socks out side of your "pegged" pants? Remember the bangs that were so high they could touch the ceiling? ohhhh......the good ol days
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Escapee
Member
06-15-2004
| Tuesday, September 21, 2004 - 4:13 pm
LOL Remember punky brewster shoes? Remember "Like a Virgin?" Remember Cindy Lauper? We are 80's babies
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Escapee
Member
06-15-2004
| Tuesday, September 21, 2004 - 4:14 pm
I like this thread. Does anyone remember the Debbie Gibson perfume "electric youth?"
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Vacanick
Member
07-12-2004
| Tuesday, September 21, 2004 - 4:17 pm
Or Loves Baby Soft. It was the only perfume my mom would let me wear. I like this tread too.
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Escapee
Member
06-15-2004
| Tuesday, September 21, 2004 - 4:21 pm
Ahhhh.....pegged pants...what were we thinking? My alltime fav outfit back then: My pegged guess blue jeans, that were ripped up with a pair of leggings underneath, my hair, crimped and in a pony on top of my head, usually more than one color. My bangs, I could never get them to stand up to the ceiling, but I tried. My hypercolor t-shirt under a jean jacket with my LA Gears which had flames on the side, with my 3 pairs of neon colored sox. My swatch watch and mismatched bands. Ten jelly bracelets, bright pink lipstick, blue eyeshadow, and bright pink lee press on nails. I was born in 81, so picture this on an 8-9 year old
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Escapee
Member
06-15-2004
| Tuesday, September 21, 2004 - 4:22 pm
OMG....I remember baby soft. My sister had it. Wow, I haven't thought about that in years and years. ROTFLMAO
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Escapee
Member
06-15-2004
| Tuesday, September 21, 2004 - 4:23 pm
Remember Atari?
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Landi
Member
07-29-2002
| Tuesday, September 21, 2004 - 4:23 pm
i still wear loves baby soft. i love the scent. also i wear "skin" by the same manufacturer
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Vacanick
Member
07-12-2004
| Tuesday, September 21, 2004 - 4:28 pm
I didn't know Loves Baby Soft was still made. I think I'll have to pick some up. Landi, where do you get it?
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Escapee
Member
06-15-2004
| Tuesday, September 21, 2004 - 4:34 pm
Me too.
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Ladylove
Member
08-12-2004
| Tuesday, September 21, 2004 - 4:36 pm
remember dittos?
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Sillycalimomma
Member
11-13-2003
| Tuesday, September 21, 2004 - 4:36 pm
ha ha ha too funny Escapee. I was born in '80 so I totally relate to all of this! Hypercolor shirts! Ack! Reebok shoes-remember? Oh man, I think my favorite years were 5th and 6th grade. New Kids on The Block-Keaunu Reeves....The Babysitters Club! Do you remember that? ha ha ha...oh this thread has brought me way back today
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Escapee
Member
06-15-2004
| Tuesday, September 21, 2004 - 4:40 pm
Remember SheRa and HeMan? Remember back to school shopping with your mom Remember the smell of school supplies. the smell of binders and cardboard pencil boxes and new lunch pails? Remember school lunches? Remember Dukes of Hazzard? Remember Fame? Remember magnum PI? Remember Knots Landing, Dallas, and Dynasty? Remember Air Wolfe? Remember MacGyver? Remember Simon & Simon Remember Golden Girls, Designing Women, Cagney & Lacey, 21 Jump Street, In the heat of the night? Remember Saturday night fever? Remember Urban Cowboy, 9-5, the incredible shrinking woman? Remember playing Capture the Flag?
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Escapee
Member
06-15-2004
| Tuesday, September 21, 2004 - 4:40 pm
I got one better than the Babysitter's club: Remember Sweet Valley High?
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Sillycalimomma
Member
11-13-2003
| Tuesday, September 21, 2004 - 4:57 pm
SVH! How could I forget! Too funny. My friends and I were just talking about back to school clothes shopping actually (you know when we were taking our own kids!) man...those were the days
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Justavice
Member
07-12-2003
| Tuesday, September 21, 2004 - 5:26 pm
Did anyone else wear those hideous leggings that were like tights, but had lace around the ankle and no foot? My mom could never figure out why I would wear long underwear that showed...
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Landi
Member
07-29-2002
| Tuesday, September 21, 2004 - 5:33 pm
i buy loves baby soft at Longs Drug Store
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Vacanick
Member
07-12-2004
| Tuesday, September 21, 2004 - 6:32 pm
Thanks Landi for the Baby Soft info . OMG - I forgot about Ditto jeans. They totally made my 5th grade butt look great . Does anyone remember the Bobsie Twins mystery books?
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Djgirl
Member
07-17-2002
| Wednesday, September 22, 2004 - 8:03 am
Oh My Gawd! The memories!!!! Don't forget the leg warmers on the outside of your jeans... Berets Varnet (sp?) sweatshirts Slouch socks with harem pants Acid wash jeans The Michael Jackson look The Care-bears I can't think of any more right now...
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Landi
Member
07-29-2002
| Wednesday, September 22, 2004 - 8:22 am
the "annie hall" look ditto jeans slam books big daddy gum fizzies dorothy hamill haircuts cowl neck sweaters datsuns gas shortages and long lines doing school reports on watergate
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