badbobby Loc: Humble Texas

those were the days when


people actually talked to each other

we had it all and didn't realize it

do you remember"double dog dare"?

all the girls had ugly gym clothes

it took three minutes for the tv to warm up

no one owned a purebred dog

a quarter was an excellent allowance

you would stoop to pick up a penny in the gutter

you got your windshield cleaned,your oil checked,tires checked and gas pumped without asking,and all for free.and you even got trading stamps

laundry detergent had free glasses ,dishes or towels inside the box

they said they would keep kids back a grade if they failed--and they actually did it

a 57 chevy was every ones dream car--to cruise,peel out,lay rubber,or street race


young people went steady

lying on your back in the grass with your friends saying things like--"that cloud looks like a"--


playing ball with no adults around to make up rules

stuff from the store came without safety caps and hermetic seals,because no one then tried to poison perfect strangers

and with all our progress don't you wish,just once,that you could step back in time and savor the slower pace,and share it with the children of today

kids actually had to be selected to play on organized baseball or football teams



no one got trophys or awards just for competing

candy cigarettes,wax miniature coke bottles with colored sugar water inside,

party lines,pea shooters,78 rpm records,green stamps,mimeograph paper

do you remember when decisions were made by "eeny-meeny-miney-moe"?

mistakes were corrected by uttering "do over"

race issues meant who was the fastest runner

catching fireflies could happily occupy an entire evening

it wasn't odd to have more than one best friend

Saturday morning cartoons weren't 30 minute commercials for action figures

"olly olly action free" made perfect sense

spinning around getting dizzy and falling down was amusement

the worst embarrassment was being picked last for a sandlot team

war--was a card game

taking drugs meant orange flavored chewable aspirin

water balloons were a weapon


I am sharing this with you today because a friend "double dog dared "me to

remember the perfect age is somewhere between old enough to know better and too young to care

do you remember Howdy Doody,Peanut Gallery,The Lone Ranger,The Shadow Knows,Gene Autry,Roy Rogers,Hopalong Cassidy,Bob Steele,Tom mix ,Tim Holt,Lash Larue,Randolf Scott,Trigger

,buttermilk,Silver,Scout,and oh so many others from our past?Bob Hope,Bing Crosby,Red Skelton,Fibber Mcgee and Molly,Amos and Andy

Benny Goodman,Xavier Cugat

Clark Gable,Maureen Ohara,,Spencer Tracy,Katherine Hepburn,James Cagney,Edward G Robinson,Humphrey Bogart?

Hank Williams,Ernest Tubbs,Roy Acuff--to name just a few


Do you remember??




If you remember all or most of them

then you have lived my friend

johnsnead Loc: Tonto basin , Arizona

Yes, I do remember!! Great times!!!!!

EasternOZ Loc: Kansas City Metro

Yes and lots of laughs.

EasternOZ Loc: Kansas City Metro

Here ya go bb give it a listen.

https://youtu.be/TTA2buWlNyM

Bog Irish

Katzenjammer Kids, Pogo, Apartment 3-G, Sen-Sen, Mark Trail, 'Lil Abner, wooden one piece clothes pins to hold the playing cards in your bicycle spokes, the cork seal inside the soda pop bottle, that you could take out with your boy scout jacknife, and put it (the cork seal) inside your t-shirt to hold the NEHI Orange bottle cap "sherriffs badge" on, and a thousand other things that would keep a kid happy, that didn't cost a cent. Yup, I might be gettin' old, but I ain't (me sainted grandmother would roll over in her grave if she knew I had written that word, let alone used it.) growin' up for anybody. Thought I was gonna say nobody, dincha?

flyguy Loc: Lake Onalaska, Sunfish Capitol of the World!

Bb, all of those guys you mentioned were on TV., we didn't have a tv or a telephone until I was in college. My tuition for my first quarter of college was $64.00. I didn't have to pay for that because I was on a wrestling scholarship, but that is what it would have been if I would have to pay for it. I just turned it into the wrestling coach and he took care of it.

Mike-1000 Loc: SE Mn. Between Winona Mn. and LaCrosse Wi.

And don’t forget listening to “The Lone Ranger” on the radio and “ Movietone” News at the theatre.

Schancer Loc: Hayward, WI

We had only an outhouse until it was five years old. Shower in the basement was a Godsend. Chamber pot upstairs.

flyguy Loc: Lake Onalaska, Sunfish Capitol of the World!

The outhouse faced the creek so we watch the guys fishing. One day a skunk walked by, after that, I closed the door. My brother and I would always pee out the upstairs window until the screen started to rust where we peed, the old man talked to us by hand, we got the message.

EasternOZ Loc: Kansas City Metro

Hand signing has been around for a long time.

I use to get my share.

Big TC Loc: Raytown, MO.

Don't forget hide n seek after dark. If you had a BB gun, shoot targets like pop cans. Also playing Dr. With the opposite sex but to look at and explore. Never to have sex. Never entered are young minds. Well some of you might have. Stupid old me waited till I was 21. Some of the people you mentioned were before my time. Born in 1960.

Robert J Samples Loc: Round Rock, Texas

Well, you forgot smoking grape vines! Just sayin...RJS

Schancer Loc: Hayward, WI

We'd crawl in the ditch during recess (one room country school), roll up old dead leaves in toilet paper and choke half to death.

Foodfisher Loc: SO. Cal coast

Corn silk smoked in corncob pipes unless we could snatch one of dad's camels.

badbobby Loc: Humble Texas

and corn silk Robert