Old Enough to Remember

[Tired_Old_Man 1]

I am also old enough to remember that the "Good Old Days" are a figment of the (wishful) Imagination.

We never had it so good.

[PamRN 0]

nancy drew mysteries

comics 10 for a dollar

fair rides 10 for a dollar

25 cents for a gallon of gas

a lg drink was 16 oz

fishing with a cane pole

playing in the rain

tea-berry gum

vaccinations enmass in the school gym, girls in slips or panties and t's, boys in briefs...how humiliating was that?

just as bad...the one piece gym suit!!

[Woodys 0]

OMG....the one piece gym suit.....and why oh why did we ever remove the belt and the stitching in the darts?.....it only made it look like a big balloon!

[Malice X Girl 0]

Wow, I loved that, but am kinda sad now. I want to be a kid again.

[babyjane 0]

thanks for the trip down memory lane! i remember being able to walk around the block at night in our pajamas(sister and i) to cool off before bed. no worries!

laying on cool concrete porch to play barbie dolls with my homemade furniture for her. spools of thread for table with scrap fabric on it for tablecloth, homemade doll clothes, homemade paper dolls and clothes for them, betsy mccall paper doll/clothes once a month when the mccalls magazine came to the house, the "jewel T" man, fuller brush man, milkman, walking to the neighborhood "little" store for a whole bag of candy

for 10 cents, pourin' peanuts in a bottle of coke, drinking mountain dew from green glass bottle, hillbilly loaf bread, running around the whole neighborhood all day--only coming home when called(hollered at from porch),polishing my patent leather shoes with vaseline for church, washing out my one pair of gloves each week for church, home perms forced on you by your mother,having no family car--we walked everywhere or rode bus that went from marietta, ga to atlanta and all point in between for 30 cents if we needed to go into a bigger city for school clothes or something special. i used to make mud pies and make my little brother eat them, also played army with rocks when his plastic army men finally wore out. "cooking" outside with pine cones, leaves, flowers, etc. pretending, playing housewife. meeting my daddy at the top of our street when he was walking from bus stop further away,every day after work. he always had a small candy treat or a promise of getting us ice cream later after supper. these are just a few of my precious memories.......

[gonnabethin 10]

OHHHH how i remember- Thanks for the reminder!!