A tip of the hat to you...
Posted on 10/03/2012 1:02:17 PM PDT by Doc Savage
The other day I heard the voices of Ozzie and Harriet on the radio , and I suddenly realized how much I missed them. I also miss Don Knotts, and Paul Lynde, and 'Horshack' and 'Fred Mertz'. I miss 'Buck Rogers' and 'Ming the Merciless' and crisp, clear autumn Saturdays at my college football games. Guess I could go on forever. Just wondered what you guys missed?
I miss having a president who isn’t a Communist.
Soupy Sales
Dangerous toys that could “put my eye out”.
I miss my Father.
and my Mother’s cooking. If she cooked for these Government schools nothing would go in the trash.
I miss Coke in a bottle straight from the machine, cold your hand, condensation dripping down the side. I miss riding my bike till the sun set, not worrying about some psycho living around the corner.
I miss Saturday Morning cartoons. When it was special to wake up early and watch them. Not wall-to-wall 24 hour cartoons with majority of them being crap and PC.
I miss old records on a phonograph, the crackle and pops. I miss long summers when I was kid. Sure seem short nowadays.
I miss not worrying about a whole lot of things, that mom and dad (though as low income as they were) provided for us and took care of us, being honest-to-goodness real parents.
I miss my young brother when he was fun and lively and not the depressed, drugged-up Ron Paul-supporting atheist he is today...
Okay, getting personal there, but that’s what I miss.
and they’ll be no more scooter rides in the cemetery
just old spider webs and memories
I miss Rod Serling waving his cigarette about as he explained the latest way that we were about to enter The Twillight Zone. I miss Alfred Hitchcock walking into a side shot of his rotund outline at the beginning of his show & talking like he had a mouthful of marbles. Captain Kangaroo, Mister Green Jeans, Ed Sullivan, & most of all, Red Skelton (God bless him).
Growing up in the 1980’s, I miss Ronald Reagan, being able to sit down and watch a sitcom without every other character being a flaming homosexual, sometimes I even miss NOT having computers, email, the internet, smart phones, etc. You could actually tune out politics and the rest of the world for the hours of the day you weren’t reading the morning paper or watching the evening news.
A tip of the hat to you...
Ronald Reagan and Roy Rogers
I remember the Long Ranger telling Tonto ‘I think he protests too much’...like Tonto I did’nt know that was Shakespere until I heard it 30 years later...BTW some of those shows you like are free on ....Tubtub.com
I miss the time when living off the government was seen as dishonorable, scandalous, and embarrassing
Getting up early and walking for 45 minutes to my favorite fishing spot and fishing all day. Getting home just before dark to a home cooked meal and realizing I’m starving because I was in too big a hurry to make a sandwich.
Tomorrow, dinner would be the stringer full of 6-10” trout I caught.
Oh to be 11 or 12 again!
I really miss Ozzie and Harriet too.......and heart-throb, Ricky. I miss Annette Funicello in Spin and Marty on the Mickey Mouse Club. I miss Perry Mason. I miss The Fugitive. I miss The Six Million Dollar Man. I miss sitting in the tv room with my children and husband and watching The Partridge Family on Friday nights. Gumby!!! Ding Dong School. I miss real commercials. I miss Ed Sullivan.I miss Gunsmoke. I miss The Hit Parade. I miss Name That Tune. American Bandstand!!! I miss my wonderful country so much I could cry. Liberace .
I miss unicorns.
I miss yesterday’s tomorrows.
Today’s tomorrows really suck!
In all seriousness though, I'm a child of the 90's and yet I find myself missing things I wasn't even alive for.
The times when America was a cleaner, farm-ier, more upstanding, moral, safe, patriotic place. When people enjoyed small, simple things. When people didn't have or need gadgets and TV's and laptops and facebook to keep themselves entertained. When cowboys were in the movies. When people dressed classier, behaved classier, and cherished time with family. I guess I should have been born in the 30's.
I miss the days when driving without a seatbelt wasn't illegal.
I see them almost every day on MeTV......Memory Television. They put on Lucy, and Hillbillies, MASH, and Green Acres, Andy Griffith, Rifleman, Bonanza. All the good stuff, even Batman and Lost in Space.............
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