Posted on 03/26/2016 11:08:59 AM PDT by V K Lee
How's This For Nostalgia? All the girls had ugly gym uniforms
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I miss the sound of metal skates on pavement.
Yes me too. LOL!
:-)) a very good site to reminisce Yes? Old postcards, old match book covers (something rarely seen these days) A site to pass the hours just thumbing thru.
:-)) a very good site to reminisce Yes? Old postcards, old match book covers (something rarely seen these days) A site to pass the hours just thumbing thru.
Yep...good times, good times.
I remember the Helms trucks. All those trays of luscious baked goods.
Never much of an athlete. We’d go out to play soccer, or softball and frankly never cared much for playing either. Basketball was OK but would have never made it as a team player. Believe something called line soccer? was my favorite. The girls would line up on opposite sides of the basketball court against the wall The goal was for 2 in each team to kick the ball down the court and into the other wall. When done, the team would score. At least that is the way play is remembered. Gymnastics were not an attribute either. Handstands and back bends not for me. No balance. When parents were involved (as they had no children in sports) they found themselves seating in the audience listening to the band, watching a staged play, or having a talk with the teacher.
And the skate key worn on a string hanging around your neck. On Sunday’s we were not allowed to skate before 10am.
We still had an operator. HQM1138 was our phone number. As a little kid, I could say "I want to talk to my Daddy" and the operator knew who to connect me to with a phone number (much like Sara in the Andy Griffith Show).
Getting a dial phone (about 1962) was like talking on the most high tech CIA gadget I could imagine back then. The day they turned on the dial service, the phone system crashed from every one trying it out.
Not only did the take five minutes to warm up, they only came in black and white. At midnight, the TV stations ended their broadcast for the day by playing the National Anthem, then nothing but a test pattern on the tv until 6 in the morning when they played the National Anthem again and start the programs for the day.
The chest type cooler was filled with chilled water. Had to dry the bottle off after you got it out of the machine.
Also used to carry a flax canvas water bag hanging on the front bumper. Across the Mojave, had water cooled down to 90 degrees on those night trips.
OMG - Yes! Those are so long ago that they have almost been forgotten in these ‘progressive’ times. Simple, insulated cooler holding ice and bottles. And sometimes the glass bottle broke, and to reach in with your hand was similar to fishing. LOL - it was at that time the drain on these was well devised and well placed. ;-/ The dark waters = pulling a small fish out of a muddy pond. Thanks for the memory.
These days, using something such as this would NEVER occur The Security Safety Patrol would shut you down faster than cooking a plate of pancakes and haul both victim and owner of the cooler off to the hosscow. Aren’t we US citizens the ?lucky? ones that our thought police think so much of US? Of course this is said with tongue in cheek and much animosity.
It a wonder any one of us survived childhood in those days,
No resource officers in school, no fulltime counselors in school, no bicycle helmets, school lunches actually cooked on site, brown bag lunches made by Mom. Tag, dodge ball,at recess. the horrors of living in the stone age I guess.
In my youth, keys left in the car. Front door did not have a lock on it. No seat belts, bicycle helmets, schools made lunch from scratch (still miss those cinnamon rolls),no watches (when the fireflys lit up, time to come in), no store-bought sleds (a car hood worked really well), party lines on the phone, dressed up for Church on Sundays. Dad could send a 6 year old to the store for a pack of cigarettes, nickel pop and candy bars. Boys were boys, girls were girls, no in-betweens.
Sleds- car hoods :-)) or an old rubber tire.
Seldom had enough snow down this way. Snow days were few and far between. Perhaps one day in January/February but not enough to sled. Ice skating had to be done in an indoor ice skating rink.
Helmets for bicycles! Heavens~ these were not even required for motorcycles in those days. Helmets, or all the padding now need to keep US safe from harm. It is remembered seeing kids riding bikes built for one, with a passenger on the same seat hanging on as best they could.
No license needed, no tags needed, no registration needed. No bike paths. It was the street and sidewalks (most walkways were open to bikes in those days)
That which was taken for granted, and enjoyed -all taken away and FORBIDDEN by today’s ‘TPTB’ Can’t tell me we haven’t changed as a country! I REMEMBER! LOL not much, but do remember some important things. :-))
LOL Yep - Doody must have ‘evolved’ But we’re still looked upon as the ‘Peanut Gallery’ :-))
Uncle Bob - and all Howdy’s friends. Locally about that time in the local area Soupy Sales was making a name for himself and showing episodes of “The Three Stooges” Oh! My mom disliked that show intensely and suffered every time we turned into that station to watch That Show. Weird, she never cared much for ‘The Adventures of Superman’ either and would only allow us to watch that after we had ‘matured’ enough to know NOT to jump off the roof of the house to fly like Superman.
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