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To: yetidog

““Young Men’s Christian Association” to the “YMCA” to simply the “Y” is rather new”

When I was a kid ages ago, we called it the “Y”. If anyone told us to go the YMCA we would have said ‘the what?’ Only after I was older did I know what the letters stood for.


64 posted on 01/14/2015 1:33:22 PM PST by TexasGator
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To: TexasGator
When I was a kid ages ago, we called it the “Y”. If anyone told us to go the YMCA we would have said ‘the what?’ Only after I was older did I know what the letters stood for.

Must have been a LOOOOOOOOOOOONG time ago.

People have only been dancing to it for the last 37 years.

86 posted on 01/14/2015 4:01:23 PM PST by mountn man (The Pleasure You Get From Life Is Equal To The Attitude You Put Into It)
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