I can remember when:

Cool...

I remember when I walked 2 miles to school.

I remember when my school didn't have air conditioning (in Florida)

I remember when my dad bought a Pontiac with push button gears

I remember when my mother wore clothes with LARGE polka dots on them

I remember going on vacation in the family car and there were no radio stations for miles and miles and miles...

i remember when "standarrd transmission" meant three speed manual transmission

i remember when the ford thunderbird was a sports car.

i remember the penny post card.

i remember when "ghost riders in the sky" made the mainstream from country

i remember when "depression" was virtually the only mental health diagnosis

i remember cars that were started with a crank

i remember cars without radios

i remember vacuum windshield wipers (befoe electric ones)

i remember 10 cent a gallon gas (petrol, rosie and dj)

i remember the model a ford (my dad owned one)  yes, it was black

i coulld go on but i'm older than you and i worked at my father's service station starting when i was about 6.

warren

Post Edited (wmnak) : 9/13/2006 8:33:30 PM (GMT-6)

i remember watching gunsmoke (with James Arness) in b&w

i remember howdey doodie and the mousketeers

i remember smke-out movies - er - drive-in theaters

i remember dreaming some day of perhaps earning $10K/yr - it would solve all of my money problems.

i remember the day Kennedy was shot (i was a senior in hs)

MORE PEOPLE!!

warren

yes, i remember all of these things.  some fondly, others not.  how did you meet jfk?  and i still think that there is no worse sound than fingernails over a slate blackboard.  you youngsters have no idea <warren shivers at the memory>.

78 records ruled for years.  was it ww ii when they came out?  slightly before my time, but not by much.  and then there were 45s (i have a collection of 78s and 45s - daughter isn't interested).  and of course 33 1/3 lps for concerts and the like (something like discs today).  my first 33 1/3 was 101 strings malaguana (sp) followed by  the kingston trio.  what memories!  i almost wore those albums out!

thanks for the memories, norm.  and it's nice to have another guy around.  all these girl cuties!

warren

I remember when penny sweets really did cost a penny.

I remember Dogtanian and the Three Muskahounds!

I remember when the best game in the world was "echoes". (This involves standing in your garage and shouting something ... and then hearing the echo... . I remember we made our own fun back then! )

Rosie x

I still have 33's and 45's....and 8-track (and 8 track player.....) 

I remember my mom wearing a Muu Muu

I remember blow up furniture: living room furniture

Metal skates

having the neighbors discipline you if needed

beeing gone from sun up to sun down

I TOO remember when a nickel bag was $5.00.  Yes I did it then (and I inhaled shhhhh)

I remember no seat belts and having my little sister in a "child (safety) seat" than hung over the back of the seat.

my mom and dad had a VW Beetle.  It had big bandaids all over it that said OUCH

My parents were both Barber Shop Quartet singers and I thought they were the hottest thing around!

I remember going on camping trips and us kids would take off for hours in some place we were unfamiliar with and no one thought to worry. 

Baby Asprin and Doc Spoc

I am brain dead now....(must have been that pot! ) that is all I can think of at the moment....

MAN, Warren you is old baby!

I remember cars with fins... the bigger the cooler.

I remember my mother insisting that we have a PINK Chrysler (I'm a female so I thought that was wonderful!)

I remember going on our vacation each year in the car, listening to the AM station all the way, until the static started. Then we would sing songs, because there was no such thing as tape/cd players.

I remember drive-in hamburger stands that weren't called "Sonic", and kids would hang out there.

I remember when the guys in school that wore white t-shirts with a pack of cigs in the sleeve were called "hoods".

I remember when there were "smoking areas" in public high schools. (You were supposed to have a note from mom saying you were allowed to...but nobody ever checked!)

I remember pep-rallies in the un-airconditioned gym, and everyone feeling like they were going to melt!!

I remember when I was in elementary school (the same school my granddaughter goes to now as a matter of fact) when there was no such thing as air conditioning (in Texas). Dresses with petticoats were the fashion at the time... talk about HOT.... and the only way to cool off was to stand in front of the box fan for a few minutes before class started.

I remember the day JFK was shot... I was at recess, and the announcement came over the loud speaker, so we heard it outside... I remember going from running, playing and laughing, to crying hysterically. I remember that JFK had been to my city just the day before, and we had seen it on the news that night. I remember watching the little black and white TV in horror while Lee Harvey Oswald was shot on TV.

I remember watching the first space flight (and all subsequent ones) on a portable TV at school that was brought into the classroom.

I remember when everyone wanted a bomb shelter more than a trip to Europe.

I remember when we had "civil defense drills" in addition to fire drills, where we had to hide under our desks.

I remember when the PTA sold rations for your "bomb shelter" as a fund raiser...we still have a few.

I remember when it was safe to play outside all day in the summer, and I remember when it wasn't anymore.

I remember when a little boy was who was in my class was abducted by a bad man, and nobody said what happened to him but it was "something bad"... he was held back a year, but in those days child predators didn't actually murder their victims.

I remember when TV stations ran commercials about "fallout".

I remember when the Beatles were on Ed Sullivan.

I remember a lot more than this but this post is getting ridiculously long already....

Bear