Wanted to share this with you all - since we are talking about growing up in the '50s, as I did!!
A Stroll Through Time...
Remember when?? I still do!!
If you are old enough
take a stroll with me
close your eyes
and go back
before the internet
before semi-automatics and crack
before SEGA or Super Nintendo
way back
Im talkin about hide and go seek at dusk, sittin on the porch, Simon Says, Kick the Can, Red Light-Green Light. lunch boxes with a thermos
chocolate milk, going home for lunch, penny candy from the store, hopscotch, butterscotch, skates with keys, Jacks, Mother May I? Hula hoops and sunflower seeds, Whist and Old Maid and Crazy Eights, wax lips and mustaches, Mary Janes, saddle shoes and Coke bottles with the name of cities on the bottom, running through the sprinkler, bobby pins, Mickey Mouse Club, Rocky & Bullwinkle, Fran & Ollie, Spin & Marty
all in black & white.
When around the corner seemed far away, and going downtown seemed like going somewhere. Bedtime, climbing trees, making forts
backyard shows, lemonade stands, Cops and Robbers, Cowboys and Indians, sittin on the curb, staring at clouds, jumping down the steps, jumping on the bed, pillow fights, getting company, ribbon candy, angel hair on the Christmas tree, Jackie Gleason, white gloves, walking to church, walking to the movie theater, being tickled to death, running until you were out of breath, laughing so hard that your stomach hurt, being tired from playin
Remember that? Not stepping on a crack or youll break your mothers back
paper chains at Christmas, silhouettes of Lincoln and Washington
the smell of paste in school and Evening in Paris. What about the girl that had the big bubbly handwriting who dotted her is with hearts? The Stroll, popcorn balls, and sock hops
Remember
when there were two types of sneakers for girls and boys (Keds & PF Flyers) and the only time you wore them at school was for gym. And the girls had those ugly uniforms. When it took five minutes for the TV to warm up. When nearly everyones Mom was at home when the kids got home from school. When nobody owned a purebred dog. When a quarter was a decent allowance, and another quarter a huge bonus. When youd reach into a muddy gutter for a penny. When girls neither dated nor kissed until late high school, if then. When your Mom wore nylons that came in two pieces. When all of your male teachers wore neckties and female teachers had their hair done, everyday and wore high heels. When you got your windshield cleaned, oil checked, and gas pumped, without asking, all for free, every time. And, you didnt pay for air. And, you got trading stamps to boot! When laundry detergent had free glasses, dishes or towels hidden inside the box.
When any parent could discipline any kid, or feed him or use him to carry groceries, and nobody, not even the kid, thought a thing of it. When it was considered a great privilege to be taken out to dinner at a real restaurant with your parents. When they threatened to keep kids back a grade if they failed
and did! When the worst thing you could do at school was smoke in the bathrooms, flunk a test or chew gum. And the prom was in the auditorium and we danced to an orchestra, and all the girls wore pastel gowns and the boys wore suits for the first time and we stayed out all night. When a 57 Chevy {I had one!!}was everyones dream car
to cruise, peel out, lay rubber or watch submarine races, and people went steady and girls wore a class ring with an inch of wrapped dental floss or yarn coated with pastel frost nail polish so it would fit her finger.
And no one ever asked where the car keys were cause they were always in the car, in the ignition, and the doors were never locked. And you got in big trouble if you accidentally locked the doors at home, since no one ever had a key. Remember lying on your back on the grass with your friends and saying things like That cloud looks like a
And playing baseball with no adults to help kids with the rules of the game. Back then, baseball was not a psychological group learning experience-it was a game! Remember when stuff from the store came without safety caps and hermetic seals cause no one had yet tried to poison a perfect stranger. And
with all our progress
dont you just wish
just once
you could slip back in time and savor the slower pace
and share it with the children of the 80s, '90s, '00s and 10s
So who can still remember Nancy Drew, The Hardy Boys, Laurel & Hardy, Howdy Doody and The Peanut Gallery, The Lone Ranger, The Shadow Knows, Nellie Belle, Roy and Dale, Trigger and Buttermilk
as well as the sound of a real mower on Saturday morning, and summers filled with bike riders, playing in the cowboy land, baseball games, bowling and visits to the pool
and eating Kool-Aid powder out of the envelope.
Didnt that feel good, just to go back and say, YEAH! I remember that!!
{and again Thank you all for the birthday wishes - you all are a great bunch!!!}
:seeya:
Serena will have to retire eventually. LOL
