Sunday, October 28, 2007

I am sharing this with you today because it ended with a double dog dare to pass it on. To remember what a double dog dare is, read on. And remember that the perfect age is somewhere between old enough to know better and too young to care. How many of these do you remember?

Candy cigarettes

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Wax Coke-shaped bottles with colored sugar water inside

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Soda pop machines that dispensed glass bottles

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Coffee shops with tableside jukeboxes

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Blackjack, Clove and Teaberry chewing gum

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Home milk delivery in glass bottles with cardboard stoppers

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Newsreels before the movie


P.F. Fliers

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Telephone numbers with a word prefix...(Raymond 4601), and Party lines

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Peashooters

Howdy Dowdy

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Hi-Fi's

45 RPM records

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78 RPM records!

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Green Stamps

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Metal ice cubes trays with levers

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Mimeograph paper

Beanie and Cecil

Roller-skate keys

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Cork pop guns

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Drive ins

Studebakers

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Washtub wringers

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The Fuller Brush Man

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Reel-To-Reel tape recorders

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Tinkertoys

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Erector Sets

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The Fort Apache Play Set
Lincoln Logs

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15 cent McDonald hamburgers

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5 cent packs of baseball cards - with that awful pink slab of bubble gum

Penny candy

25 cent a gallon gasoline

Jiffy Pop popcorn

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Do you remember a time when...


Decisions were made by going "eeny-meeny-miney-moe"?

Mistakes were corrected by simply exclaiming, "Do Over!"?

"Race issue" meant arguing about who ran the fastest?

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Catching the fireflies could happily occupy an entire evening?


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It wasn't odd to have two or three "Best Friends"?

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The worst thing you could catch from the opposite sex was "cooties"?

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Having a weapon in school meant being caught with a slingshot?

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Saturday morning cartoons weren't 30-minute commercials for action figures?

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"Oly! -oly-oxen-free" made perfect sense?

Spinning around, getting dizzy, and falling down was cause for giggles?

The worst embarrassment was being picked last for a team?

War was a card game?

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Baseball cards in the spokes transformed any bike into a motorcycle?

Taking drugs meant orange-flavored chewable aspirin?

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Water balloons were the ultimate weapon?

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