All the girls had ugly gym uniforms? |
It took five minutes for the TV warm up? |
Nearly everyone's mom was at home when kids got home from school? |
Nobody owned a purebred dog? |
A quarter was a pretty good allowance? |
You'd reach into a muddy gutter for a penny? |
Your mom wore nylons that came in two pieces? |
All your male teachers wore neckties and female teachers had their hair done every day and wore high heels? |
You got your windshield cleaned, oil checked, and gas pumped, without asking, all for free, every time? |
You didn't pay for air? And you got trading stamps to boot? |
It was considered a great privilege to be taken out to dinner at a real restaurant with your parents? |
They threatened to keep kids back a grade if they failed ... and they followed through? |
A 57 Chevy was everyone's dream car ... to cruise, peel out, lay rubber or watch submarine races, and people went steady? |
Lying on your back in the grass with your friends and saying things like, “That cloud looks like a ...” |
Playing baseball with no adults to help kids with the rules of the game? |
Stuff from the store came without safety caps and hermetic seals because no one had yet tried to poison a perfect stranger? |
Being sent to the principal's office was nothing compared to the fate that awaited you at home? |
Laundry detergent had free glasses, dishes or towels hidden inside the box? |
Basically we were in fear for our lives, but it wasn't because of drive-by shootings, drugs and gangs ... our parents and grandparents were a much bigger threat! But we survived because their love was greater than the threat. |
Summers were filled with bike rides, baseball games, Hula Hoops, bowling and visits to the pool |
Eating Kool-Aid powder with sugar. |
The perfect age was somewhere between old enough to know better and too young to care. |
How many of these do you remember? |
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15 cent McDonald hamburgers |
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35 cents per gallon gasoline |
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45 RPM records |
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5 cent packs of baseball cards with a pink slab of bubble gum |
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Beanie and Cecil |
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Blackjack, Clove and Teaberry chewing gum |
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Candy cigarettes |
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Coffee shops with tableside jukeboxes |
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Cork pop guns |
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Drive ins |
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Erector Sets |
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Green Stamps |
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Hi-Fi's |
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Home milk delivery in glass bottles with cardboard stoppers |
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Howdy Doody and the Peanut Gallery |
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Howdy Doody |
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Jiffy Pop popcorn |
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Laurel and Hardy |
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Lincoln Logs |
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Metal ice cubes trays with levers |
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Mimeograph paper |
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Nancy Drew |
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Nellie Bell, Roy and Dale, Trigger and Buttermilk |
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Newsreels before the movie |
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“Oly-oly-oxen-free” |
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P.F. Fliers |
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Party lines |
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Peashooters |
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Penny candy |
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Reel-To-Reel tape recorders |
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Roller-skate keys |
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Soda pop machines that dispensed glass bottles |
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Studebakers |
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Telephone numbers with a word prefix....(Hillside 2-345). |
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The Fort Apache Play Set |
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The Fuller Brush Man |
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The Hardy Boys |
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The Lone Ranger |
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The Shadow Knows |
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Tinkertoys |
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Washtub wringers |
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Wax Coke-shaped bottles with colored sugar water inside |
Do you remember a time when... |
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A foot of snow was a dream come true? |
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Baseball cards in the spokes turned any bike into a motorcycle? |
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Catching fireflies could happily occupy an entire evening? |
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Decisions were made by going “Eeny-meeny-miney-moe”? |
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Having a weapon at school meant being caught with a slingshot? |
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It wasn't odd to have two or three “Best Friends”? |
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Mistakes were corrected by simply exclaiming, “Do Over!”? |
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“Race issue” meant arguing about who ran the fastest? |
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Saturday morning cartoons weren't 30-minute commercials for action figures? |
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Spinning around, getting dizzy, and falling down was cause for giggles? |
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Taking drugs meant orange-flavored chewable aspirin? |
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The worst embarrassment was being picked last for a team? |
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The worst thing you could catch from the opposite sex was “cooties”? |
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War was a card game? |
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Water balloons were the ultimate weapon? |
If you can remember most or all of these, then you probably lived through the 1950s! |
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- Contributed by Mike Guzaldo & Patti Neri |