Remember When?

[DUD]

Take a trip down memory lane. Bill


http://www.frontiernet.net/~jimdandy.../remember.html

[Richard in Smithville]

I won't admit to being able to remember all of it, but I do remember most.

One more: I can remember when Mrs. ***** told you off for something, you didn't dare go home and tell your mum. Not only would you get in trouble for what you did, but you would get in even more trouble because Mrs. **** had to tell you off!

[DonHo]

Well gotta say I remember all those things.

"One more: I can remember when Mrs. ***** told you off for something, you didn't dare go home and tell your mum. Not only would you get in trouble for what you did, but you would get in even more trouble because Mrs. **** had to tell you off!"

In the little country comunity where I lived it wasn't unheard of for somebody other than your parents to give you a spanking if you were "really" out of line and you'd git another one when you got home. If you were outta line but not way bad, they'd just call your parents and you'd only get the one busting. In my case I lived in fear of the time someone would catch me just messing up a little and saying "aren't you ole Harold Hammond's kid?" I knew they'd be calling him and I'd be getting busted

DonHo

[leehljp]

The bad part about some of that is that some of it was so long ago the I forgot some of it already. I had to ask LOML and finally, - oh yeah, now I remember.

I do remember buying 25 cent gas. I never gave the price of gas much of a thought before I started driving (legally) in '62. I didn't give the 55 chevy a thought, but I did dream of the '57 even for a long time after.

[thestinker]

Wow....I wasn't born till after most of the big gas chrisis was over with. Much less .25 cent gas

[billwmeyer]

I remember all of those things, and miss a lot of them. Gas was usually $.32 here, unless there was a gas war. When I lived in Arkansas in the early 70's the most that I paid for gas was about 17 cents. This came with the green stamps, gold bond stamps or free pany hose. Eh..., I took the stamps.

Bill

[mater]

I remember all as well except I remember gas being .19 a gallon. Thanks for the trip down memory lane.

[Pappy]

I remember all of them!

Gas wars were common when I started driving, smokes were .19 a pack, coke machines were 6 cents.

And I danced more than once to a beat produced by a razor strap!

[Ed62]

Yep, remember every one. Another one I remember was the commercial "Pepsi Cola hits the spot. Twelve full ounces is a lot. Twice as much for a nickel too. Pepsi Cola is the drink for you" . Remember that one?

Ed

[jhart]

Remember them all also. When my wife and I were first dating in the early '60's, she had an old '50 Ford, and would pull into the gas station and get .50 worth of gas a number of times. One station guy finally told her to take her business somewhere else. They came out and pumped the gas for you back then. We still laugh about that every now and then when filling up at $2-3 a gallon.

Those were some good old days. Life was a lot simplier then.

[ironhat]

I remember all of them!

And I danced more than once to a beat produced by a razor strap!

I'd never heard of anyone but me getting the razor strop. My mom was a beautician and kept one in her little basement shop. When she passed it on to my sister, sis cut it into little pieces - she was a blister, obviously


And Bil, thanks for clearing up the panty hose vs stamps issue for us. I g ta little shiver for a second - LOL.

Later,
Chiz

[cabinetman]

I remember all of them. We even had a "mangle" for pressing clothes. We had that little bowl with the cone shape thingie in the middle for juicing oranges. That's when all phones were black, and had a cloth cord, and a dial on the front. I remember the commercial for Colgate toothpaste and the "Guardall Protective Shield". I remember Babo, the foaming cleanser, Rice Crispy cookies, wide whitewall tires, TV's were black and white, jeans were called dungarees, the Ed Sullivan Show, Buffalo Bob, Hopalong Cassidy, gas wars with .17 cents/gal, cigarettes at the PX were $1.60 a carton, Dean of boys at school had a wood paddle with holes drilled, madras shirts, sock hops in the gym, Hully Gully, Bristol Stomp, Monster Mash, teatherball, clip on skates, Boy's Life magazine, and of course the first "Playboy magazine that I hid under the mattress.

[DonHo]

I really don't remember how much smokes cost when I was 4 or 5 but it must have been 18 or 23 cents because I remember that when my dad bought them from a machine there would be 2 pennies under the cellophane wraper because the machines didn't make change. I'd get the pennies, good times

DonHo

[TheRic]

I remember most of those things. I'm still a young pup I guess

I do remember the spanking we would get, for doing something wrong, was nothing compared to the scolding / talking to we got. Looked forward to the spanking, I knew the scolding was over

Double dog dare never made it to this parts. I have asked several other people, even ones older, and they don't remember it. Oh we dared you, and double dared you, triple dared you, but never a double dog dare. I guess we were culturally deprived as kids.

[25]

Wow, not many I can rember of those I even had to go look up a few terms "submarine races".