Remember When:
 

Most of you won't be able to relate to this but some of us members can.

REMEMBER....

When the worst thing you could do at school was smoke in the bathrooms, flunk a test or chew gum, and the banquets were in the cafeteria and we danced to a juke box later, and all the girls wore fluffy pastel gowns and the boys wore suits for the first time and we were allowed to stay out till 12 p.m.

When a '57 Chevy was everyone's dream car. . . to cruise, peel out, lay rubber and watch drag 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...don't you just wish...just once...you could slip back in time and savor the slower pace...and share it with the children of the 80's and 90's...

So send this on to someone 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 rides, playing in cowboy land, baseball games, bowling and visits to the pool...and eating Kool-Aid powder with sugar.

When being sent to the principal's office was nothing compared to the fate that awaited a misbehaving student at home.

Basically, we were in fear for our lives, but it wasn't because of drive by shootings,drugs, gangs,etc.

Our parents and grandparents were a much bigger threat! But we all survived because their love was greater than the threat.

Yeah, I remember that!

And was it really that long ago?

And also at the same time frame remember when:

Abortion were illegal and many women died by back yard abortionists and coathangers

Black and Whites went to different schools and had to sit in the back of the bus

People died from Small Pox and still got Polio

Having a heart attacked meant instant death because no defibulator was available

Remember when at the same time you wanted that 57 Chevy my Dad went to Korea and died for his country

Women were not supposed to work, stay home and raise the kids and cook

No Computers

Porn was underground and run by the Mafia and not some 18 year old webmaster

There was no Union so kids were working in the mines of West Virginia. 11 and under was preferred.

Next time you think of the past also remember the not so good things and how far we have come.

:2 cents:

It was an E-mail I received, not my words.

It wasn't a perfect society then, just as it isn't now, but generally, I am of the opinion that it was a better society than it is now.

I am sorry you lost your father in the War. I served in the Korean war twice. Who knows, maybe I knew your father, but probably a slim chance of that.

NO

I dont remember it, but i can guarantee it wasn't as blissfull as that email makes it sound.

"Reflect on the past with a view to the future" - great saying..and I made it up..

Very good Krome, makes sense to me.

"Howdy Doody " hahaha, he said Doody :1orglaugh

Doody head, Doody head, Doody head, hahaha.......