Saint Cols

If you don't remember this, you're too young anyway.

This is a time we can feel good about remembering so much!



    Always remember that the perfect age is somewhere between
    old enough to know better and young enough not to care.

    How many do you remember?
     1. Candy cigarettes.
     2. Wax coke-shaped bottles with colored sugar water inside.
     3. Soda pop machines that dispensed glass bottles.
     4. Coffee shops with tableside juke boxes.
     5. Blackjack, Clove and Teaberry chewing gum.
     6. Home milk delivery in glass bottles, with cardboard stoppers.
     7. Party lines.
     8. Newsreels before the movie.
     9. P. F. Flyers.
    10. Butch wax.
    11. Telephone numbers with a word prefix, (Drexel-5505).
    12. Peashooters.
    13. Howdy.
    14. 45-RPM Records.
    15. Green Stamps.
    16. Hi-fi's.
    17. Metal ice cube trays-with levers.
    18. Mimeograph paper.
    19. Blue flash Bulbs.
    20. Beanie and Cecil.
    21. Roller skate keys.
    22. Cork pop guns.
    23. Drive ins.
    24. Studebakers.
    25. Wash tub wringers.
    26. The Fuller Brush man.
    27. Reel-to-reel tape recorders.
    28. Tinkertoys.
    29. The Erector Set.
    30. The Fort Apache Playset.
    31. Lincoln Logs.
    32. 15 cent McDonald hamburgers.
    33. 5 cent packs of baseball cards...with that awful pink slab of bubblegum.
    34. Penny candy.
    35. 35 cent-a-gallon gasoline.

    AND A TIME WHEN ....................
       Decisions were made by going "eeny-meeny-miney-mo."
       Mistakes were corrected by simply exclaiming, "Do over!"
       "Race issue" meant arguing about who ran the fastest.

       It wasn't odd to have two or three "best" friends.
       The worst thing you could catch from the opposite sex was cooties.
        Having a weapon in school meant being caught with a slingshot.

       A foot of snow was a dream come true.
       Saturday morning cartoons weren't 30-minute ads for action figures.

       "Oly-oly-oxen-free" made perfect sense.

       The worst embarrassment was being picked last for a team.
       War was a card game.
       Water balloons were the ultimate weapon.
       Baseball cards in the spokes transformed any bike into a motorcycle.
       Taking drugs meant orange-flavored chewable aspirin.
       If you can remember most or all of these, then you have lived!!!!


Remember when there were just two types of sneakers for girls and boys -
Keds and PF Flyers, and the only time you wore them at school was for
gym. And the girls had those ugly gym uniforms.
When you got your windshield cleaned, oil checked, and gas pumped,
without asking -- all for free -- every time! And, you didn't pay for
air either, and you got trading stamps to boot!

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 survived because their love was so much greater than the threat.

Remember when a '57 Chevy was everyone's dream car -- used to cruise,
peel out, lay rubber, scratch off or watch the submarine races?

When no one ever asked where the car keys were because they were always
in the car, in the ignition, and the car and house doors were never
locked!

Remember when stuff from the store came without safety caps and hermetic
seals, because no one had yet tried to poison a perfect stranger.

And, with all our progress, don't you just wish, that just once you
could slip back in time and savor the slower pace...and share it with
the children of today?

So send this on to someone who can still remember Nancy Drew, The Hardy
Boys, Laurel and Hardy, Howdy Dowdy and The Peanut Gallery, The Lone
Ranger and Tonto, 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, baseball games, bowling,
visits to the pool ... and eating Kool- Aid powder with sugar from
the palm of your hand.

Pass this on to anyone who may need a break from their "grown up life...."

Author Unknown