Do you remember when....

Try this link. It will bring back some fond memories to us 'oldies' here at FTE.

http://www.thestatenislandboys.com/U_thrill_me/

 

That was great ! I'm 57, raised in NY and remember it all real well. You could take your girlfriend out on a date for five or six bucks. Thats gas, movie, and a slice of pizza and a coke afterward.

 

ok,now I'm sad.

 

remember pics (for mosquitoes) at the drive-in?

 

Man, I thought this was going to be about a Statler Brothers song.

 

I just flashed back to the park where we used to play baseball where everything to the right field side of 2nd base was foul becuase we didn't have enough players. That patch of dirt (hard to call it a field) was at right next to the creek that we used to jump on our 'motorcycles' - and yes, we were all Evel Kneivel when airborn!

I'm sad now too. My boy( 4 1/2) when he gets older will NEVER know the joy and sense of freedom that comes with disappearing with friends on bikes for hours at a time. And 'nowhere' will definitely not be an acceptable destination.

 

Saturday morning serials chapters 1 through 15
Fly paper, penny loafers, Lucky Strike Green
Flat tops, sock hops, Studebaker, Pepsi please
Ah do you remember these

Cigar bands on your hand, your daddy's socks rolled down
Sticks, snow floats and aviator caps with flaps that button down
Movie stars on Dixie Cup tops and knickers to your knees
Ah do you remember these

The hit parade, grape Tru-Aid, The Sadie Hawkins Dance
Pedal pushers, duck tail hair and peggin' your pants
Howdie-Doodie, Tutti-Frutti, the seam up the back of her hose
Ah do you remember those

James Dean he was keen, Sunday movies were taboo
The Senior Prom, Judy's mom, rock and roll was new
Cracker Jack prize, stars in your eyes, ask daddy for the keys
Ah do you remember these

The boogey man, lemonade stand and takin' your tonsils out
Hindenburg and wait your turn and four foul ***** you're out
Cigarette loads and secret codes and savin' lucky stars
Can you remember back that far

The boat neck shirts and fender skirts and crinoline petticoats
Mum's the word and a dirty bird and a double root beer float
Moon hub caps and loud heel taps and he's a real gone cat
Ah do you remember that

Dancin' close, little moron jokes and cooties in her hair
Captain Midnight, Ovaltine and The Whip at the County Fair
Charles Atlas Course, Roy Roger's Horse and only The Shadow knows
Ah do you remember those

Gable's charm, Frogi'n your arm, loud mufflers, pitchin' woo
Going steady, Veronica and Betty, white bucks and Blue Suede Shoes
Knock Knock jokes and who's there Dewey Dewey who
Do we remember these yes we do ah do we do we remember these

 

Well I am not quite this wise (polite way of saying old) to all of these. But I sure do remember a lot of them. Last day of school before summer vacations. Grew up in Northern NJ. Kids everywhere always something to do. Going down to the DQ for a Mister Misty. It seems so long ago. I would love to bring my 12 year old back to that time just for a day so he could experience living.

 

My favourite was Clothes Pegging Cigarette package covers to the fender brace of my bike trying to sound like a Motorcycle.


We have a few other 'Remember When' threads on here.

Maybe I should dig them up ?

 

Doby Gillis?
Maynerd G Crebb?

 

Do you remember the plastic engine that Mattel made, I think it was called the Varoom Engine? Made the engine sounds for your bike!

We didn't use cigarette packs in the spokes, we used playing cards.

I agree with all of those that said they'd like to give their kids a chance to experience our "good ol days". I really wish my stepson could have had the experiences I had working summers on a farm too.

 

I remember the old folks being far more willing to do really stupid things if it kept their grandkids busy.

Things like riding the rear bumper of the car up the driveway. Being roped to the hood of a car while driving down irrigation ditch roads. Being allowed to drive under supervision in a small town?

Now a days these things are all illegal or the do gooders will at least sneer at you. Back then it was no big deal, at least in the country.

I had one of those Varoom Bikes, it was a bike that looked like a motorcycle including gas tank and engine. I was almost never allowed to use the engine since it either made too much noise or ate up batteries.

Lots of fun things we used to do back then that are considered either unsafe or not PC now a days.

Who remembers playing "War" in some empty field. I bet the PC crowd would have a melt down. Now my kids aren't even allowed to draw a gun in school. Strange, I have a friend who is Palestinian who said as a child they could be arrested for drawing guns, and I thought how repressed that society is. Well we may not arrest kids but we certainly have a hissy fit when they draw guns. Jeez, get a handle on it.

Things have changed, and not necessarily for the better.

Jim Henderson

 

oh no, another old man post! j/k!

 

Yeah, I can remember a few things.

Before the schools were *unified*
The last day of school was a half a day on Memorial day.
The first day of school was after Labor day.

Going to a 3 room school house in the country. The gym was a Quanzit Hut.
Seemed huge to a first grader.

26 in bicycles were about all there was. Going barefoot till the bottoms of feet were like shoe leather. Swimming in the *big ditch*. Playing in the ditch after a heavy thunder storm.

And the best thing was hearing Meadowlarks on the fence posts.

There wasn't even a TV in the house. Yeah I can remember. I didn't know then that those days were going to be the good old days.

 

(Silver Streak - that was absolutely priceless!)

Mini Bikes flying down the street, wondering if we'd go to prison if the cops caught us riding them on the street instead of walking them down to the trail behind the houses...

Going to watch the RACES with Poppa - Dirt track Sprint Cars at Gillespie Field!

The destruction Derby at the end of the main event...

Stingray bikes, with banana seats

Joining the "Hotwheels" fan club, just to get that cool looking chrome 65 "BOSS HOSS" Mustang car model

Hula Hoops, and Slip&Slides...

Hearing the latest ELVIS song on the local rock station

All of the second grade being brought together to watch the first moon landing on TV...

Johnny Carson in black and white!

Riding through the desert near Barstow in a sand storm caused by an atom bomb test

Looking out the airport windows at radial piston engined airliners, and wondering at how modern they were

The dashboard of a fifty eight oldsmobile was my idea of what a spaceship might look like

Riding my bike to school - even if it made me late!

Gas engined control line model airplanes seemed to have strings a mile long...

Washed clothes getting hung up in the back yard by my Mom (they always smelled better that way)

Playing ball in the street, with all of the neighbors kids AND THEIR DADS!

Buying "Beatles" bubble gum packs, to collect the cards in them...

And every GOOD cub-scout had to have a mess kit - even if we couldn't imagine ever needing it. (Quote: "Rub the outside with soap, so that it will not blacken from the fire...")

Oh yeah, I hear you.

*sighs*

Those are the dreams that we keep, that were the truth once upon a time, and seem almost like very old stories of a time impossible to imagine today. But we have them, some of us - and they are the treasured memories of what once used to be

I wonder what our childrens dreams and memories will contain?


~Wolf