I am so old that I:
remember when they added One Nation Under God to the Pledge of Allegiance
remember when they removed One Nation Under God from the Pledge of Allegiance
remember washing clothes with a wringer washer then hanging them out to dry on the clothesline
remember hula hoops being a new big thing
loved to climb a tree
remember can openers that were not much more than a pointed knife
remember that an electric mixer was a luxury
remember when girls had to wear dresses to school
remember volunteer fire departments
remember having only one television channel that went off the air at midnight
remember Sunday dinner
remember 3cent postage stamps
remember Steve Allen had both the early morning show and the late night show
remember Your Show of Shows
remember needing a bottle opener to open a bottle of pop
remember Your Hit Parade
remember the first show of Captain Kangaroo
remember Howdy Doody
remember pen pals
remember stirring and stirring fudge to make it firm
remember "church keys" that opened bottles and cans
remember going barefoot all summer
and so much more. What do you remember?
wow !
ReplyDeletedespite the age difference many of these memories i share with you :)
bare feet roaming oh yes mom had to yell at me all the day
I did not wear shoes at all during the summer. I still do not like shoes.
DeleteI remember when the first two digits for telephone numbers were letters. I remember when women couldn't keep their jobs if they became pregnant.
ReplyDeleteGood ones. We were on the party line with the drug store. What a pain.
DeleteI remember all of these! Also, at my grade school all the girls sat on one side of the classroom and the boys on the other side. I wonder what the people of those times would even imagine how we are today.
ReplyDeleteIt would be like living in a science fiction movie.
Remember coming in a night when the street lights came on. Home perms. Being the only girl in the neighborhood.
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