Thursday, February 16, 2012

REMEMBER WHEN...........? MEMORIES OF TIMES PAST!

Remember Vick nosedrops and vaporub..when your mother had you eat a teaspoon of that creamy vaporub..yucky!...when you would have to put a pan of water on top of your free standing heater to moisten the air in your house...when you could take a carload of family to the Motor Movies (movie drive-in) for only a dollar.....when an indoor toilet was a luxury...and a bath meant "get out the round tina"....and all the kids used the same water (we were six)...when we would walk to school two miles (true)....when we were skinny because there were no computers and we would be playing outside....when after school there were activities like needlecraft, ping pong, "punching bag" (tether ball)...when we would chew Fleers Bubble Gum and there was always a comic on back of the wrapper...when you could buy a pound of hamburger for a dollar...when ten dollars would buy bags of groceries...when milk came in glass bottles...when the doctor would come to your house for a sick call....when girls wore hair rollers and wrapped it with a bandana....when our skirts were to the ankles....when girls were not allowed to wear pants at school.....when you bought your vacuum cleaner from a door to door salesman....when encyclopedias were in book form and you had to turn pages.....I DO!

.....Or when we got home from school, homework was a priority....when everyone prepared dinner.....when Saturday was cleaning day.....when we learned the domestic part of life, boys and girls.......when bedtime was 9:30....when we could watch Ozzie and Harriet, Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz, Amos and Andy, Dinah Shore Show, Leave it to Beaver, Sid Cesear and Imogene Coca, The Amateur Hour......when we could safely walk to the store at night....I remember all of these thing and more....Some say the changes in the current mode of things is progress......I beg to differ!

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