Re: gasoline & "the good ole days"
- Subject: Re: gasoline & "the good ole days"
- From: t*@molalla.net
- Date: Wed, 15 Jan 2003 23:35:10 -0800
Hey Donna,
I was reading your email just about the time I also received this in
the "mail".... here's some more of the "good ole days"...
Connie Wheeler, Molalla, OR Zone 7
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Kids In the Fifties
Were you a kid in the Fifties or so ? Everybody makes fun of our
childhood! Comedians joke. Grandkids snicker. Twenty-
something's shudder and say "Eeeew!" But was our childhood
really all that bad? Judge for yourself:
In 1953 The US population was less than 150 million... Yet you
knew more people then, and knew them better... And that was
good.
The average annual salary was under $3,000...Yet our parents
could put some of it away for a rainy day and still live a decent
life... And that was good.
A loaf of bread cost about 15 cents... But it was safe for a five-year-
old to skate to the store and buy one... And that was good.
Prime-Time meant I Love Lucy, Ozzie and Harriet, Gunsmoke and
Lassie... So nobody ever heard of ratings or filters... And that was
good.
We didn't have air-conditioning... So the windows stayed up and
half a dozen mothers ran outside when you fell off your bike.... And
that was good.
Your teacher was either Miss Matthews or Mrs Logan or Mr.
Adkins... But not Ms Becky or Mr.Dan... And that was good.
The only hazardous material you knew about....Was a patch of
grassburrs around the light pole at the corner... And that was good
You loved to climb into a fresh bed... Because sheets were dried
on the clothesline... And that was good.
People generally lived in the same hometown with their relatives...
So "child care" meant grandparents or aunts and uncles... And that
was good.
Parents were respected and their rules were law.... Children did not
talk back..... and that was good.
TV was in black-and-white... But all outdoors was in glorious
color....And that was certainly good.
Your Dad knew how to adjust everybody's carburetor... And the
Dad next door knew how to adjust all the TV knobs... And that was
very good..
Your grandma grew snap beans in the back yard...And chickens
behind the garage... And that was definitely good.
And just when you were about to do something really bad..
Chances were you'd run into your Dad's high school coach... Or
the nosy old lady from up the street... Or your little sister's piano
teacher.. Or somebody from Church... ALL of whom knew your
parents' phone number..And YOUR first name.... And even THAT
was good!
~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ REMEMBER ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~
Send this on to someone who can still remember Nancy Drew, The
Hardy Boys, Laurel & Hardy, Abbott & Costello, Sky King, Little
Lulu comics, Brenda Starr, 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 reel mower on
Saturday morning, and summers filled with bike rides, playing in
cowboy land, playing hide and seek and kick-the-can and Simon
Says, baseball games, amateur shows at the local theater before
the Saturday matinee, bowling and visits to the pool...and eating
Kool-Aid powder with sugar, and wax lips and bubblegum cigars
Didn't that feel good, just to go back and say, Yeah, I remember
that! And was it really that long ago?
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