Nostalgic Remember Whens

[Gracie]

NO POLITICS! Just...Remember When that you miss.

For starters:

I remember when.........

We could play outside at night with no fear of a boogie man stealing us.
We didn't have to check halloween candy for needles or razors.
We got spanked on the rump but Ma or Dad said it hurt their hand more than it did us...and no CPS called.
Eagerly awaiting the school bell because of recess...or lunch...or end of day.
Friday nights, meeting up with friends at the Dairy Queen for ice cream or flirting with the guys.
Saturday night cruising the main drag listening to the radio or 8 track tapes.
Climbing trees without getting in trouble.
We had party lines on our phone and listened in to what someone else was saying.
Bonanza and crushing on Little Joe.
Screaming at the tv Sullivan Show when the Beatles sang I Want To Hold Your Hand.
Roller rinks and skating to music and giggling at the boys.
Dreading PE at school.
Roller Skates that had to have a key.
Oxford shoes.
Car stuffed with friends, and banging on a tamborine to look cool.
Woodstock.
Mutual Omaha's animal show with Perkins.
Seeing a color tv for the first time.
May Day at school.
Tether Ball.
Green Shield Stamps and what to spend them on.
When men wore nice hats and wore British Sterling cologne or after shave.
Howdy Doody.
Board Games.
Playing in the street, cars passing, then resuming the playing.
Licking the bowl without a warning.
Saying a prayer at the start of a school day AT the school.
Hand on heart, saying the Pledge of Allegiance and nobody offended.
Iodine on cuts when we fell or scraped ourselves without a hospital visit.
Marcus Welby.
Father Knows Best.
Making mud pies.


What do you remember fondly?

 

[Gracie]

My sister played this on her record player CONSTANTLY.

 

[Gracie]

When cars jacked up in the back was cool.
Playing jacks or Pick Up Sticks.
Going to the movies to see Frankenstein or The Wolfman or Creature from the Black Lagoon and screaming.
A swing made out of a tire, and a sturdy tree limb.

 

[night_son]

NO POLITICS! Just...Remember When that you miss.

For starters:

I remember when.........

We could play outside at night with no fear of a boogie man stealing us.
We didn't have to check halloween candy for needles or razors.
We got spanked on the rump but Ma or Dad said it hurt their hand more than it did us...and no CPS called.
Eagerly awaiting the school bell because of recess...or lunch...or end of day.
Friday nights, meeting up with friends at the Dairy Queen for ice cream or flirting with the guys.
Saturday night cruising the main drag listening to the radio or 8 track tapes.
Climbing trees without getting in trouble.
We had party lines on our phone and listened in to what someone else was saying.
Bonanza and crushing on Little Joe.
Screaming at the tv Sullivan Show when the Beatles sang I Want To Hold Your Hand.
Roller rinks and skating to music and giggling at the boys.
Dreading PE at school.
Roller Skates that had to have a key.
Oxford shoes.
Car stuffed with friends, and banging on a tamborine to look cool.
Woodstock.
Mutual Omaha's animal show with Perkins.
Seeing a color tv for the first time.
May Day at school.
Tether Ball.
Green Shield Stamps and what to spend them on.
When men wore nice hats and wore British Sterling cologne or after shave.
Howdy Doody.
Board Games.
Playing in the street, cars passing, then resuming the playing.
Licking the bowl without a warning.
Saying a prayer at the start of a school day AT the school.
Hand on heart, saying the Pledge of Allegiance and nobody offended.
Iodine on cuts when we fell or scraped ourselves without a hospital visit.
Marcus Welby.
Father Knows Best.
Making mud pies.


What do you remember fondly?

Telling mom we were going for a bike ride, then riding 30 miles down the no longer in use railroad tracks.

Shooting on my grandfather's farm with abandon all the guns he brought back from WWII. No police were ever called. No (distant) neighbor complained. Same with doing full power fireworks on NYD and the 4th.

Doing pest control on surrounding farms with all kinds of guns, from WWII rifles and handguns to you name it. We earned $5 a head for groundhogs and crows.

Sundays when the men in the family would gather to cut wood for the wood stove, steam blue crabs or pull engines and transmissions from whoever's cars. Hog butchering days were also pretty awesome.

Hunting camp at age 12. No mom for a week and stacks of Playboy magazines sort of hidden around the lodge.

Watching John Wayne and Clint Eastwood Westerns with my father.

Using my elderly great uncle to get into R rated 70's and 80's films at the local one screen theater. He was a lonely old guy and my teenage angst wanted to see Porky's and Friday the 13th among so many others.

Fisfights in the school parking lot. No cops were ever called. Sometimes the teachers joined in.

My Native American great grandmother sending me out into the woods to collect mushrooms, crow's feet, mulberries and many other plants, fruit and herbs. If the sun started to go down she'd yell for me to get home. I'd hear her voice echoing through the valleys.

The innocence of the 70's and 80's.

Most of all I miss fantasizing about the collapse of civilization, coming up with ideas for apocalyptic, end of the world novels and short stories, all while the world was still relatively intact and "normal".

 

[Gracie]

Ah. Mushroom hunting a few days after a rain with Mom and sis collecting some really good ones. The smell of the earth, the shrooms bursting thru.

 

[Gracie]

Wearing brand new patent leather shoes on sidewalk and the sound they made.

 

[Muhammed]

NO POLITICS! Just...Remember When that you miss.

For starters:

I remember when.........

We could play outside at night with no fear of a boogie man stealing us.

That ended when the boogie men kidnapped my friend, then took her to the basement of an abandoned theater where they raped, tortured and murdered her.

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[Gracie]

I remember when gay meant happy.

 

[Baron Von Murderpaws]

 

[whitehall]

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