IRVIN HIGH CLASS OF '67 

DO YOU REMEMBER WHEN???


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All the girls had ugly gym uniforms?


 
It took 5 minutes for the TV to warm up?


Nearly everyone's Mom was at home
when the kids got home from school?

Nobody owned a purebred dog?


When a quarter was a decent allowance?


You'd reach into a muddy gutter for a penny?

Your Mom wore nylons that came in two pieces?

 

All your male teachers wore neckties and female teachers had their hair done every day and wore high heels?

                       

You got your windshield cleaned, oil checked, and gas pumped, without asking, all for free, every time? And you didn't pay for air? And, you got trading stamps to boot?

Laundry detergent had free glasses, dishes or towels hidden inside the box?


 

It was considered a great privilege to be taken out to dinner at a real restaurant with your parents?

 
They threatened to keep kids back a grade if they failed. . . and they did?

When a 57 Chevy was everyone's dream car...to cruise, peel out, lay rubber or watch submarine races, and people went steady?
 

No one ever asked where the car keys were because they were always in the car, in the ignition, and the doors were never locked?



Lying on your back in the grass with your friends
and saying things like, "That cloud looks like a ...."

Playing baseball with no adults to help kids with the rules of the game?

Stuff from the store came without safety caps and hermetic seals because no one had yet tried to poison a perfect stranger?


Barbers charged $1.50 for a haircut and did not expect a tip? And men did not go to beauty salons except to drop off and pick up their wife.

 

And with all our progress, don't you just wish, just once, you could slip back in time and savor the slower pace, and share it with the children of today?


 

When being sent to the principal's office was nothing compared to the fate that awaited the student at home?


Basically we were in fear for our lives, but it wasn't because of drive-by shootings, drugs, gangs, etc.
Our parents and grandparents were a much bigger threat!
But we survived because their love was greater than the threat.


Send this on to someone who can still remember Nancy Drew, the Hardy Boys, Laurel and Hardy, Howdy Doody and the Peanut Gallery, the Lone Ranger, The Shadow Knows, Nellie Bell, Roy and Dale, Trigger and Buttermilk.


 

As well as summers filled with

bike rides,
baseball games,

 Hula Hoops
,
 
bowling

and visits to the pool,
 
and eating Kool-Aid powder with sugar

.

Didn't that feel good, just to go back and say, "Yeah, I remember that"?

 

I am sharing this with you today because it ended with a double dog dare to pass it on.
To remember what a double dog dare is, read on.
And remember that the perfect age is somewhere between old enough to know better and too young to care.
 
How many of these do you remember?
 

Candy cigarettes

 

Wax Coke-shaped bottles with colored sugar water inside.
 

Soda pop machines that dispensed glass bottles
 


Coffee shops with tableside jukeboxes
 
Blackjack, Clove and Teaberry chewing gum


 

Home milk delivery in glass bottles
with cardboard stoppers


Newsreels before the movie

P.F. Fliers

Telephone numbers with a word prefix...
SKyline5-3060

Party lines
Peashooters


Howdy Doody

 

45 RPM records and those little inserts that were always lost



Green Stamps
 

Hi-Fi's

Metal ice cube trays with levers



 

Typewriters



Mimeograph paper (and the smell?)


Beanie and Cecil

 


Roller-skates & keys


 

Cork pop guns

Drive ins




Washtub wringers



The Fuller Brush Man

Reel-To-Reel tape recorders
 
Cars, the love of our lives,

Henry J's


'50 Ford, 

'55 Packard Clipper Super Deluxe,


'55 Chevy Coupe,

'56 Studebaker Hawk,

57 Chevy Bel Air,

'60 Ford Thunderbird

'60 Chevy Impala SS,

'63 Chevy Impala SS,

'65 Ford Mustang,

'65 Pontiac GTO, 

'67 Camaro SS396

'66 Olds 442,

'66 Chevy Vette,

'67 VW Beetle,
'51 VW Beetle!
 

Tinkertoys



Erector Sets

The Fort Apache Play Set

 

Lincoln Logs

 
15 cent McDonald hamburgers 

5 cent packs of baseball cards


 

with that awful pink slab of bubble gum

Penny candy

25 cent a gallon gasoline




police officers that just took your beer rather than taking you to jail,


Jiffy Pop popcorn


 
Do you remember a time when...

Decisions were made by going
"eeny-meeny-miney-moe"?

Mistakes were corrected by simply exclaiming, "Do Over!"?

"Race issue" meant arguing about who ran the fastest?








 
Catching the fireflies could happily occupy an entire evening?

It wasn't odd to have two or three "Best Friends"?

 

The worst thing you could catch from the opposite sex was "cooties"?


 
Having a weapon in school meant being caught with a slingshot?


A foot of snow was a dream come true?


Saturday morning cartoons weren't
30-minute commercials for action figures

 ?

 
Oly-oly-oxen-free" made perfect sense?


Spinning around,
getting dizzy, and
falling down was cause for giggles?


The worst embarrassment was
being picked last for a team?

War was a card game?  

 

Baseball cards in the spokes
transformed any bike into a motorcycle?

  
The news was really news, not a reality game show?


Taking drugs meant orange-flavored chewable aspirin?


 


Water balloons were the ultimate weapon?

 

 


If you can remember most or all of these, then you have lived!!!!!!!


Pass this on to anyone who may need a break from their "grown-up" life . I double-dog-dare you!

 







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