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Do you remember when…. Do you remember when…. All the girls had ugly gym uniforms?. Do you remember when…. It took 5 minutes for the tv to warm up?. Do you remember when…. Nearly everyone’s Mom was home when the kids got home from school?. Do you remember when…. - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

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Do you remember

when…

Do you remember when…

All the girls had ugly gym uniforms?

Do you remember when…

It took 5 minutes for the tv to warm

up?

Do you remember when…

Nearly everyone’s Mom was home

when the kids got home from school?

Do you remember when…

Nobody owned a purebred dog?

Do you remember when…

When you’d reach into a muddy gutter

for a penny?

Do you remember when…

Your mom wore nylons that came in

two pieces?

Do you remember when…

Male teachers wore neckties and

female teachers had their hair done everyday and wore

high heels?

Do you remember when…

You got your windshield cleaned, oil checked, & gas pumped without

asking, all for free, every time?

Do you remember when…

And you didn’t pay for air?

Do you remember when…

And you got trading stamps to boot?

Do you remember when…

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

box?

Do you remember when…

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

Do you remember when…

They threatened to keep kids back a

grade if they failed…

And they did?

Do you remember when…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?

Do you remember when…

Lying on your back in the grass with your friends and

saying things like, “That cloud looks

like a…”

Do you remember when…

Baseball was played with no

adults to help kids with the rules of

the game?

Do you remember when…

Stuff from the store came without

safety caps and hermetic seals because no one had yet tried to poison a perfect

stranger?

Do you remember when…

Being sent to the principal’s office

was nothing compared to the fate that awaited

the student at home?

Do you remember …

Nancy Drew

Do you remember …

The Hardy Boys

Do you remember …

Laurel and Hardy

Do you remember …

Howdy Doody and the Peanut Gallery

Do you remember …

The Lone Ranger

Do you remember …

Roy and DaleAnd

Trigger and Buttermilk

Do you remember …

Summers filled with bike rides, baseball games, hula hoops, and eating Kool-Aid powder with sugar.

Do you remember …

Candy cigarettes

Do you remember …

Wax Coke-shaped bottles with colored sugar water inside

Do you remember …

Soda pop machines that dispensed glass bottles

Do you remember …

Home milk delivery in glass bottles with cardboard stoppers

Do you remember …

P.F. Flyers

Do you remember …

Telephone numbers with a word prefix…

Empire 3-2115

Do you remember …

Party lines

Do you remember …

Peashooters

Do you remember …

45 rpm records

Do you remember …

Green stamps

Do you remember …

Hi-Fi’s

Do you remember …

Metal ice cube trays with levers

Do you remember …

Mimeograph paper

Do you remember …

Beanie and Cecil

Do you remember …

Roller-skate keys

Do you remember …

Reel-to-reel tape players

Do you remember …

15 cent McDonald hamburgers

Do you remember …

Penny candy

Do you remember …

35 cent a gallon gasoline

Do you remember when…

Decisions were made by going “eeny-meeny-miney-moe”?

Do you remember when…

Mistakes were corrected by simply

exclaiming “Do Over!”?

Do you remember when…

“Race Issue” meant arguing about who

ran the fastest?

Do you remember when…

Catching fireflies could happily

occupy an entire evening?

Do you remember when…

It wasn’t odd to have two or three “Best Friends”?

Do you remember when…

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

Do you remember when…

Having a weapon in school meant being

caught with a slingshot?

Do you remember when…

“Oly-oly-oxen-free” made perfect

sense?

Do you remember when…

War was a card game?

Do you remember when…

Baseball cards in the spokes

transformed any bike into a

motorcycle?

Do you remember when…

Taking drugs meant orange-flavored

chewable aspirin?

Do you remember when…

Water balloons were the ultimate

weapon?

If you can remember most or

all of these, Then you have

lived!!!