UTHRILLME - Oldies of the past

I remember my pogo stick...I was gone down the middle of the street, also the scooters my big brother used to make out of an orange crate, a 2x4 and an old pair of roller skates.......
Judy

JackManTuna says:

When I was a kid my parents opened up their basement, we would have dances at our house on Friday or Saturday nighs.We had great fun. my Dad bought a juke box ,and we danced and had so much fun. I am glad I was born when I was. we had all the great entertainers in dowop.

From Cape Maine...

loved cold winters when I could see the coal truck coming and my Dad all ready with his shovel to send it all down the shoot into the coal bin
I remember summer mornings especially Mondays that's when my Mom hung all the sheets and our clothes out to dry and the wonderful smell of them on our beds.
I recall painting the trees on our street with red white and blue white wash ALL the neighbors pitched in before the parade
I remember my Grandparents car we borrowed on Sundays to go for a Ride and for a .05 ice cream cone
Christmas and snow and baking cookies was a highlight
Listening to the Radio and Irene Beasley and GRAND SLAM! anyone remember that one? OH and YES getting Change in a cigarette machine 2 cents change when I went to the store as a kid to buy them for my Uncle Lucky Strike or LUCKYS as they called them...I got to keep the two cents

TO GET INTO THE DRIVE IN... IN THE WINTER WE WOULD LAY ON THE FLOOR IN THE BACK SEAT AND THE COUPLE IN FRONT PACKED SNOW ON THE BACK WINDOWS...result only one dollar

1. Skating at the Roller Rink to the organ music....having to get off the
rink for 'Couples Only' which meant BOY and GIRL
2. 15 cents for a slice of Pizza.
3. 15 cents for NYC bus and train fare.
4. Abbott and Costello show
5. The Inner Sanctum...scary mystery weekly show with the creaking door
closing at the end.
6. Milton Berle..Texaco Star Theater
7. Howdy Doody Show with Buffalo Bob Smith and Clarabell
8. Hopalong Cassidy starring William Boyd
9. Stick Ball and Punch Ball
10. Beat the Clock game show.

I'll try and come up with more if these interest you. Did you change the
basic site.....the music and the pictures....It's been awhile since I
visited but it looked and sounded different....especially the music...Sam
Cooke singing. I remember just music which I think had provided a better
background for the stroll down memory lane.

When we had Drive-in-movies; and they roller skated to your
car to take your order at The White Castle.. New Jersey...zAPsNAPS

Wayne Bell-Greenwood, SC.

Best time in the world was double dating to the “Drive-In”

movies. We would go to the exit, back into the movie with

the lights off. There were no back up lights so no one would

see you backing in. Of course we would have 3-4 guys in the

trunk. $1.00 per car in the good ole days !!!!!

Every September on Bonanza, they would have a commercial free episode and
then showcase that years new Chevrolets. Little Joe always drove the new
Corvette.

William J.

We were really happy to find just a couple of special gifts under the tree, not piles like today.

We threw aluminum icicles on the tree and got in trouble if they were hanging straight!
When we went to bed, we tried to stay awake to listen to see if we could hear Mom and Dad

pretending to be Santa or - if there really was a Santa and the kids at school were wrong.

Also, if anyone had a birthday around the holidays at school, we would have our young friends

over for a party and play "Post Office" and "Spin the Bottle" - very mild "kissing games"!

If we were lucky, we would have a wonderful snow and build an igloo and pretend it was the

North Pole.

Love your website. It is terrific. We all enjoyed it so much. Thanks for helping to re-call those

wonderful days and years.

DOROTHY KYLER

From the original Baby Boomer !!

Kick the can from TN....

Trish Cantrell-Teetor

Peggy

red wax lips
beanies with propellers
cinnamon toothpicks

Playing Red Rover at recess
Fizzies--they looked like a tablet and you put them in a glass (we had those colored aluminum cups that are in vogue now) and they fizzed and made soda pop.
Pedal pushers, saddle shoes and bobby socks, poodle skirts, blouses with lace collars and puffy sleeves, bows in our hair
Mighty Mouse and The Three Stooges on Saturday mornings
Lawrence Welk with Joe Feeney, the Irish tenor, and the Lennon Sisters
Rabbit ear TV antennas
I'm sure I can think of more. Fun to reminisce!

Theresa Sergi in Buffalo, NY

Taking trips through the desert with an air conditioner hanging out the drivers window.
Preparing a water bag to replace radiator water when it boiled over.
Feeling gay meant you were happy.
A queer was just a strange person.
A Schwinn bicycle with "knee action".
Everyone stood in line at the bank on Friday to deposit the paycheck.
Dinner for a family of 4 cost about $5 including tax and tip.
Normajeanisback

MELLOROLLS

SKATES WITH KEYS

DIXIE CUPS WITH PICTURES OF MOVIE STARS

THE MAN WHO SOLD KNISHES AND CHESTNUTS (AND HIS NOSE WAS ALWAYS RUNNING)

MOVIE SERIALS

BEN SUNTAG

how about ice cream from a truck that came around during the summer. popsicles were 10 or 15 cents.
getting beat up was by playing dodge ball in the alley of your neighborhood with all your friends. Cathy Stuller

We wore long stockings to school with short skirts unless it was below zero.

We mixed color into the margarine by kneading a plastic bag with the ingredients

We wore jeans and saddle to the dances and danced to rock-a-billy music... girls danced with girls mostly.. boys were too shy

We walked to school and wished to be noticed by the boys driving by.

Everyone drove up and down Main Street for endless hours or parked on Main Street, even the old people like our parents, to see what was happening.

People visited each other .... no tv

The summer evenings lasted forever, with sundown at nearly 10 pm and children playing in the yards and climbing trees on the blvds until 11. No worries of losing a child

Riding bikes to the swimming pools and lakes... no life guards or worries of kidnappings

Children left in the car while Mom ran in the store for a minute... no worries about the children... windows down.. no air-conditioning .

Playing outside in the evening and the smells of all the suppers being cooked in the neighborhood.

Martin Denny birdcalls on the records

Boogie Woogie beat

Walking to the matinee on Saturday with a quarter for admission and candy... all the serials that kept you coming each Saturday

"Hooky Bobbing" behind cars in the winter on the ice and snow..

The county fair each year, with all the rodeo cowboys and the Indians from the reservations, was the last hurrah of summer fun

Smells of burning leaves in the crisp, clear fall nights as we walked to football games

Basketball tournaments that filled the town with teams and cheering fans from across the state... such excitement and fun

Band trips in busses to the big city where the band members were turned lose for hours to explore on their own with no worries that they would all show up back at the hotel without mishap. Kids were allowed to learn and explore to their hearts content, knowing that "no one hurts a kid."

Drag racing Dad's new '59 Ford Galaxie down Main Street... Getting caught and smiling my way out of a ticket

Teachers who made us know we were the smartest, most beautiful future generation who could do anything, be anything we wanted. Anything was possible. Sky the limit

Homemade fried chicken picnics in Glacier Park with all the relatives. After the picnic all the old people tool naps on blankets while the kids explored and played

growing with the men to get wood for winter in the big truck. Smelling the new split wood as we stacked it. Riding home on top the pile of wood (no seat belts!)

Thanks to G.Young

Some parents NEVER owned their own house, wore Levis, set foot on a golf course, traveled out of the country or had a credit card. In their later years they had something called a revolving charge card. The card was good only at Sears Roebuck. Or maybe it was Sears AND Roebuck. Either way, there is no Roebuck anymore. Maybe he died.
My parents never drove me to soccer practice. This was mostly because we never had heard of soccer. I had a bicycle that weighed probably 50 pounds, and only had one speed, (slow). We didn't have a television in our house until I was 11, but my grandparents had one before that. It was, of course, black and white, but they bought a piece of colored plastic to cover the screen. The top third was blue, like the sky, and the bottom third was green, like grass. The middle third was red. It was perfect for programs that had scenes of fire trucks riding across someone's lawn on a sunny day. Some people had a lens taped to the front of the TV to make the picture look larger.
I was 13 before I tasted my first pizza, it was called "pizza pie." When I bit into it, I burned the roof of my mouth and the cheese slid off, swung down, plastered itself against my chin and burned that, too. It's still the best pizza I ever had.
We didn't have a car until I was 15. Before that, the only car in our family was my grandfather's Ford. He called it a "machine."
I never had a telephone in my room. The only phone in the house was in the living room and it was on a party line. Before you could dial, you had to listen and make sure some people you didn't know weren't already using the line.
Pizzas were not delivered to our home. But milk was.
All newspapers were delivered by boys and all boys delivered newspapers. I delivered a newspaper, six days a week. It cost 7 cents a paper, of which I got to keep 2 cents. I had to get up at 4 AM every morning. On Saturday, I had to collect the 42 cents from my customers. My favorite customers were the ones who gave me 50 cents and told me to keep the change. My least favorite customers were the ones who seemed to never be home on collection day.
Movie stars kissed with their mouths shut. At least, they did in the movies. To u! ching s omeone else's tongue with yours was called French kissing and they didn't do that in movies. I don't know what they did in French movies. French movies were dirty and we weren't allowed to see them.
If you grew up in a generation before there was fast food, you may want to share some of these memories with your children or grandchildren. Just don't blame me if they bust a gut laughing.
Growing up isn't what it used to be, is it?

MEMORIES from a friend:
My Dad is cleaning out my grandmother's house (she died in December) and he brought me an old Royal Crown Cola bottle. In the bottle top ! was a s topper with a bunch of holes in it. I knew immediately what it was, but my daughter had no idea. She thought they had tried to make it a salt shaker or something. I knew it as the bottle that sat on the end of the ironing board to "sprinkle" clothes with because we didn't have steam irons. Man, I am old! .
How many do you remember?
Head lights dimmer switches on the floor.
Ignition switches on the dashboard.
Heaters mounted on the inside of the fire wall.
Real ice boxes.
Pant Leg clips for bicycles without chain guards
Soldering irons you heat on a gas burner.
Using hand signals for cars without turn signals.
Older Than Dirt Quiz: Count all the ones that you remember not the ones you were told about Ratings at the bottom.
1. Blackjack chewing gum
2. Wax Coke-shaped bottles with colored sugar water
3. Candy cigarettes
4. Soda Pop machines that dispensed glass bottles
5. Coffee shops or diners with tableside juke boxes
6. Home milk delivery in glass bottles with cardboard stoppers
7. Party lines
8. Newsreels before the movie
9. P.F. Flyers
10. Butch wax
11. Telephone numbers with a word prefix (OLive-6933)
12. Peashooters
13. Howdy Doody
14. 45 RPM records (also 78 RPM records)
15. S&H Green Stamps
16 Hi-fi's
17. Metal ice trays with lever
18. Mimeograph paper
19 Blue flashbulb
20. Packards
21. Roller skate keys
22. Corkpopguns
23. Drive-ins
24. Studebakers
25 Wash Tub wringers
&nbs p;
If you remembered 0-5 = You're still young
If you remembered 6-10 = You are getting older
If you remembered 11-15 = Don't tell your age,
If you remembered 16-25 = You're older than dirt!
I might be older than dirt but those memories are the best part of my life.
Don't forget to pass this along!!

By Frank G