Wednesday, November 10, 2010

Do You Remember?..........

Do You Remember......

---Phone Booths
---When buying a new car, air conditioning, power windows and door locks were extra

---Burma Shave Road Signs

---Buster Brown Shoes

---Hot Cross Buns

---Eastern Airlines



---Nancy Drew and the Hardy Boys
---When serving in the armed forces was considered a duty

---Packard, Studebaker and Kaiser

---Paddlings at school
---Everybody went to church on Sundays
---Manual clothes ringers on washing machines
---Roller skates that screwed on (with a Key) to the soles of your shoes
---Candy cigarettes

---Cap pistols

---Telegrams

---Boy's Life magazine

---The Weekly Reader at school
---When the phrase "Made in Japan" meant it was junk
---When the phrase "Made in China" meant it was junk
---When soccer was considered a ridiculous sport in the USA
---When baseball was the national pastime
---Smoking cigarettes was encouraged everywhere---at work, at home and in motor vehicles

---Tatoos were considered "low-class"
---The evening news was considered fair and impartial

---Life Magazine

---Look Magazine
---When you saved money by getting your shoes re-soled

5 comments:

  1. I DO remember SOME - not all! :) The roller skate thing vaguely brings back memories?!?! LOL!

    Phone Booths too! They were always so dirty!

    Great Post!!!!

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  2. Great post, Clint!
    Remember "The Beach Boys", Frank Sinatra (My way),
    Fred Astaire, John Waine and all these people
    and things we loved!
    Love from Athens!

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  3. Great post! Yes, those days are long gone... I can't say I like this new era... I wait for the city that has foundations. :)

    Thanks for following me. I'm following you! Great blog! Have a blessed weekend.

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  4. Rebecca---thanks for following. I agree---this life is ALL about the next one.

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