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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….
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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 Dale And 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”?