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Thursday, July 9, 2009

325- OUR GOOD OLD AMERICAN SOCIETY!..."REMEMBER THESE?".....

This Sociology educator loves the subject:
a- Clove Chewing Gum?...Teaberry Gum?...Juicy Fruit?....ahhh!
b- 45 RPM records?...33-1/3rd RPM records?...8-Track tapes?...Phonographs?
c- S&H Green Stamps!
d- Tinkertoys!...wood ones!
e- Lincoln logs!...real wood ones?
f- Speedy Alka-Seltzer!
g- Burma Shave signs along a country road?
h- Timmy and Lassie!
i- Uncle Remus?...and THAT song?
j- Grapette!...in a unique glass bottle!
k- Telephone numbers with a prefix word in front...as a kid, ours was Tuxedo---!l- Having to turn the TV antenna outside each time you switched channels?...being the first one in your neighborhood to have a B&W TV?
m- Excitment in the neighborhood when one family got a COLOR TV!
n- 15-cent McDonald 'burgers?...same for fries and a soda?...45-cents for a meal!
o- Mood rings!...Hoola Hoop contests!
p- Pound Puppies?
q- Wax lips at Halloween!
r- Sock hops...with real socks only on the gym floor to dance the night away?
s- Children who said "thank you" and "you're welcome"!
t- Riding your bicycle after school?...after SUPPER?
u- Having to eat Thanksgiving dinner at a card table, with the extended family, 'cause you weren't old enough to sit at the BIG table?
v- Real homemade chocolate chipper cookies that your grandma baked FROM SCRATCH?...and slipped to you a few in a "poke" (paper bag) when she came for a visit?
w- Those paper tatoos you placed on your arm with a wet sponge or cloth?
x- Spending a week in the country down on a real farm at your grandma's?...and meeting a cow face to face in the pasture for the first time?
y- Baking a cake for the first time...from scratch, and icing it with REAL icing and NOT already prepared from the suppermaket!
z- Dr Peppers in those small GLASS bottles?...that tasted sooo good COLD?
aa- Dad taking you fishing for that very first time!...and making him put on the wiggly bait?
bb- Getting caught outside in a summer downpour and lovin' every slooshin' step and jump and squeal?
cc- Ahhh...trapsing through every mud puddle in sight, after a rain!
dd- As a kid, walking by the grapes in a supermarket, "borrowing" a few and then trying to figure out if anyone saw you?
ee- Cabbage Patch Kids...still have an "official" adoption paper at home?
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