nostalga!

How's This For Nostalgia?

All the girls had ugly gym slips

It took five minutes for the TV to warm up

Nearly everyone's Mum was at home when the kids got home from school

Nobody owned a thoroughbred dog

When 3d was a decent allowance

You'd reach into a muddy gutter for a penny

Your Mother wore nylons that came in two pieces

All your male teachers wore ties and female teachers had their hair
done every day and wore high heels

You got your windscreen cleaned, oil checked, and petrol served,
without asking, all for free, every time.. And you didn't pay for
air. And, you got trading stamps to boot

Washing Powder had free glasses, dishes or towels hidden inside the box

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

They threatened to keep children back a year if they failed. .. . and
they did it!

When a Ford Zephyr was everyone's dream car...

and people went steady

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

Lying on your back in the grass with your friends
and saying things like, 'That cloud looks like a... '

Playing cricket with no adults to help the children with the rules of
the game

Bottles came from the corner shop without safety caps and hermetic
seals because no one had yet tried to poison a perfect stranger

And with all our progress, don't you wish, just once, you could slip
back in time and savour the slower pace, and share it with the children
of today.

When being sent to the head's study was nothing compared to the fate
that awaited the student at home

Basically we were in fear for our lives, but it wasn't because
of drive-by shootings, drugs, gangs, etc. Our parents and grandparents
were a much bigger threat! But we survived because their love was
greater than the threat.

As well as summers filled with bike rides, cricket, Hula Hoops, skate
hockey and visits to the pool, and eating lemonade powder or liquorice
sticks.
Didn't that feel good, just to go back and say, 'Yes, I remember
that'?

Remember Mr Pastry, 6.5 Special, The Army Game , Sunday Night at the London Palladium,
Emergency Ward 10, the Lone Ranger, Hancock's Half hour, Trigger and
Sgt Bilko

How Many Of These Do You Remember?

Sweet cigarettes

Coca Cola in bottles.

You're never alone with a Strand .

Coffee shops with Jukeboxes.

Blackjacks and bubblegums.

Home milk delivery in glass bottles with tinfoil tops.

Newsreels before the film.

Telephone numbers with a word prefix...( Mayfair 3489). Party lines.

Peashooters.

Andy Pandy.

Hi-Fi's & 45 RPM records.

78 RPM records!

Green Shield Stamps.

Adding Machines.

Scalextric.

Do You Remember a Time When..

Decisions were made by going 'eeny-meeny-miney-moe'?
'Race issue' meant arguing about who ran the fastest? Catching
tiddlers could happily occupy an entire day?

It wasn't odd to have two or three 'Best Friends'?

The worst thing you could catch from the opposite sex
was'chickenpox'?

Having a Weapon in School meant being caught with a catapault?

Saturday morning television wasn't 30-minute commercials for action
figures?

Spinning around, getting dizzy, and falling down was cause for
giggles?

The Worst Embarrassment was being picked last for a team?

Cigarette cards in the spokes transformed any bike into a motorcycle?

Taking drugs meant orange - flavored chewable aspirin?

Water balloons were the ultimate weapon?

If you can remember most or all of these, Then You Have Lived!!!!!!!

All of it so true Peter, so true. Thanks for confirming my age! LOL

You forgot the whip and top Peter!!

Yes, I remember most of those things, or in some cases, something probably similar as I'm in the US.  But it sounds as if we had very similar lives and experiences "back then".  How sweet and simple life was as a child!