Do You Remember? Wednesday, June 25, 2008
Posted by Gina in Blogging, Family, Favorite Things, Gratitude, Home Sweet Home, Life, Me Moments, Memories, School.trackback
I saw this on someone’s blog and thought I’d copy borrow it. The ones I remember are in red. One point for each of these that you remember from your childhood.
Just how old are you?
- Blackjack chewing gum
- Wax Coke-shaped candy with colored sugar water
- Candy cigarettes
- Coffee shops or diners with table-side juke boxes
- Party lines
- Newsreels before the movie
- P.F. Flyers
- Butch wax
- Telephone numbers with a word prefix (COlonial – 6933)
- Pea Shooters
- Howdy Doody
- 45 RPM records
- S&H Green Stamps
- Hi-Fi’s
- Metal ice trays with a lever
- Mimeograph paper
- Carbon copies
- Blue flashbulbs
- Packards
- Roller skate keys
- Cork popguns
- Drive-ins
- Studebakers our neighbor across the street refurbished one when I was a kid
- Wash tub wringers
- Hop Scotch
- Ring Around the Rosie
- Hot potato
- London Bridge
- Red Rover, Red Rover
- Red light, Green light
- Mother May I ?
- Playing dodge ball and kick ball until the streetlights came on
- Jump rope
- You’re IT!!
- Kick the Can
- Duck, duck, GOOSE!!!
- Getting an ice cream from the Good Humor Man just the popsicle man
- Cereal boxes with prizes at the bottom
- Cracker Jacks with the same thing
- Parents stood on the porch and whistled or yelled for you to come home my dad yelled my first and middle name…how embarrassing
- No air conditioning we didn’t have AC in elementary or high school
- Hula Hoops
- Fat Albert, Tom & Jerry, Pink Panther, Road Runner, Richochet Rabbit, Heckle & Jeckle
- Schoolhouse Rock
- Saturday movies for 12 cents with Hop-Along Cassidy
- Watching Sunday morning oldies (Three Stooges, Abbott & Costello, Tarzan, Shirley Temple OR WONDERAMA!!)
- Being sent to the principal’s office was nothing compared to what awaited you when you got home
- A quarter seemed like a fair allowance
- Kool-Aid was the drink of the summer
- Any parent could discipline any kid, or feed him, or use him to carry in the groceries…and nobody, not even the kid, thought anything thing of it
- Almost everyone’s mother was at home when the kids got there
- A 13″ black and white television in your room meant you were RICH
- Rainy days at school meant playing “Hangman” or “Heads Up 7-UP” in the classroom
- “Work” meant doing the dishes or taking out the garbage
- “Race issues” meant arguing about who could run the fastest
- Money issues were handled by the kid who was the banker in “monopoly”
- Being old meant anyone over 20
- I double-dog-dare you
- Decisions were made by going “eeny-meeny-miney-mo”
- Catching fireflies for the whole evening and not getting tired of it
- Homemade ice cream from a hand cranked ice cream maker and sitting on top to hold it still
- Water balloons were the ultimate weapon
If you remembered 0-20 = You’re still young
If you remembered 21-40 = You are getting older
If you remembered 41-62 = Don’t tell your age
Oooh Gina, I now feel like I have one foot in the grave and the other foot on a banana peel. I remember 59 out of 62. The only ones I don’t remember are:
36. Duck Duck Goose. Never heard of that game.
45. Movies for 12cents. I can remember a newsreel, one or two cartoons and two movies for a quarter.
60. We don’t have fireflies in California (so maybe that one didn’t count). The first time I saw a firefly I though I lost my mind. I was visiting a friend of mine and she lived in New Jersey. It was the 4th of July and we were sitting on her patio around dusk and I kept seeing little flickering lights out of the corner of my eye. Then I would look and it would be gone. It did that for about 10 minutes and then it got darker and more fireflies came out. It was the most amazing thing I ever saw. And I haven’t seen them since.
Hehehehehe
Does it count if you know about them, but never actually experienced them? *lol*
Sadly, I can never tell you how old I am!!!!
That was fun!
I think!
Can I borrow this????? You may have to reply quickly…now that I know how old I truly am….I may not have much longer to wait!
Sure you can!
I played along
LOL I am only 37 but not I feel really old!
I remember almost all of them – very good memories, I might add!
I played this elsewhere and scored 26 … the title of your post caught my attention, though, and gave me a flashback to the song “Kayleigh” by Marillion. Does anyone remember that one? It starts out:
Do you remember chalk hearts melting on a playground wall
Do you remember dawn escapes from moon washed college halls
Do you remember the cherry blossom in the market square
Do you remember I thought it was confetti in our hair
That song always makes me a little wistful …
I remembered 31 of them! Gee, I’m getting older!
My grandpa acutally restores Studebakers too. I think he has like 6 of them right now….A couple are specifically for parts though. He even has a Studebaker truck!
It says I am getting older! I don’t want to hear that!!!
I’m 43 now (jeez!). I remember a few of these first-hand and I know about a few others. But I would hazard a guess and say that water balloons are timeless. A good SPLAT never loses its joy.