Goin' Back to the Good 'OLE Days!

• Hide and go seek at dusk.
• Sittin' on the porch,
• Hot bread and butter
• Chocolate milk, Lunch tickets.
• Penny candy in a brown paper bag.
• Hopscotch, doubledutch, Jacks, kickball, dodgeball
• Mother, May I?
• Hula Hoops
• Sunflower Seeds, Jaw breakers, blowpops, Mary Janes
• Running through the sprinkler
• Catchin' lightning bugs in a jar
• When around the corner seemed far away and going downtown seemed like going somewhere.
• Bedtime
• Climbing trees
• Cowboys and Indians
• Sittin on the curb
• Jumpin down the steps
• Jumpin on the bed
• Pillow fights
• Being tickled to death
• Runnin' till you were out of breath
• Laughing so hard that your stomach hurt
• Being tired from playin'
• Licking the beaters when your mother made a cake
• When there were two types of sneakers for girls and boys (Keds & PF Flyers) and the only time you wore them at school, was for "gym."
• When nearly everyone's Mom was at home when the kids got there?
• When nobody owned a purebred dog?
• When a quarter was a decent allowance, and another quarter a huge bonus.
• When you'd reach into a muddy gutter for a penny.
• When girls neither dated nor kissed until late high school, if then.
• When all of your male teachers wore neckties and female teachers had their hair done, everyday.
• When you got your windshield cleaned, oil checked, and gas pumped, without asking, for free, every time. And, you didn't pay for air. And, you got trading stamps to boot!
• When laundry detergent had free glasses, dishes or towels hidden inside the box
• When any parent could discipline any kid, or feed him or use him to carry groceries, and nobody, not even the kid, thought a thing of it.
• When it was considered a great privilege to be taken out to dinner at a real restaurant with your parents.
• When they threatened to keep kids back a grade if they failed ... and did!
• When being sent to the principal's office was nothing compared to the fate that awaited a misbehaving student at home.
• Basically, we were in fear for our lives but it wasn't because of drive-by shootings, drugs, gangs, etc. Disapproval of our parents and grandparents was a much bigger threat!
• Gi Joe, Barbie, Play Doh, Slinky
• Pufinstuff, The Bugaloos, Scooby Doo, Superfriends, Land of the Lost, Ultraman, Johnney Socko and his Flying Robot, Frankenstein Jr. Sigmund and the Seamonsters, Batman (the REAL Batman with Adam West!)