Tell me about the good old days......

Back in the day we would put our hair in curlers then put on that plastic hood with the hose attached to it. One day the hose broke off my plastic hood so I just used the hose to dry my hair. It dried so quick that before long I had all my friends ripping the hose off their plastic hoods and drying their hair that way too.

I think I might have invented the first blow dryer. Shame I was too young to know what I had done.

Yes...I can remember the smell of that ink, but I don't remember mosquito trucks.

That's funny!

Have a kid, we spent the night playing board games with her friends. The game is just an excuse for jokes and goofing around. Afterwards, they scooter around the neighborhood, their scooter wheels glowing in the darkness. They've learned to scoot without using their hands, and in the night they look like three fairy ballerinas.

The times you've spoken of are gone from this planet. But there are still good families, good kids, good times. Good blessings.

Thanks for the thread! It's been great fun! I'm on the East Coast....time for bed. I hope to read more posts tomorrow!

This thread is depressing me... I wish with all my heart we could go back.

I was just thinking about that same thing the other day, we did the same.

When the fields would flood after the snow thaw we would build rickety rafts out of construction debris and have sea battles.

On long summer days we would walk for endless mile in the prairie field in the tall grass and talk about our dreams and what the future is going to be like/

Swimming in crystal clear pools of water filled with tens of thousands of tadpoles and frogs and beetles..

carving out meandering trails in the willow grove with secret hiding places where we would smoke cigarettes and drinking our parents wine and booze...ha! the good ol days

My brothers use to put baseball cards on their bike wheel spokes with my mothers clothes pins so their bikes would sound cool.

I took a machete to Show and Tell in grade school, and it was well recieved by all, including the teacher

And they would take the channel knob off the black and white TV so I couldn't turn the channel to something I wanted to watch. That is when I learned to use a pair of pliers to turn the channel.

The Wizard of Oz came on TV once a year which was always a family viewing event.

That's great!!

God honey K! We would go out in the evening and kick a street lamp post out, till someone called the village cop, who came over to have a talk and pulled our ear. And we were scared and promised we would never do it again!

I do believe that all this technology we got today has advanced us technically, but has brought us also social poverty. People are replaced by computers, losing their jobs, we talk through IM, Internet fora, text eachother adn what not. We suffer from a serious case of infobesitas, the need to know and talk about everything, every minute of the day. Of course, there was a lot of poverty and hurt in those days too, but there was also togethernes, family, community sense and playing in the streets.

Back in the days my brother and me would go fishing all day long, from 5 am till 5 pm with no one bothering us by phone, text or anything like that. Hot days, fish not biting, just laying in the grass looking at the skies. Nowadays when you come home after a day of no communication, people are either worried that something has happened, or angry that you did not respond. That sounds wrong, doesn't it?

I want those old days back! Can you make that happen, please?



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Sending love to my sweet friend in Texas!

I truly miss not having my entire life ruled by the constant awareness (over the last 22 years) that my own "government" is FAR more dangerous to the future (or lack thereof) of good, decent, and patriotic Americans, than any other previous threat (like the USSR) that ever existed.

I remember knowing everyone in our neighborhood, going home when the street lights came on. Waiting all week to watch a half hour show. Family picnics every sunday in the summer.
I remember when there were families.

OMG! I dreamed of owning a pair of "ruby red slippers" just like Dorothy's. I was obsessed with them. Now I see they sell them online!

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Yes...we played outside all day during the summer. You came home when the street lights came on. You could be in the middle of a game, and we'd say, "Street light's on...bye," and you ran home!

I also walked to every school I attended. No school buses in our town of 15,000. Two grade schools...one was the little red schoolhouse, one "junior high school," and one high school. I never measured the miles, but it had to be two miles for junior high, and a little further for high school. And yes...in the snow and rain. We never complained. Dad was at work, and mom never drove. (She got her license at the age of 72 after dad died!)

When I was in grade school,(1st, 2nd, and 3rd grade), the same three little boys would call on me each morning to walk to school together. Sometimes they would bring me flowers.

One day my mom said, "Boys, where are you getting those flowers?"

They said, "Oh, we pick them from some lady's yard over there."

My mom told that story until I was an adult! lol

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Listening to other callers on a party line. Having to wait for them to finish. Requesting them to hang up for our important call. Saying thank you to them.

A beautiful thread~

I will always miss penny candy the most!

I remember that well! LOL.