Were you a kid in the fifties??
Posted by: bigguyhereagain <bigguyhereagain@...>
From: "From The Bigguy" <bigguyhereagain@cogeco.ca>
To: "bigguyhereagain" <bigguyhereagain@cogeco.ca>
Sent: Monday, September 30, 2002 9:46 AM
Subject: Were you a kid in the fifties??
Were you a kid in the Fifties or so? Everybody makes fun of our childhood!
Comedians joke. Grandkids snicker. Twenty-something's shudder and say
"Eeeew!" But was our childhood really all that bad? Judge for yourself:
In 1953 The US population was less than 150
million... Yet you knew more people then, and
knew them better... And that was good.
The average annual salary was under $3,000...
Yet our parents could put some of it away for a rainy day and still live a
decent life... And that was good.
A loaf of bread cost about 15 cents... But it
was safe for a five-year-old to skate to the
store and buy one... And that was good.
Prime-Time meant I Love Lucy, Ozzie and
Harriet, Gunsmoke and Lassie... So nobody ever heard of ratings or
filters... And that was good.
We didn't have air-conditioning. So the
windows stayed up and half a dozen mothers ran outside when you fell off
your bike. Your teacher was either Miss Matthews or Mrs.
Logan or Mr. Adkins. But not Ms Becky or Mr. Dan. And that was good.
The only hazardous material you knew about...
Was a patch of grass burrs around the light
pole at the corner. And that was good.
You loved to climb into a fresh bed. Because
sheets were dried on the clothesline. And that was good.
People generally lived in the same hometown
with their relatives. So "child care" meant
grandparents or aunts and uncles. And that was good.
Parents were respected and their rules were
law. Children did not talk back. and that was good.
TV was in black-and-white. But all outdoors
was in glorious color. And that was certainly good.
Your Dad knew how to adjust everybody's
carburetor. And the Dad next door knew how
to adjust all the TV knobs. And that was very good!
Your grandma grew snap beans in the back
yard. And chickens behind the garage. And that was definitely good.
And just when you were about to do something really bad. Chances were you'd
run into your Dad's high school coach. Or the nosy old lady from up the
street. Or your little sister's piano teacher. Or somebody from church, ALL
of whom knew your parent's phone number. And YOUR first name, And even THAT
was good! ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~
REMEMBER....
Send this on to someone who can still remember Nancy Drew, The Hardy Boys,
Laurel & Hardy, Abbott & Costello, Sky King, Little Lulu comics!, Brenda
Starr,
Howdy Doody and The Peanut Gallery, The Lone Ranger, The Shadow Knows,
Nellie Belle, Roy and Dale, Trigger and Buttermilk as well as the sound of a
real
mower on Saturday morning, and summers filled with bike rides, playing in
cowboy land, playing hide and seek and kick-the-can and Simon Says, baseball
games, amateur shows at the local theater before the Saturday matinee,
bowling and visits
to the pool...and eating Kool-Aid powder with sugar, and wax lips and
bubblegum
cigars.
Didn't that feel good, just to go back and say,
Yeah, I remember that! And was it really that
long ago?
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~**Football~**
Sent to Clean Hewmor By John P. Ray. Thanks for sending this to us.
A guy took his beautiful blonde girlfriend to her first football game. After
the game he asked his girlfriend how she liked the game.
"Oh, I really liked it," she said, "but I just couldn't understand why they
were killing each other for 25 cents."
"What on earth do you mean???"
"Well I saw them flip a coin and one team got it and then for the rest of
the game all they kept screaming was: Get the quarter back! Get the quarter
back!
Have a Blessed Day
Dave and Barbara
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