Do You Remember When?

Pappy

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All the girls had ugly gym uniforms?

It took five minutes for the TV to warm up?

Your mom wore nylons that came in two pieces?

Laundry detergent had free glasses and dishes in each box?

Watching the submarine races and couples went steady?

You would reach into a muddy gutter to get a penny?

Race issues meant who could run the fastest and mistakes were corrected by simply calling, Do Over?

Eating Kool-aid powder right out of the package, swimming in a creek, bike rides and games that ended with a double dog dare?

Many, many more but it just feels good to say I remember when.......
 

Pappy said:
All the girls had ugly gym uniforms?
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I remember when we ALL had ugly ones/

It took five minutes for the TV to warm up?
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OH yes! I used to crawl around the back to peek inside and watch the tubes start to glow.

Your mom wore nylons that came in two pieces?
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Don't remember my Mom ever wearing nylons - must be a Freudian thing.

Laundry detergent had free glasses and dishes in each box?
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Don't remember that one.

Watching the submarine races and couples went steady?
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I ... don't think I've ever watched a submarine race. Don't couples still go steady these days?

You would reach into a muddy gutter to get a penny?
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I remember that well.

Race issues meant who could run the fastest and mistakes were corrected by simply calling, Do Over?
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Yup.

Eating Kool-aid powder right out of the package, swimming in a creek, bike rides and games that ended with a double dog dare?
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Everything but swimming in a creek - the only one we had was badly polluted.



Great list!
 
I remember it all except the swimming in the creek, sub races and muddy gutter. I'm sure guys my age would remember that tho. I didn't eat sweets even as a child and didn't eat the Kool-Aid, but all my friends did.
 

I remember many of those things that were listed. We used glasses and dishes from boxes of Duz detergent that had a wheat pattern. We also collected iced tea glasses from jars of Bama jelly. There were no ridges around the rim. Instead of unscrewing the lids, we used the round end of a church key to lift it off. The ice we used in our glasses came from metal ice trays that had a lever you pulled to loosen the ice from the tray.
 
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Submarine racing ? I have never even heard of such a thing until right now.
Since it would be pretty hard to watch a submarine race, I am assuming that it must have been referring to sitting somewhere and looking at the water, maybe ? Or underwater swimming races ?

We actually did have submarines in Lake Pend Oreille, and would sometimes see them when we were driving across the Long Bridge over the lake. There were often big logs floating down the river as well, so I always looked closely to try and tell which one i was seeing. When it suddenly disappeared underwater and didn't reappear, it was a pretty safe guess that it was a sub from Farragut Naval Base.
Most of the rest of these, I DO remember, including the awful PE uniforms. The worst part to me was having to wear a dress to school every single day. How I hated that ! I would hurry home after school and change into my jeans and tenneys.

I was not allowed to swim there, but there was a creek that the boys would swim in, and jump off the railroad trestle into the water. Since it was only boys, they sometimes skinny dipped there, too.
The rest of the kids walked down to the beach on Lake Pend Oreille, and swam there, and it was an awesome beach.

We got the free dishes and cups from detergent, the pretty gold ones from Quaker Oats, and gas stations sometimes gave away dish sets, a piece each week or two.
 
I remember a lot of those too. We also got green stamps to collect for whatever we wanted in the catalog....many years later, a group of us collected coupons from raleigh cigaretts and ended up cashing them in for things; one I remember was a meat slicer.
 
And, nearly everyone's mom was home when the kids got home from school.

When a quarter was a big allowance.

When all the gas stations had FREE air.

Catching fireflies could happily occupy an entire evening.

Before TV and the radio was your entertainment.
 
Our hot water system in the bathroom was a shocker, you turned the lighter thing out , lit it then turned it back into the unit, half the time it would go !!!BANG!!! and scare hell out of me, i had 3 brothers and we all had to bath in the same water, my youngest brother peed in it yuk
 
That Guy said:
Watching the submarine races . . .
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OOOoooh, okay! Never heard it referred to as such up until now. Boy, learn something new every day!

We just used to call it "necking" or "parking". Gosh, it's terrible being so virginal on this forum ... :angel:

They actually had a stove named a Kooka? An Early Kooka?!? Wow. Did they come out with a Late Kooka later on? Or one with a clamp-down lid - a Pressure Kooka?
 
SifuPhil said:
OOOoooh, okay! Never heard it referred to as such up until now. Boy, learn something new every day!

We just used to call it "necking" or "parking". Gosh, it's terrible being so virginal on this forum ... :angel:

They actually had a stove named a Kooka? An Early Kooka?!? Wow. Did they come out with a Late Kooka later on? Or one with a clamp-down lid - a Pressure Kooka?
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Pressure Kooka. Thanks for the laugh, Phil.my Grandma had one of those. Blew the damn top right off and scared the crap out of everyone.
 
That reminds me, does anyone make their own Ginger beer, years ago we made a large batch and had some sitting in the kitchen and the rest in the garage, we had an athletic event for the weekend and when we came home there was ginger beer all over the kitchen and the glass had exploded with such force it had embedded into the cupboards and ceiling, what a mess so hubby took the rest out onto the back lawn and one by one he let them off, they almost took off like a rocket it looks so funny, needless to say we never made Ginger beer again.
While we are on remembering, hubby was out mowing the backyard while my daughter and myself were sitting inside watching, every so often the wheels would fall off the mower and Ian would put them back on and continue mowing, this happened quite a few times and we were laughing so much we didn't see him come inside,we had to explain why we were laughing and then he saw the funny side of it, i had a nickname for him Cyryl as we was a very methodical person and everything had to be just right, so to us this was hilarious.
 

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