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SST55
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Seeing how we're all friends,,,
http://cruzintheavenue.com/TakeMeBackToTheSixties.htm
Where did we f up??
http://cruzintheavenue.com/TakeMeBackToTheSixties.htm
Where did we f up??
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SlowNeasy
Guest
progress i suppose. it's been mostly downhill since the 60's in many ways, especially music. i started listening less in the 70's and it's continually gone downhill since then.
*sigh*
buckaroo
Here kitty, kitty, kitty
HEY,WASN'T THIS US?
A little house with three bedrooms, one bathroom and one car on the street.
A mower that you had to push to make the grass look neat.
In the kitchen on the wall we only had one phone, and no need for recording things, someone was always home.
We only had a living room where we would congregate.
Unless it was at mealtime in the kitchen where we ate.
We had no need for family rooms or extra rooms to dine,
When meeting as a family those two rooms would work out fine.
We only had one TV set, and channels maybe two, but always there was one of them with something worth the view.
For snacks we had potato chips that tasted like a chip, and if you wanted flavor there was Lipton's onion dip.
Store-bought snacks were rare because my mother liked to cook, and nothing can compare to snacks in Betty Crocker's book.
Weekends were for family trips or staying home to play, we all did things together -- even go to church to pray.
When we did our weekend trips depending on the weather, no one stayed at home because we liked to be together.
Sometimes we would separate to do things on our own, but we knew where the others were without our own cell phone.
Then there were the movies with your favorite movie star, and nothing can compare to watching movies in your car.
Then there were the picnics at the peak of summer season, pack a lunch and find some trees and never need a reason.
Get a baseball game together with all the friends you know, have real action playing ball -- and no game video.
Remember when the doctor used to be the family friend, and didn't need insurance or a lawyer to defend?
The way that he took care of you or what he had to do, because he took an oath and strived to do the best for you.
Remember going to the store and shopping casually, and when you went to pay for it you used your own money?
Nothing that you had to swipe or punch in some amount, remember when the cashier person had to really count?
The milkman used to go from door to door,
and it was just a few cents more than going to the store.
There was a time when mailed letters came right to your door, without a lot of junk mail ads sent out by every store.
The mailman knew each house by name and knew where it was sent; there were not loads of mail addressed to "present occupant."
There was a time when just one glance was all that it would take, and you would know the kind of car, the model and the make.
They didn't look like turtles trying to squeeze out every mile; they were streamlined, white walls, fins, and really had some style.
One time the music that you played whenever you would jive, was from a vinyl, big-holed record called a forty-five.
The record player had a post to keep them all in line, and then the records would drop down and play one at a time.
Oh sure, we had our problems then, just like we do today, and always we were striving, trying for a better way.
Yup, I lived through most of this.....wish it was still the same.
Oh, the simple life we lived still seems like so much fun, how can you explain a game, just kick the can and run?
And why would boys put baseball cards between bicyclespokes, and for a nickel red machines had little bottled Cokes?
This life seemed so much easier and slower in some ways, I love the new technology, but I sure do miss those days.
So time moves on and so do we, and nothing stays the same, but I sure love to reminisce and walk down memory lane.
A little house with three bedrooms, one bathroom and one car on the street.
A mower that you had to push to make the grass look neat.
In the kitchen on the wall we only had one phone, and no need for recording things, someone was always home.
We only had a living room where we would congregate.
Unless it was at mealtime in the kitchen where we ate.
We had no need for family rooms or extra rooms to dine,
When meeting as a family those two rooms would work out fine.
We only had one TV set, and channels maybe two, but always there was one of them with something worth the view.
For snacks we had potato chips that tasted like a chip, and if you wanted flavor there was Lipton's onion dip.
Store-bought snacks were rare because my mother liked to cook, and nothing can compare to snacks in Betty Crocker's book.
Weekends were for family trips or staying home to play, we all did things together -- even go to church to pray.
When we did our weekend trips depending on the weather, no one stayed at home because we liked to be together.
Sometimes we would separate to do things on our own, but we knew where the others were without our own cell phone.
Then there were the movies with your favorite movie star, and nothing can compare to watching movies in your car.
Then there were the picnics at the peak of summer season, pack a lunch and find some trees and never need a reason.
Get a baseball game together with all the friends you know, have real action playing ball -- and no game video.
Remember when the doctor used to be the family friend, and didn't need insurance or a lawyer to defend?
The way that he took care of you or what he had to do, because he took an oath and strived to do the best for you.
Remember going to the store and shopping casually, and when you went to pay for it you used your own money?
Nothing that you had to swipe or punch in some amount, remember when the cashier person had to really count?
The milkman used to go from door to door,
and it was just a few cents more than going to the store.
There was a time when mailed letters came right to your door, without a lot of junk mail ads sent out by every store.
The mailman knew each house by name and knew where it was sent; there were not loads of mail addressed to "present occupant."
There was a time when just one glance was all that it would take, and you would know the kind of car, the model and the make.
They didn't look like turtles trying to squeeze out every mile; they were streamlined, white walls, fins, and really had some style.
One time the music that you played whenever you would jive, was from a vinyl, big-holed record called a forty-five.
The record player had a post to keep them all in line, and then the records would drop down and play one at a time.
Oh sure, we had our problems then, just like we do today, and always we were striving, trying for a better way.
Yup, I lived through most of this.....wish it was still the same.
Oh, the simple life we lived still seems like so much fun, how can you explain a game, just kick the can and run?
And why would boys put baseball cards between bicyclespokes, and for a nickel red machines had little bottled Cokes?
This life seemed so much easier and slower in some ways, I love the new technology, but I sure do miss those days.
So time moves on and so do we, and nothing stays the same, but I sure love to reminisce and walk down memory lane.
Magicmiler
Fan
Way to go Buckaroo
Simpler,uncomplicated times.
Simpler,uncomplicated times.
Well said Buck, that sounded just like my town. We've come a long way, some good and some bad. The "good old days" were a geat time to be a kid.
buckaroo
Here kitty, kitty, kitty
I've often talked to friends about this and the responses were varying. It was a simpler time, but we did have our problems as well. Imagine what kids today would think about atomic bomb drills in school. Those days of the cold war were not comfortable.
mike honcho
Knuckleheads
It really makes me mad when my kid tells me"I'm bored".With everything that's out today and your bored.
be9ak7ts16
Johali Lives
When we were kids we left the house at first light and came home shortly after dark. We were never bored. We had the swimming hole, a treefort, fishing holes. Most of our time was running around town (pop.500) looing for old wagons so we could take the axles and tires and build wooden go karts. My buddy and I had the most advanced ones in our bunch. We had rear suspensions and a braking system (All this was made with several times over recycled lumber, coffee cans and whatever we could dig up.) My buddy was the first guy in town get a Banana Bike. I never could have one because mine "works just fine". A few of us got guitars and drums and put together some horrendously horrible sounding bands but man we thought we rocked. (the first song we learned was Secret Agent Man). And that Sunday night in '64 on Ed Sullivan............. The Beatles.