REMEMBER WHEN......

jenn3

"My favorite childhood memory" gave me the thought as well as some of those emails we get every now and then that remind of us the past.......... Televisions didn't have remote controls, microwaves weren't in every home and knee pads weren't required to ride a bicylce.  Because we are all different in age I thought it would be fun to see what we could come up with and at the same time go back in time and smile.

REMEMBER WHEN........

you were expected to be home by the time the street lights came on

the television stations actually went off air by playing the National Anthem

the games you played with your friends were either outside or board games

IllinoisNancy

Car seats were just cute little booster chairs hanging over the back of the seat with a play steering wheel and horn

Most kids had their mom and dads still together and living as a family

Most moms could stay home and live off of their husbands salary

Principals and teachers could discipline out of control children without getting fired

People didn't use credit cards, if they couldn't afford it with cash they waited

Girls sat in the middle of the seat when on a date with their boyfriend

You could go out to eat or shop without all of the people around you talking on their cell phone

No video games or computers for kids to sit at and just get fat

You could say "Merry Christmas" and have Christmas programs in the schools without offending someone

People wore nice clothes to church on Sundays

Kids could walk downtown without worrying about strangers

Everyone spoke English in our country or were learning to

Oh how things have changed...some for the better ....most for the worse.

Laurie_R

You spoke of no remote controls for TV, how about the TV itself.  Big hurkin cabinet, lots of tubes that needed replaceing, smaller round screen, black and white pictures and only 2 to 4 channels, Boy is MY age showing. Everyone had party lines with their phone service. When you got in trouble at school it was a double whammy, punished at school and home because your parents knew about it before you got home.

jenn3

Remember when..........

Beta was the "it" thing

T.V. dinners came in foil trays

MTV hit the air waves..........the slogan was "I want my MTV"

QCA

You (or your parents) made popcorn in either a popcorn popper or in a pot on top of the stove

You did math without a calculator

Computers were massive machines and personal computers were not thought of

You had bomb drills in school and some people built fallout shelters

Edward R. Murrow did "Person to Person"

We wore dresses to school and only boys wore blue jeans

You had to get a typhoid shot before you could go swimming in the summer at a lake

Leah_S

Children played outside unless the weather was AWFUL.

You didn't make a "play date", you just went to your friend's house, knocked on the door, and said, Can Barbara come out and play?"

Leah

jenn3

Remember when.......

we had actual records, not CD's or tapes

when 8 track tapes came out

watching cartoons was special because you could only watch them on Saturday