DO YOU REMEMBER WHEN...?

It took five minutes for the TV warm up or you had to go to the neighbours to watch one because your family couldn't afford it?

Nearly everyone's Mum was at home when the kids got home from school?
 

Nobody owned a purebred dog?
 

When a shilling was a decent allowance?
 

You'd reach into a muddy gutter for a penny?
 

Your Mom wore stockings that came in two pieces?
 

All your male teachers wore ties and female teachers had their hair done every day and wore high heels?
 

You got your windshield cleaned, oil checked, and petrol pumped, without asking, all for free, every time? And you didn't pay for air?
 

Cereals had free toys hidden inside the box?
 

It was considered a great privilege to be taken out to dinner at a real restaurant with your parents?
 

They threatened to keep kids back a year if they failed. . .and they did?
 

No one ever asked where the car keys were because they were always in the car, in the ignition, and the doors were never locked?
 

You lay on your back in the grass with your friends and saying things like, "That cloud looks like a ......." and playing footy with no adults to help kids with the rules of the game?
 

Stuff from the shop came without safety caps and hermetic seals because no one had yet tried to poison a perfect stranger?
 

Being sent to the principal's office was nothing compared to the fate that awaited the student at home? Remember - "Just wait 'til your Father gets home!"
 

Basically we were in fear for our lives, but it wasn't because of drive-by shootings, drugs, gangs, etc. Our parents and grandparents were a much bigger threat! But we survived because their love was greater than the threat.
 

There were great TV shows like Robin Hood, Biggles, The Lone Ranger, Ivanhoe, The Phantom, Roy Rogers and Trigger?

We'd go to the Saturday morning matinee at the cinema to see the next exciting episode of Flash Gordon.

Summers were filled with bike rides, cricket games, Hula Hoops?
 

We collected GollyWog pictures from Robertson's marmalade - get 12 and post off to get an enamelled badge.

We rode on Pogo sticks and played marbles, had cork pop guns and spud-guns, and built bridges with Meccano Sets?

Home and school milk delivery was in glass bottles with aluminium tops. Richer families bought gold-top milk with extra extra cream. School milk then came in impossible-to-open cardboard tetrapacks?

 
Pathé newsreels were shown before the film (movie) and we stood for the National Anthem after the film?

 
Telephone numbers had 2 digits....("calling Chellaston 21").
 

We had Hi-Fi's and stereograms, Reel-To-Reel tape recorders, 45 RPM records, 78's, EP's?

Metal ice cubes trays with levers?

Twin tub -Washtub wringers
 

We ate bubble gum, penny lollies, lolly cigarettes and sucked the sherbet up the licorice 'straw'?
 

It wasn't odd to have two or three "Best Friends"?

To be gay meant you were happy.?
 

And with all our progress, don't you just wish, just once, you could slip back in time and savour the slower pace, and share it with the children of today?  If you can remember most or all of these, then you have lived!!!!!!! Didn't that feel good, just to go back and say, "Yeah, I remember that"?

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