Do you remember when......

[Apocalipstic]

I remember our school guards with uzis

Bombs on our street

Shortages of toilet paper, sugar and cooking oil

700% inflation

Listening to the coup on my transistor radio

Martial Law

People just dissapearing

Planes getting hijacked all over

Terrorists at the airport

"Yankees Go Home" signs

Pretending not to speak English to be safe

New Math

The Police and the Army shooting at each other in the street

Being afraid of Communists

Wondering if the German kids we knew were related to Nazi criminals and finding out some were

Short wave radios

Morse Code

The same stuff going on in the Middle East

The Vietnamn War

Watergate

Nixon

The Voice of America

[Leigh]

These are some things that I remember from being young:

~ Bad mullets
~ Spandex pants
~ Neon colors, big and bold
~ Not having to lock any of the doors and still feeling safe
~ When crime wasn't rampant in the streets
~ Guns weren't killing teens/kids every day
~ Drugs were not found on every street
~ There were no real cares in the world
~ Hair bands, aka good old fashioned rock and roll
~ Going on trips in My grandfather's truck, and wearing his work boots

[WickedFemme]

I remember when:

We had extracurricular activities after school like sports, band, skiing, tennis, etc.. and actually had equipment for these things.

Sitting down at the table at dinner time and having conversation with the parents and siblings about our days; no tvs., no phones - just the family.

Being told to go and play outside and then actually playing games outside like hide and seek, etc..

Life before cable and remote controls, computers, cell phones, texting, etc.

buying albums.

Regular gas and it being less than $1.00 a gallon.

Being taught respect and not being allowed to talk back to adults.

Being taught that it's not okay to be mean.

Being taught manners.

The list goes on....

[Dean Thoreau]

I remember when
someone walking down the street talking was thought of as crazy, not bluetoothed.

kids played outside and got dirty and did not need to be sanitized from head to toe every 30 seconds.

you could go to a grocery store and touch a grocery cart without fear of getting sick

u didnt worry when you flushed your toilet that your toothbrush (now stored in the garage) would get microscopic spray of shit on it.

you sang songs with the kids in the car not bring the television.

black and white photos were not a novelty but the standard.

you sat a table to eat dinner not in the car

eating watermelon was something you did in the summertime not all year round.

You did not need to call 20 friends while you were grocery shopping, or 10 friends while driving to work...

no one needed to be in constant contact with everyone except the president and other world leaders.

there were payphones instead of cell phones. and when you lifted the phone receiver a pretty voiced lady said "number please" When I was 3 I spent a lot of time talking to number please.

ten cents could buy a mounds bar, or make a phone call for 3 minutes, or get you a bus ride down town or a subway ride uptown, pay the toll across the bridge, buy 1/2 pound of ground beef, or a package of minute steaks, a box of frozen waffles, or a bag of apples.

a nickel could buy you a pack of baseball cards with a hunk of powdery bubble gum in it.

i remember when i thought 30 was old,,,40 was ancient and 50 was just beyond acknowledgment..now i think 30 is young 40 still to young 50 is younger than me and 60 is not going to be to bad...

i remember when dating an older woman meant dating someone that was over 30.....now when i refer to dating an older woman it is that sexy hot octogenarian down the street

I remember when i was 20 thinking i would change the world....now at 58 i wonder how everything changed so quickly and where did those 30 years go anyway?

I remember bye bye american pie...when we all drove our fords to the fiords and drank all sorts of whiskey and rye and a case of black label beer was 3 dollars....and you could get 23 cases in a 66 gto's trunk and 8 more cases in the hole for the convertible top....

i remember buying a brand new 71 toyoto corolla for 1800 dollars had to pay extra because it was an automatic.

yeah i remember when...i just forget where i put those damn keys!

[Apocalipstic]

I remember when there were no 24hour news channels to let us know every possible bad thing that can happen to us.

I remember that there have always been germs.

I remember that there has always been crime.

I remember that there have always been drugs.

I remember that people just did not talk about these things.

[Apocalipstic]

I remember when you lost a parent and no one ever mentioned them again.

I remember when someone had cancer and everyone ignored them and whispered about it

I remember when in the 60's crime doubled.

I remember when there really was not good treatment for mental illness.

I remember when people started to find out how mentally ill patients were being treated in institutions.

I remember when pregnant women smoked and weree given amphetamines if they felt tired. (most of our mothers friom that era)

I remember the kids of women who were given Thalidomide for pregnancy nausea

I remember when a woman was being abused and she was too embarrased to get a divorce

I remember when children were abused and no one lifted a finger to help

I remember photos of people from Japan who had been a little too close to Hiroshima and Nagasaki...how deformed some of them were



Back when the World was safe...

Ps. yes, I was a weird little kid. I noticed how things were.

[AtLast]

I do have to admit remembering more kindness and compassion.Well, at least from the folks that were not abusing their family members.

[zannadyke]

I remember when I cried myself to sleep just because I wanted to stay up later.

I remember when "getting high" meant swinging on the swingset.

I remember when the only monsters in the world were those living under my bed!

I remember when tv ended at midnight with the National Anthem playing.

[Apocalipstic]

I often wonder if I grew up in the same world as other people did.

No monsters in the world? When?