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I REMEMBER WHEN....

Just a little game to remember the good old days! Can't wait to see what memories pop up! I will kick it off with the first post!!



LETS HAVE FUN WITH THIS...
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4113881 tn?1415850276
"I remember when kids played outside all day until they were called home for dinner!"

Thats what I would have written...used to run around Houston barefoot with my brother until it was time for dinner.
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I REMEMBER WHEN...

If you had a tattoo you were either an ex-convict or in the military. Now EVERYBODY gets them.
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IRW I'd hear the screen door slam and a piece of cotton on the screen door to keep the flies away
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Would love for you to post all your memories here a page at a time. By the way, do you remember the soft drink "grapette"?
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Pop was a nickel a bottle. Soup bones and liver was free. never started charging until the butcher realized it was being eaten by us and not the dog. Turret cigarettes were 10 cents for a package of ten. You could also by a cigarette for a penny.  You didn't lock your car or your front door. Policemen were very polite and greeted you with a salute or the tip of their hats and were usually smiling. Not like it is today. You went to the gas station and put in 50 cents and seemed like you could drive forever. The farmer's market was always packed and people stood around and talked with  whoever even if they didn't know the other person. You could go to the restaurant and get a bowl of stew and all the bread you could eat for a nickel. we were very poor at the time. We went and bathed in a public bath for a dime. When any one had measles, chicken pox or whatever they posted a sign with a skull on our front door that said we were in quarantine with a skull on it. Rats, cockroaches and bedbugs along with other bugs in the house meant fumigating which kept you out of the house until it was safe to go back. I could go on forever from the last of the twenties through the thirties etc. It would take a couple of months to put all the memories of my childhood here. The fights over nothing. The playgrounds that always had an adult watching over us and on and on and on.
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Holy cow!!!!!! $80 a carton????? Time to quit girlfriend!
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I remember when cigarettes were 45 cents a pack, and $5.00 a carton!!
Now I pay $9.00 a pack and $80.00 a carton...WTF??
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I remember my grandma looking beautiful in those cat glasses and teaching me to jitterbug!! The most amazing memory of my life!
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I remember when if you had one or two toys you really took care of them because it was a privilege and their wasn't money to buy more.
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DREAM ON SARAH..HA!!! Well you could be YOUNG at HEART!!!! lol
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I am sure i am MUCH YOUNGER than all of you!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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All of you just made me remember all of this..lol

How about your first TV and when the TV dinners came out..Ha!!
Talk about bringing back memories..Most of us must be around the same age..Ha!!
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Lite Bright?
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Colorforms..oh wow....paper dolls...those were the good ol' days
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What about Colorforms?
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My grandma had alot of music boxes and i loved to open them up and watch the ballerina's spin around.

How about Paper Dolls??!!
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Vanilla Egg Creams...I have such craving.....
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And only cost 10 or 25 cents!!

Anybody know what a Cherry Mash is???  MY FAV!!!!!

They don't sell them West of the Rockies...so when I lived in California for 9 yrs I was in withdrawals.....hahahaha!
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I remember when a candy bar was a real treat!
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Lmmfao so hard!! Law I needed the laugh Weaver
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To get a COKE, reading that last post out loud made it really change the connotation.
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We used to walk the streets and find returnable come bottles to get  a come, and we could return the bottles to where we bought them. Dang homeless caught on a run us out of business.
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CIK Nu-Grape was the other grape. Grapette was in a small bottle. the middles of the bottle was indented, I think it had white lettering on it.
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Tooter....my memory isn't of a "little bottle"....but let me tell ya....when I was growin up....every single time I walked into my church....straight down the stairs I went to the Pop Machine....dime in hand.
NU-GRAPE.......love, love, loved it!!  I guzzled it b4 I had to go to church...
it was the same size bottle as Pepsi or Coke.....a clear bottle with yellow letters on it.  Always hide a dime on me for my Nu-Grape!!

And I used the bottle opener on the machine, too, Sara~
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Your not older than dirt either. LOL
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