Do you remember when....? Then you have lived.?

All the girls had ugly gym uniforms?

It took five minutes for the TV warm up?

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

Nobody owned a purebred dog?

When a quarter was a decent allowance?

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

Your Mom wore nylons that came in two pieces?

All your male teachers wore neckties and female teachers had

their hair done every day and wore high heels?

You got your windshield cleaned, oil checked, and gas pumped,

without asking, all for free, every time?

And you didn't pay for air? And, you got trading stamps to boot?

Laundry detergent had free glasses, dishes or towels 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 grade if they failed. . ...and they did?

Candy cigarettes

Wax Coke-shaped bottles with colored sugar water inside

Soda pop machines that dispensed glass bottles

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How about the days when you could leave your front door unlocked. When you you knew your neighbors by their first names. When going to church every Sunday was an eventfor the entire family. When You could Pray openly in school without having to be Muslim. When there was Pride in our Flag, Servicemembers were treated with respect. When you called any man older than you Sir and any older woman was Ma'am. When you could put your child in front of a TV and not have to worry about the Parental Rating system. Or the days when if you did something wrong, your teacher would whoop your butt, and then get another whooping when you got home. Oh......my goodness, I could go on and on

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I do. And I'm only 16. That's what cheap parents and a Catholic school do to you.

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aaaaahhhhhhhh those were the days, although i cant say i remember getting glasses/dishes/towels in detergent!!!!, must be an American thing or something!, i live in Ireland(a the name suggests!)

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you forgot to say when music was good

Do you remember when....? Then you have lived.?

Yes I remember most of this.....although you do seem that bit older.....don't forget being able to play outside without being paranoid someone would try to harm you...and not having to wear helmets when riding your bikes......roller skating rinks were the cool place to be........

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I do and I am only 14 that's what public school in a bad neighborhood does to you!

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Yes, and you only went home when you got hungry or it got dark, and you didn't have to wear a bike helmet and you played on building sites!

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Bamma Japanese. Bamma say hoola hoop. Bamma say bicycle best time. Bamma say "MOUSE TRAP". Bamma say yoyo. Bamma say new tv with blue chips. Bamma say hide n go seek. Bamma say kick the can. Bamma say mother may I. Bamma say Marco Polo. Bamma say ring around the Rosie. Bamma say spin the bottle. Bamma like that game. Bamma say war. Bamma say clue. Bamma say candyland. Bamma say no need id to cash check. Bamma say no lock doors. Bamma say everybody know your name. Bamma say once upon a time. Bamma say he go on for hours. Bamma say country ruined. Bamma miss old Japan. Bamma otta know.

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Those were the days

Do you remember when....? Then you have lived.?

The days before computers and the internet?

When kids left school at 15 and went to work in low paid factory jobs because they were expected to?

When girls who got pregnant were forced to give up school to get married to boys who hated them because they had to get a lousy factory job?

When people of colour had different schools and you were allowed to call immigrants rude names?

When mental patients were conveniently hidden in locked wards?

When industrial waste was considered a good thing to put in your local river ....

Yeah, boy, those were really the days!!!

Take off the rose coloured glasses people ... times change for a REASON!

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You are an American yes. But the good days were just that even in the U.K. But we must move forwards, pity we have left the good manners and innocence behind.

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Yes.

We used to share the bath water which cost the earth to heat up, ONCE a week.

Mum would do one plate of bacon and cheese and we all had a sandwich off it.

We would sit hours whittling a piece of wood because there was nothing else to do.

We made the beds in a morning by first stripping off all the layers and replacing them one by one.

Floors were cleaned with a scrubbing brush and hard lumps of polish which was horrendous to shine.

Holidays were a trip to the local beach where it took half of the day to find somewhere to sit.

Playing outside was safe, so mum would turn us out with a bottle of water and a jam sandwich, not allowed to return until teatime.

Laundry!!!! Ahhhhhhhhh

Yes I lived.

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OMG! Candy cigarettes with the tip coloured red! They tasted foul but we all thought they were sooooo cool!!

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yes I do! well the English version of happier times.

what happened! I blame us, we had a nothing , so we made sure that our kids hdeverything, this was a mistake, cause all the are now are spoilt and don't knowthe real meaning of money. hey it takes me ages to get my 10r old off Runescape.com long enough to answer questions, they have no imagination anymore and think that you can't enjoy themselves without a computer or a PS3. The companies have got greey and we now get less for our money, A MARS BAR IS NOT THE SAME SIZE, NEVER MIND IVE GOT BIGGER, rip off, do they think that we are really that thick.

someone get mea time machine !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Nope don't remember. That doesn't mean I haven't lived. I hate that saying. Things change. Get over it.

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Hi Dib - in the UK we can buy tea-towels printed as follows:-

"We are Survivors"

We were born before television, before penicillin, polio shots, frozen foods, Xerox, contact lenses, videos and the pill. We were born before radar, credit cards, split atoms, laser beams and ballpoint pens, before dish-washers, tumble driers, electric blankets, air conditioners, drip-dry clothes ...and before man walked on the moon.

We got married first and then lived together (how quaint can you be?) We thought "fast food" was what you ate in Lent, a "Big Mac" was an oversized raincoat and "crumpet" we had for tea. We existed before house husbands and computer dating; and sheltered accommodation was where you waited for a bus.

We were before day care centres, group homes and disposable nappies. We never heard of FM radio, tape decks, artificial hearts, word processors, or young men wearing earrings. For us "time sharing" meant togetherness, a "chip" was a piece of wood or a fried potato, "hardware" meant nuts and bolts and "software" wasn't a word.

Before 1940, "Made in Japan" meant junk, the term "making out" referred to how you did in your exams, "stud" was something that fastened a collar to a shirt and "going all the way" meant staying on a double-decker bus to the terminus. In our day smoking was "fashionable" "grass" was mown, "coke" was kept in the coalhouse, a "joint" was a piece of meat you ate on Sundays and "pot" was something you cooked in. "Rock Music" was a fond mother's lullaby, "Eldorado" was an ice-cream, a "gay" person was the life and soul of the party, while "aids" just meant beauty treatment or help for someone in trouble.

We who were born bfore 1940 must be a hardy bunch when you think of the way in which the world has changed and the adjustments we have had to make. No wonder there is a generation gap today...BUT, we have survived.

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Are there a lot of us 70s kids here or are you all old school friends of mine LOL as it all sounds like my memories. I remember the school uniform , Red %26amp; Black .

when I was 10yrs I skipped school with my little brother %26amp; sister who threatened to tell on me unless they could go to anyway we were hidding in a block of flats on afternoon when we heared a sound so we duct into a coal buncker only for it to beopened by our headmaster who was also skivivg . When we went home at the right time so as not to be found out when my mum asked me for the first time how school was that day I should have guessed some thing was a miss . I relpyed it was ok the next ting I knew my mums hand had made contact to my lieing face, the head master had phoned next door to speak to mum %26amp; to tell her of his find lol Wee transiter radio's Cd's weresomething out of this world never mind vidio's the only thing girls had to worry about was tring to keep there Sunday dresses clean %26amp; every morning being asked " have you got clean underwaire on ? before you left just incase you were knocked down ( as if that is all your thinking about as you have a great big wagon ontop of you

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Wow, we must be close to the same age, because most of those things are from my childhood - growing up in the 60s.

Some notes - my husband and I gave up a lot so I could be a SAHM, to have that same wonderfulness we both grew up with, having a mom be at home. Great for the family and for the marriage.

- the one that resonated most for me was going out to dinner with parents - that was indeed a rare and special event! Felt SO grownup, and could even have a Shirley Temple!

- last Hallowe'en I found candy 'sticks' that tasted just like the old candy cigs - they were great!

Actually, not much was 'bad' from the 'good old days' - shame most people have lost much of it...

For me, money wise, I started babysitting at 35 cents an hour. For a movie matinee and popcorn, it was 25 cents. We had what were called "Coke shows" - if you brought in a certain number of bottlecaps you could attend certain matinee showings free - and you got a little mini coke bottle (sure wish I had THOSE NOW!!).

My first real job - I was 12, working at a library, and minimum wage was $2.25 CDN.

Getting a bag of penny candy for 10 cents at the corner store. Popsicles were seven cents.

Living in a small city, and being totally free as a kid to leave the house on our bikes, with mom reminding us to be 'back for supper', and we would just take off for the day, exploring...

no worries about pedophiles or danger at all!

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I do,but what is your point.

Do you remember when....? Then you have lived.?

Yes I remember all those things, and I miss them all.

Things were better then.