Is anyone old enough to remember the GOOD OLD DAYS? (house, cell phones)

[Dingler]

Now that I am in my 50s I have an advantage over many of the people on this planet. I can remember the GOOD OLD DAYS. Yes, those were the days. I remember the days when:

People actually loved and respected their parents

There was no Hip Hop and Gangster Rap and people of all races called their teachers Sir or Mam

People were not overspending on junk and getting into huge credit card debt

Families were closer and people actually knew and talked to their neighbors

Drugs were less common

Small towns were nice and the downtowns full of energy, and there were no Superstores clogging up the scenery.

Land was cheap so people could live in homes with big yards and trees were saved during development. Also homes were not built all looking the same.
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Anyone else remember the Good Old Days?

[vasinger]

You stoled my thread !

[ellie]

I spy a doppleganger.

[Karla with a K]

dang ellie I wanted to give you gold stars for the "word of the day" but I have to play "fairy" and spread the stars
karla

[Marks]

Yep, seeing it with tears in my eyes God help us.

[Songbird42]

I can remember Howdy Dowdy......Rin Tin Tin Sergent Preston of the Yukon
American Bandstand, hula hoops, hop scotch, stickball, A my name is Alice
Mr. Soffee ice cream, watching Ed Sullivan on Sunday night with my folks
spin the bottle, and rock n roll,.

Those were the days my friend I wish they'd never end we'd sing and dance forever and a day.................

[Tek_Freek]

What's that ya say, sonny? can't hear ya with these old ears.

There were no credit cards.

No Rap or Hip Hip, but parents everywhere were very, very upset about that Evil Rock 'n Roll.

Segregation

Sleeping on the ledge of the back window in the car. Can you imagine where I would've ended up if dad hit something going 60 miles an hour?

Trains. Grandpa used to take me down to watch the steamers go by. If they were working on one we'd go to the roundhouse.

The last place in town that had a 5 cent Coke machine was on my way home from school.

Seat belts? Don't need no stinkin' seat belts! Kaisers were the coolest cars. Studebaker's weren't to shabby, either. Hudson Hornet.

Going back to my parents time: Big Bands (dad played sax in one - ever hear of Kato and the Vagabonds?). They raised three boys through the Great Depression. Prohibition. Bath tub Gin. My mother learned to drive a car that the clutch wasn't working on. She was pretty darn good with a stick shift.

Suicide doors, running boards, fans on the dashboard instead of AC, no stereo - anywhere. Sticking the colored plastic mat over the TV screen so you had green grass and a blue sky. Coloring on it during Captain Kangaroo.

Crusader Rabbit, Mr. Greenjeans. What was the rabbit's name on that show? Kukla, Fran, and Ollie. The Peanut Gallery. Kid's Say the Darndest Things! Art Linkletter, Pinky Lee, George Gobel, Goodnight Mrs. Calabash wherever you are! Inka, Dinka, Doo! Danny Thomas.

Yeah I remember some of that.

[7th generation]

Riding your bike to swim, play ball and to a friend's house. Staying out in the winter till your extremities were so cold you couldn't feel them and then going inside so Mom could remove your outer garments and laying in front of the radiator till you warmed up. Then going back out and doing it all over again!
Respecting your elders (and if you didn't ,getting swatted by Dad) A wholesome,peaceful life. Oh yeah- duck and cover under your desk at school in preparation of a nuclear attack!

[Tek_Freek]

I could get on a city bus and ride 12 miles to downtown on a Saturday. Spend the day there and ride back home on another bus, and no one worried about me.

I was 9.

Electric buses! Remember the wires over all the streets where they ran? The trolleys were gone before I was born. A lot of trains, too. This country needs to get trains back.

I could ride my bike pretty much anywhere and not have to worry. No cell phones, but If my mother wanted to find me all she had to do was place a couple of calls and a dragnet would start. I'd guess it took her less than 10 minutes to know where I was.

We called them "English" bikes. You know, the ones with the skinny tires and the lever to change through 3 speeds. Never had one: couldn't afford it.

We have certainly lost something precious between parent and child in this country. I know a lot of people freak out about corporal punishment, but just knowing the my father would blister my bottom for doing something I wasn't supposed to kept me from doing it. Now days the kid pulls out a gun and starts firing. We need to start spanking again.

No video games. Good Lord what a waste of time. I confess to being a player, but I do try to keep it under control.

Polio epidemics. I got caught in the one in '52. I was, and am, one of the lucky ones.

[KewGee]

Yes, I remember them well and often pine for those days. I regret the fact that so many generations will never know of the days of an easier life. It is so sad because the world of today is not the same and never shall be again. I truly believe it continues to worsen.