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Do children still play in the mud? When I was a kid we made pud pies, baked them in the sun and threw them at one another. I never see kids engaged in that kind of play. I remember those days...
I remember when men made their own shaving cream. When I was young my grandfather use to stir something up in a cup stir it with a brush and then put the foam stuff on his face and shave with a real razor blade. I tried, but it didn't workout that well for me lol
Hell I still shave that way and use a straight razor....
Doctors that came to your home when you were sick.
Six or more story city apartment buildings with no elevator.
Tarrytown Circus.
Being afraid of leprosy because of two movies one of which was Ben Hur. Can't think of the name of the other one.
The seltzer man and his horse drawn cart in NYC.
Celebrating both Lincoln's Birthday and George Washington's Birthday - no President's Day.
When JFK airport was called Idlewild.
I can't remember what it was called but it was this red stuff kids chewed that didn't taste very good that you put on the end of a straw and blew. (It wasn't food)
Million Dollar Movie.
American Bandstand when it came from Philadelphia.
Kruschev on b&w TV news saying "We will bury you!"
Kronos.
One Step Beyond.
Going to the movie theater and seeing two movies plus cartoons for one ticket price.
Paying a quarter for school lunch and 3 cents for milk at school.
Knowing someone with polio.
When teenaged guys wouldn't be caught dead in big vehicles. Big cadillacs were for old people, station wagons were for large familes and nuns and vans were what took the handicapped kids to school.
Caps that came on a long red tape that kids hit with a rock to make them pop - smelled like gunpowder. I think they were also used in toy guns.
Dick and Jane readers.
Playing Cowboys and Indians.
Singing Jewish songs, Christian songs and Negro Spirituals in public school chorus and no one batting an eye.
The public school female assistant principal ripping down the hems of girls' short skirts and then calling your mother to come to school to bring you something decent to wear.
Square Dancing in gym class with the boys gym class (and just for the record, I was living in NY).
What I don't remember: Knowing a single kid when I was growing up that was allergic to peanuts.
Do children still play in the mud? When I was a kid we made pud pies, baked them in the sun and threw them at one another. I never see kids engaged in that kind of play. I remember those days...
Oh I loved doing that when I was little..
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ew Yorker with attitude.