Remember When

[Merry Prankster]

Remember those huge Christmas lights with reflectors behind them, and finishing off your tree with lots of tinsel?

Yes! My grandmother had those on her Christmas tree every year! 

Remember TV dinners that came in those aluminum trays with the apple cobbler for dessert? 

I remember both very well.

Each Xmas Dad and I would go shopping for a XMas tree.  We'd get a 12' Douglas Fir (not my idea) chop about two feet off each end and put if up in our living room.  I called it the Xmas bush.

The tinsel was a whole other story.  My mother insisted it go on one strand at a time.  I'd last about 20 minutes or 100 strands, whichever came first.

[ponytail]

Agreed, that tinsel was a mess.

Remember poodle skirts and petticoats? (I actually had a parakeet skirt I remember very well)!

[Prairie Dawn]

Remember autograph books?  You would pass them around at the end of every school year and someone would write something like this in it......

"Remember me well, remember me sick, and when you buy candy remember me quick!"

[Snowbird]

Did anyone ever write in a Slam Book.  It was a composition book with people's names written at the top of each page.  You would sign you name by a number on the first page and then on the corresponding number on each page you would write what you thought of that person.
Usually if you couldn't say anything nice you just put "okay" by the name, no insults.  This might have been a southern thing.

Prom dresses were so different then than today.  They were all long and I don't remember any that were fitted to the hips.  We wore crinoline petticoats underneath.  Dang, it was hard sitting down in a car.  Your dress would sometimes be in front of your face. 

[ponytail]

Remember when your mom used to give you those stinky home perms? Frizzy, frizzy, frizzy. Yoiks.

[Prairie Dawn]

Remember the Dorothy Hamill haircut?

[Merry Prankster]

Long, long hair and bell-bottom jeans

[Prairie Dawn]

Remember the "Close and Play Phonograph" and "Lite Brite?"

[Merry Prankster]

Remember the "Close and Play Phonograph" and "Lite Brite?"

I never owned either but I do remember seeing them advertised.

I did have an 8-track tape player.

In elementary school/middle school each year when we returned to school we wrote essays on how we spent our summer vacation.  What I hoot!  I wrote a tongue-in-cheek one for my college applications.

[Prairie Dawn]

Remember the "Close and Play Phonograph" and "Lite Brite?"

I never owned either but I do remember seeing them advertised.

I did have an 8-track tape player.

In elementary school/middle school each year when we returned to school we wrote essays on how we spent our summer vacation.  What I hoot! I wrote a tongue-in-cheek one for my college applications.

LOL! I wrote a very snarky piece for my college apps. 


Remember when your front door was open to let in the cool air on hot summer nights?  No one locked their doors.

[bacali]

Remember trying to sleep on a steamy hot summer night with mosquitos buzzing around your ears.
Of course you had let them in running in and out of the house playing all day.

[Snowbird]

In the South we had sleeping porches, rooms with windows all around that could be removed in the summer.  Remember when people had to go out on the porch and sit to get cool and those cardboard fans that were in the pews at church. 

[Merry Prankster]

I came from colder country up north.  Summer nights generally were cool.

Remember three on the tree?  (standard tranny w/shifter on the steering column).

[Snowbird]

Remember being able to sit up close to your date as you drove around in his car.  That was before cars had bucket seats.
I'm glad I grew up before they came along.  Those are some fond memories.

[ponytail]

Remember sitting at the counter at Woolworth's and ordering fries and a chocolate shake?