'50's Trivia

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Do You Remember When...?

	It took five minutes for the TV to warm up?
	Nobody owned a purebred dog?
	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 done every day and wore high heels?
You got your windshield cleaned,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?
	When a 57 Chevy was everyone's dream car...       to cruise, peel out, lay rubber,       or watch submarine races,       and people went steady?
	No one ever asked where the car keys were       because they were always in the car, in the ignition, and the doors were never locked?
	Lying on your back in the grass with your friends and saying things like       "That cloud looks like a ..." and playing baseball with no adults to help kids with the rules of the game?
	Stuff from the stores came without safety caps and hermetic seals because no one had yet tried to poison a perfect stranger?
You used to sit at the lunch counter in the "Five and Ten" and enjoy a wonderful vanilla coke served by the best soda jerk in town?
And with all our progress...don't you wish, just once, you could slip back in time and savor the slower pace.... and share it with the children of today?
	When being sent to the principal's office was nothing compared to the fate that awaited the student at home? Basically we were in fear for our lives, but it wasn't because of drive-by shootings, drugs, gangs,etc. Our parents and grandparents were a much bigger threat! But we survived because their love was greater than the threat.

How many of these do you remember?

• Candy cigarettes
• Wax coke shaped bottles with colored sugar water inside
• Soda pop machines that dispensed glass bottles
• Blackjack, Clove, and Teaberry chewing gum
• Home milk delivery in glass bottles with cardboard stoppers
• Party lines
• Newsreels before the movie
• P.F.Fliers
• Telephone numbers with a word prefix
• Peashooters
• Howdy Doody
• 45 RPM records
• Green Stamps
• Hi-Fi's
• Metal ice cube trays with levers
• Mimeograph paper
• Roller skate keys and Cork pop guns
• Drive ins
• Studebakers
• Washtub wringers
• The Fuller Brush man
• Reel-to-Reel tape recorders
• Tinker Toys, Erector sets, Lincoln Logs, 15 cent McDonald Hamburgers, 35 cents a gallon gasoline

The list can go on and on but if you can remember all or most of these, then you have lived!!!And don't forget that the perfect age is somewhere between old enough to know better and too young to care.