33. All girls wore white one piece ugly gym uniforms!

       
Ours were always white but same style in the 50's.

Girls didn't like these but it was a requirement for Gym class.  Along with the gym suits, schools required white sneakers and socks. These were also to be kept in pristine condition. In some schools, students were required to polish their sneakers weekly with the same white polish reserved for white baby shoes. This tended to make the canvas stiff, but they looked as clean as the day they were purchased. They just did not move very well without cracking.  White Buck's were the most popular. They were popular as were saddle shoes.

Buckskin were all while but same style.

If you remembered 0-5 ... You're still young.
If you remembered 6-10 ... You are getting older.
If you remembered 11-15 ... Don't tell your age.
If you remembered 16-30 ... You're older than dirt!

Do You Remember When?

Those of us entering "geezer Dom" will appreciate this.  For those who
are not, look at what you missed and aren't you glad.

"Hey Dad," one of my kids asked the other day, "What was your favorite
fast food when you were growing up?"  "We didn't have fast food when I
was growing up," I informed him.  "All the food was slow."  "C'mon,
seriously.  Where did you eat?"  "It was a place called 'at home'..." I
explained.  "Grandma cooked every day and when Grandpa got home from
work, we sat down together at the dining room table, and if I didn't
like what she put on my plate I was allowed to sit there until I did
like it."

By this time, the kid was laughing so hard I was afraid he was going to
suffer serious internal damage, so I didn't tell him the part about how
I had to have permission to leave the table.  But here are some other
things I would have told him about my childhood if I figured his system
could have handled it:

Some parents NEVER owned their own house, wore Levis, set foot on a golf
course, traveled out of the country, or had a credit card.  In their
later years they had something called a revolving charge card.  The card
was good only at Sears Roebuck.  Or, maybe it was Sears AND Roebuck.
Either way, there is no Roebuck anymore.  Maybe he died.

My parents never drove me to soccer practice.  This was mostly because
we never had heard of soccer.  I had a bicycle that weighed probably 50
pounds, and only had one speed (slow).  We didn't have a television in
our house until I was 16, but my grandparents had one before that.  It
was, of course, black and white, but they bought a piece of colored
plastic to cover the screen.  The top third was blue, like the sky, and
the bottom third was green, like grass.  The middle third was red.  It
was perfect for programs that had scenes of fire trucks riding across
someone's lawn on a sunny day.  Some people had a lens taped to the
front of the TV to make the picture look larger.

I was 17 before I tasted my first pizza; it was called "pizza pie."
When I bit into it, I burned the roof of my mouth and the cheese slid
off, swung down, plastered itself against my chin and burned that, too.
It's still the best pizza I ever had.

We didn't have a car until I was 9.  Before that, the only car in our
family was my grandfather's Ford.  He called it a "machine."

I never had a telephone in my room.  The only phone in the house was in
the living room and it was on a party line.  Before you could dial, you
had to listen and make sure some people you didn't know weren't already
using the line.

Pizzas were not delivered to our home.  But milk was.  All newspapers
were delivered by boys, and all boys delivered newspapers.  I delivered
newspapers six days a week.  It cost 7 cents a paper, of which I got to
keep 2 cents.  I had to get up at 4 AM every morning.  On Saturday, had
to collect the 42 cents from my customers.  My favorite customers were
the ones who gave me 50 cents and told me to keep the change.  My least
favorite customers were the ones who seemed to never be home on
collection day.

Movie stars kissed with their mouths shut.  At least, they did in the
movies.  Touching someone else's tongue with yours was called French
kissing, and they didn't do that in movies! I don't know what they did
in French movies.  French movies were dirty and we weren't allowed to
see them.

If you grew up in a generation before there was fast food, you may want
to share some of these memories with your children or grandchildren.
Just don't blame me if they bust a gut laughing.  Growing up isn't what
it used to be, is it?

MEMORIES from a friend:  My Dad was cleaning out my grandmother's house
(she had died in December) and he brought me an old Royal Crown Cola
bottle.  In the bottle top was a stopper with a bunch of holes in it.  I
knew immediately what it was, but my daughter had no idea.  She thought
they had tried to make it a salt shaker or something.  I knew it as the
bottle that sat on the end of the ironing board to "sprinkle" clothes
with because we didn't have steam irons.

Man, I am getting older every day!
These Memories tell the truth!

How many of the following do you remember?

            - 1.Head lights dimmer switches on the floor.
Always!
           -2. Ignition switches on the dashboard.
Yes!
            - 3.Heaters mounted on the inside of the fire wall.
Yes!
          -4 Real ice-boxes.
That was our first in my parents home!
It was built outside the cottage so the ice man could
refill the ice every few days.
            -5Pant leg clips for bicycles without chain guards.
I thought they still used them.
 I always was expected to use them if I wanted to ride.
            - 6.Soldering irons you heat on a gas burner.
Clothes irons on the woodstove or heater.

           - 7.Using hand signals for cars without turn signals.
We couldn't pass our Drivers' Education if we didn't know.
We were required to take Drivers' Ed.

"God grant me the senility to forget the people I never liked, the good
fortune to run into the ones that I do, and the eyesight to tell the
difference."