Remember when you went out at night and didn't worry about what might happen on the way home?
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Remember when you went out at night and didn't worry about what might happen on the way home?
Hah! I paid for a grocery order with cash one day in the past year and the cashier smiled and told me I was the first person to do so. It was after 7:00 PM.
I think things changed for the worse in the very early 60s when there were reports of Halloween Trick-or-Treaters getting apples with razor blades hidden in them. I've never forgotten hearing about that.
Remember leaving your back door open in summer and not giving it a second thought.
Blueskies.....you're quite right, times have certainly changed, as [[sigh...) they must....
This is a really interesting 'walking down memory lane' thread, reflecting on just how much times have changed......and we're all here, expressing how we feel that it has not all been for the better.
Maybe you might consider starting a 'sister' thread, to run alongside this one, but on the lines of 'Remember how things are better now...' - ?
The responses, taken from a different view, could be just as interesting :)
That's an interesting suggestion, WGB. But besides the Internet and access to it, Haagen-Dazs Ice Cream, and, of course, control-top pantyhose, what else is there?!
Well....I would say there is a lot.......but I definitely agree with one of yours, so it's a start....:rolleyes:
I'm sure, WGB, that, within time, you will come to appreciate the Internet. And Haagen-Dazs, too.
Our local children's hospital began x-raying Halloween bags after apples were passed out that has needles in them.
Then, we and the world were younger, and less aware.
Now, we are all older, and more aware.
In some ways, that seems good. In others, not so good.....
Sounds like very good sense to me....
Looking back to the old days with affection is understandable, and is a privilege of surviving to a certain age. Maybe, an entitlement.
It would be good to feel we all have a choice in how we wish to perceive ourselves and our own lives. With luck, all the bad side of the past can't hurt us any more, so that it seems safe to blank it all out.
But..the reality is that none of us is going in that direction.
I just think that today is a 'good old day' in the making, and we really should try to make of it what we can. Some days, easier than others....LOL
"Folks are usually about as happy as they make up their minds to be."
--Attributed to Abraham Lincoln but there's scholarly debate about that.
A great saying, none the less.
Most generations thinks that there's was the best...it just happens to be true that we baby boomers had it better than most.
Absolutely true, and never have so many people all grown old together.
Old age is firmly in fashion!
There are plenty of things that are better today than when I was a boy. The internet has opened the world for people to learn anything that they might find interesting. People from two continents have contributed to this thread and that wasn't possible before. Many of the things we recall from the "good ol' days" were viewed from the perspective of people [[and especially kids) who were protected from the truth by parents and the government. If the world seemed innocent back then, it's because we looked at it with innocent eyes, not because it was.
shhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh...pssss over here jerry we know all that stuff but we don't say it out loud, when it's between truth and myth...take the myth..shhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!
Wouldn't that be something! Apart from the UK, I'm certain we already have members here from other European countries.
Remember when[koolaid]was five cents a pack?
On My first job, my starting rate was minimum wage which was then $2.85. When I started my second job, at a grocery store, cigarettes were 75¢ and you could get a box for $6.
Cigarettes come and go . . .
but PEZ is still here!
Remember when you would take your[radio flyer]wagon down to the safeway and carry folks groceries for a quarter or if you were lucky[fifty cents].
No. But I remember when it was customary to tip the bag boys a dime for pushing your cart and helping you out them in the car. And I have great memories of car hops where you ordered your food through an intercom and the wait staff brought it out to you. White Castle used to do that.
Remember when you would actually get a[full]bag of chips?
I remember when you could get a coca~cola for a nickle. Soda in glass bottles out of a machine for a nickle.
Candy 2 for a penny.
Ice cream sundaes for 25 cents and cones for 10 cents.
McDonald's for 15 cents. Pizza for 15 cents a slice.
Photo booth 4 photos for 25 cents.
Jukebox plays 10 cents for one record, 25 cents for three records played..
45 records for 75 cents. 331/3 LP albums for $2.98.
S.S.
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