[JackinDe]

This has been around before, but it bears repeating, especially if you missed it the last time! Happy New Year...

Our place in the 40's and 50's

Were you a kid in the Forties, Fifties or so?
Everybody makes fun of our childhood!
Comedians joke. Grand kids snicker.
Twenty-something's shudder and say "Eeeew!"
But was our childhood really all that bad?
Judge for yourself:

In 1953 the American population was much less than now.
Yet you knew more people then, and knew them better .
And that was good.

The average annual salary was under $3,000.
Yet our parents could put some of it away for a rainy day
and still live a decent life. And that was good.

A loaf of bread cost about 15 cents
But it was safe for a five-year-old to skate to the store
and buy one . And that was good.

Prime-Time meant I Love Lucy, Ozzie and Harriet,
Gunsmoke and Lassie. So nobody ever heard of ratings
or filters . And that was good.

We didn't have air-conditioning, So the windows stayed up and
half a dozen mothers ran outside when you fell off your bike.
And that was good.

Your teacher was either Miss Grey or Mrs. Johnson or Mrs. Quesinberry.
But not Ms Becky or Mr.Dan ... And that was good.

The only hazardous material you knew about.
Was a patch of grassburrs around the light pole
at the corner. And that was good.

You loved to climb into a fresh bed, because sheets
were dried on the clothesline. And that was good.

People generally lived in the same hometown with their relatives.
So "child care" meant grandparents or aunts and uncles.
And that was good.

Parents were respected and their rules were law.
Children did not talk back. and that was good.

TV was in black-and-white, but all outdoors was
in glorious color ... And that was certainly good.

Your Dad knew how to adjust everybody's carburetor.
And the Dad next door knew how to adjust all the TV knobs.
And that was very good.

Your grandma grew snap beans in the back yard.
And chickens behind the garage.
And that was definitely good.

And just when you were about to do something really bad.
Chances were you'd run into your Dad's friend from work.
Or the nosy old lady neighbor.....or your little sister's
"tattle-tail" buddy.....or somebody from Church. All of whom knew
your parents' phone number. And YOUR first name.
And even THAT was good! ~~~~~ REMEMBER.

Send this on to.............someone who can still remember Grapette, RC & a Moon Pie, Nancy Drew,The Hardy Boys, Laurel & Hardy, Abbott & Costello, Sky King, Little Lulu comics, Brenda Starr, Howdy Doody and The Peanut
Gallery, The Lone Ranger, The Shadow Knows, Nellie Belle,
Roy and Dale, Trigger and Buttermilk as well as the sound of a
reel mower on Saturday morning, and summers filled with bike
rides, playing in cowboy land, playing hide and seek and kick-
the-can and Simon Says, baseball games, amateur shows at the
local theater before the Saturday matinee, bowling and visits to
the pool . and eating Kool-Aid powder with sugar,
and wax lips and bubble gum cigars.

Didn't it feel good, just to go back and say,
"Yeah, I remember that!"

And was it really that long ago??

[missus]

Jack, no, it wasn't that long ago. Although some of this was before my time, a lot of it I'm familiar with. And yes, I would luv for my children to experience the life I lived as a child. Mom worked days and dad worked nites so that no strangers would babysit us. And the sheets, my goodness, on the line in the sun, that was the best ever. And the homemade ice cream. I remember going to Sunday school with my dad and my oldest brother Calvin, cuz Mom had to stay behind with baby brothers and get them ready.

Thanks for this stroll down memory lane.

Missus

[jaspernotting]

Could relate to quite a number of them... yes Love it!! What I love most is parents/school aren't that interested in my grades then!!