I'm Old Enough to Remember....

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Comment by Maryanne Mesple on July 12, 2011 at 1:34am

1956 Pontiac with an amazing Indian hood ornament :-) Loved those long road trips and being in the "back window" area looking up at the stars! Lisa, I didn't get to roll around because our car was always packed with kids! I remember since I was the smallest/youngest having the honor of sitting on the floor board or being up on the window ledge ... and as mentioned ... seat belts? What seat belts! and (this is horrible) I remember my parents chucking the trash right out the window as we sped down the highways!

Comment by wiffledust on July 12, 2011 at 1:14am

speaking of cars and no seat belts, i remember us always having some huge boat of a car, and i would roll around the back seat banging into things on a sharp turn! ;-)

Comment by Barry Parsons on July 12, 2011 at 12:49am

I remember being able to climb up on the little ledge by the back window of the car.  I'd lay there and look out, especially at night, on road trips.  Seat belts weren't even in some cars, and if they were wearing them was optional.

Comment by Maryanne Mesple on July 12, 2011 at 12:35am

I was so cool, I really was :-) I had a purple stingray bicycle with a leopard print banana seat and I wore cool sunglasses that were bright yellow with a single skinny strip of colored plastic that you looked out at the world through (girl watchers although I was watching those surfer boys) and I wore bubble rings and would  make them fit by wrapping dental floss or string around the inside part and then paint it with nail polish and I was cool because my hair was all parted on the side and part came down in a smooth sweep covering one eye and I strutted around in my cool stripped surfer T. Yep, I was so cool and this was coolness before the expression, "far out" and "bitchen" ... the coolness was expressed by saying, "cool man cool" and I danced to the song Surfing Bird by the Trashmen ... yep ... I remember :-)

Comment by Maryrose Orlans on July 12, 2011 at 12:33am

I can remember leaving my house and playing, really playing, all morning all over the neighborhood with all the kids, then my Mom, with the other Moms, would yell out the back door when it was time for lunch! We did it all again in the afternoon, and then after dinner until the street lights came on!! It was something!! :-)

Comment by wiffledust on July 11, 2011 at 11:27pm

sherry, you are not older than dirt. i promise dirt is older! :-) i loved the little bottles with the syrup. do they still have them??? and i loved those little dot candies on the paper strips. i remember stingray bicycles!

Comment by Sherry Somach on July 11, 2011 at 11:11pm

little wax  bottles with syrup in them!

 

Comment by Maggie Friend on July 11, 2011 at 11:08pm

Wax lips and candy cigarettes!

Comment by Sherry Somach on July 11, 2011 at 11:07pm

Nancy...we used to collect cases of  coke bottles and get cash and do the same thing. Had we only known that the bottles would be more valuable today!

Do you remember those extra thin licorace strips with candy dots on them...ot the wax lips?

Comment by Maggie Friend on July 11, 2011 at 11:07pm

I remember the original "floppy" discs that were actually floppy.  They were about 10 inches across.  I still have some of the "mini-floppy discs!"  I took them out the other day and my students had no clue what they were.  I remember doing all of my data analyses in rooms full of terminals attached to a mainframe and walking across campus to the printer room to see the results. 

 

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