You were a kid in the Fifties if you remember:

Hide and go seek at dusk.

One speed bicycles.

Hopscotch, butterscotch, double dutch.

Jacks, kickball, and dodge ball.

Mother May I?  Red Rover.

Hula Hoops, jacks.

When you picked up the phone and
the operator said, "Number please?"

Wax Lips and Mustaches.

Penny candy in a brown paper bag.

A million mosquito bites and sticky fingers.

Listening to Superman on the radio.

Catching lightening bugs in a jar.

Laughing so hard that your stomach hurt.

An ice cream cone on a warm summer night...

A cherry coke from the fountain at the corner drug store.

Cops and Robbers....Cowboys and Indians.

Running till you were out of breath.
 
When the only time you wore sneakers
was at school, for gym.

When it took five minutes for the TV to warm up,
 if you even had one.

When nearly everyone's mom was at
home when the kids got there.

When laundry detergent had free glasses,
 dishes or towels hidden inside the box.

When nobody owned a purebred dog.

When a quarter was a decent allowance.

When you'd reach into a muddy gutter for a penny.

When girls never kissed on the first date.

When your Mom wore nylons
that came in two pieces.

When every adult had a title as
 Mr., Mrs., Miss., Sir, or Ma'am. 

The Mickey Mouse Club

When you got your windshield cleaned,
 oil checked, and gas pumped, without asking,
 for free, every time.
 And you got trading stamps to boot!
 And, you didn't pay for air.


When homework assignments were a daily routine.

They threatened to keep kids back a grade if they failed. . and they did?

Drive In movies.

Sitting on the back porch listening to
the ballgame on the radio.

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?

Nancy Drew, the Hardy Boys, Laurel and Hardy,
Howdy Doody and the Peanut Gallery,
the Lone Ranger, The Shadow Knows,
Nellie Bell, Roy and Dale, Trigger and Buttermilk.


As well as summers filled with bike rides, baseball games,
Hula Hoops, bowling and visits to the pool,
and eating Kool-Aid powder with sugar.
 

When you removed your hat and held your hand
 over your heart in silence during the
 "Pledge of Allegiance" or the National Anthem.

And the flag had 48 stars.

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

May all your memories
be warm and happy!