I double dog dare you

[jocko]

I Double Dare Ya!

Remember when---
All the girls had ugly gym uniforms? And wore tennis shoes not $200 Nikes!
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It took three minutes for the TV to warm up?
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Nobody owned a purebred dog?
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When a quarter was a decent allowance?
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You'd reach into a muddy gutter for a penny?
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Your Mom wore nylons that came in two pieces?
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You got your windshield cleaned, oil checked, and gas pumped, without asking, all for free, every time? And you didn't pay for air? And, you got trading stamps to boot?
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Laundry detergent had free glasses, dishes or towels hidden inside the box?
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It was considered a great privilege to be taken out to dinner at a real restaurant with your parents?
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They threatened to keep kids back a grade if they failed... and they did it!
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When a 57 Chevy was everyone's dream car...to cruise, peel out, lay rubber or watch submarine races, and people went steady?
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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?
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Lying on your back in the grass with your friends.. and saying things like, 'That cloud looks like a... '?
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Playing baseball with no adults to help kids with the rules of the game?
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Stuff from the store came without safety caps and hermetic seals because no one had yet tried to poison a perfect stranger...
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And with all our progress, don't you just wish, just once, you could slip back in time and savor the slower pace, and share it with the children of today.
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When being sent to the principal's office was nothing compared to the fate that awaited the student at home?
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Basically we were in fear for our lives, but it wasn't because of drive-by shootings, drugs, gangs, etc. Our parents and grandparents were a much bigger threat! But we survived because their love was greater than the threat.
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And our summers were filled with bike rides, Hula Hoops, and visits to the pool, and eating Kool-Aid powder with sugar.
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Didn't that feel good, just to go back and say, 'Yeah, I remember that'?

I am sharing this with you today because it ended with a Double Dog Dare to pass it on... To remember what a Double Dog Dare is, read on.. And remember that the perfect age is somewhere between old enough to know better and too young to care.

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Send this on to someone who can still remember Howdy Doody and The Peanut Gallery, the Lone Ranger, The Shadow Knows, Nellie Bell , Roy and Dale, Trigger and Buttermilk.
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How Many Of These Do You Remember?
Candy cigarettes...
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Wax Coke-shaped wax bottles with colored sugar water inside...
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Soda pop machines that dispensed glass bottles...

Coffee shops with Table Side Jukeboxes...

Blackjack, Clove and Teaberry chewing gum...
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Home milk delivery in glass bottles with cardboard stoppers...
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Newsreels before the movie...

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Telephone numbers with a word prefix...( Yukon 2-601) Party lines...
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Peashooters...

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Hi-Fi's & 45 RPM records...
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78 RPM records...
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Green Stamps...
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Mimeograph paper...
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The Fort Apache Play Set...
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Do You Remember a Time When Decisions were made by going...
'eeny-meeny-miney-moe'?

Mistakes were corrected by simply exclaiming, 'Do Over!'?

'Race issue' meant arguing about who ran the fastest?
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Catching The Fireflies Could Happily Occupy An Entire Evening?

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It wasn't odd to have two or three 'Best
Friends'...
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Having a Weapon in School meant being caught with a Slingshot?
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Saturday morning cartoons weren't 30-minute commercials for action figures?
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'Oly-oly-oxen-free' made perfect sense?
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Spinning around, getting dizzy, and falling down was cause for giggles?

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The Worst Embarrassment was being picked last for a team?
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War was a card game?
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Baseball cards in the spokes transformed any bike into a motorcycle?
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Taking drugs meant orange flavored chewable aspirin?
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Water balloons were the ultimate weapon?

Or the other great use of your sears and roebuck catalog??

or the plastic 3 color screen that went on the front of your black and white TV

If you can remember most or all of these, Then You Have Lived!

Pass this on to anyone who may need a break from their 'Grown-Up' Life...
I Double-Dog-Dare-Ya!

[AJBert]

I'm in there for a little over half I'd say but definitely fit into the "old enough to know better but too young to care" group!

[Bill K]

What, no carpet, cap or paper pop guns mentioned! :confused:

Soon to be 68 and having lived as a kid in the city (NYC) during school months and country (cottage in then rural CT) during the summer I was able to remember just about everything listed.

[wyntrout]

I experienced most of that stuff... 66 years young in 10 days! My wife is TEN years younger, though!

Wynn:D

[Snidely Whiplash]

Do over? I must have run with a serious and tough crowd of elementary school kids. There was no such thing as 'do over' - we played for keeps. If you messed up? You messed up - live with it. There were a lot of scuffles, a few serious fights, an occasional brawl and, once or twice, an elementary school version of a riot - but never a 'do over'. In fact, none of us had ever even heard of such a thing - wouldn't have believed it, much less allowed it, if we had.

I also never heard of the the three-color screen for a B&W TV.

Other than those two, I remembered them all.

What about...

Pink bubble gum cigars?

A huge dill pickle for a nickel at the movies?

Nothing but cartoons from 9 to noon on Saturdays at the movie theater - wall to wall, floor to ceiling kids all on major sugar buzzes - the cheers when a Warner Bros. cartoon came on, the boos when a Woody Woodpecker cartoon came on...

Jumping up and down on the hood, roof, and trunk of your mom's car and not even scratching the paint, much less denting the sheet metal. 1950s cars were built like tanks

No mosquitoes - we had DDT trucks that regularly released huge, billowing clouds out of a pressure nozzle on the back - as kids, the dare was to see who could hold his breath the longest and get closest to the nozzle on his bike - when you ran out of air, you had no choice but to cut the bike hard left (into the oncoming lane) so you could get a breath of fresh air - no cars better be coming! Of course our parents had no idea this was the game. To this very day I've never had a mosquito in my lungs...:D

The sound of a DDT truck was the only thing that would attract more kids faster than the ice cream truck...

Born in the 40s, grew up in the 50s, came of age in the 60s...

There never was nor will there ever be a better time than the 1950s to be a kid.

Anybody remember Ipana Toothpaste and their spokesman, Bucky Beaver? see commercial here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jt_38KUk-r4

[PYROhafe]

I grew/am growing up in the wrong time! Just the other day actually I was having a conversation about what music from my time (26 yrs old) will even last into the next 5 years. All this new crap is awful! I find myself listening to more and more of the "classics" instead of the new school radio stations. Doubt we will ever have a cool post like this with all the fun/cool things to remember from our time.

[mr surveyor]

the third grade teacher trying to open a taped up box asked if anyone had a pocket knife, and 14 boys and 2 girls all tried to be first to the teacher's desk

every one of the outdoors type high school boys had at least 2 long guns hanging on their gun rack in the back window of the pick-up

a group of buddies could pool their spare change for gas, come up with a a "buck-fifty" between them, and cruise the streets for hours on a Saturday night

cold beer was a buck a six-pack .... or two bucks if you were a bit underaged

there weren't any female school principals, and discipline was never an issue

[MW surveyor]

a buck fifty an hour was a pretty good wage while in high school.

gas was 15 cents a gallon (during a "gas war"). so you could get 10 gallons of gas for one hour of work.

your parents didn't worry about where you were. (well at least not too much)

riding your bike on the street without a helmet. (what helmet!)

[RxDoc]

I miss all that soooo much. I endured (really enjoyed) almost all of those things in one way or the other (I was known as a "fighter" back then). Thank you for the memories. I hope you don't mind, but "The Ed Sullivan Show", could go on a date for $5.00 and come home with change, yellow '55 Chevys were highly desired, along with GTO's, Mustang High Performance. Drive a little ways out of town for beer. Cruisin through the hamburger joints for girls or drag races, etc, etc. Really miss culottes or crinolines the girls wore.

[Sage]

I actually remember everything your posted except oly-oly-oxen-free.

The 45 spindle on the "record player".
Clear plastic installed over the seats in the family car used to make you sweat.
Blur jeans rolled up about six inches at the cuff.
Girls wearing black and white saddle oxfords.
Screens on all of the windows and doors because there was no air conditioning.
Fans above the store front doors to keep flies out.
Waxed milk cartons replaced glass jars.
Shotgun houses.

[DubDubU]

you had to kick start your bike

[losg]

Sounds like you guys lived in the Andy Griffith Show. :)

[O'Dell]

Not only do I remember everything on your list, I lived them all too. Well, maybe all but the slingshot. Oh, I had them made from a forked tree branch and strips cut from an inter tube, but mostly I remember carrying a Remington 22 everywhere I went.

[Barth]

Being a grandfather three times over,
I normally think of myself as being pretty old.
But reading that list make me feel shinny and new.
I'm really just a young wipper-snapper after all.
Woo Hoo!

[TucsonMTB]

Yep! That is a great list for bringing back memories.

Growing up fairly poor in the Midwest, we were not exposed to the Fort Apache Play Set . . . I had to Google it.

But, we had Rin Tin Tin on the radio, so we didn't miss the miniature version. http://home.mindspring.com/%7Ejustsomeguy/thumbsup.gif

Thanks for sharing.

[Bawanna]

you had to kick start your bike

And sometimes kick and kick and kick and kick and kick.

Some days it just didn't happen.

[downtownv]

I experienced most of that stuff... 66 years young in 10 days! My wife is TEN years younger, though!

Wynn:D
I know your wife is younger but to brag by posting her pic in your avatar is simply wrong! He, he he.....

[Barth]

And sometimes kick and kick and kick and kick and kick.

Some days it just didn't happen.

LOL
My 1972 Triumph 650 did start on cold winter mornings in the Mojave desert.
But not before I was stripped to my 501 Levi's and steel toed engineer boots.
Riding to High School shirtless on a chilly December morning.
Ah those were the days.

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My 1967 BMW 500 used a magneto and didn't even need a battery.
http://members.shaw.ca/elrojo/motorcycles_files/bmw_files/1967_R60_500.jpg

[jocko]

Not only do I remember everything on your list, I lived them all too. Well, maybe all but the slingshot. Oh, I had them made from a forked tree branch and strips cut from an inter tube, but mostly I remember carrying a Remington 22 everywhere I went.

my first bow and arrow was from a neighbors willow tree.. Robins were fair game to

[jocko]

lots of shotgun houses in my tonw. Mineing town and that was all they could afford. We stillhave remnants yet of them.

[muggsy]

Been there, done that, but no tee shirt to show you. Just wrinkles. I remember my old man's Hudson Hornet and the neighbors Studebaker. How many of you received a Jack Knife on your ninth birthday. I spent two days sharpening mine. Played mumbley peg and sandlot baseball. A few of the rich kids even had baseball gloves. Roller skates had steel wheels and clamped on to your Buster Browns. Jeez, I feel older than dirt.

[jocko]

do u remember
buster Brown's dogs name?? Didn't hissaying go something like thisL

Hi, I'm buster brown I live in a shoe,this is my dog Tide,(Tige) he lives there to"
sandlot baseball with some nice gals back in my days to. I had a baseballglove,wasn't rich but hadone and I later traded it for a Harley 165 Hummer that needed alot of work on it but I did getit going and road it like I stole it. Mumbley peg, oh my the days!!!

Marbles and mareble tournaments was big in my town to. cats eye marbles, steelies. Marble bag..

How about the Duncan Yo Yo man who use dto visit all the schools and give demo's..

[Bill K]

I remember the nickle pickle barrel that was in every NYC Deli. You were "legal" @ 18 but Brad's on the corner of Northen Blvd. & Broadway (Queens, NY) would serve you a ten cents glass of beer if you just came close to looking 18. The first pizza slice I bought was 15 cents (or was it a dime?).

[Bill K]

Oh, a short hike for any fireworks you wanted, legally, on the Oxford (CT) side of Stevenson Dam.

[TucsonMTB]

do u remember
buster Brown's dogs name?? Didn't hissaying go something like thisL

Hi, I'm buster brown I live in a shoe,this is my dog Tide,(Tige) he lives there to"
Yep! Tige is correct. You did better than I remembering the name, Jocko. I had to Google it. :rolleyes:

What I remember better is the X-Ray fluoroscope for fitting your shoes. They were great. You could wiggle your toes and see the bones move!

http://www.georgeezell.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/shoe-fitting_1-300x233.jpg http://media.smithsonianmag.com/images/object_fluoroscope.jpg

[Bill K]

Winky Dink and You anyone? Interactive TV in the 50's, worth the Google if you don't remember.

[jocko]

Winky Dink and You anyone? Interactive TV in the 50's, worth the Google if you don't remember.

that is one I don' t remember:smash:

How about the SHADOW KNOWS radio program. I never missed thatne either. "Only the Shadow knows".:D

screwtoday, lets go backwards.it was more fun.

[Bawanna]

"Marbles and mareble tournaments was big in my town to. cats eye marbles, steelies. Marble bag.."

I still have a big sack of marbles around here someplace. I liked the Purees and of course the steelies. It was serious gaming around our schools.

I been on a crew down at the Bonneville Salt Flats, we ran a Studebaker (real popular). Helped another fella with a Hudson Hornet, he set 2 records the year I was there.

It's a very cool experience if you ever find yourself close during Speed Week.

[Sage]

lots of shotgun houses in my tonw. Mineing town and that was all they could afford. We stillhave remnants yet of them.

I lived in one until I was about 10 years old. By the time I was born a indoor bathroom had been built on, but old outhouse stood out back for years. Each room had one light fixture, an electric cord hanging down from the middle of the ceiling with a single light bulb (thank you TVA).

[Armybrat]

All of the above.

I remember talking on this phone (my Grandma's) in the 1940s when her small rural hometown still had a party line telephone system:

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[muggsy]

do u remember
buster Brown's dogs name?? Didn't hissaying go something like thisL

Hi, I'm buster brown I live in a shoe,this is my dog Tide,(Tige) he lives there to"
sandlot baseball with some nice gals back in my days to. I had a baseballglove,wasn't rich but hadone and I later traded it for a Harley 165 Hummer that needed alot of work on it but I did getit going and road it like I stole it. Mumbley peg, oh my the days!!!

Marbles and mareble tournaments was big in my town to. cats eye marbles, steelies. Marble bag..

How about the Duncan Yo Yo man who use dto visit all the schools and give demo's..

My first powered vehicle was a Whizzer motor bike. I could pedal damn near as fast as it would propel me, but not for as long. I'm still playing with my yoyo. :)

[jocko]

wesold Whizzer motorbikes at our business years ago...ahead of tis time,no less..

[GROTMAN]

Not as old as some of you but definately miss the drive ins..lot of good times had there..if you know what I mean. Even watched a movie once in awhile :D

[JFootin]

I remember drive in theaters and restaurants, 17 cent gas and owning this when I was 19.
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[Snidely Whiplash]

That's a nice looking Mustang!

I sure would like to see at least a few reruns of some of these...

Sid Caeser's "Your Show of Shows"
Phil Silvers' "The Phil Silvers' Show" (aka "Sgt Bilko")
"Have Gun, Will Travel" (with Richard Boone as "Paladin")
"Wanted: Dead or Alive" (with Steve McQueen as "Josh Randall")
"Rawhide" (with a very young Clint Eastwood as "Rowdy Yates")
"Peter Gunn"
"M Squad" (with Lee Marvin as "Lt Frank Ballinger")

and many, many more...

Does anybody remember "Tom Terrific and Mighty Manfred the Wonder Dog" (part of the "Captain Kangaroo Show"). What about Tom's 'thinking cap'?

[Barth]

I remember drive in theaters and restaurants, 17 cent gas and owning this when I was 19.


My High School car looked like this.
And premium was just under .50 cents in Southern California (1975).
http://www.cruisenewsonline.com/67CamaroRS/67CamaroRS-Top.jpg

[mr surveyor]

Tom Terrific:)

[LorenzoB]

Thanks for making me feel younger this Father's Day! Growing up, I watched "I Love Lucy", "Leave it to Beaver", "Andy Griffith", "**** VanDyke", etc. but they weren't live!! Even though they were black and white, I was watching on a color TV, but remotes didn't exist yet. We just had the UHF and VHF dials. I am old enough to at least know dial phones with actual bells. BUT, I feel like a youngan' around here and I don't mind one bit :D

[LorenzoB]

Or should I say Richard VanDyke.

[O'Dell]

do u remember
buster Brown's dogs name?? Didn't hissaying go something like thisL

Hi, I'm buster brown I live in a shoe,this is my dog Tide,(Tige) he lives there to"

How about the Duncan Yo Yo man who use dto visit all the schools and give demo's..

I well remember those "Buster Brown" commercials on Saturday morning radio.

Believe it or not I bought a couple of those old Duncan Yo Yo's a few years ago, you know the ones with the contrasting stripe on each side. I wanted to see if I could still do the old tricks. I could, up to a point. BTW, do you know where I can buy Yo Yo strings? :D

How about those square, brown RCA 45 record players that everybody had in high school?

[O'Dell]

My High School car looked like this.
And premium was just under .50 cents in Southern California (1975).
http://www.cruisenewsonline.com/67CamaroRS/67CamaroRS-Top.jpg

My HS car, at least the last three months of senior year when I was old enough to drive, was a green 51 Rambler convertible. I bought it for $300 in late 59 with money I saved from my old paper route.

[Deano]

My early childhood summers consisted of riding around on my sting ray bicycle with banana seat and baseball mitt hung on the monkey bars, popping wheelies, and jumping ramps. Most of the time, we had playing cards clipped on the frame, slapping the spokes as they spun.

We'd go down to the local neighborhood store and buy baseball cards with the big pink slab of bubble gum inside, and then spend an hour haggling over potential trades. I remember the good stack at home in the box with Mantle, Mays, Killebrew, Koufax, Drysdale, Gibson, Spahn, to name a few. Oh if I only had those cards now.

We'd play baseball 'til dark or dinner, whichever came first. This is a scenario that you don't see play out any more. Sadly, there's so many perverts around, you wouldn't dare let your kids disappear on their bike all day.

We'd pick strawberries in June, Beans in July, and Cherries in August. By the time my kids were growing up, they had already made it illegal to allow children to work in the fields (God forbid we teach our kids how to work a job). If you were lucky, you got a job in the cannery, and made some real money after you turned 16.

My first car was a real piece of crap. A 1969 toyota that had 100k miles, and a busted drivers seat. You had to prop it up from the back with a baseball bat because the hinge was broken. Paid $500 for it in 1973.

Good times, good memories.

[TucsonMTB]

\Believe it or not I bought a couple of those old Duncan Yo Yo's a few years ago, you know the ones with the contrasting stripe on each side. I wanted to see if I could still do the old tricks. I could, up to a point. BTW, do you know where I can buy Yo Yo strings? :D
http://i.ebayimg.com/t/YO-YO-String-DUNCAN-GENUINE-PARTS-String-Part-3276NP-/00/s/NzY4WDEwMjQ=/$%28KGrHqJHJB8E63%28O55czBO2Nkncwhg%7E%7E60_57.JPG

Sure. Two bucks on eBay (http://www.ebay.com/itm/YO-YO-String-DUNCAN-GENUINE-PARTS-String-Part-3276NP-/400286854042?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item5d32f4ab9a).