57 CHEVY - Sit Back and Enjoy!!!!!!!!!

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Specializes in LTC, CPR instructor, First aid instructor..

Remember when......?

OK, so some of you may be too young to remember these, but the nostalgia of those memories remain forever in the hearts of those who were fortunate to have the following experiences.

REMEMBER....

When the worst thing you could do at school was smoke in the bathrooms,

flunk a test or chew gum. And the banquets were in the cafeteria and we

danced to a juke box later, and all the girls wore fluffy pastel gowns and

the boys wore suits for the first time and we were allowed to stay out till 12 a.m.

When a '57 Chevy was everyone's dream car. . . to cruise, peel out, lay rubber and watch drag races, and people went steady and girls wore a class

ring with an inch of wrapped dental floss or yarn coated with pastel frost nail polish so it would fit her finger.

And no one ever asked where the car keys were 'cause they were always in the car, in the ignition, and the doors were never locked. And you got in big trouble if you accidentally locked the doors at home, since no one ever had a key.

Remember lying on your back on 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. Back then, baseball was not a psychological group learning experience-it was a game.

Remember when stuff from the store came without safety caps and hermetic seals 'cause no one had yet tried to poison a perfect stranger.

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 the 80's and 90's...

So send this on to someone who can still remember Nancy Drew, The Hardy Boys, Laurel & Hardy, 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 real mower on Saturday morning, and summers filled with bike rides, playing in cowboy land, baseball games, bowling and visits to the pool...and eating Kool-Aid powder with sugar.

When being sent to the principal's office was nothing compared to the fate that awaited a misbehaving student at home.

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 all survived because their love was greater than the threat.

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

And was it really that long ago?

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Specializes in ORTHOPAEDICS-CERTIFIED SINCE 89.

Not to step into your post but this reminded me of something.

http://www.hlswilliwaw.com/html/57chevy.htm

And YES I remember it well.

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Oh yes, I do remember the endless summer days. Rounding up all of the animals in the neighborhood, dressing them up and having a circus that all the moms came to. Pushing the cat around in the dollie buggy.

I remember when the whole neighborhood watched out for the kids. You could just as well get swatted by the neighbor as your own parent. There was no disrespect, sass, or calling adults by their first name.

I am glad that I grew up when I did. By the way, we had a Ford convertible with a continental kit on the back. So swell. :chuckle

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Specializes in LTC, CPR instructor, First aid instructor..

P_RN,

Awesome! I like yours better than mine. I copied and pasted it on my own website.:D

RNanne,

Those truly were the good old days, weren't they. Aaaaaaaaah! It's sad that today's younger people won't have those memories. They're far better than any video game, amusement park, or any other high tech, impersonal amusement that are offered now.;)

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Specializes in ORTHOPAEDICS-CERTIFIED SINCE 89.

Do you recall when you could tell what each family was having for supper by the fragrances drifting toward you while you played?

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P_/RN-- Yes, and all the fathers got home at the same time and after supper all the folks came out in the yard and everyone visited and the kids played. Such an innocent peaceful time. And only the women that wanted to worked. If you didn't want to work you stayed at home.

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Yes, and I also loved the smell of burning leaves and the warmth of a woodstove after coming in from having a snowball fight, or going for a toboggan ride. Ahhhh!:)

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Specializes in ICU, CM, Geriatrics, Management.

Another Oldie checking in.

Think "vintage" and "experienced," never, never just older!

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Ahh the good old days.

We were very very lucky to have raised out kids, yes in the 80s and 90s in a neighborhood similar to what I grew up in--a real rarity.

As a matter of fact one of the neighborhood boys told a very puzzled scoutmaster that he had 10 sets of parents. If he got into something he wasn't supposed to (and he often did) he was in trouble all the way down the street until he got home (where he got into more trouble).

But the kids knew they were safe...always had a home anywhere on the block...cookies at one house, someone to teach them to change a bike tire at another.

Unfortunately most of us moved from the 'hood about the same time. Everyone of us regrets that move. If only we'd known.

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