#49634 - 08/15/05 08:02 PM
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dashing
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My Mom threw out all my Dad's need to iron shirts and replaced them w/ permanent press.
I remember when school started getting free Cigar Boxes from Stationary Stores as pencil boxes.
Also, smocks for art class were my Dad's old shirts worn backwards.
My elementary school classrooms had a cloak room.
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#49636 - 08/16/05 09:25 AM
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flicka
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Originally posted by Paul I:
good night sis, I mean Flicka. 
Here's a picture of the school I attended up to 5th grade. It was within walking distance of home back then. The ramp is a new addition.
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#49637 - 08/16/05 09:45 AM
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MrSoul
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The New York Times reported that more large-print books are getting printed, since the publishers are losing money on those teeny-print paperbacks. Why? Baby-boomers are getting too old to read the print!
It didn't USED TO BE "small print". The print has stayed the SAME.  WE aren't the same. 
I'm glad it isn't just me, though! Looking forward to the larger print! 
On a related note: I work with a few young people, and the Beatles have been getting dissed. Its "cool" now to announce that the Beatles weren't all that influential. :rolleyes: (Also, noticed this in some recent rock criticism by young people in their early 20s.) Only someone who hadn't lived through that period could believe that, whether you actually "liked" the Beatles or not...
So, the youngsters will defend the Stones, Led Zeppelin, Jimi Hendrix, Dead, etc. and diss REVOLVER. At least I taught my daughter otherwise!
Its the new way of rebelling against the critical status quo, I guess. :rolleyes:
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#49639 - 08/16/05 04:03 PM
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dashing
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Say it ain't so, dissing The Beatles 
I can live my "formative years" listening to their music! They appeared on Ed Sullivan when I was in 5th grade. I watched at my best friend's house. With us were, her older sister and a few of her 9th grade friends. The cool teens were screaming, tears were streaming and each was shrieking their favorites name. My friend and I thought the teens antics strange but tried to understand and join in.
By around 8th grade Sgt.Peppers was released. It made Tookey Mooney's pj party memorable. I had every album, and each song brings back a memory of certain milestones of, puberty, first kiss, dating..."Came in through the bathroom window" had no connection to silver spoons but our usual "sneak in, sneak out" route for late night escapades.
They broke up when I broke my neck. Don McLean's lyrics "the day the music died" on "American Pie" to me and friends have a dual meaning.
I have a hardcover "coffee table book" on the same. I'm always putting it on top of the other one, "NASCAR." Glenn then switches them back the other way (an irritating game some shrink would surely comment on.) I remember the Beatles fondly. They represent my whole coming of age, now I guess just that I've just aged! dash
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#49640 - 08/16/05 05:57 PM
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Paul I
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I know exactly of what you speak, dashing. Except for me it was Elvis Presley, Gene Pitney, Gogi Grant, Buddy Holly, The Big Bopper and a few others.
My first girlfriend and I, 8th grade, Blue Moon was our song. I can still remember how I'd almost get light-headed holding her hand in the movies ( 10 cents for a matinee) Bobby socks, those big peticoats that stuck out or peddle pushers, and Saturday night at the teen center at the community house. Everyone posturing, Levis (had to have the red tag), white teeshirt, no belt, man, we were cool! And ducktail haircuts. Got a few years on you!
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#49641 - 08/16/05 07:52 PM
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Roadrunner
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Mercy, Elvis, Lesley Gore, Patsy Cline, and above them all Johnny Mathis . I got his autograph last year on his very 1st issued Program. His manager flipped that I had kept it all these years! Of all the autographs I've ever collected over the years I treasure it the most.
My '55 Ford convertible complete with fender skirts, continental kit, dual hollywoods, and of course dropped low in the back, LOL. Paul I those were "crinolines" (miles of ruffled lace slip). They went under your poodle skirt and when you sat down the whole thing went up in the air exposing your nylon tops and garters. Panty hose had not been invented.
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#49642 - 08/16/05 09:12 PM
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Paul I
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You got it Roadrunner! I can picture the Ford. Seems like they were all turquoise and cream. Havn't heard the term Hollywood mufflers for ages. It's all low restriction or glaspacks. I knew those things under the dress had a name. That's great with the Johney Mathis program. My older sister was nuts over him and Vic Damone and of course "the Wild One", Marlon Brando. You know it's funny how things that were significant back then kind of become the standard for measuring things. This guy at my school had a 1950 Mercury convertible, Frenched headlights, nosed and decked, skirts, powder blue, chrome rims and baby moons. Cool!
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#49643 - 08/16/05 10:03 PM
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rosebud
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What a happy wonderfully sentimental thread P1, but a little coincidental, too. You see, tonite I enjoyed a dish of my very favorite maple walnut ice cream from a local drive-in. Elvis, and Guy Mitchell were my favorites and Blue Moon was the song I always requested at the school dances. But - when I was a little kid I remember lovingly helping mom stretch lace curtains onto frames to dry, grandma's cellar with the onions hanging from the rafters, the potato bins and pickle barrel and shelves of canned goods.
Thank you for bringing back all these wonderful memories to me and everyone else on this site tonite. Goodnite. 
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#49645 - 08/17/05 11:46 AM
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dashing
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Hey Craig, I think I'll make myself feel better and join you in your "youngster" group. I mean kids were looking for old junked 57 Chevy's to buy for around $100.00, tinker with it, and end up w/ to a cool cheap old car. My hs boyfriend got a 48 Willie's Jeep at a old military clearance sale for $50.00. We took it "jungle cruising" in the marshes. Everyone with 4 wheel drive would meet on a friday night. Someone would be "it", and drive w/ no headlights, basically killing time playing tag. It was fun. The new rich kids cars were Camaro's and Mustangs. My downfall was in one of those Camaro's. dash
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#49646 - 08/17/05 12:05 PM
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Paul I
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OK you kids, it's OK to be young. We won't hold it against you. Plus youth is a state of mind that never departs. I just bought a Dodge Magnum, cool vanilla, V-8 Hemi powered that will help maintain my youthfulness and suck the doors off the BMWs, SUVs and other hardware of the "now" generation. Unfortunately all the drive-ins around here are Sonic Drive-ins which are not exactly American Grafitti but I imagine there's a cruise night somewhere in this huge metro area.
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#49648 - 08/17/05 05:37 PM
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dashing
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My Dad bought a turquoise and white 57 Dodge w/ fins. It had a push button gear thing. As kids we would get in and push those buttons. He was a very frustrated Dad! dash
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