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The Old
Days
Were you
a kid in
the
Fifties
or
earlier?
Everybody
makes
fun of
our childhood!
Comedians
joke.
Grandkids
snicker.
Twenty
year
olds
shudder and say
"Eeeew!"
But was
our
childhood
really
all that
bad?
Judge
for
yourself:
In 1953,
the US
population
was less
than 150
million...
yet you
knew more people
then,
and knew
them
better...
and that
was
good.
The
average
annual
salary
was
under
$3,000...
yet our
parents
could
put
some of
it away
for a
rainy
day and
still
live a
decent
life...
and that
was
good.
A loaf
of bread
cost
about 15
cents...
but it
was safe
for a
five-year-old to skate
to the
store
and buy
one...
and that
was
good.
Prime-Time
meant I
Love
Lucy,
Ozzie
and
Harriet,
Gun Smoke
and
Lassie...
So
nobody
ever
heard of
ratings
or
filters...
and that
was
good.
We
didn't
have
air-conditioning...
so the
windows
stayed
up and
half a dozen
mothers
ran
outside
when you
fell off
your
bike...
and that
was
good.
Your
teacher
was
either
Miss
Matthews
or Mrs.
Logan or
Mr.
Adkins...
but
not Ms
Becky or
Mr.
Dan...
and that
was
good.
The only
hazardous
material
you knew
about was a
patch of
grass
burrs
around
the
light
pole at
the
corner...
and that
was
good.
You
loved to
climb
into a
fresh
bed...
because
sheets
were
dried on
the clothesline...
and that
was
good.
People
generally
lived in
the same
hometown
with
their
relatives...
so "child
care"
meant
grandparents
or aunts
and
uncles...
and that
was good.
Parents
were
respected
and
their
rules
were
the law.... Children
did not talk back...
and that
was
good.
TV was
in
black-and-white...
But all
outdoors
was in
glorious
color...
and that was
certainly
good.
Your Dad
knew how
to
adjust
everybody's
carburetor...
and the
Dad
next
door knew how
to
adjust
all the
TV
knobs...
and that
was very
good.
Your
grandma
grew
snap
beans in
the back
yard...
and
chickens
behind the
garage...
and that
was
definitely
good.
And just
when you
were
about to
do
something
really
bad...
chances
were you'd run into
your
Dad's
high
school
coach...
or the
nosy old
lady
from up
the
street...
or your
little
sister's
piano
teacher...
or
somebody
from church....
all of
whom
knew
your
parents'
phone
number...
And YOUR
first
name...
And even
THAT was
good!
REMEMBER...
Send
this on
to
someone
who can
still
remember
Nancy
Drew,
The
Hardy Boys,
Laurel &
Hardy,
Abbott &
Costello,
Sky
King,
Little
Lulu
comics,
Brenda Starr,
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
cowboy,
playing
hide and
seek and
kick-the-can
and
Simon Says,
baseball
games,
amateur
shows at
the
local
theater
before
the Saturday
matinee,
bowling
and
visits
to the
pool...and
eating
Kool-Aid
powder
with
sugar,
and wax
lips and
bubblegum
cigars.
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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