great poem, I'm not sure life was ever black and white--go back to 1953--wanna trade in your washing machine for what was used in 1953--or maybe your self-cleaning oven. Patti ----- Original Message ----- From: "Rosemary Webb" <rosie@ipa.net> To: <ARMSTRONG-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Thursday, March 20, 2003 2:42 PM Subject: [ARMSTRONG-L] Black & White > I wish I'd written this > > author unknown > > Black and White (Under age 40? You won't understand.) > > You could hardly see for all the snow, > Spread the rabbit ears as far as they go. > Pull a chair up to the TV set, > "Good Night, David. Good Night, Chet." > > Depending on the channel you tuned, > You got Rob and Laura - or Ward and June. > It felt so good. It felt so right. > Life looked better in black and white. > > I Love Lucy, The Real McCoys, > Dennis the Menace, the Cleaver boys, > Rawhide, Gunsmoke, Wagon Train, > Superman, Jimmy and Lois Lane. > > Father Knows Best, Patty Duke, > Rin Tin Tin and Lassie too, > Donna Reed on Thursday night! - > Life looked better in black and white. > > I wanna go back to black and white. > Everything always turned out right. > Simple people, simple lives... > Good guys always won the fights. > > Now nothing is the way it seems, > In living color on the TV screen. > Too many murders, too many fights, > I wanna go back to black and white. > > In God they trusted, alone in bed, they slept, > A promise made was a promise kept. > They never cussed or broke their vows. > They'd never make the network now. > > But if I could, I'd rather be > In a TV town in '53. > It felt so good. It felt so right. > Life looked better in black and white. > > I'd trade all the channels on the satellite, > If I could just turn back the clock tonight > To when everybody knew wrong from right. > Life was better in black and white! > > Pass this to someone (over age 40, of course), and brighten their day > by helping them to remember that life's most simple pleasures ! are very > often the best! >

Trade my washing machine for a 1953 wringer washer? ABSOLUTELY! Two (admittedly used) washers have died on me in the last six months. I have five daughters. Laundry is my life. I'd love to have an old reliable washer. Momma's old wringer washer or the front loader she got right after the wringer would suit me just fine. Self cleaning oven? I guess I have one---I clean my oven my self. LOL If you have old appliances from the 50s - 60s don't give them up ---unless you are giving them to me! Something I've always wondered about: Even though the pictures were black and white when I was a kid, I always "knew" what color things really were. Did any one else think they knew what color things were? Any time they actually referred to the color of something I was right too. Of course I did constantly see (in bands of gray) the color bars for folks to adjust their newfangled color sets. That's where I learned the word "magenta". You may call the little men in white suits now. :) Judy (who wasn't born till 1959) :-) Patti Armstrong wrote: > great poem, I'm not sure life was ever black and white--go back to > 1953--wanna trade in your washing machine for what was used in 1953--or > maybe your self-cleaning oven. > Patti > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Rosemary Webb" <rosie@ipa.net> > To: <ARMSTRONG-L@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Thursday, March 20, 2003 2:42 PM > Subject: [ARMSTRONG-L] Black & White > > > I wish I'd written this > > > > author unknown > > > > Black and White (Under age 40? You won't understand.) > > > > You could hardly see for all the snow, > > Spread the rabbit ears as far as they go. > > Pull a chair up to the TV set, > > "Good Night, David. Good Night, Chet." > > > > Depending on the channel you tuned, > > You got Rob and Laura - or Ward and June. > > It felt so good. It felt so right. > > Life looked better in black and white. > > > > I Love Lucy, The Real McCoys, > > Dennis the Menace, the Cleaver boys, > > Rawhide, Gunsmoke, Wagon Train, > > Superman, Jimmy and Lois Lane. > > > > Father Knows Best, Patty Duke, > > Rin Tin Tin and Lassie too, > > Donna Reed on Thursday night! - > > Life looked better in black and white. > > > > I wanna go back to black and white. > > Everything always turned out right. > > Simple people, simple lives... > > Good guys always won the fights. > > > > Now nothing is the way it seems, > > In living color on the TV screen. > > Too many murders, too many fights, > > I wanna go back to black and white. > > > > In God they trusted, alone in bed, they slept, > > A promise made was a promise kept. > > They never cussed or broke their vows. > > They'd never make the network now. > > > > But if I could, I'd rather be > > In a TV town in '53. > > It felt so good. It felt so right. > > Life looked better in black and white. > > > > I'd trade all the channels on the satellite, > > If I could just turn back the clock tonight > > To when everybody knew wrong from right. > > Life was better in black and white! > > > > Pass this to someone (over age 40, of course), and brighten their day > > by helping them to remember that life's most simple pleasures ! are very > > often the best! > >