If you remember Lawrence Welk and bouncing balls, how many of these do you remember? > >1. Candy cigarettes. >2. Wax coke-shaped bottles with colored sugar water inside. >3. Soda pop machines that dispensed glass bottles. >4. Coffee shops with tableside juke boxes. >5. Blackjack, Clove and Teaberry chewing gum. >6.Home with milk in glass bottles with cardboard stoppers. >7. Party lines. >8. Newsreels before the movie. >9. P. F. Flyers. >10. Butch wax. >11. Telephone numbers with a word prefix, (Drexel-5505). >12. Peashooters. >13. Howdy. >14. 45-RPM Records. >15. Green Stamps. >16. Hi-fi's. >17. Metal ice cube trays-with levers. >18. Mimeograph paper. >19. Blue flash Bulbs. >20. Beanie and Cecil. >21. Roller skate keys. >22. Cork pop guns. >23. Drive ins. >24. Studebakers. >25. Wash tub wringers. >26. The Fuller Brush man. >27. Reel-to-reel tape recorders. >28. Tinkertoys. >29. The Erector Set. >30. The Fort Apache Playset. >31. Lincoln Logs. >32. 15 cent McDonald hamburgers. >33. 5 cent packs of baseball cards...with that awful pink slab of bubblegum. >34. Penny candy. >35. 35 cent-a-gallon gasoline. > >AND A TIME WHEN .................... > >Decisions were made by going "eeny-meeny-miney-mo." >Mistakes were corrected by simply exclaiming, "Do over!" >"Race issue" meant arguing about who ran the fastest. >Catching the fireflies could happily occupy an entire evening. >It wasn't odd to have two or three "best" friends. >The worst thing you could catch from the opposite sex was cooties. >Having a weapon in school meant being caught with a slingshot. >A foot of snow was a dream come true. >Saturday morning cartoons weren't 30-minute ads for action figures. >"Oly-oly-oxen-free" made perfect sense. >Spinning around, getting dizzy, and falling down was cause for giggles. >The worst embarrassment was being picked last for a team. >War was a card game. >Water balloons were the ultimate weapon. >Baseball cards in the spokes transformed any bike into a motorcycle. >Taking drugs meant orange-flavored chewable aspirin. >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...." _________________________________________________________________ Join the worlds largest e-mail service with MSN Hotmail. http://www.hotmail.com