REMEMBER

I thought it would be fun just to remember (remember, get it, these are my remembrances). 

REMEMBER:

When gas was 17 cents a gallon?  True, dad took a 50 gallon barrel and filled it up.  It is a wonder we didn't explode on the way home.

When there was a cent key on a keyboard?

When the teacher was allowed to spank in the classroom without any witnesses?  My daughter swears she got a swat the very first day of kindergarten.........I have trouble believing that one.

When we wore white lipstick and thought we were cute, or at least stylish?

When a salesperson would be in the dressing room area to help you if you needed a different size?

The smell of the deodorizer used in the Shawnee Montgomery Ward bathroom?  Some things really made an impression on me.

The fabric sold at Moody's in Shawnee?  Remember Mode-o-Day?

Getting a Frito Chili Pie at the Dairy Boat in Prague for 15 cents?

When cars DIDN'T have seat belts?

When there were only three TV stations in Oklahoma City?  Remember when OETA came on the air and NOBODY watched that station?  Remember when a station would sign off for the night and play a video of "I Touched The Face of God"?

The 80s when the rage was a Swatch Watch?

Wearing white Keds with the little blue rubber label in the back which proved you had the REAL thing?

Wearing big hair with rolled bangs with a velvet bow placed at the part of the bangs?

When Prague had a drive-in?  When Shawnee had a drive-in?  When any town had a drive-in?

Soft-serve Dairy Queen ice cream, all swirly?  And dip cones? 

Gibson's, Trade Mart, Founders Fair, GEX, or AMC?  All before Sam's even thought about a store.  How about TG&Y, Tubbs Drug, Streets, and Anthony's.  Remember all the by-gone restaurants in Midwest City; Lum's, Across The Street, Kip's, The Lion's Share, Furr's Cafeteria, Roses Restaurant (the rolls!!), Zamudio's (ah Zamudio's), Sirloin Stockade.

Yellow lights on everybody's porch?

Not locking a door.....not at night.....not when we left for an hour.....not when we were away a week....never?

Hula Hoops, Slinky, Mr. Potato Head, Clue, Betsy Wetsy, Pet Rocks, Clackers?

Getting dishes in oatmeal?  Getting dishes at the grocery store?  Finding special trinkets in cereal?  Digging arm deep in a new box of cereal to find said cereal?

When there was a time dresses were the norm everywhere you went?  When men wore suits when they were out in the evening even shopping for groceries?

When you ate your first bite of pizza and where the pizza place was and who was with you?

When the only Mexican food you ever heard of was canned tamales?

Thanks guys for indulging me in this little post.  I had fun with it, but I could go on and on and on and rather than that, I will call it a night.

I love you.