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Bringing Back 49er Memories
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.'
My Mom used to cut chicken, chop eggs and spread mayo on the same cutting board with the same knife and no bleach, but we didn't seem to get food poisoning.
My Mom used to defrost hamburger on the counter and I used to eat it raw sometimes, too. Our school sandwiches were wrapped in wax paper in a brown paper bag, not in ice pack coolers, but I can't remember getting e.coli.
Almost all of us would have rather gone swimming in the lake instead of a pristine pool (talk about boring), no beach closures then.
The term cell phone would have conjured up a phone in a jail cell, and a pager was the school PA system.
We all took gym, not PE...and risked permanent injury with a pair of high top Ked's (only worn in gym) instead of having cross-training athletic shoes with air cushion soles and built in light reflectors. I can't recall any injuries but they must have happened because they tell us how much safer we are now.
Flunking gym was not an option.... even for stupid kids! I
guess PE must be much harder than gym.
Speaking of school, we all said prayers and sang the national anthem, and staying in detention after school caught all sorts of negative attention.
We must have had horribly damaged psyches. What an archaic health system we had then.. Remember school nurses? Ours wore a hat and everything.
I thought that I was supposed to accomplish something before I was allowed to be proud of myself.
I just can't recall how bored we were without computers, Play Station, Nintendo, X-box or 270 digital TV cable stations.
We played 'king of the hill' on piles of gravel left
on vacant construction sites, and when we got hurt, Mom pulled out the 48-cent bottle of mercurochrome (kids liked it better because it didn't sting like iodine did) and then we got our butt spanked.
Now it's a trip to the emergency room, followed by a 10-day dose of a $49 bottle of antibiotics, and then Mom calls the attorney to sue the contractor for leaving a horribly vicious pile of gravel where it was such a threat.
We didn't act up at the neighbor's house either; because if we did we got our butt spanked there and then we got our butt spanked again when we got home.
I recall Donny Reynolds from next door coming over and doing his tricks on the front stoop, just before he fell off.
Little did his Mom know that she could have owned our house.
Instead, she picked him up and swatted him for being such a goof. It was a neighborhood run amuck.
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To all of us who grew in the 50's will love this video and the song "Once upon a time long long ago" Enjoy
Notes of Interest-

Think about it!!

"TAKE A TRIP BACK TO THE FIFTIES"
Click the link below--
"If you don't read the papers, you are uninformed,
you read them you will be misinformed " Mark Twain.
OUR REUNIONS ARE NOT THE SAME
WITHOUT YOU!!

CLICK ON THE REUNION LINK,
PICK A YEAR AND ENJOY !!
Note: Anyone having pictures of our reunions, get them to me.
I do not have any for the 62nd and the 64th.
Fascinating!!!
Take a look at Streetcars from 1900 to 1964,
see the 1960 Wolrd Champions of Baseball
"The problems we face today exist because the people who work for a living are outnumbered by those who vote for a living."
For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
.If you are a big Elvis fan click the link below.
"News From our 49ers"
All you 49ers are proud of your families accomplishments!!!
Please, PLEASE, please
Send pictures and news. I'll post them on our website.
Don't be bashful !
Howard

ENJOY OUR BEAUTIFUL COUNTRY GOD'S GIFT TO EVERYONE!
