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How is this For Nostalgia?

David Green · 2026-05-23T00:53:27Z

All the girls had ugly gym uniforms ,It took three minutes for the TV to warm up , Nobody owned a purebred dog,When a quarter was a decent allowance,You'd reach into a muddy gutter for a penny, Your Mom wore nylons that came in two pieces,You got your windshield cleaned, oil checked, and gas pumped, without asking, all for free, every time. And you didn't pay for air. And, you got trading stamps to boot, Laundry detergent had free glasses, dishes or towels hidden inside the box,It was considered a great privilege to be taken out to dinner at a real restaurant with your parents,They threatened to keep kids back a grade if they failed...and they did it!When a 57 Chevy was everyone's dream car...to cruise, peel out, lay rubber or watch submarine races, and people went steady.No one ever asked where the car keys were because they were always in the car, in the ignition, and the doors were never locker. Playing baseball with no adults to help kids with the rules of the game, Stuff from the store came without safety caps and hermetic seals because no one had yet tried to poison a perfect stranger,And with all our progress, don't you just wish, just once, you could slip back in time and savour the slower pace, and share it with the children of today,When being sent to the principal's office was nothing compared to the fate that awaited the student at home, Basically we were in fear for our lives, but it wasn't because of drive-by shootings, drugs, gangs, etc. Our parents and grandparents were a much bigger threat!

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23/05/2026 7:53 am

@perrone1 I did chores, but I didn't get an allowance for doing them.

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John Napoli

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23/05/2026 8:06 am

David you hit them all right on the head.

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John Bono

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23/05/2026 8:32 am

No one ever asked where the car keys were because they were always in the car, in the ignition, and the doors were never locker.

I grew up on the LES and Brooklyn. One would never leave the keys in the car or leave the car unlocked. Although that wasn't much of a deterrent. If they wanted your car they would get it.

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23/05/2026 9:16 am

I want to be 21 again and to be back in 1956.

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