That's easy for me...I would travel back to Gary, Indiana in the 1950's era
All the girls had ugly gym uniforms?
It took five minutes for the TV to warm up?
Nearly everyone's Mom was at home when the kids got home from school?
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?
All your male teachers wore neckties and female teachers had
their hair done every day and wore high heels?
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?
peel out, lay rubber or watch submarine races
along the shores of Lake Michigan,
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 locked?
Lying on your back in the grass with your friends and saying things like,
"That cloud looks like a ...."
and 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 savor 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! But we survived because their love was greater than the threat.
Can you still remember Nancy Drew, the Hardy Boys, Laurel and Hardy, Howdy Doody and the Peanut Gallery, Kukla, Fran and Ollie, The Lone Ranger, The Shadow Knows, Nellie Bell, Roy and Dale, Trigger and Buttermilk?
As well as summers filled with bike rides, baseball games, Hula Hoops, bowling and visits to the pool, and eating Kool-Aid powder with sugar.
Didn't that feel good, just to go back and say, "Yeah, I remember that"?
Remember that the perfect age is somewhere between old enough
to know better and too young to care.
How many of these do you remember?
Candy cigarettes
Wax Coke-shaped bottles with colored sugar water inside
Soda pop machines that dispensed glass bottles
Coffee shops with tableside jukeboxes
Blackjack, Clove and Teaberry chewing gum
Home milk delivery in glass bottles with cardboard stoppers
Newsreels before the movie
P.F. Fliers
Telephone numbers with a word prefix....(TUrner 4-2223).
Party lines
Peashooters, 45 and 78 RPM records, Green Stamps, Hi-Fi's and Flash Bulbs?
Roller-skate keys, Cork pop guns and Studebakers
Going to Johnny's Drive-In, The Chuckwagon Diner
or
Beauty Spot for burgers and fries or to the
Y & W Drive In theater for a movie on Saturday night
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I remember driving the management at Reno's crazy
by flipping chewing gum onto their hot grill
and my very first paying job...sacking potatoes at Jensen's Market
Washtub
wringers, The Fuller Brush Man, Reel-To-Reel tape
recorders,
Tinkertoys, Erector Sets, The Fort Apache Play
Set, Model train sets, Lincoln Logs,
15 cent McDonald hamburgers and a sack of White
Castles
5 cent packs of baseball cards - with that
awful pink slab of bubble gum
Penny candy 
35 cent a gallon gasoline, Jiffy Pop
popcorn
Do
you remember a time when...
Decisions were made by going
"eeny-meeny-miney-moe"?
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"?
Playing "kick the can" in the street
and where shouting
"Oly-oly-oxen-free" made perfect sense?
Or playing cricket (stick ball) on the sidewalk using a sawed-off broomstick handle as a batt.
Entering and watching Soap Box Derbys
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 commercials for action figures?
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?
Baseball cards in the spokes
transformed any bike into a motorcycle?
Taking drugs meant
orange-flavored chewable aspirin?
Water balloons were the ultimate
weapon?
If you can remember most or all of these, then you
have lived!!!!!!! 
Yes, I'd gladly go back to those times for a visit
Graduating from Lew Wallace High School
Serving in the United States Air Force
Meeting my wife and starting a family
It was the best decade of my life.
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