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Message:: [QUOTE="WingedLiberty, post: 1219541, member: 26030"]I friend of mine sent this to me about the 60's ... I remember when Dr. Pepper was only available in the South...I had cousins that lived in Virginia, and I loved getting a cold bottle of Dr. Pepper from a soda machine.  Plus they lived on a highway down the street from a Mr. Peanuts store, with the huge metal sign shaped like Mr. Peanuts with his top hat, and we'd go and buy a paper bag of nuts.  I was sitting at a counter in a diner in Florida with my parents the day we landed on the moon.  The owners brought in a black and white tv to watch it happen.  Everyone stopped eating and watched in hushed excitement.  I remember even then there were people that believed it was staged.  I remember when the only "fast food" in my area was a Dairy Queen.  and while visiting other cousins going to an A & W Root Beer establishment, they served those great ice cream floats.  In my hometown there was a general store, with newspapers and magazines (and comic books), plus a soda fountain/lunch counter.  When any of my family was sick, my mom would go there and buy a small container of Coca cola syrup and mix it with plain water.  (you know that Coca Cola was initially sold as a medicine, right?)  I lived across the street from my elementary school.  I remember we'd line up and go to the lavatory to wash our hands several times during the school day, probably after "arts and crafts" and before snack-time.  I bet there'd be a whole lot less colds and flu if schools still did that!  And I remember the glue that came in a small bottle with a funny rubber top with a slit in it to let the glue out slowly.  And another kind of white pastey glue that tasted minty (cuz of course we all tasted it!).  And big big wooden easels with big metal clips on top to hold the big pieces of paper for painting, (I guess everything looked big, I was probably only 42 inches tall!)  But my favorite thing was the old piano in the room, and once in a while being allowed to "play" it.  In the summer my next-door neighbor friend and I would walk to the library, take out books, and climb a big pine tree in her yard to read.  It was at her house that we listened to the Beatles, and Herman's Hermits, and Paul Revere and the Raiders.  We had crushes on all of them!  I remember that, even though the 10 or 12 kids on my street were all different ages ranging from 5 to 15, we all did stuff together, because no one would even think to ask to be driven elsewhere to play.  At night in the summer we'd play "hide and seek" and "murder in the dark"...in the daytime we'd play croquet or badminton, or the girls would put together a "fashion show"...  Anyway, thanks for nudging the memories...I do have a few kids now in my neighborhood, and they still play outside, I can overhear them playing some of the same role playing games, but not sure if they still play hide and seek.  Just a last thought.  Childhood games are passed down from older child to younger.  Think about it, I doubt a grown-up taught you how to play any of the games you played.  So if kids don't hang out in multi-generational groups anymore, they aren't going to learn all the games![/QUOTE]

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