Thanks!!!
I enjoyed the trip!
Greg In Fla
56 short
-----Original Message-----
From: David Clark <DCLARK3@MMCABLE.COM>
To: oletrucks@autox.team.net <oletrucks@autox.team.net>
Date: Thursday, December 07, 2000 4:51 AM
Subject: [oletrucks] Back in Time
>I graduated High School in 1959 in a little town in North Georgia. My
first
>truck was a 55 Chevy TF..and the fun we had in that old truck can't be
>imagined, unless you're around my age. A lot of those memories are brought
>back to life through the old 57 sitting out in the garage. This came to me
>from an old friend and I'd like to share it with anyone that loves old
>trucks, and the way things were back then.
>
>Can you spare a few moments to take a stroll with me...close your
eyes...and
>go back...before the Internet...before SEGA or Super Nintendo...way
>back...I'm talking about hide and go seek at dusk. Sittin' on the porch,
>Simon Says, Kick the Can, Red light, Green light. Lunch boxes with a
>thermos...chocolate milk, going home for lunch, penny candy from the store,
>hopscotch, butterscotch, skates with keys, Jacks, Mother May I? Hula Hoops
>and sunflower seeds, Old Maid and Crazy Eights, wax lips and mustaches,
Mary
>Janes, saddleshoes and Coke bottles with the names of cities on the bottom,
>running through the sprinkler, circle pins, bobby pins, Mickey Mouse Club,
>Rocky & Bullwinkle, Fran & Ollie, Spin & Marty...all in black & white.
>When around the corner seemed far away, and going downtown seemed like
going
>somewhere. Bedtime, climbing trees, making forts...backyard shows, lemonade
>stands, Cops and Robbers, Cowboys and Indians, sittin' on the curb,
staring
>at clouds, jumping on the bed, pillow fights, getting "company," ribbon
>candy, angel hair on the Christmas tree, Jackie Gleason, white gloves,
>walking to church, walking to the movie theater, being tickled to death,
>running till you were out of breath, laughing so hard that your stomach
>hurt, being tired from playin'. Remember that? Not steppin' on a crack or
>you'll break your mother's back...paper chains at Christmas, silhouettes of
>Lincoln and Washington...the smell of paste in school and Evening in Paris.
>What about the girl that had the big bubbly handwriting, who dotted her
i's"
>with hearts?? The Stroll, popcorn balls, & sock hops...Remember when...when
>there were two types of sneakers for girls and boys (Keds & PF Flyer) and
>the only time you wore them at school was for "gym." And the girls had
those
>ugly uniforms. When it took five minutes for the TV to warm up. When nearly
>everyone's Mom was at home when the kids got home from school. When nobody
>owned a purebred dog. When a quarter was a decent allowance, and another
>quarter, a huge bonus. When you'd reach into a muddy gutter for a penny.
>When girls neither dated nor kissed until late high school, if then. When
>your Mom wore nylons
>that came in two pieces. When all of your male teachers wore neckties and
>female teachers had their hair done, everyday and wore high heels. When 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! When laundry detergent had free glasses, dishes or towels
>hidden inside the box.
>When any parent could discipline any kid, or feed him or use him to carry
>groceries, and nobody, not even the kid, thought a thing of it. When it was
>considered a great privilege to be taken out to dinner at a real restaurant
>with your parents. When they threatened to keep kids back a grade if they
>failed...and did! When the worst thing you could do at school was smoke in
>the bathrooms, flunk a test or chew gum. And the prom was in the auditorium
>and we danced to an orchestra,
>and all the girls wore pastel gowns and the boys wore suits for the first
>time and we stayed out all night.
>When a '57 Chevy was everyone's dream car...to cruise, peel out, lay rubber
>or watch submarine races, and people went steady and girls wore a class
ring
>with an inch of wrapped dental floss or yarn coated with pastel frost nail
>polish so it would fit her finger. And no one everasked where the car keys
>were 'cause they were always in the car, in the ignition, and the doors
were
>never locked. And you got in big trouble if you accidentally locked the
>doors at home, since no one ever
>had a key.
>Remember lying on your back on 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. Back then, baseball was not a
>psychological group learning experience -- it was a game.
>Remember when stuff from the store came without safety caps and hermetic
>seals 'cause 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 the 80's
>and 90's.
>So send this on to someone who can still remember Nancy Drew, The Hardy
>Boys, Laurel & Hardy, Howdy Doody and The Peanut Gallery, The Lone Ranger,
>The Shadow Knows, Nellie Belle, Roy and Dale, Trigger and Buttermilk...as
>well
>as the sound of a reel mower on Saturday morning, and summers filled with
>bike rides, playing in cowboy land, baseball games, bowling and visits to
>the pool...and eating Kool-aid powder with sugar.
>When being sent to the principal's office was nothing compared to the fate
>that awaited a misbehaving 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 all survived
>because their love was greater than the threat.
>Didn't that feel good, just to go back and say, Yeah, I remember that!
>Author unknown.
>Trucknman@mmcable.com
>57 3100 BW
>Midwest City, OK
>oletrucks is devoted to Chevy and GM trucks built between 1941 and 1959
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