We started this list Mother's Day WHEN AFTER DINNER WE SAT AS A FAMILY EXCHANGING MEMORIES 

                                         DO YOU REMEMBER WHEN

          Carl remembers when his Grandmother made him this Cowboy Outfit for Christmas.

I remember when I played "Pretend".

. What a handsome cowboy!          

Carl's really good memory...His First Car - His Corvette - Those were the days!  

Remember When WE had dark hair?

                                    Feel Free To Add Your Memories To This List

1. All the girls had ugly gym uniforms?  
2. It took five minutes for the TV to warm up? (if you had a TV)
3. Nearly everyone's Mom was at home when the kids got home from school? 
4. Nobody owned a purebred dog?
5. When a quarter was a decent allowance?
6. You'd reach into a muddy gutter for a penny? 
7. Your Mom wore nylons that came in two pieces? 
8. All your male teachers wore neckties, and female teachers had their hair done every day and wore high heels?
9. You got your windshield cleaned, oil checked, and gas pumped, without asking, all for free.
10. Laundry detergent had free glasses, dishes or towels hidden inside the box.
11. It was considered a great privilege to be taken out to dinner at a real restaurant.
12. They threatened to keep kids back a grade if they failed . . . and they did.
13. When a 57 Chevy was everyone's dream car...to cruise, peel out, lay rubber, people went steady and watched submarine races.
14. Went to drive-in movies. Carload for $1.00.
15. No one ever asked where the car keys were because they were always in the unlocked car.
16. Lying on your back in the grass with your friends counting stars?
17. Playing baseball with no adults to help kids with the rules of the game? 
18. Playing I spy for hours. (I spy something red within ten feet) Getting hot, your cold.
19. Stuff from the store came without safety caps and hermetic seals because no one had yet tried to poison a perfect stranger.
20. When being sent to the principal's office was nothing compared to the fate that waited for you when you got home.
21. Friday night football games.
22. The sock-hop with a live DJ (Ricki Ware)
23. Saddle Oxfords (black & white) and (Brown & White)
24. Leisure Suits with white buckskin belt and shoes
25. We dressed in a dress, stockings, gloves and hats to go to church.
26. Basically we were in fear for our lives, but it wasn't because of drive-by shooting, gangs, DRUGS,etc. Our parents and grandparents were a bigger threat. BUT, WE SURVIVED BECAUSE THEIR LOVE WAS GREATER THAN THE THREAT.
27. When we read Nancy Drew, the Hardy Boy's, The Lone Ranger, Roy and Dale, Laurel and Hardy.
28. Summers filled with bike rides, baseball games, Hula Hoops, bowling and visits to the pool, eating Kool-Aid powder sugar, those great tasting candy cigarettes in a neat box.
29. Wax Coke-shaped bottles with colored sugar water inside. Ummm Good!
30. Soda pop machines that dispensed glass bottles.
31. Coffee shops with tableside jukeboxes.
32. Blackjack, Clove and Teaberry chewing gum.
33. We ordered our clothes from Sears catalogue
34. We shopped at Kress and McCroy's NikeL and Dime Store
35. Mother made our school clothes
36. Grandma made the boy's shirts from washed feed sacks. 
37. Home milk delivery in glass bottles with cardboard stoppers. 
38. Telephone numbers with a word prefix...(Raymond 4-601). Party lines. 
39. Peashooters. 
40. Cap Guns to play cowboy and rubber tipped arrows to play Indians. 
41. Hi-Fi's & 45 RPM records. 
42. 78 RPM records! 
43. Green Stamps & Gold Stamps (the wonderful catalogues that we got free stuff.
44. Mimeograph paper.
45. The Fort Apache Play Set. 
46. Do you remember a time when...decisions were made by ‘eeny-meeny-miney-moe'? 
47. Mistakes were corrected by simply exclaiming, 'Do Over!'? 
48. Race issue' meant arguing about who ran the fastest?
49. Catching the fireflies could happily occupy an entire evening? 
50. It wasn't odd to have two or three 'Best Friends'? 
51. The worst thing you could catch from the opposite sex was 'cooties'? 
52. Having a weapon in school meant being caught with a slingshot? 
53. Saturday morning cartoons weren't 30-minute commercials for action figures?
54. Spinning around, getting dizzy, and falling down was cause for giggles? 
55. The worst embarrassment was being picked last for a team?
56. We caught ladybugs in a mayonnaise jar with punched holes in the top. 
57. War was a card game?
58. Attending the Snowman's Ball in the high school gym at Jeffrson High.
59. Baseball cards in the spokes transformed any bike into a motorcycle?
60. We listened to the baseball games on the radio. 
61. Taking drugs meant orange-flavored chewable aspirin?
62. When we had no air-condition; the windows were always open
63. Mother hung clothes on the clothesline
64. We wore starced pettycoats and waiste-cinchers to keep our pettycoats up.
65. It was exciting to have the opportunity to Vote.
66. We served our country with a proud heart.
67. We had to wear those dreaded garter belts.
68. We teared with pride when we heard the national anthem.
69. When we were pregnant we had to ride the bus to the doctor because we didn't have a car.
70. Water balloons were the ultimate weapon? 
71. Made your kits out of pine sticks with tissue paper and old sheet torn in strips for the tale.
72. Hide and seek......took up summer nights. 
73. When it was only 10 cents to get into the Saturday morning movies. Popcorn and coke 5 cents
74. When "GAS" WAS 20 CENTS PER GALLON.
75. They bagged your groceries and carried to your car and we could give a tip.
76. When we didn't have copy machines and had to use carbon paper.
77. We had hand operated adding machines with tape
78. WHEN WE DD NOT HAVE COMPUTERS, BLACKBERRIES, GPS,VIDEO GAMES
79. WHEN WE DID NOT HAVE THE INTERNET
80. WHEN WE DID NOT HAVE CELL PHONES
81. WHEN WE THOUGHT 'ACTIVE RAIN' WAS WATER FALLIG FROM THE SKY

If you can remember most or all of these, then you have lived!!!!!!!

 GOD IS GOOD...GOD IS GREAT...WE ARE PROUD TO LIVE IN THE U.S.A. AND THIS GREAT STATE OF TEXAS