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Boy did these pictures, as well as the comments at the end bring
> back some fond memories. The times really haved changed, but I'm
> not sure that they are better...
>
>
>
> The Days of Black & White
>
>
>
> "Good night and God bless.."
>
> Go all the way to the bottom past the pictures. I think you'll enjoy
> it. Whoever wrote this must have been my next door neighbor because
> it totally described my childhood to a 'T.' Hope you enjoy it.
>
> Black and White
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> Black and White
> (Under age 40? You won't understand.)
>
>
> You could hardly see for all the snow,
>
> Spread the rabbit ears as far as they go.
>
> Pull a chair up to the TV set,
>
> 'Good Night, David.
> Good Night, Chet.'
>
> My Mom used to cut chicken, chop eggs and spread mayo on the same
> cutting board with the same knife and no bleach, but we didn't seem
> to get food poisoning.
>
> My Mom used to defrost hamburger on the counter and our school
> sandwiches were wrapped in wax paper in a brown paper bag, not in
> ice pack coolers, but I can't remember getting e.coli.
>
> Almost all of us would have rather gone swimming in the lake
> instead of a pristine pool (talk about boring), no beach closures
> then.
>
> The term cell phone would have conjured up a phone in a jail cell,
> and a pager was the school PA system.
>
> We all took gym, not PE...and risked permanent injury with a pair
> of high top Ked's (only worn in gym) instead of having cross-
> training athletic shoes with air cushion soles and built in light
> reflectors. I can't recall any injuries but they must have happened
> because they tell us how much safer we are now.
>
> Flunking gym was not an option... even for stupid kids! I guess PE
> must be much harder than gym.
>
> Speaking of school, we all said prayers and sang the national
> anthem, and staying in detention after school caught all sorts of
> negative attention.
> We must have had horribly damaged psyches What an archaic health
> system we had then. Remember school nurses?
> Ours wore a hat and everything.
>
> I thought that I was supposed to accomplish something before I was
> allowed to be proud of myself.
>
> I just can't recall how bored we were without computers, Play
> Station, Nintendo, X-box or 270 digital TV cable stations.
> Oh yeah... and where was the Benadryl and sterilization kit when
> I got that bee sting? I could have been killed!
>
> We played 'king of the hill' on piles of gravel left on vacant
> construction sites, and when we got hurt, Mom pulled out the 48-cent
> bottle of mercurochrome (kids liked it better because it didn't
> sting like iodine did) and then we got our butt spanked.
>
> Now it's a trip to the emergency room, followed by a 10-day dose of
> a $49 bottle of antibiotics, and then Mom calls the attorney to sue
> the contractor for leaving a horribly vicious pile of gravel where
> it was such a threat.
>
> We didn't act up at the neighbor's house either, because if we did
> we got our butt spanked there and then we got our butt spanked again
> when we got home.
>
> I recall Donny Reynolds from next door coming over and doing his
> tricks on the front stoop, just before he fell off.
>
> Little did his Mom know that she could have owned our house.
>
> Instead, she picked him up and swatted him for being such a goof.
> It was a neighborhood run amuck.
>
>
> To top it off, not a single person I knew had ever been told that
> they were from a dysfunctional family.
>
> How could we possibly have known that?
>
> We needed to get into group therapy and anger management classes.
>
> We were obviously so duped by so many societal ills, that we
> didn't even notice that the entire country wasn't taking Prozac!
>
> How did we ever survive?
>
> LOVE TO ALL OF US WHO SHARED THIS ERA. AND TO ALL WHO DIDN'T, SORRY
> FOR WHAT YOU MISSED.
> I WOULDN'T TRADE IT FOR ANYTHING!
> Pass this to someone and remember that life's most simple
> pleasures are very often the best
>
>
> back some fond memories. The times really haved changed, but I'm
> not sure that they are better...
>
>
>
> The Days of Black & White
>
>
>
> "Good night and God bless.."
>
> Go all the way to the bottom past the pictures. I think you'll enjoy
> it. Whoever wrote this must have been my next door neighbor because
> it totally described my childhood to a 'T.' Hope you enjoy it.
>
> Black and White
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> Black and White
> (Under age 40? You won't understand.)
>
>
> You could hardly see for all the snow,
>
> Spread the rabbit ears as far as they go.
>
> Pull a chair up to the TV set,
>
> 'Good Night, David.
> Good Night, Chet.'
>
> My Mom used to cut chicken, chop eggs and spread mayo on the same
> cutting board with the same knife and no bleach, but we didn't seem
> to get food poisoning.
>
> My Mom used to defrost hamburger on the counter and our school
> sandwiches were wrapped in wax paper in a brown paper bag, not in
> ice pack coolers, but I can't remember getting e.coli.
>
> Almost all of us would have rather gone swimming in the lake
> instead of a pristine pool (talk about boring), no beach closures
> then.
>
> The term cell phone would have conjured up a phone in a jail cell,
> and a pager was the school PA system.
>
> We all took gym, not PE...and risked permanent injury with a pair
> of high top Ked's (only worn in gym) instead of having cross-
> training athletic shoes with air cushion soles and built in light
> reflectors. I can't recall any injuries but they must have happened
> because they tell us how much safer we are now.
>
> Flunking gym was not an option... even for stupid kids! I guess PE
> must be much harder than gym.
>
> Speaking of school, we all said prayers and sang the national
> anthem, and staying in detention after school caught all sorts of
> negative attention.
> We must have had horribly damaged psyches What an archaic health
> system we had then. Remember school nurses?
> Ours wore a hat and everything.
>
> I thought that I was supposed to accomplish something before I was
> allowed to be proud of myself.
>
> I just can't recall how bored we were without computers, Play
> Station, Nintendo, X-box or 270 digital TV cable stations.
> Oh yeah... and where was the Benadryl and sterilization kit when
> I got that bee sting? I could have been killed!
>
> We played 'king of the hill' on piles of gravel left on vacant
> construction sites, and when we got hurt, Mom pulled out the 48-cent
> bottle of mercurochrome (kids liked it better because it didn't
> sting like iodine did) and then we got our butt spanked.
>
> Now it's a trip to the emergency room, followed by a 10-day dose of
> a $49 bottle of antibiotics, and then Mom calls the attorney to sue
> the contractor for leaving a horribly vicious pile of gravel where
> it was such a threat.
>
> We didn't act up at the neighbor's house either, because if we did
> we got our butt spanked there and then we got our butt spanked again
> when we got home.
>
> I recall Donny Reynolds from next door coming over and doing his
> tricks on the front stoop, just before he fell off.
>
> Little did his Mom know that she could have owned our house.
>
> Instead, she picked him up and swatted him for being such a goof.
> It was a neighborhood run amuck.
>
>
> To top it off, not a single person I knew had ever been told that
> they were from a dysfunctional family.
>
> How could we possibly have known that?
>
> We needed to get into group therapy and anger management classes.
>
> We were obviously so duped by so many societal ills, that we
> didn't even notice that the entire country wasn't taking Prozac!
>
> How did we ever survive?
>
> LOVE TO ALL OF US WHO SHARED THIS ERA. AND TO ALL WHO DIDN'T, SORRY
> FOR WHAT YOU MISSED.
> I WOULDN'T TRADE IT FOR ANYTHING!
> Pass this to someone and remember that life's most simple
> pleasures are very often the best
>
>