Remember when...

[Crankin]

When we played outside in the woods for hours and no one worried.
Having my mom ring a bell for me to come home for dinner as I was out playing in the street ("supper").
Getting dressed up for everything.
Sledding down my street because it didn't get plowed within five minutes, like they do now.
Watching Ed Sullivan, the Beatles, and getting my first Beatles album. I would play the record, really loud on Sat. afternoons, with the windows open and sing really loudly with it (5th grade).
Riding my Raleigh 3 speed up huge hills. Riding after dark with the generator light.
When WBZ talk radio was a rock station....
Moving to Florida and realizing that not everyone wore bell bottoms, black turtlenecks, and smoked weed. Culture shock.

When you could actually see 70 miles across the Valley and Phoenix had 300,000 people
Downtown Tempe was sleazy. Then the Pope came to visit and it was redone and became upscale.
KDKB rocks Arizona
Earthen' Joy, the original natural restaurant
Disco dancing at Bogarts at the Town and Country Mall.
My 5 speed from Tempe Bicycles, riding to summer school class in a sun dress, no helmet, and my Sun Devil book bag. I still have that.
Ninth and Ash. Happy hour with friends and my husband's 26th birthday when I was 9 months pregnant
When my first house was built, it backed up to Warner Rd. in Chandler, which was a dirt road. We couldn't get a phone for 3 months because of all of the growth, so far "out." (1980).
When people thought my second house, in south Tempe was in the boonies. There were cornfields and a sheep farm at the end of my street, outside the development.

June 4, 1990 when our plane landed at Logan Airport. It was like the past 21 years had gone by in the blink of an eye. I left as a 15.5 year old and came back as a 36 year old mom with 2 kids.

[shootingstar]

Walking to school all the time. In primary school, I walked back home for lunch. And back to school again. I had to cross 3 busy traffic light intersections. And was required to accompany younger siblings on these journeys to school. I began this responsibility when I was 10 yrs. old. (No, it's not unreasonable. I also had a default person, my next sibling after me. )

I was never driven from kindergarten right through to end of high school. Never. High school was 1 km. away.

Walking to the store and buying bread on my own for 25 cents/loaf. I was 9 yrs. old.

Oktoberfest festivities in our school. (Well, it was a German-based community). The polka dancing, oompah-pah music, etc.

Watching Sonny and Cher show. Baby Chastity was real cute.

Playing double dutch with double length skipping rope and contests we had for jumping the longest and most skips.

Hula hoops were really in when I was around 11-12 yrs. old.

[Tuckervill]

I remember being able to walk into any store and buy cigarettes for my mom. I remember walking to the 5 & 10 in Joplin, MO, to buy my grandfather some snuff when I was only 8. I remember, when I was 16, BEGGING my mother to let me go get her some cigarettes, so I could drive there!

I'm glad my kids don't have to do that.

Karen

[sundial]

I remember when gas was $0.34 cents/gallon. I also remember buying Coke in those short little glass bottles and watching my parents return the glass bottles at the grocery store for $.

[OakLeaf]

I remember 6-speed freewheels, Reynolds 531, the very first Terry saddles, natural chamois, cleated shoes for toe clips, down tube shifters, Bell "Biker" helmets, tan grids from mesh back gloves, and the day Greg LeMond raced in our little town in his rainbow jersey.

I remember when Cannondale was a luggage company. And when they were a motorcycle company.

[badger]

CC, when were you in Edmonton?

I, too, have fond memories of hanging out at WEM ('81-'86), but I have seriously yummy memories of having crinkle fries with gravy at this Chinese stall at the food court in Meadowlark Mall. They had the BEST gravy on earth. I still dream of that gravy.

I also have great memories of going to Lake Wabamum and smelling that sweet cottonwood smell. And also seeing the cotton everywhere when it's blooming. Every time I smell cottonwood it takes me right back to Edmonton.

oh yeah, and I was in the midst of the Oilers/Islanders battle in '83 and '84. I hate hockey now, it's not what it used to be.

[SheFly]

I remember going to the WHA (Western Hockey Association) games in Edmonton before the Oilers were an NHL team. That was when Gretzgy was dating a woman whose brother worked with my dad - free tickets!

SheFly
(Edmonton was a short stint for me in about the 4th grade....)

[bmccasland]

Pop hits were on 45's. And I couldn't wait to go to the store to check the latest releases.

Phone calls from booths were 10 cents.

The speed limit changed from 75 mph to 55 mph.

It was so cool when I got my 10-speed Schwinn bike, with cable shifters. With real "racing" handlebars. Orange. (I miss that bike - she was stolen along with about 200 others locked up together in front of my dorm while a University student.)

Terry Bradshaw was the big man on campus (LA Tech) before he got picked up by the Pittsburg Steelers. My Dad taught ROTC at LA Tech, and I went to the elementary school affiliated with the College's teaching program. So, I was a LA Tech student, at the age 7-11.

Walking down the street with my Aunt's bank deposit from her flower shop. Now who in their right mind would have a young child walk anywhere these days with bank bag containing $1000?

And the flowers for my Aunt's shop came weekly as cargo on the Trailway's bus. There was no FedEx. If a rural town wanted something, it came by bus.

[redrhodie]

I remember sleeping stretched out in the back of my parent's station wagon, coming home from the beach. Car seat?! Not even seat belts!

[Brandi]

Ahhhh roller skating rinks!

[solobiker]

Gas prices under $1.00

leaving food out on the counter to defrost ( pre-micowave)

Using the Card Catalog at the Library..The good ole days

[Tuckervill]

OOoooh, I LOVED the card catalog! I can smell it!

How about riding from Chicago to Little Rock in the well of a '67 VW Beetle because I was the smallest? And not minding a bit.

Karen

[crazycanuck]

I lived in Edmonton from 84-99.

Badger, when did you live there? Were you involved in Guiding at all?? We lived on base then moved to castledowns.

Yep, I remember the goalie for the Islanders thwacking one of the Oilers I believe.. I don't follow hockey as it's way too hard down here & gone are the days of Mess, Semenko, Tikkanen etc.

[deeaimond]

(I miss that bike - she was stolen along with about 200 others locked up together in front of my dorm while a University student.)

how did all the bikes get stolen? at the same time??

[Biciclista]

I remember my delight when I found a 5cent pay phone in some backwoods town somewhere (the rest were 10 cents)
We still had horse drawn wagons selling vegetables and picking up rags in Newark when I was 10 years old.
And the milk man, the Dugan man (breads, cupcakes)
I remember paying 12 cents for a bus ride.
We'd get up early and watch the test signal on the television. It jumped around a lot.