"you May Be Country If"

[norris]

Toadie;
Really glad you replied to my thread, and yes , it is a very small world.
It is funny that you'd mention that sign over Lee St. It was a sad day when they took it down. No one will ever know what it said, but you, and me.
You mentioned The Wacaseys in Greenville. I am a Wacasey. My Uncle Homer was the J.P. there, then he became Hunt Co. Judge. ( Alittle side story) My Dad was caught in Caddo Mills, bootleging beer from Dallas. The next day, he went before Judge Wacasey (his Uncle) and was fined $10.00, and had his beer confiscated. On Sun. my Dad went to Uncle Homer's house to watch the ball game (he was one of the few in town with a T.V.) He told my Dad to get a beer out of the ice box, and lo, and behold, there was my Dad's beer.
Ernie's BBQ used to be on Lee St. just west of the old Post Office. Another Uncle (Roy Wacasey) had an upholstery, and locksmith shop across the street. His name was writen in the stones across the top of the building.
My Uncle Louis owned the Buick, and Cadillac dealership, and the city bus line.
My Mother worked at Major's Field during WWII in the parts room where they built military planes.
I have some old 8mm movie films of me, and my Brother riding on that train in the Old Cith Park.
I have also spent a lot of Sat. nights in The Silver Spur.
It's really great to hear from you. If you would, please send me a private message, so I can talk to you some more about Greenville, and not boar all the other folks on this thread.
THANKS AGAIN PAPPY, for starting this. Through this thread, I've found a friend, and neighbor that I didn't know about.
Norris Wacasey:

[norris]

Scroll on down...wish I had that Chevy!!

DO YOU REMEMBER WHEN...?

All the girls had ugly gym uniforms?

It took five minutes for the TV warm up?



Nearly everyone's Mom was at home when the kids got home from school?

Nobody owned a purebred dog?



When a quarter was a decent allowance?

You'd reach into a muddy gutter for a penny?

Your Mom wore nylons that came in two pieces?

All your male teachers wore neckties and female teachers had
their hair done every day and wore high heels?




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?

Laundry detergent had free glasses, dishes or towels hidden inside the box?

It was considered a great privilege to be taken out to dinner
at a real restaurant with your parents?

They threatened to keep kids back a grade if they failed. . ...and they did?



When a 55 Chevy was everyone's dream car...to cruise,
peel out, lay rubber or watch submarine races, and people went steady?


No one ever asked where the car keys were
because they were always in the car,
in the ignition, and the doors were never locked?


Lying on your back in 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?

Stuff from the store came without safety caps and hermetic seals
because 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 today?

When being sent to the principal's office was nothing
compared to the fate that awaited the 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 survived because their love was greater than the threat.

Send this on to someone who can still remember
Nancy Drew, the Hardy Boys, Laurel and Hardy,
Howdy Doody and the Peanut Gallery,
the Lone Ranger, The Shadow Knows,
Nellie Bell, Roy and Dale, Trigger and Buttermilk.


As well as summers filled with bike rides, baseball games,
Hula Hoops, bowling and visits to the pool,
and eating Kool-Aid powder with sugar.
Didn't that feel good, just to go back and say, "Yeah, I remember that"?



I am sharing this with you today
because it ended with a double dog dare to pass it on.
To remember what a double dog dare is, read on.
And remember that the perfect age is somewhere between
old enough to know better and too young to care.

How many of these do you remember?

Candy cigarettes
Wax Coke-shaped bottles with colored sugar water inside
Soda pop machines that dispensed glass bottles
Coffee shops with tableside jukeboxes
Blackjack, Clove and Teaberry chewing gum
Home milk delivery in glass bottles with cardboard stoppers
Newsreels before the movie
P.F. Fliers


Telephone numbers with a word prefix....(Raymond 4-601).
Party lines


Peashooters
Howdy Doody
45 RPM records
Green Stamps
Hi-Fi's

Metal ice cubes trays with levers
Mimeograph paper
Beanie and Cecil
Roller-skate keys
Cork pop guns
Drive ins
Studebakers


Washtub wringers
The Fuller Brush Man
Reel-To-Reel tape recorders
Tinkertoys
Erector Sets
The Fort Apache Play Set
Lincoln Logs
15 cent McDonald hamburgers


5 cent packs of baseball cards -
with that awful pink slab of bubble gum

Penny candy

35 cent a gallon gasoline
Jiffy Pop popcorn

Do you remember a time when...

Decisions were made by going "eeny-meeny-miney-moe"?
Mistakes were corrected by simply exclaiming, "Do Over!"?
"Race issue" meant arguing about who ran the fastest?
Catching the fireflies could happily occupy an entire evening?
It wasn't odd to have two or three "Best Friends"?

The worst thing you could catch from the opposite sex was "cooties"?
Having a weapon in school meant being caught with a slingshot?
A foot of snow was a dream come true?

Saturday morning cartoons weren't 30-minute commercials for action figures?
"Oly-oly-oxen-free" made perfect sense?
Spinning around, getting dizzy, and falling down was cause for giggles?

The worst embarrassment was being picked last for a team?
War was a card game?
Baseball cards in the spokes transformed any bike into a motorcycle?
Taking drugs meant orange-flavored chewable aspirin?
Water balloons were the ultimate weapon?

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

Pass this on to anyone who may need a break from
their "grown-up" life . . I double-dog-dare-ya!

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[Snakeman_BK]

You may be country if your mama throws the old soup bone out the back door and one of the dogs signals for a fair catch

[journeyoftheanimals]

You may be country if you do not have to go to church because the church comes to you.



I remember stories my Grandma told me about how they would have Sunday church at different houses rotating every Sunday. Also about how country their area used to be and now there are houses everywhere.

[PAPPY]

I remember that well

[luckey]

you try to turbo charge your computer with a lighting bolt!
Let me tell ya it dont work had to get a new puter

[mallardman68]

summertime meant fresh frog legs
you had to sneak past the bull in the pasture to get to the creek in the back to go skinny dipping
4th of July fireworks consisted of waving around a tire flare
you would brave the bees to get to the honeysuckle
you spent an entire afternoon swatting 17 year locusts with a badmitton raquet
all you wanted for christmas was a bb gun
you used to have acorn fights and know how bad it hurts when you get hit
leisure suits

what a great thread!!! read all 35 pages and went back in time

[pris]

Do you remember keeping lightin' bugs in a jar?

Did any of you ever tear 'em in half and use their butts for glow in the dark face paint?

Did you ever climb the tree in your back yard and have to yell for a neighbor to come and help you down? hehe I did this so often when I was 5 or 6 that my parents had to tell me to stop climbin' trees!

Do you remember makin' your big wheel skid and make that cool skidding sound with the pull break?

Did anyone ever play with rolly pollys along side of your matchbox cars?

[mallardman68]

I remember when a bottle of coke came out chest type vending machine

When you could walk into an Ice Cream store(Highs) and get a double dipper for 35 cents

When taking shotguns to school so we could dove hunt in the afternoon was never thought of as a threat

Balsa wood airplanes with a rubber band to wind the prop up

When everyones dog looked like some kind of hound

Real Christmas trees and bulbs the size of a Jalapeno pepper

Ordering from a Sears outlet store

Home made lemonade in a metal pitcher

Riding in the bed of a pickup on a nice day

Jumping trains to get across town

[PAPPY]

GREAT things to remember !