Taking Another Step Back Into the Past

The other day a friend of mine and I were exchanging messages and he said one of the things he likes about the Hometown View is that I tend to be very nostalgic and talk about what some believe were better days.  As I’ve said before it’s not that they were better but simpler and thinking about that I have come up with a list of some of the things today’s generation will likely never enjoy, appreciate, understand or frankly have any idea what I’m talking about.

• Ring around the Rosie.
• Hot potato
• Take one giant step, may I?
• Cereal boxes with great prizes at the bottom.
• Getting green stamps after filling up with gas.
• Catching lightening bugs in a jar.
• Climbing trees
• Swinging as high as you can in those long swings trying to reach the sky.
• Swanson TV dinners (especially the Fried Chicken)
• Kool-Aid
• Placing baseball cards in the spokes of your bike.
• Eeny-meeny-miney-mo was used to make decisions.
• The worst embarrassment was being picked last for a team.
• The ultimate weapon was a water balloon.
• Your Mom was always home when you came home from school…if not you went to a neighbor’s house.
• What really scared us was not drive by shootings, drugs or gangs but our parents.
• Banana-flavored Bonomo’s Turkish Taffy
• Hot summer nights with the windows open because there was no AC
• Drinking water from the garden hose which tasted great
• Listening to a baseball game on your AM radio

Of course there’s hundreds more but my time is up…for today that is.