1. Candy cigarettes
2. Wax coke-shaped bottles with colored sugar water
3. Soda pop machines dispensing glass bottles
4. Coffee shops with table side Juke Boxes
5. Home delivery of milk in bottles
6. Party lines
7. Newsreels/cartoons before the movies
8. P.F. Flyers
9. Butch wax
10. telephone numbers w/ a word prefix
11. Pea shooters
12. 45 RPM records
13. Green stamps
14. Hi-fi's
15. metal ice cube trays
16. mimeograph paper
17. Cork pop guns
18. Drive-ins
19. Studebakers
20. Wash tub wringers
21. The Fuller Brush man
22. Tinkertoys
23. The Erector Set
24. Fort Apache play set
25. 8 track cartridges
26. Lincoln logs
27. 19 cent Jolly Boy burgers
28. Dixie cups with hidden pictures on the lid
29. Wax lips

1. Decisions were made by "eeny-meeny-miney-mo"
2. Mistakes were corrected by saying "do-over"
3. Money issues were handled by the Monopoly banker
4. Race issues where who was the fastest.
5. Catching fireflies was sooooo cool.
6. One pair of sneakers could be used for multiple sports.
7. You could have more than one best friend.
8. Being old meant over 20
9. The tennis net was perfect height for volleyball.
10. The worst you got from opposite sex was "cooties"
11. It was magic when Dad "removed" his thumb
12. Dodgeball was the sport
13. Mom was the prettiest woman.
14. Dad was the smartest man
15. Bruises and scrapes got better when kissed.
16. Abilities were found because of a "double-dog dare".
17. Oly-Oly-Oxen-Free made sense.
18. Spinning around, getting dizzy, falling down was fun.
19. We did not have to lock our doors.
20. The worst embarrassment was being picked last.
21. War was a card game
22. Water balloons were the worst weapons.
23. Baseball cards in spokes made a bike a motorcycle.
24. Taking drugs meant orange-flavored aspirin.
25. We drank that awful tasting Ovaltine
26. Older siblings were our worst tormentors
27. Older siblings were our fiercest protectors.

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 57 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 "this 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?