| From: JSTRAPPONI@aol.com To: glenis@naisp.net |
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If you post this, I would love to see how many of my school mates (with better memories than me) will add to the list. Jack Strapponi |
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Well folks, the gauntlet
has been thrown, Fill out the form at the bottom of this page to post your memory. |
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| For all our friends who went to Hopedale High back when. Take a stroll with me...Close your eyes...and go back...before the Internet...before semiautomatics and crack...before SEGA or Super Nintendo...Sony Playstations and Walkman .....way back... | ||
| I'm talkin' about
hide and seek. sittin' on the porch, Simon Says, Kick the Can, Red light, Green light, Stick ball. |
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| Lunch boxes with a thermos bottle...chocolate milk, Vanilla Cokes, going home for lunch, penny candy from Drapers store, hopscotch, butterscotch, skates with keys, Jacks, Summer band concerts? | ||
| Hula Hoops and sunflower seeds, Whist, Old Maid and Crazy Eights, wax lips and mustaches, Mary Janes, squirrels, saddleshoes. | ||
| Coke bottles with the names of cities on the bottom, running through the sprinklers, cloths pins, bobby pins, Mickey Mouse Club, Rocky & Bullwinkle, Fran & Ollie, Buster Brown...all in black & white. | ||
| When around the corner seemed far away, and going shopping down town Milford before there were Malls | ||
| Bedtime, climbing trees, making snow forts...backyard shows, lemonade stands, Cops and Robbers, Cowboys and Indians, sittin' on the rail in front of the drug store, lying on the Community House lawn, playing on the steps. | ||
| How about , jumping on the bed, pillow fights, getting "company,"ribbon candy, angel hair on the Christmas tree. | ||
| Jackie Gleason, young girls with white gloves walking to church, walking to the State theater, being tickled half to death, running till you were out of breath, laughing so hard that your stomach hurt, being tired from playin'... | ||
| Not steppin' on a crack or you'll break your mother's back...Paper chains at Christmas, silhouettes of Lincoln and Washington...the smell of paste in school. | ||
| What about the girl that had the big bubbly handwriting, who dotted her "i's" with hearts?? The Stroll, popcorn balls, the Community house record hops... | ||
| Remember when...when there were two types of sneakers for girls and boys (Keds & PF Canvas Flyers) and the only time you could wear them at school was for "gym." | ||
| When it took five minutes for the TV to warm up.When nearly everyone's mom was at home when the kids got home from school. When nobody own a purebred dog. When a quarter was a decent allowance, and another quarter, a huge bonus, When you'd reach into a muddy gutter for a penny. When most girls neither dated nor kissed until late high school. | ||
| When your Mom wore nylons that had seams on the back and came in two pieces. When all of our male teachers wore neckties and female teachers wore high heels. | ||
| When you got your windshield cleaned, oil and battery checked, and gas pumped, all for free without asking. You didn't have to pay for air and you got trading stamps to boot! | ||
| When laundry detergent had free glasses, dishes or towels hidden inside the box. | ||
| When any parent could discipline any kid, or feed him or use him to carry groceries, and nobody, not even the kid, thought a thing of it. | ||
| When it was considered a great privilege to be taken out to dinner at a real restaurant with your parents. | ||
| When they threatened to keep kids back a grade if they failed...and they did? | ||
| When the worst thing you could do at school was get caught smoking in the bathrooms or school yard or flunk a test or chew gum in class. | ||
| When a '57 Chevy was everyone's dream car...to cruise, peel out, lay rubber, spin the tires, or listen to the radio. Back then we went steady and the girls wore our class rings around their neck or on their finger with an inch of wrapped tape, dental floss or yarn coated with clear nail polish so it would fit. | ||
| And no one ever asked where the car keys were 'cause they were always in the car, in the ignition, and the doors were never locked. | ||
| And you got in big trouble if you accidentally locked the doors at home, since no one ever had a key. | ||
| Remember lying on your back on the grass with your friends and saying things like "That cloud looks like a...", playing baseball with no adults to help kids with the rules of the game. Back then, baseball was not a psychological group learning experience, it was a game. | ||
| Remember when stuff from the store came without safety caps and hermetic seals 'cause 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 the '80's and '90's? | ||
| Remember Nancy Drew, The Hardy Boys, Laurel & Hardy, Howdy Doody and the Peanut Gallery, The Lone Ranger, The Shadow Knows, Nellie Belle, Roy and Dale,Trigger, the Range Rider. | ||
| How about the sound of a push reel lawn mower on Saturday morning, and summers filled with bike rides, swiming at Hopedale pond, baseball games, bowling, drive-in movies or eating Kool-Aid powder with sugar. | ||
| When being sent to the principal's office was nothing compared to the fate that awaited a misbehaving student when they got 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 much bigger threat! But we all survived because their love was greater than the threat. | ||
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Didn't that feel good, just to go back
and say, "Yeah, I remember that!?"
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