Bethel Park High School (PA) Class of 1964
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Remember when......?
Turn on your sound and remember. . . . You'll enjoy this one. OK, so some
of you might have been too young to remember . . . . enjoy the music anyway.
REMEMBER....
When the worst thing you could do at school was smoke in the bathrooms,
flunk a test or chew gum. And the banquets were in the cafeteria and we
danced to a juke box later, and all the girls wore fluffy pastel gowns and
the boys wore suits for the first time and we were allowed to stay out till
12 p.m.
When a '57 Chevy was everyone's dream car. . .
to cruise, peel out, lay rubber and watch drag races,
and people went steady and girls wore a class
ring with an inch of wrapped dental floss or yarn
coated with pastel frost nail polish so it would fit her finger.
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..."
And 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...
So send this on to someone who can still 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 and Buttermilk
as well as the sound of a real mower on Saturday morning,
and summers filled with bike rides, playing in cowboy land, baseball games,
bowling and visits to the pool...and 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 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 all survived because their love was greater than the threat.
Didn't that feel good, just to go back and say, Yeah, I remember that!
And was it really that long ago?
:-)