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Remember when all businesses, stores, shops, etc, were closed on Sunday?
I'd actually like to see that back again.Comment
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Remember when school grounds were segregated? Boys on one side, girls on the other?Comment
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I actually would love to see that again myself! Weekends back then were more family orientated. Places that were open on the weekends usually were like museums and that sort of things. When I was little, we would go as a family to like the Swedish institute or like art museums or places like that and had family time. Weekends were a more relaxing time since not much was open. I remember my Dad hurrying on Friday nights to fill the car up with gas since gas stations were not open on the weekends!
People were not in so much of rush back then to do and go places on the weekends and it was a more relaxed time.Comment
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Ahhh... such warm memories... I do remember. It definitely encouraged a slower more deliberate lifestyle, where planned events, gatherings, and family-time took the forefront, where people were less hurried and gauged towards go, go, go... and where, once the work week was done, complete, and out of the way, a quieter calm blanketed households and neighbourhoods with a sense of peace. It helped create balance, which from everything I'm seeing today, no longer exists.Comment
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I remember everything being closed on Sundays. You could only get essentials like milk and that was if you could find a place open! And heaven forbid the liquor store was open!
I remember the towns 5 & 10 store where I could to smell roasted peanuts and things actually were sold for 5 cents!
I remember only having like 6 channels and sometimes they got static and you had to move the antenna!
I remember Saturday afternoons was the old 'scary' movies like Japanese black and whites and Sunday I would watch old time black and white movies/shows like Lucy and Blondie and Dagwood. When I was younger I remember rushing to get my bath so I could watch Disney on Sunday night. Not the Disney channel but Disney the show.
No AC and laying in bed at night with the fan on and listening to the crickets.
Pantyhose!! Better yet....putting on pantyhose with no AC
Instead of soccer teams, lessons and afterschool activities you actually just played outside with friends!Comment
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I think what I miss most is all the moms that used to stay home. Not that they all did but most of them. That was the norm. The neighborhood bustled during the daytime instead of a dead neighborhood where all the adults are at work and all the kids are in daycare.
Adults weren't working crazy hours like others have mentioned above. Families were together more. Things moved slower. I remember playing Barbie Dolls in 8th grade. Now children get them when they are 3.
I miss the good ole days. Although not all of it was good, there WERE pantyhose,
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LaurelComment
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Oh yes, no AC. I remember wearing shortie pj's at night and lying there with a fan in the window. Oh yes, and just try to put on pantyhose with no AC. That was rough. :I remember everything being closed on Sundays. You could only get essentials like milk and that was if you could find a place open! And heaven forbid the liquor store was open!
I remember the towns 5 & 10 store where I could to smell roasted peanuts and things actually were sold for 5 cents!
I remember only having like 6 channels and sometimes they got static and you had to move the antenna!
I remember Saturday afternoons was the old 'scary' movies like Japanese black and whites and Sunday I would watch old time black and white movies/shows like Lucy and Blondie and Dagwood. When I was younger I remember rushing to get my bath so I could watch Disney on Sunday night. Not the Disney channel but Disney the show.
No AC and laying in bed at night with the fan on and listening to the crickets.
Pantyhose!! Better yet....putting on pantyhose with no AC
Instead of soccer teams, lessons and afterschool activities you actually just played outside with friends!:
Oh and remember Easter hats? It seems such a shame that Easter hats are a rarity nowadays. I loved my Easter hats.
I also think children played outside more because it was just as hot inside as it was outside....or almost. I can see why kids nowadays would want to stay inside... AC!
LaurelComment
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Oh and no backpacks. In grade school I had the cutest little plaid school bag. In high school we just carried our books in our arms. I did have one of those rubber strap things to hold them together though. No one really thought of tote bags and school bags were for babies in elementary school.
LaurelComment
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Five & Dime stores were the greatest stores of all!Originally posted by mrsnj
I remember the towns 5 & 10 store where I could to smell roasted peanuts and things actually were sold for 5 cents!Comment
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I didn't watch them as a child....we didn't get our first TV until I was in 8th grade. Jaws was going to air on ABC, so my mom just HAD to go buy a TV so we could watch it.
I only buy and use plastic bibs.
In my community, other than Wal-Mart and Target, almost all businesses are closed on Sundays.
I travel to a larger town an hour away if I need to shop on Sundays but even in that community Hobby Lobby is closed on Sundays and I lovethis them so I try to only go on Saturdays.Comment
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