@covidstinks2023
I loved your list! Just what the doctor ordered today! Your list brought back so many wonderful memories and I have added some here:

Going for a Sunday drive in the countryside

Randomly passing a “Big Slide” near big cities and stopping to race down them a few times while sitting on burlap to go faster

E-ticket rides at Disneyland

Pong video game at the pizza parlor

My best friend and I riding our horses together through the trails in the hills and feeling safe starting at 13 years old.

Kids delivering newspapers

The ice cream truck and the doughnut truck driving through the neighborhood. Yum!

Family watching the Disney Sunday night movie together

Having a tomato fight with my brother in the backyard and the next spring we had 100 tomato plants growing all over the yard. Best way to plant ever! Delicious!

Slumber parties – stay awake or you’ll be on the wrong end of a prank

Selling Girl Scout cookies door-to-door because it was safe

Having a Kool-Aid stand out on the curb without needing a permit

YMCA camp at Lake Sequoia – nature hikes, friends as my cabin-mates, team spirit, boating, swimming, crafts, archery, campfires with s’mores and singing. It was the best!

Brady Bunch, Partridge Family, Adam 12, Gilligan’s Island and ABC after school specials

Family together watching the Rams play on Sunday. Go Roman Gabriel!

Crushing on Donny Osmond, David Cassidy and Bobby Sherman …and they called it puppy love!

Bell bottoms and tie dye t-shirts

Stopping at Thrifty drug store with 25 cents to fill a bag with nickel and penny candies for the double feature at the 50-cent movie theater with sticky floors and gum stuck to everything! First cartoons (miss you Chilly Willy), then a movie, then intermission with prizes and a serial, then another movie.

Air Blasters! My brothers and I each had a fun 8” pump up air blaster with a 3” in diameter barrel so if you hit the other person from 10 feet away their hair would fly all over! It was like air tag! Very fun and funny! The dog was a good sport too!

Had a stay-at-home mom for many years so she did everything for us, room mother, great home cooked meals including a hot breakfast every day, running in with punch and homemade cookies when I had a friend over, homemade clothes – you name it!

Having an older brother who taught me to do everything he liked to do so he’d always have someone to play with and practice with – building stuff with his erector set, looking at stuff under the microscope, playing catch with the baseball, detailing our parents’ cars, lots of board games, catching tadpoles at the creek and watching them become frogs, etc. Great influence!

All the kids skating together in the neighborhood

The original Jarts with metal tips, croquet, backyard badminton, hoolahoops, hoppity hops, pogo sticks and a slinky

Pixie sticks, edible candy necklaces, bubblegum cigarettes and Nestles Quick

Oh, yes, the good old days are forever in our hearts! Thanks for inviting our memories to come out and play today! 😊