Remember--Reminiscence at the 35th Year Reunion, 1991

Remember?
These reminiscence musings were included in the reunion booklet prepared by the planning committee members for the 35th Reunion, held on July 6, 1991. I have taken the liberty of reformatting them and adding the illustrations to help you "remember."
Montgomery Avenue, Sheffield, Alabama *Do you remember our town?* Belk -Hudson, Olim's, Abrams, Glad-Beth, Elizabeth's Miss Nina Leftwich's Antique Shop and the tea she had for seniors. The Woody-Mac Drive In Sheffield Pharmacy Rexall Drug Store The Southland with Don Roper's original oil paintings Streit Milk Company Colbert Theatre (don't forget the ParkVue Drive In) The Dairy Queen Liberty Super Market and the Jitney Jungle The Victory Cafe The Shamrock The Youth Center chaperoned by volunteer parents Plow Boy's on Montgomery Avenue Woolworth's 5 & 10 Spalding Drug Store The Frosty Dip Best Jewelers
	Remember when we listened to the radio instead of watching TV? *FBI Stories* *The SHADOW* *Saturday Night Dance Party* *Tommy's Turn Table* *Varsity Drag* *My True Story* *Whispering Streets* CLICK HERE FOR OLD TIME RADIO SHOWS
*Remember the Bunny Hop and the Bop?* *Remember dancing in the gym after lunch?* *Remember Sockhops after ball games?* *Remember P-jackets?* *Poodle skirts?* *Saddle Oxfords?* *Remember starched petticoats? We wore 4 or 5 at a time!* *If a dress had a matching coat, the coat was called a "duster."* *Remember big earrings?* *Remember when pink and black was "IN"* *and white bucks were "COOL?"* *Remember crewcuts?* *Ducktails?*
	When we did get a TV, we watched: *Ozzie and Harriet* *My Friend Irma* *Name That Tune* *The Ed Sullivan Show*
*Remember when Elvis came to town?* *Remember hot dogs at Milner's and Trowbridges?* *Remember "parking places?"* *The Standpipe* *Under the bridge* *Cliff Haven* *Airport* *Sandpit* *Remember hiking on the bluffs? (Some of us used to do that.)* *Remember nicknames like:* *Stew* *Bayon* *Blackhawk* *Nutsy* *Hooty* *Fergie* *Perkey* *Squirrley* *Remember the eighth grade trip to Mammoth Cave?* *Remember how Coach Wright's crooked finger intimidated us?* *Remember the Saga of Black Pride Mountain?*
Click Here for more BurmaShave rhymes	*AND, do you remember these songs?* *"Memories are Made of This"* *"Long, Tall Sally" (Little Richard)* *"Long, Tall Sally" (Elvis)* *"The Magic Touch"* *"Because of You"* *"I'm in Love Again"* *"Slippin' and a Sliding"* *"Band of Gold"* *"Theme from Picnic"* *"Wayward Wind"* *"Sincerely"* *"Up the Lazy River"* *"Ivory Tower"* *"Unchained Melody"* *"Stardust"* *"Because"* *"Love is a Many Splendored Thing"* *"No Not Much"* *"You'll Never Walk Alone"* *"The Great Pretender"* *"Blue Christmas"* Anybody have links to the ones I don't? Click Here to listen to songs from the Fifties
Here's another remembrance contributed by Jim Kimbrell. It wasn't written by him, but it brings back a lot of very vivid memories of the Fifties. DO YOU REMEMBER WHEN...? All the girls had ugly gym uniforms? It took five minutes for the TV warm up? 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 56 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 things like, "That 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? When being sent to the principal's office was nothing compared to the fate that awaited the 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 survived because their love was greater than the threat.
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