Yes, the song you're hearing is "Rock around the Clock"!
Sit back, relax, listen, read, & smile. Kind of reminds you to stop & smell the roses of life, and Love Life and Memories!!!!
Do You Remember?
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?
Laundry detergent had free glasses, dishes or towels hidden inside the box?
It was considered a great
privilege to be taken out
to dinner
You got your windshield
cleaned, oil checked, and
gas pumped, 
at a real restaurant with
your parents?
without asking, all for
free, every time?
And you didn't pay for
air? And, you got trading
stamps to boot?
And gas was seventy-five cents a gallon!
When a 57 Chevy was
everyone's dream car...to
cruise,
Lying on your back in the
grass with your friends
Send this on to someone
who can still remember
As well as summers filled
with bike rides, baseball
games,
Candy Fun
Oh, how quickly we wanted
to grow up!
Should have stayed with
the candy!
Soda pop machines that
dispensed glass bottles
The kitchen table looked
something like this...
Farmer Alfalfa, Heckle and
Jeckle, Mighty Mouse
King Features & Max
Fleischer
Betty Boop and Koko
~ Out of the Inkwell
Betty Boop, Grampy & Gang
Felix the Cat
Popeye the Sailorman
Howdy Doody
Captain Kangaroo
Jon Gnagy - "Learn to Draw"
A
fifteen minute television
show, which taught viewers
how to draw. It first
aired in May of 1946
(I'd been hoping to get a
photo of Mr. Jon Gnagy and
now I can say thank you to
Cindy from Wichita, KS for
sending me to a site with
Mr. Gnagy's photo. The
photos are links to the
sites where I found them.
Further links enabled me
to find even more
pictures, among them was
another website, created
by his Jon Gnagy's
daughter,
Polly Gnagy, who
shares her memories with
all at and even
provides videos of Mr.
Gnagy's TV show.)
(More recently, I want to
than Michael Briant for
sending me an even larger,
clearer photo of Mr.
Gnagy.)
My introduction to Jon
Gnagy
It was the summer of 1959 in Lake
Ronkonkoma, NY. I was thirteen years old and it was the last day of school for
the year. I was getting off my school bus and I was struck down by a drunk
driver who couldn't be bothered to stop behind the school bus and wait for
children to cross the road.
The accident resulted in my
breaking both legs and having a severe skull concussion, which put me in a coma
for a week. And because I had to lie on my back with my legs elevated, to
replace the tissue missing from my skull, they had to take skin tissue from the
left side my abdomen instead of from my rear, which is where I was told it would
have normally been transferred from back then.
After weeks in the hospital, I was
finally allowed home but I spent that summer laid up in bed in a spica cast that
covered my lower stomach and both legs, with a board separating my legs from
each other.
It was a long, hot and tedious
summer with very little I could do but lie in bed and watch TV. I liked to color
and doodle, so one of my uncle's bought me a "How to Draw" kit by Jon Nagy and I
was able to use it while watching his show on TV. He brief lessons and the books
taught me a great deal, and his TV show certainly turned my convalescent summer
into not only a more bearable period of time, but he truly influenced
my enthusiasm for art and my future within that media.
Winky Dink and You
You would place the clear
piece of plastic that came
in the kit over the
television screen and
connect the dots to create
a bridge for Winky Dink to
cross to safety, then
trace letters at the
bottom of the screen to
read the secret messages
broadcast at the end of
the show. Which, I guess,
makes Winky-Dink the
world's first interactive
video game.
Ding Dong School
Hopalong Cassidy
Gene Autry
Annie Oakley
Death Valley Days
~ Ronald Reagan hosted ~
along with
The Old Ranger
and it was brought to you
by 20 mule team Borax!!
Dragnet
The Honeymooners
I Remember Mama
Superman
Perry Mason
Texaco Star Theater
You're Show of Shows
Milton Berle
Sid Cesar & Imogene Coca
The Perry Como Show
Perry Como
Bob Hope
Comedy Hour
You Bet Your Life with
Groucho Marx
Your Hit Parade
Snooky Lanson, Dorothy
Collins, Sue Bennett, June
Valli, Russell Arms,
Gisele MacKenzie
Colgate Comedy Hour
The Jack Benny Show
The Abbot & Costello Show
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?
They threatened to keep
kids back a grade if they
failed. . and they did?
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.
Nancy Drew, the Hardy
Boys, Laurel and Hardy,
Howdy Dowdy and the Peanut
Gallery,
the Lone Ranger, The
Shadow Knows,
Nellie Bell, Roy and Dale,
Trigger and Buttermilk.
Hula Hoops, bowling and
visits to the pool,
and eating Kool-Aid powder
with sugar.
Didn't that feel good,
just to go back and say,
"Yeah, I remember that"?
I am sharing this with you
today
because it ended with a
double dog dare to pass it
on.
To remember what a double
dog dare is, read on.
And remember that the
perfect age is somewhere
between
old enough to know better
and too young to care.
How many of these do you
remember?
Coffee shops with
tableside jukeboxes
Home milk delivery in
glass bottles with
cardboard stoppers
P.F. Fliers
Telephone numbers with a
word prefix...(Raymond
4-601).
Party lines
Peashooters
45 RPM records
Green Stamps
Hi-Fi's
Metal ice cubes trays with
levers
Mimeograph paper
Beanie and Cecil
Roller-skate keys
Cork pop guns
Drive ins
Studebakers
The Fuller Brush Man
Reel-To-Reel tape
recorders
Tinkertoys
Erector Sets
The Fort Apache Play Set
Lincoln Logs
15 cent McDonald
hamburgers
5 cent packs of baseball
cards -
with that awful pink slab
of bubble gum
Penny candy
35 cent a gallon gasoline
Jiffy Pop popcorn
Do you remember great TV
Shows like...
When Saturday morning
cartoons weren't 30-minute
commercials for action
figures?
Terrytoons
Tom Terrific
