A Walk down Memory Lane.........................
A
little house with three bedrooms and one car on the street,
A mower that you had to push to make the grass look neat.
In the kitchen on
the wall we only had one phone,
And no need for recording things, someone
was always home.
We only had a living room where we would congregate,
Unless it was at meal time in the kitchen where we ate.
We had no need
for family rooms or extra rooms to dine,
When meeting as a family those two
rooms would work out fine.
We only had one TV set and channels maybe
two,
But always there was one of them with something worth the view.
For
snacks we had potato chips that tasted like a chip,
And if you wanted flavor
there was Lawson's ® onion dip.
Store bought snacks were rare because my
mother liked to cook,
And nothing can compare to snacks in Betty Crocker's ®
book.
The snacks were even healthy with the best ingredients,
There was
no label with a hundred things that made no sense.
Weekends were for
family trips or staying home to play,
We all did things together even go to
church to pray.
When we did our weekend trips depending on the
weather,
No one stayed at home because we liked to be together.
Sometimes we would separate to do things on our own,
But we knew
where the others were without our own cell phone.
Then there was the movies
with your favorite movie star,
And nothing can compare to watching movies in
your car.
Then there were the picnics at the peak of summer season,
Pack a lunch and find some trees and never need a reason.
Get a baseball
game together with the friends you know,
Have real action playing ball and
no game video.
Remember when the doctor used to be the family friend,
And didn't need insurance or a lawyer to defend,
The way that he took
care of you or what he had to do,
Because he took an oath and strived to do
the best for you.
Remember when the country was united under God,
And prayer in schools and public places was not deemed as odd.
Remember
when the church was used for worshipping The Lord,
And not used for
commercial use or for some business board.
Remember going to the store
and shopping casually,
And when you went to pay for it you used your own
money.
Nothing that you had to swipe or punch in some amount,
Remember
when the cashier person had to really count?
Remember when we breathed
the air it smelled so fresh and clean,
And chemicals were not used on the
grass to keep it green.
The milkman and the bread man used to go from door
to door,
And it was just a few cents more than going to the store.
There was a time when mailed letters came right to your door,
Without a lot of junk mail ads sent out by every store.
The mailman knew
each house by name and knew where it was sent,
There was not loads of mail
addressed to present occupant.
Remember when the words "I do" meant that
you really did,
And not just temporally till someone blows their lid.
There was no such thing as no one's fault; we just made a mistake,
There
was a time when married life was built on give and take.
There was a
time when just one glance was all that it would take,
And you would know the
kind of car, the model and the make.
They didn't look like turtles trying to
squeeze every mile,
They were streamlined, white walls and fins and really
had some style.
One time the music that you played whenever you would
jive,
Was from a vinyl, big holed record called a forty-five.
The record
player had a post to keep them all in line,
And then the records would drop
down and play one at a time.
Oh sure we had our problems then just like
we do today,
And always we were striving, trying for a better way.
And
every year that passed us by brought new and greater things,
We now can even
program phones with music or with rings.
Oh the simple life we lived
still seems like so much fun,
How can you explain a game, just kick the can
and run.
And why would boys put baseball cards between bicycle spokes,
And for a nickel red machines had little bottled cokes.
That life
seemed so much easier and slower in some ways,
I love the new technology but
I sure miss those days.
So time moves on and so do we and nothing stays the
same
But I sure love to reminisce and walk down memory lane.
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