As I get old, and by definition I am aging daily,

[Diamond_Dog]

12. Your post was interesting to me, thank you PCIntern!

I remember practically everything you mentioned except I don’t remember kids wearing braces on their legs. I do remember lining up outside the school with my parents and sister to be given a sugar cube with the polio vaccine in it. I remember once or twice practicing for a possible air raid in school. We had to crouch under our desks with our hands over our heads. I remember hearing a sonic boom a few times while playing in our back yard.

Since I was raised Catholic, we never, ever ate meat on Fridays. That was a big no-no and my sister and I thought we’d go to Hell if we so much as ate a baloney sandwich on a Friday. Tuna casserole was a common Friday supper. When my mother took me and my sister to church on Sunday, we wore our best dresses, shoes, gloves, and mandatory hat. The Mass was said in Latin. My mother had a mink stole and lots of women wore those hats with the netting that came down over the forehead. My dad never went with us, he always stayed home.

In Ohio the Sohio gas stations used to post a paper in the window, a list of Ohio license plate numbers. It changed every week. If your plate # was on the list, you won something, like $5 or a prize of some sort. Every week we went there to see if we won anything. We did win one time, a set of plastic mixing bowls.

Supermarkets and most other stores were closed on Sundays. Drug stores were open with limited hours.

Everyone smoked. You could smoke in restaurants, doctors’ offices, on an airplane. Bizarre to think of today.

TV stations (all 3 of them) signed off at midnight and came back on at 6 am.

Thanks for the memories!