Wednesday, May 20, 2009

DON'T FORGET TO MARK
YOUR CALENDAR
AND BUY A TICKET
FOR THE UPCOMING
CENTENNIAL DINNER!!!

Tickets are going fast! Don't be disappointed,
order your ticket now to join us for
the second of our centennial dinners
this time remembering the years
1940 to 1969.

Those were the days;
- Road trips with the family
-Party lines (on your telephone!!)
-I Love Lucy-Rock and roll music (on vinyl, of course!)
-Space travel and hula hoops.
Join us as we remember it all on
Saturday, May 30.
Starting at 5:00 p.m.,
join us for what promises to be
an evening of fun and frivolity!

Tickets are available from Betty Morgan.
.
P.S. For those of you who need a little reminder
of the 40s, 50s, and 60s,
read on for a stroll down memory lane!
.
DO YOU REMEMBER WHEN ...
- 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 '57 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 step back in time
and savour the slow pace
and share it with the children of today?
.
WELL, YOU CAN
JOIN US ON MAY 30!!!

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