Remember, do you

Remember when............

All girls had ugly gym uniforms? It took five minutes for the TV to 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 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 ...'?
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?

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.
So sit back and remember Nancy Drew, the Hardy Boys,

Laurel and Hardy, Howdy Dowdy and the Peanut Gallery,

the Lone Ranger and Tonto, Silver, The Shadow Knows,

Nellie Bell, Roy and Dale, Trigger and Buttermilk,


as well as summers filled with bike rides, baseball games

, Hula Hoops, bowling and visits to the pool, drive-in movies,

and eating Kool-Aid powder with sugar.
Didn't that feel good, just to go back and say,

'Yeah, I remember that'?
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.
Remember these?

Candy cigarettes

Wax Coke-shaped bottles with colored sugar water inside.


Soda pop machines that dispensed glass bottles.

Coffee shops with table side jukeboxes.

Blackjack, Clove and Teaberry chewing gum.

Home milk delivery in glass bottles with cardboard stoppers.

Newsreels before the movie.
P.F. Fliers.
Telephone numbers with a word prefix...(Raymond 4-601). Party lines.


Peashooters.
Howdy Dowdy.

Hi-Fi's & 45 RPM records.

78 RPM records!

Green Stamps.

The smell of mimeograph paper.
The Fort Apache Play Set.

Do you remember a time when...
Decisions were made by going 'eeny-meeny-miney-moe'?

Mistakes were corrected by simply exclaiming, 'Do Over!'?
'Race issue' meant arguing about who ran the fastest?
Catching the fireflies could happily occupy an entire evening?

It wasn't odd to have two or three 'Best Friends'?
The worst thing you could catch from the opposite sex was 'cooties'?

Having a weapon in school meant being caught with a slingshot?
Saturday morning cartoons weren't

30-minute commercials for action figures?

'Oly-oly-ocean-free' made perfect sense?
Spinning around, getting dizzy, and falling down was cause for giggles?
The worst embarrassment was being picked last for a team?
War was a card game?

Baseball cards in the spokes transformed any bike into a motorcycle?
Taking drugs meant orange - flavored chewable aspirin?
Water balloons were the ultimate weapon?

If you can remember most or all of these, then you have lived!!!!!!!

HAPPY THANKSGIVING TO ALL FROM OUR GENERATION RADIO!!

TIME MACHINES

Boomers driving demand for classic sports, muscle cars soar.
Its like buying art…A lot of them are reliving their youth and tend to chase the year or type car they grew up with.
Demand and prices for ‘50s, 60’s and ‘70’s classic muscle and sports cars grew tremendously in recent years.
In the mid ‘80’s, Corvettes sold for $25,000, are now fetching $100,000+. A 1958 retractable hardtop Corvette, the only one of its kind could bring up to $1 million.
Dealers credit baby boomers with finally have enough money to buy cars they dreamed about when they were teens.
Boomers are snatching up other American classics too - Pontiac GTO convertibles, Plymouth Hemi Cudas and Ford Mustangs - at such high prices that buyers some are wondering if the market is inflated.
Classic car sellers agree that the terrorist attacks on Sept. 11, 2001, changed the market and a lot of people said, 'I'm going to live my life.’
The '70 Dodge Challenger was the last pony car to enter the increasing crowded pony car market. Chevy responded to the Mustang with its legendary Camero in September '66. Many people don’t know that the '74 GTO is among the rarest ever produced. It’s fairly obvious why. The muscle car era was over by '74.
The 1970 Plymouth Barracuda was an instant classic.Only fourteen HEMI ‘Cuda convertibles were produced. Today, they are among the most valuable muscle cars.
The1953 Corvette, with a total of only 300 produced, is the rarest and most sought after Corvette model year.
The Ford Thunderbird entered production for the 1955 model year as a two-seater sporty car but unlike the Chevrolet Corvette, was never sold as a full-blown sports car.


And one of the pioneers who I believe started it all was Preston Tucker, a car-crazy kid, auto speedways junkie who grew up to create --the Tucker-- ahead of its time. His ingenuity and daring, revolutionized Detroit in the ‘40s with his stunning "Car of Tomorrow"; streamlined, futuristic and fast--the car every American dreamed of owning and affordable. Vehicle safety: the cockpit with a padded dashboard, and instrumentation grouped around the steering column, so protruding buttons or gauges won’t harm passengers in a collision, shatterproof safety glass, and the 3rd or, center-mounted steerable headlight.
He publicized his model all over the U.S. with endless enthusiasm and wild acclaim. Sold stock and set up a factory in the now Ford City Shopping Mall, Chicago. Only 51 cars were produced. The Securities and Exchange Commission bulls-eyed the Tucker Corporation with allegations of mail fraud and other violations backed by auto industry lobbyists who launched a devastating anti-Tucker campaign. Only 51 cars were produced, with 47 still in existence. One sold for over $1,017,500 in 2008. So serve up a batch of hot-buttered popcorn and take a peek at “Tucker, A Man and his Dream” starring Jeff Bridges.

OGR Quotes

B-day quotes from OGR famous personalities, from our Woofing Reporter, Gucci....

May you live to be 100 and may the last voice you hear be mine. -Frank Sinatra
For all the advances in medicine, there is still no cure for the common birthday. - John Glenn
Age is strictly a case of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter. - Jack Benny
The secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age. - Lucille Ball
The old believe everything; the middle-aged suspect everything; the young know everything. - Oscar Wilde
Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you've got to start young. - Fred Astaire
You know you are getting old when the candles cost more than the cake. -Bob Hope
And Winnie's favorite… From birth to age eighteen, a girl needs good parents. From eighteen to thirty-five, she needs good looks. From thirty-five to fifty-five, she needs a good personality. From fifty-five on, she needs good cash. -Sophie Tucker
Happy Birthday, JimmyB (Sto lat!!!)

I spy, SPI-FI

The ’60's Cold War and spy films -- a perfect match.
We are hooked on realistic espionage films like The Spy Who Came in from the Cold '65, The Deadly Affair ‘66, OR tongue-in-cheek James Bond adventures: Dr. No '62,From Russia With Love ‘63, Goldfinger ‘64, Thunderball ‘65, You Only Live Twice ‘67, On Her Majesty's Secret Service ’69, Diamonds Are Forever ‘71, Live and Let Die ‘73, The Man with the Golden Gun ‘74, The Spy Who Loved Me ‘77, Moonraker ‘79, For Your Eyes Only ‘81, Octopussy ‘83, A View to a Kill ‘85, The LivingDaylights ‘87, Licence to Kill ‘89, Golden Eye ‘95, Tomorrow Never Dies ‘97, The World is Not Enough ‘99, Die Another Day 2002, Casino Royale 2006, Quantum of Solace 2008.
The longest running “Bond” actor, Sir Roger Moore, debuted at age 45 and retired at 58. He said he felt embarrassed doing love scenes with beautiful actresses who were young enough to be his daughters in Live and Let Die, The Man with the Golden Gun, The Spy Who Loved Me, Moonraker , For Your Eyes Only , Octopussy , and A View to a Kill.

A host of imitators followed. David Niven played Bond in a spoof Casino Royale. And "spy-fi comedies" emerged. Dean Martin, as Matt Helm in a series of American “spy" films including The Wrecking Crew ‘69; the 4th and final. It co-starred Sharon Tate in one of her final films before being murdered by Charles Manson's followers.
Modesty Blaise ’66, a parody of Bond and his genre, loosely based on the popular comic strip Modesty Blaise by Peter O'Donnell.

Britain’s The Avengers, a TV show, combined secret agent story lines with “sci-fi” elements. It was the longest running espionage series 1961-69 and only the American series Mission: Impossible had more episodes - 171.
The Man from U.N.C.L.E. ‘64-68. “Spi-fi TV” with 105 episodes centered on a two-man trouble-shooting team, Napoleon Solo,(Robert Vaughn), and Russian Illya Kuryakin (David McCallum), with (Leo G. Carroll) as Alexander Waverly, the British organization head and Barbara Moore joining the cast in the 4th season. Author, Ian Fleming contributed to the show's creation.
Then canceled after 29 episodes in ‘67, The Girl from U.N.C.L.E. A spin-off starring Stefanie Powers as American U.N.C.L.E. Agent April Dancer, Noel Harrison (son of Rex Harrison) her English partner, Mark Slate.( Leo G. Carroll), her superior. The character name "April Dancer" was suggested by consultant and Author, Ian Fleming.
Burke's Law ‘63-65. Noted for suspense lead-ins…The title of each episode started with the words "Who Killed..." with the name or description of the victim who died in the show's opening minutes. Gene Barry played Amos Burke, millionaire/Los Angeles Chief of Detectives, who was chauffeured around to solve crimes in his Rolls-Royce.

The Fat Spy ‘66 , with Jane Mansfield, Jack E. Leonard and Phyllis Diller. It was listed in the ‘04 documentary The 50 Worst Movies Ever Made. Barely released to theaters in ‘66 and rarely seen until the 1990s, when VHS and DVDs sold in dollar stores.
Leonard Part 6 , ‘87, parodies spy movies and starred Bill Cosby. One of the worst films of all time, earning several Golden Raspberry Awards AND Cosby himself denounced in the press prior to its release.
However, Cosby's opinion might change had he viewed.... Creature from the Haunted Sea ‘61. A comedy/parody of spy, gangster and monster movies. Secret agent, XK150 or "Edward Wain", who goes under the code name "Sparks Moran" infiltrates a criminal gang trying to transport a colonel, a group of exiled Cuban nationals, and a large portion of the Cuban treasury out of the country.

Then developed when TV westerns were losing ground to the spy genre and conceived as "James Bond on horseback, "The Wild Wild West" '65-69 was famous for its stunts, special effects, story lines and characters.

So take some me time, dust off the DVDs, surf cable,rent one or hit the dollar store and recapture some great fun with buttered popcorn. Ciao!!