Do You Remember When

My friend, Sandy, and I got talking about some of these great memories that we share. If you're older than 35, then you might remember some of these things, too.

• Ray Steven's songs like "Spider & Snakes" and "The Streak"


• The first solar calculator (it was the size of a laptop!)


• Black & White TV (The Munsters, I love Lucy)


• Playing outside until the street lights came on


• Orange Crush in the bottle (sometimes from a machine where you had to pull the bottle out)


• The Jackson Five cartoons


• Our form of texting the neighborhood kids: Knocking on thier bedroom window.


• Handwriting class


• Using the oven for afternoon snacks (what microwave?)


• Your first bag of microwave popcorn


• American Bandstand on Saturday morning (until noon when you had to clean your room).


• Walking the neighborhood to find friends.


• Candy: Bottle Caps, dippers, licorice ropes, Razzles, Pop Rocks, Good & Plendies, Mike & Ikes, Zero bars, Laffy Taffy, Fruit Stipe Gum and Black Jack Gum, and Bubble Gum with a cartoon inside.


• Cracker Jacks with a toy inside


• Sunday drives with your family that usually ended at the icecream stand.


• $1 movies


• Tigerbeat Magazine


• Aren't they times when you here "Blinded by the Light" or some other summer song and you're instantly brought back to a hot summer day.

I know some of this may sound like I'm very old to some of you - but to those who share my memories - Here's to YOU!