Left BehindThings I Miss ... The Neuralgia of Nostalgia
I'm rarely sentimental
about things fundamental
but some days I miss
things like this ...
There are lots of different people I miss as well
Some have likely gone to Heaven, others are probably in Hell,
But I guess it's pretty obvious and something that can't be hid,
The thing I miss most is just being a kid ...
I'm rarely sentimental
about things fundamental
but some days I miss
things like this ...
- coffee served in real cups
- sleeping in past noon
- Kookie on 77 Sunset Strip
- gas station attendants
- chrome
- boom boxes
- crinolines
- coloured toilet paper
- going steady
- my Davy Crockett hat
- 45 records
- Woolworth's Five and Dime
- tobogganing
- the Saturday matinée at the neighbourhood cinema
- reading interesting cereal boxes
- getting more than one Valentine's card
- marbles
- Brylcreem
- The Ed Sullivan Show
- TV dinners in aluminium plates
- drive-in movies
- drive-in restaurants
- birthday parties
- blue-soled Keds
- flying a cardboard box
- root beer floats
- lime cokes
- The Hardy Boys
- climbing trees
- backyard skating rinks
- Viewmaster film strips
- turtleneck sweaters
- bumper cars
- Bob Hope on the Oscars
- Wynola
- tree forts
- having cousins
- desert boots
- two cans and a long string
- peepholes
- walking on railway tracks
- pin-up models who actually left something to your imagination
- sock-hops
- snack bars in department stores
- face-to-face social networks
- rocket radios
- camping
- comic books
- teddy bears
- the circus
- playing pretend
There are lots of different people I miss as well
Some have likely gone to Heaven, others are probably in Hell,
But I guess it's pretty obvious and something that can't be hid,
The thing I miss most is just being a kid ...
"Kookie on 77 Sunset Strip"
ReplyDeleteCool, Daddy-O!
For the longest time now, I've been meaning to go back to that cave in Honalee and look up that dragon - maybe this coming year.
~M
"For the longest time now, I've been meaning to go back to that cave in Honalee and look up that dragon - maybe this coming year."
DeleteHaha ... well, be careful ...
Well, I don't know what Wynola is, but I can relate to several of the things you mentioned, unfortunately--lime Cokes, especially. The good things shouldn't go away.
ReplyDeleteWynola was a soft drink, sort of like Dr Pepper, that I loved as a kid ...
DeleteI'm with you on the interesting cereal boxes...
ReplyDeleteyou had a Davy Crockett hat..and you let it go!??
..I had the coolest most comfortable pair of desert boots eva..
aww gee..I think I probably know all the words to Puff the magic dragon! :P
Haha ... I still wear desert boots on occasion ... but they are getting hard to come by ...
DeleteI had almost forgotten about desert boots
ReplyDelete...I have to admit I sometimes still pretend
I think everyone should make a list of the things they miss from time to time :)
"I have to admit I sometimes still pretend"
DeleteWe must never lose out imaginations ...
Tobogganing and reading cereal boxes ! Yes my siblings an I really enjoyed that. I couldn't find a toboggan an believe me I looked around here. Wonderful memories you share :)
ReplyDeleteI always have loved tobogganing, and I can't even begin to count the number of times I almost wrapped myself around a tree ...
DeleteOh my, your list reminded me of so many fond memories. I'm going to take a stroll down Memory Lane ... :)
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