I am from the class of  1939 or 1940, I am now 81 years old who the hell can remember at this age! LOL.My Mother went to Bradwell and was Valedictorian. My sisters and their daughters all went to Bowen.
I also remember gym. I remember running from the front of the building clear across to the Bessamer Park Building and going up into the upper rafters to change into the green romper type gym clothes. I also had to take gym my senior year 4 times a week. I can't remember showering there. I do remember having to go up to  my locker on the 4th floor just to get my Gym clothes.

I remember chocolate shakes and grilled cheese sandwiches I ate for 2 years. There was no cafeteria. I remember trying to climb those steel poles and getting about two feet up and sliding down and those hanging rings that I had to jump up to and try to put my feet in those two hole... no wonder I hated Gym.

There was a place on 89th & Stony Island (I think) where we would go and eat and smoke. I remember a steno teacher who was crippled by some kid running in the halls who knocked her down and crippled her, she was one of my favorites I really like her, she was old then! She would let me use the hand cranked copy machine.

I remember the science teacher who wanted me to collect bugs which I was afraid to do so they let me draw pictures and pin them in a cigar box.

White Castles were 25 for a dollar with a coupon! Sliders was a later generation! I remember my good friend Shirley walking down the hallway as the cigarettes were dropping one by one like a trail of bread crumbs. No air-conditioning! We were lucky they opened a window. We had hall monitors and you had to have a pass.  I still have  memories of good friends and good times that have stayed with me all these years.

~~~June of Phoenix Arizona

 


I don't know who wrote this:  it came to me as an email 'forward'.  Sure brought back a lot of memories so I thought I'd include it here.  ~~~ Marcia

DO YOU REMEMBER WHEN...

All the girls had ugly gym uniforms?

It took five minutes for the TV 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 ..."

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?

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.

Remember:
Nancy Drew, the Hardy Boys, Laurel and Hardy,
Howdy Dowdy and the Peanut Gallery,
the Lone Ranger, 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,
and eating Kool-Aid powder with sugar.

How many of these do you remember?

Candy cigarettes
Wax Coke-shaped bottles with colored sugar water inside
Soda pop machines that dispensed glass bottles
Coffee shops with tableside 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
45 RPM records
Green Stamps
Hi-Fi's

Metal ice cubes trays with levers
Mimeograph paper
Beanie and Cecil
Roller-skate keys
Cork pop guns
Drive ins
Studebakers

Washtub wringers
The Fuller Brush Man
Reel-To-Reel tape recorders
Tinkertoys
Erector Sets
The Fort Apache Play Set
Lincoln Logs
15 cent McDonald hamburgers

5 cent packs of baseball cards -
with that awful pink slab of bubble gum

Penny candy
35 cent a gallon gasoline
Jiffy Pop popcorn

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?
A foot of snow was a dream come true?

Saturday morning cartoons weren't 30-minute commercials for action figures?
"Oly-oly-oxen-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!!!!!!!
 

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