For everybody who’s lived to pass 50-
You’ve probably got this one in your e-mail. By the very talented “author unknown” I thought it would be fun to vary it a bit.
First, we were born to mothers who smoked, and drank coffee and alcohol during pregnancy- the hussies!
Then we were fed formula from glass bottles. The #1 ingredient was canned cow’s milk!
If we were fussy, we got baby aspirin. If they were out, they crushed up half of a real aspirin and made us swallow that nasty pill!
Cars didn’t have seat belts or baby seats. Some also had metal dashboards (let’s not go there) A station wagon filled with 10 or 12 Brownie scouts was always a joyful experience!
If you lived near a big city, the television had five or six stations. There were always kid shows and cartoons on weekday afternoon. Sunday morning television was AWFUL because there was nothing on but church shows- imagine that.
A movie matinee rarely cost more than fifty cents.
We had to have SHOTS. I remember lining up outside a grocery store to get polio shots. Those suckers really hurt, because the syringe, needle and all was used over and over again. They’d sterilize them and load ‘em up again.
I got a smallpox vaccination at school.
Toothpaste came in metal tubes and if the tube got cracked it was a drag.
We had school lunches with hot food fixed by actual cafeteria ladies in white uniforms!
Pantyhose appeared around 1968. They said “one size fits all” but they didn’t! Before that we had to wear girdles with stockings- even in 8th grade!
Guys- you have NO IDEA how much work we put into that “natural look”
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