Norman High School
Class of 1969

Do You Remember These???????

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

You went steady with your boyfriend or girlfriend?

The very first time you saw a color TV?

You had to ask your parents permission to use the phone and if you talked for more than 5 minutes you were told to get off?

Slumber parties?

Trick-Or-Treating without your parents?

Walking to school with friends?

Saying the Pledge of Allegiance before school started?

When being sent to the principal's office was nothing compared to the fate that awaited you when you got home?

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?

And with all our progress, don't you just wish, just once, you could slip back in time and savor the slower pace,and 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.

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, Mighty Mouse, The Little Rascals, Superman, Mickey Mouse Club and, of course, Leave It To Beaver?.

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. Didn't that feel good, just to go back and say, "Yeah, I remember that"?

Double Dog Dare...

Candy cigarettes

Wax Coke-shaped bottles with colored sugar water inside

Pixie Sticks

Lick-em-aid

Candy necklaces

Cinnamon toothpicks

Wax lips, teeth, etc

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

Blue flash bulbs

Flash cubes

Newsreels before the movie

Skating Rinks

Sock-Hops

Selling Magazines door to door as fund raisers

Buying school supplies and books at Wrights IGA

Gilt Edge Dairy

P.F. Fliers

Telephone numbers with a word prefix...(Jefferson 4-601). Party lines

Peashooters

Howdy Doody

Hi-Fi's

45 RPM records

33 RPM records

78 RPM records!

8 track tapes and players

Green Stamps

Metal ice cubes trays with levers

Mimeograph paper

Beanie and Cecil

Roller-skate keys

Cork pop guns

Drive in movies - Riverside, Rancho

Studebakers

Washtub wringers

Spoolies

The Fuller Brush Man

Reel-To-Reel tape recorders

Tinkertoys

Erector Sets

Plastic Army Men

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

Beatle Cards

Penny candy

Bobby Socks and Bobby Sock pins

Saddle Shoes

Candy Stripers (girls in a uniform again!)

Bleeding Madras Shirts

Tincture of Merthiolate (ouch!)

Princess Phones

Barbie Dolls

Paper Dolls

Damn (or was it Dam?) Dolls

Peashooters

Captain Kangaroo

Foreman Scotty

Xavier T Willard

Cannonball McCoy

The Scene

Romper Room

The Electrolux Man!

Duncan Yo-Yo's

Forman Scotty

Dan D Dynamo - Three D Danny

25 cent a gallon gasoline, (18 cents a gallon when there was a gas war)

Jiffy Pop popcorn

OTASCO - Oklahoma Tire & Supply

TG&Y

Mistletoe Express

John Paul Schantz blew up one of the bathrooms by putting either an M-80 or a cherry bomb in a urinal. Took out a couple of rows of those open-style lockers we used to have, too.

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-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?

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Norman High School Class of 1969

Norman High School
Class of 1969