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Yo-Yo's and Hula Hoops

Yo-yo's and hula hoops
  We all ate our Campbell Soup

Down our stairs went Mr. Slinky
  For dessert, Hostess Twinkies

Lucky guys rode ten-speed racers
  Drank Seven-up with Kool-Aid Chasers

After school, the Mickey Mouse Club
  With TV dinners for our grub 

The '50's seem so innocent now
  Can we get them back somehow?

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Susan Ashley

Date: 9/28/2020 8:11:00 PM

You had me at the title, Gershon. I was a wiz with the hula hoop back in the day :)) A witty yet wistful poem that takes me back to my childhood home.. if only the world could be so simple now.. sigh.. Warmest wishes, my dear friend.. ~Susan

Susan Ashley
Date: 9/30/2020 4:47:00 PM

Here here! Here’s to your hula hoop fame, my friend hehe! ;)

Gershon Wolf
Date: 9/28/2020 9:12:00 PM

It all seemed so simple back then, didn't it?! Sigh... And now I see where we intersect. I held the official Chicago Hula Hoop Record on WCFL-AM radio 1000, the rock station in 1959, for about five minutes that year. lol. Here's to us two two gold-medalists! :) gw

Caren Krutsinger

Date: 9/28/2020 10:52:00 AM

I was reading about the inventor of the slinky yesterday! The story is fascinating, and I adore those Twinkies!

Gershon Wolf
Date: 9/28/2020 9:13:00 PM

I'll bet it's fascinating. ~ Hinky-Dinky

Kim Rodrigues

Date: 9/27/2020 2:02:00 PM

We walked uphill both ways/On those brighter snowy days (well at least my parents did) I took the bus both ways. I guess me and my parents had something in common ;)

Gershon Wolf
Date: 9/27/2020 2:57:00 PM

My mother walked a 2 miles to school with holes in her shoes in the dead of winter -- She lived in Galveston, TX, and was the first to wear flip-flops. lol. Thanks, Kim.

Michelle Faulkner

Date: 9/27/2020 10:26:00 AM

For me, it was chocolate milk and Scooby Doo and after school specials - brings it back, childhood seems so innocent now (sigh)

Gershon Wolf
Date: 9/27/2020 1:16:00 PM

Ever have Bosco in your milk? How about Ovaltine... And do kids even have childhoods now. I see 3 year-olds getting dragged to BLM protests. How crazy is that? :) gw