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gas prices...
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house prices.....
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Cartoons. You know the good ones like Bugs Bunny.
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simplicity!
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Friendly's Ice cream cones for 25 cents. Oh, tax was 1 penny so the total was 26 cents.
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I'd bring back neighborhoods where kids could go out and play without fear.
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The music (if the 60's are considered the good old days)
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Jesus If thats to far? The Twin Towers and the people in them. If thats not far enough? Then Woodstock
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No I can name many 1)trust, 2) good neighbors, 3)honesty,& INTEGRITY, 4) FEAR of your PARENTS, TEACHERS, THE LAW, 5) the lesser amount of drugs. 6)respect for each other.(FELLOW MAN) 7) less use of computers to do our thinking. Just to name a FEW "Indigo" check the site mentioned in comments
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A slower paced way of life - simplicity.
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Honestly... family values. And I don't mean that in the conservative sense in the term. This is not a political statement. I just think that the way families interact is sad nowadays. Even 20 years ago, people still valued the idea of sitting down to dinner at night with their families...and now that seems to have gone by the wayside.
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Housing prices I don't mean the exact dollar amount - but I mean that a family would have been able to purchase a home with only the income of one person. (Yes, it was the father/husband - but I don't care WHO's working...) I am honestly upset that I will have to work after I have children just to afford housing. My boyfriend makes a decent salary, but the houses here are crazy expensive, and we aren't going to move away from our families (who all live in the area). I want houses to cost just enough that they can be owned by a family with one good income source. Both parents shouldn't have to be making 6 digit salaries just to afford to buy a house, that's ridiculous.
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Not having to lock your house when you left. Not having to lock your car. Actually knowing the people who lived next door to you and being their friend.
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Common Courteousy
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The vibrant social values of the seventies, before the regression in the eighties. Also, clean air, and, if you go back far enough, nudity!
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Power Rangers.
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the respect for our children as well as adults if we repsect our children then we wont abuse then in anyway at all I speak from experience of abuse
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Spacehoppers!!
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barefeet, gas prices, the music
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drinking and driving..would of liked it better if the cops got rid of your beer and told you to drive home.
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No cell phones. If you had to call someone when you were out, you either dropped some change in a pay phone, or waited until you got home.
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I'd bring back politeness. Such a shame to hear how people talk to each other and in public where children can hear them. There's alot to be said for making others feel good about themselves by montoring what comes out of our own mouths! Other than that.... neighborly neighbors.. the kind that are there and borrow stuff from you and then return it and you sit on the porch and chat.
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Ice cream trucks.. Actually they still have them but they stopped coming to my neighborhood a long time ago. I remember how all the kids, including me, would run out when we heard the music coming near and our big brothers and sisters would buy us all ice cream!
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When a fight was one on one and settled without lethal weapons. Not sure that time ever existed. But if it did....
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Pretty much everything from the Sixties. The music, the clothes, the reckless use of drugs and alchohol, I love it all!
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prices.(gas,food,clothing,etc)
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The movie drive ins! Cool summer night and let the top down with your favorite squeeze!
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The Carebears need their tv show back lionheart was the shit! hmm but I think I should dig deepper for this question...umm ok its still about tv but stay with me...I think tv has fallen off now adays...remember running home for your cartoons? or waking up early on saturday? omg do you remember TGIF! now that was a time of good tv...and I'm not talking my wife and kids TGIF...I'm talking full house and boy meets world TGIF...those were the days.
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A yellow 1957 Chevy Bel-aire
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Innocence.
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Marriage actually meaning something to people.
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Yes. Just the simple, old fashioned, kind of RESPECT. When I was growing up, kids didn't call grown-ups by their first names, or if they did it was "Mr. Steve or Mrs. Annie & stuff. I really dislike it when a new neighbor introduces me to their kids, by my first name. I know its petty but it bothers me.
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I would love to see that old Coca-Cola machine at the 5 & dime across the street from my house that had the best "6 1/2 oz." Cokes in town for a nickel. We would drink 3 or 4 at a time after a summer neighborhood football game and not worry about it not being good for us.
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I'd bring back women who aren't spoilt brats. GIRL POWER! GO TELL YOUR MAN TO F*CK OFF FOR NO REASON! Thanks Oprah!!!
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Privacy. A sense of it and a respect for it.
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My virginity LOL. Kidding. Friendly neighbourhoods where all the neighbours are friends and the kids play together.
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my 66 mustang & my first love.
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Clean air ---and I am talking about 50 years or more ago.
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Pink panther chocolate bars,spangles,sweet tobacco,funny feet icecreams. :):) And cresta drinks!!!"Its frothy man"
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just the simplicity of it all and knowing that the world was a much safer place...and, yes, the music was good, too
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the innocence that children had. i get so startled when kids talk so like older folks
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-Being able to go into your front yard and not be afraid of getting kidnapped, raped, or shot. -Clean air. -VHS tapes.
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Lower prices on everything!
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Kids having RESPECT for their parents, their elders, their teachers, their clergy. Hell, for themselves!
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YEA. My Brother... He dead now... I would like to bring him back... .......the good old days
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5 cent Tangy Taffy bars and Family Values. Wait... The nickel we spent on the Taffy, we got for doing a chore, or acting responsibly. Could there be a connection?
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yes. i'd like to bring back the lack of so many STDs! it's a good thing there wasn't an AIDS epidemic back in the "free love" days.
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To be able to sleep at night with all the windows open.
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When getting in trouble in school meant chewing gum or smoking cigarettes or dress code violation..... Speaking of school, it'd be nice to have a 12th grade education upon receipt of a high school diploma. I come across so many functional illiterates who graduated.
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Honesty, respect, integrity, families staying together, small town feel.
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petrol prices
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Honesty and integrity. Empathy.
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GOOD MUSIC!!
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Close nit families....We have lost that...
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OMG! The Sit and Spin. ALthough..IT was pretty dangerous.
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The smurfs
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CHIVALRY
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one dollar a gallon of gas, that would be sweet.
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The Constitution and the Bill of Rights.
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LP's for the artwork on the cover. It is lost on Cd's and will disappear with downloads.
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Love
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Freedom and honesty.
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Thundercats
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Good family values
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When I read this question the movie "Now and Then" came to mind.. I'm 18, so I wasn't around in the 50's. I've heard about how it was a safer time though, and given the opportunity to transport to those times to experience it would do it IN A HEARTBEAT. Something I would take back w/ me to our times if I could, would be the way that the kids played around, frolicking around on bikes, eating icecream, and the worst thing you'd hear about between them was an occasion fight on the baseball field, and usualy one kid just calling another kid a name, like weeney lol. They were in total security knowing that hte people driving around were friendly though.. that is the main different. This was the environment in the movie "Now and Then". When you know it's secure, you can then appreciate the fun more, and when you can appreciate the fun, you are drawn more to the surroundings..and then you notice whats real..there is less drama when the safety of the area can cause you to enjoy things, and be so wrapped up in your fun and the beauty you notice lying all around you, that there just isn't a thought in your mind to create unecessary drama or have a fear that someone creepy is going to pass by. The more i wrote about this just now the more I realized how lucky they were, and how grateful I am for the areas that have this safety. If I have kids some day I'd like to give them as much safety as I can. -my favorite part was when they were out listening to the good ol' cute 50's and 60's music, while painting the garage outdoors. whoot whoot to the 60's.
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Premium Gas for $0.99/gallon Regular unleaded for $0.89/gallon :)
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For kids to say "Yes, Ma'am" and "No Sir" and be taught to treat adults with respect.
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cheap pot
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I would bring back the gas prices, yep that's what I would do.
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