You May be a Woman of a Certain Age

You May be a Woman of a Certain Age
By Cate Rees-Hessel
- If you were and are a Charlie Girl, you might be a woman of a certain age…
- If you know how to use a pencil to dial a rotary phone and save your manicure
- If you know what a rotary dial phone is, you might be a woman of a certain age.
- If you watched Scooby Doo on Saturday mornings while eating Fruit Loops
- If you know who, not what the Banana Splits are, you just might be a woman of a certain age.
- If you know the lyrics to the Archies “Sugar, Sugar”
- If you know who the Archies are
- If you know who Caroline Keene is
- If you know who Nancy Drew is
- If you know who Franklin W. Dixon is
- If you know who the Hardy Boys are
- If you know who Gertrude Chandler Warner is you just might be a woman of a certain age.
- If you know who the Boxcar Children are
- If you “wear a Coke and a smile”
- If you ordered a Peter Pan collared blouse from the Sears Roebuck catalog
- If you had a Montgomery Ward credit card and called it a “charge-a-plate”
- If you ever owned a transistor radio or portable record player
- If you watched America Bandstand every week
- If you know who Dick Clark was
- If you shopped at Thom McCann for platform shoes you just might be a woman of a certain age.
- If you still own bell bottoms but were never in the Navy
- If you know who Barnaby Jones was
- If you know who Buddy Ebsen was
- If you know who Lee Merriweather is
- If you call Uber and Lyft taxi cabs
- If you call 7-11 the corner store
- If you know what a penny arcade was
- If you remember “Me and my RC”
- If your spell checker was made by Miriam Webster
- If you know who Miriam Webster was
- If you attended the Barbizon School of Modeling
- If you attended John Robert Powers Finishing School you just might be a woman of a certain age.
- If you know what modeling and finishing schools are
- If you attended White Gloves and Party Manners classes at a local department store
- If you ever owned white gloves that weren’t for winter
- If you ever went through the Red Door
- If you read “The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe” in school
- If you had a color plastic sheet that went over your bunny eared black and white TV set
- If you had a silver metallic Christmas tree with a multi-color light wheel
- If you think retro and vintage are the latest fashions, you just might be a woman of a certain age.
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