Women of a Certain Age – Yet Again…
Women of a Certain Age-Yet Again…
By Cate Rees-Hessel
- If you had a latch hook shag rug in colors of orange, yellow, and chocolate brown, you might be a woman of a certain age…
- If you had a macrame plant hanger and a bead curtain in your first apartment…
- If you remember some of the shows on “When Radio Was” when they originally ran…
- If you know exactly what “You’ll shoot your eye out” means…
- If you ever sent or received a telegram…
- If you read Dennis the Menace or Mary Worth comic strips in a print newspaper…
- If you still read and enjoy a print newspaper…
- If you wore puka shells…
- If you used Short and Sassy shampoo and conditioner…
- If you remember the advertisement that read, “The only important things you wear are your jeans and your hair”…
- If you remember “Curlers in your hair, shame on you”…
- If you own curlers that don’t heat up or plug in…
- If your boyfriend had a Mustang muscle car…
- If you know who “Marsha, Marsha, Marsha” is…
- If you ever ate in a Pizza Hut with a salad bar…
- If you recall when bell bottoms and platform shoes were in fashion…
- If you ever bought a cup of coffee for a quarter, or even 50 cents…
- If you remember “You deserve a break today” and “At McDonald’s, it’s clean” commercials…
- If you ever got change back from a dollar at McDonald’s…
- If you ever shopped at a five and dime store…
- If you know what a five and dime store is…
- If you ever ate at a Woolworth restaurant…
- If you remember the original dollar stores…
- If you paid six dollars for your first concert ticket…
- If you ever wore gloves and a hat on a regular basis…
- If you remember Woodstock the concert, not just the bird…
- If you remember “It’s my party and I’ll cry if I want too…you’d cry too if it happened to you”…
- If you still own leg warmers and a double skinny belt…
- If you miss big hair, beehives and Aquanet…
- If you long for Dippity Do and DEP…
- If you ever used a hairspray called FREEZE…
- If you owned a smocked tunic top to wear over jeans…
- If you still wear Jean Nate body splash…
- If you still wear Sweet Honesty perfume…
- If you ever used Youth Dew bath oil…
- If you still use Prell Shampoo…
- If you love a good “Skybar”…
- If you know what a “Skybar” is…
- If you still bring home the bacon and fry it up in a pan (of course, the bacon you bring home is still less than your male counterpart)…
- If you saw an Alfred Hitchcock film in a theater…
- If you remember theaters that had only one screen…
- If you would give anything for a Tab on ice…
- If you know what a Tab is…
- If a flower behind your ear was an elegant touch…
- If you know the lyrics to all the Carol King and Carol Bayer Sager songs…
- If you remember original Orange Julius drinks and Dilly Bars…
- If you know exactly what “One Adam Twelve” means…
- If you support and respect the older gentleman that authored the Violence Against Women Act and gave us our first female VP…
- If Dr. Jill Biden is your role model…
- If you weathered the rain and the sun marching for Girls in Sports, reproductive freedom, and ERA…
