Remember

• When...the worst thing you could do at school was smoke in the bathroom or behind the boiler room, flunk a test or chew gum in class.
• When being sent to the Principal’s office was nothing compared to the wrath you faced at home afterward.
• When girls wore dresses and looked like girls.
• When Going to a party dressed up also meant wearing a starched white collar that was itchy.
• When a ’52 Chevy was the envy of the crowd…to cruise, peel out, and watch drag races.
• When people went steady and girls wore a class ring with inches of wrapped dental floss or yarn coated with nail polish so it would fit her finger.
• When car keys were always in the ignition and no one ever locked the door.
• Lying on your back on the grass with friends and saying things like “That cloud looks like a …”
• When stuff from the store came without safety caps and seals because no one had yet tried to poison a perfect stranger, and parents kept such things from children.
• When hamburgers were 25 cents at Vicki’s drive-in on first street; slightly more at Shearer’s. Ice Cream sodas at the Durant Drug Store.
• Duck hunting in the Silo area.
• Taking your date to the Sky View drive-in theatre and ripping off a speaker if for no other reason than it might come in handy someday.
• When the site of Lake Texoma was dry ground.
• Shining your real leather shoes with shoe polish.
• The Adventures of Superman, The Lone Ranger, and The Shadow Knows on the radio Sunday afternoon after lunch at a friend’s house.
• The A & W Root Beer Stand, and driving across the border to Dennison, TX to get cheap gas. 9.8 cents a gallon and before OPEC was formed. (Tom Blair '57)
• The DHS Track Team won the State Track Meet with Coach Tate and the boys.... June Garner Shaffer '60
• The DHS band and choir traveled to the Buchaneer Festival in Corpus Christie, Tx. and won the Sweepstakes Trophy... June Garner Shaffer '60
• George's hamburgers were the BEST........ June Garner Shaffer '60
• All of us "Lionettes" in the Pep Club wore those funny outfits.......June Garner Shaffer '60
• Sneaking off to Colbert's "Sam and Ruth's" for the best bar-b-que in the area! Ron Jackson 1964
• The Ada Game of 1949: We had 1st and goal from Ada's 3 yard in early fall, 1948, and we were behind 6-0. We had to win, but two tries by Nichols, one by Ely, and one by Tomme, and we didn't score. Forever etched into our team's psyche. Ada won one more time.....Paul Johnson '49.
• DHS won the Gymnastics State Championship in 1987. Submitted by Kasia (Mowles) Reese, Class of 1989.
• Head light dimmer switches on the floor. Ignition switches on the dashboard. Heaters mounted on the inside of the fire wall.
• Real ice boxes.
• Pant leg clips for bicycles without chain guards.
• Soldering irons you heat on a gas burner.Using hand signals for cars without turn signals.
• Blackjack chewing gum
• Wax Coke-shaped bottles with colored sugar water
• Candy cigarettes
• Soda pop machines that dispensed bottles
• Coffee shops with tableside jukeboxes
• Home milk delivery in glass bottles with cardboard stoppers
• Party lines
• Newsreels before the movie
• P.F. Flyers
• Butch wax
• Telephone numbers with a word prefix (Olive-6933)
• Peashooters
• Howdy Doody
• S&H Green Stamps
• Hi-fi's
• 45 RPM Records
• Metal ice trays with lever
• Mimeograph paper
• Blue flashbulb
• Packards
• Roller skate keys
• Cork popguns
• Drive-ins
• Studebakers
• Wash tub wringers
• Wouldn’t it be nice if the children of today could live these experiences? They can’t. The world is a different place today.
  
• There, didn’t it make you feel all warm and fuzzy being able to say, “Yeah, I remember that!”