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  Lady Mystique (ladymystique) 4-Laureate Username: ladymystique Post Number: 102 Registered: 4-2004 Posted From: 216.222.243.117 |
Someone gave this to me at work...I thought y'all would enjoy... Some of you may not remember, but I remember them all (which makes me older than dirt). I know this will bring huge laughs from everyone!!! Those were the days! Do you remember? Thought you would enjoy this DO YOU REMEMBER WHEN...? All the girls had ugly gym uniforms? It took five minutes for the TV warm up? Nearly everyone's Mom was at home when the kids got home from school? Nobody owned a purebred dog? When a quarter was a decent allowance? You'd reach into a muddy gutter for a penny? STILL DO! Your Mom wore nylons that came in two pieces? All your male teachers wore neckties and female teachers had their hair done every day and wore high heels? You got your windshield cleaned, oil checked, and gas pumped, without asking, all for free, every time? And you didn't pay for air? And, you got trading stamps to boot? Laundry detergent had free glasses, dishes or towels hidden inside the box? It was considered a great privilege to be taken out to dinner at a real restaurant with your parents? They threatened to keep kids back a grade if they failed. . ..and they did? When a 57 Chevy was everyone's dream car...to cruise, peel out, lay rubber or watch submarine races, and people went steady? No one ever asked where the car keys were because they were always in the car, in the ignition, and the doors were never locked? Lying on your back in the grass with your friends and saying things like, "That cloud looks like a ..." and playing baseball with no adults to help kids with the rules of the game? Stuff from the store came without safety caps and hermetic seals because no one had yet tried to poison a perfect stranger? And with all our progress, don't you just wish, just once, you could slip back in time and savor the slower pace, and share it with the children of today? When being sent to the principal's office was nothing compared to the fate that awaited the student at home? Basically we were in fear for our lives, but it wasn't because of drive-by shootings, drugs, gangs, etc. Our parents and grandparents were a much bigger threat! But we survived because their love was greater than the threat. Send this on to someone who can still remember: Nancy Drew, the Hardy Boys, Laurel and Hardy, Howdy Dowdy and the Peanut Gallery, the Lone Ranger, The Shadow Knows, Nellie Bell, Roy and Dale, Trigger and Buttermilk. As well as summers filled with bike rides, baseball games, Hula Hoops, bowling and visits to the pool, and eating Kool-Aid powder with sugar. Didn't that feel good, just to go back and say, "Yeah, I remember that"? I am sharing this with you today because it ended with a double dog dare to pass it on. To remember what a double dog dare is, read on. And remember that the perfect age is somewhere between old enough to know better and too young to care. How many of these do you remember? Candy cigarettes Wax Coke-shaped bottles with colored sugar water inside Soda pop machines that dispensed glass bottles Coffee shops with tableside jukeboxes Blackjack, Clove and Teaberry chewing gum Home milk delivery in glass bottles with cardboard stoppers Newsreels before the movie P.F. Fliers Telephone numbers with a word prefix....(Raymond 4-601). Party lines Peashooters Howdy Dowdy 45 RPM records Green Stamps Hi-Fi's Metal ice cubes trays with levers Mimeograph paper Beanie and Cecil Roller-skate keys Cork pop guns Drive ins Studebakers Washtub wringers The Fuller Brush Man Reel-To-Reel tape recorders Tinkertoys Erector Sets The Fort Apache Play Set Lincoln Logs 15 cent McDonald hamburgers! I do, do you? and it was in Virginia 1961 5 cent packs of baseball cards - with that awful pink slab of bubble gum Penny candy 35 cent a gallon gasoline Jiffy Pop popcorn Do you remember a time when... Decisions were made by going "eeny-meeny-miney-moe"? Mistakes were corrected by simply exclaiming, "Do Over!"? "Race issue" meant arguing about who ran the fastest? Catching the fireflies could happily occupy an entire evening? It wasn't odd to have two or three "Best Friends"? The worst thing you could catch from the opposite sex was "cooties"? Having a weapon in school meant being caught with a slingshot? A foot of snow was a dream come true? Saturday morning cartoons weren't 30-minute commercials for action figures? "Oly-oly-oxen-free" made perfect sense? Spinning around, getting dizzy, and falling down was cause for giggles? The worst embarrassment was being picked last for a team? War was a card game? Baseball cards in the spokes transformed any bike into a motorcycle? Taking drugs meant orange-flavored chewable aspirin? Water balloons were the ultimate weapon? If you can remember most or all of these, then you have lived!! Pass this on to anyone who may need a break from their "grown-up" life . . .I double-dog-dare-ya! Some I do remember, but some I don't...I hope I have brightened your day with these memories! | ||
Linda Di. (linda_di_fsg) 1-Arriviste Username: linda_di_fsg Post Number: 5 Registered: 4-2004 Posted From: 66.67.193.82 |
These are great! Thank you for sharing. I remember wanting a good reel-to-reel recorder. That way, I could save my music "forever" because records got scratched. How things have changed! | ||
Linda Di. (linda_di_fsg) 1-Arriviste Username: linda_di_fsg Post Number: 6 Registered: 4-2004 Posted From: 66.67.193.82 |
Gotta add one more. Lik-M-Aid. Do you remember pouring that concoction into the palm of your hand and licking it up. It was tasty, but the thought of licking a dirty hand now is ... well ... I wouldn't do it! LOL | ||
Lady Mystique (ladymystique) 4-Laureate Username: ladymystique Post Number: 103 Registered: 4-2004 Posted From: 66.33.227.184 |
Linda...I hear ya...my dad had a reel-to-reel...he has since upgraded to a CD recorder in the stereo and still upgrading...he still has the reel-to-reel and 8-track player! Lik-M-Aid...We used to get them right before school (they were cheap, I used to get mine for 10 cents a pack at the corner store right by the school), but before we got into the classroom, we had to wash our hands...teachers weren't havin' it! LOL | ||
Kev-Lo (7273747576) 2-Debutant Username: 7273747576 Post Number: 20 Registered: 4-2004 Posted From: 4.236.201.197 |
Hi this is Lev-Lo yes I remember some of those things as well,but most of all those were still the good old days,It's too bad those days are gone. | ||
Ritchie (ritchie) 3-Pundit Username: ritchie Post Number: 31 Registered: 4-2004 Posted From: 62.254.0.32 |
I think on this side of the pond we had a different set of 'old days'... Do you remember when.....? TV was black and white, and there were only two channels (three if your folks were posh and had BBC2) You'd watch the "Black And White Minstrel Show" without feeling embarrassed. Kids had pocket money instead of credit cards. You could buy three singles with a one pound record token. LPs were boring music for grown-ups. Adults were still called "grown-ups". - And were respected. You didn't like it but still went to Sunday School, because your Mum & Dad told you to. If they said, "no" - they meant it. Smith's crisps had a little blue bag of salt and only came in "potato crisp" flavour. Radio Luxembourg was about the only radio station that played the music you wanted to hear. The record shop was in the basement of the piano shop and run by a snooty old lady who didn't like pop music. You got an LP for your birthday instead of every week. - But a well-meaning auntie bought you Val Doonican, thinking it was pop music. Whatever music you played on your little portable was always a racket - (as in, "turn that racket down!")  | ||
lenny (lennytone) 1-Arriviste Username: lennytone Post Number: 10 Registered: 4-2004 Posted From: 66.241.87.179 |
I still sing this song all the time: "Every day you meet a friend but do you know how to be a friend? Well if you don't I'll tell you how Just yell HOWDY DOODY!" I had a Howdy Doody marionette. Could probably retire if I still had it. I loved that pink gum. I had a complete set of Rock & Roll trading cards, and both series of Davy Crockett. How about 'Cracker Balls'. You threw them down on the sidewalk and they exploded. My school forced the store to stop selling them. The principal addressed the students with a megaphone; no public address system yet! There was an old 'penny candy' store near my school. Licorice hats were 2 for a penny. The most expensive thing was those strips of colored candy dots on paper for two cents. Hell, no, I'm not over 100 years old! | ||
Stranger56 (stranger56) 1-Arriviste Username: stranger56 Post Number: 3 Registered: 4-2004 Posted From: 24.186.184.6 |
Bonomo Turkish Taffy, the candy you'd hold in the palm of your hand, then slam it down on the table till it broke in a thousand pieces. God, I miss those. Jim | ||
Lady Mystique (ladymystique) 4-Laureate Username: ladymystique Post Number: 110 Registered: 4-2004 Posted From: 66.33.227.184 |
Yeah...remember how you used to line up for assembly every morning, that's how you got the day's announcements...if it was raining/snowing, you were in the auditorium! | ||
Juicefree20 (juicefree20) 4-Laureate Username: juicefree20 Post Number: 79 Registered: 4-2004 Posted From: 141.149.49.242 |
Hey all. I have to leave for a bit. When I come back, have I got some stuff for you folks!!!! Especially you LadyM!!!! I love these types of threads. Juice | ||
lenny (lennytone) 2-Debutant Username: lennytone Post Number: 13 Registered: 4-2004 Posted From: 66.241.87.179 |
"B-O N-O M-O Bo-no-mo Oh oh oh, it's Bonomo....candy!" Loved slamming it down on the sidewalk. Then you had to pick it up fast before your friends stepped on it. Strawberry was my favorite. | ||
Moe (moe) 2-Debutant Username: moe Post Number: 15 Registered: 4-2004 Posted From: 24.140.73.33 |
What about going to the drive in with your friends at 90cents a carload? | ||
johneflat (johneflat) 1-Arriviste Username: johneflat Post Number: 7 Registered: 4-2004 Posted From: 152.163.252.166 |
LOL this is cracking me up!!! What about those "fallout shelters" and "civil defense" drills where they taught you to get under the desk (like that was really gonna save your little a-- from a nuclear blast!) also that Sabin polio vaccine that they let us DRINK! And you know something? Those morning devotions (pledge to the flag and the Lord's prayer)never killed me either. | ||
Lady Mystique (ladymystique) 4-Laureate Username: ladymystique Post Number: 114 Registered: 4-2004 Posted From: 66.33.227.184 |
Hey Juice...waiting for ya! Moe...by the time I arrived, drive-ins were being obsolete, but I have a memory of being squeezed in the back of a car with 5 of my relatives (the other two up front) to watch a movie. Very uncomfortable, but as I look back on it, it was fun! johneflat...I remember the "air" and "fire" drills...I remember during a fire drill we had to run out in our gym clothes! Thank goodness it was fairly warm! And I do miss the pledge and prayer in the morning...I wish that came back. | ||
Linda Di. (linda_di_fsg) 1-Arriviste Username: linda_di_fsg Post Number: 7 Registered: 4-2004 Posted From: 66.67.193.82 |
Who remembers putting a few friends in the car trunk to get into the drive-in cheaper? I did that once, turned the corner, and found a long line waiting to pull into the drive-in to see Superfly. It all turned out well, but we never did that again! | ||
Lady Mystique (ladymystique) 4-Laureate Username: ladymystique Post Number: 123 Registered: 4-2004 Posted From: 66.33.227.184 |
Linda...I think someone in my family did that once...word to the wise...NEVER put a tall person in the trunk...LOL...talk about cramps! LOL AND there was another person in there with him! LOL He still complains about it! | ||
Uptight (uptight) 2-Debutant Username: uptight Post Number: 11 Registered: 4-2004 Posted From: 24.55.0.68 |
- Did your kindergarten teacher have a piano in the room, and she would play it and sing nursery rhymes?!! - How did they decide who would bring something to class for Show & Tell? I don't remember if I ever brought anything. - Remember giving the teacher a peck on the cheek before leaving class? (Uh, we're talking the early years of school.) - In 7th grade, my teacher would give out demerit points to anyone who misbehaved. I had never heard the word merit at the time--just demerit. (LOL) Come to think of it, I doubt that she actually kept a record of such marks. - Does anyone remember playing in the huge hole the City of Detroit was digging while building I-96 (Jeffries Freeway)? We called it "the hole." When it snowed we would slide down the side using plastic leaf-&-lawn bags. Only the kids from the rich family on the block had a real toboggan or sled. And during summer we would explore it and walk through the sections of huge cement pipes. Remember how the sound of your voice reverberated inside those pipes? My dad and I once sat on a mound there one evening and flew a kite until it got stuck in a tree. | ||
Morgan (leeway) 1-Arriviste Username: leeway Post Number: 4 Registered: 4-2004 Posted From: 205.188.116.138 |
Okay, i've got one and I hope(!) someone else did this as a kid.. We would throw down pop cans, smash them to fit to the bottom of our feet, and walk around making this loud clack!clack!clack! noise!!! We would run in them, play tag, do everything until some adult would yell at us to take those g-d--n cans off of our feet!!! (Hey! We were poor kids!-But we sure had a lot of fun!) We really used our imaginations back then as kids, unlike these spoiled-rotten-by technology and lazy parents-kids of today! I was reading an article in a magazine one day, and the writer was looking back on his childhood and talking about how un-structed our childhoods were. No 4p.m soccer practice, no 5p.m dance lessons, no 6p.m swimming lessons- we were allowed to be kids and have fun! I do recognize that we live in a different "world" today, but I do think way too many parents have stressed their children out with all of these "structered activities. If you notice, in a lot of cases where you have this going on, a lot of parents seem to "get off" on saying that "Oh yes, Jane is on the debate team, swimming team, softball team AND she takes ballet lessons". I'm not saying kids should not be active in something, or just sit up at home playing video games and watching BET or MTV. I just say that in some instances, it's too much, parents go overboard. Is it just me or has does anyone else agree/disagree? | ||
Linda Di. (linda_di_fsg) 1-Arriviste Username: linda_di_fsg Post Number: 10 Registered: 4-2004 Posted From: 66.67.193.82 |
I agree! Kids don't have the chance to be just kids anymore. There's no outlet for them to just play and to use their imagination (i.e., pop can shoes). When I listen to my friends' and coworkers' schedules with their kids, I get exhausted just hearing it. | ||
Stranger56 (stranger56) 1-Arriviste Username: stranger56 Post Number: 4 Registered: 4-2004 Posted From: 165.155.160.122 |
We used to melt crayons into bottle caps and play Skelsie (AKA: Skellies, Killer Diller) in the street. BUT....if you wanted to sacrifice power for speed and distance, here's a secret! You rub the top of a soda bottle (not plastic, but glass) gently across a manhole cover, and the glass ring just pops off, giving you a real glider. Only problem is, the wax-filled bottle caps could really shatter those speed demons. Ahhh....those were the days! Jim | ||
Lady Mystique (ladymystique) 4-Laureate Username: ladymystique Post Number: 139 Registered: 4-2004 Posted From: 66.33.227.184 |
Uptight...my kindergarten teacher had a piano in there! LOL The big, wooden, upright ones! We did a color wheel and that's how we chose who would do Show and Tell. And sliding down the hole in those bags...that sounded like fun! Morgan...I used to do those with the cans!! You ever walked down the hallway with them! They were loud, but we didn't care! Or how about putting tacks on the soles of your shoes? We used to think we were tap dancers! I agree with the kids today having too much structure in their lives. I make it a point to have maybe one activity that my daughter will enjoy (she is in Girl Scouts and I am also co-leader). But, I make sure that she enjoys being a kid. I also purposely installed one digital cable box in the living room, although the rest of the house have television, the channels she want to watch are on the box. So, if nothing is on for her to watch, she goes out and gets some fresh air or do a craft or play with her firends or something. I used to live right across the street from Parade Grounds park in Brooklyn, NY and on weekends (when my mum could allow it) we used to go there to play by ourselves. Prospect Park was right behind there and as long as we told our parents, we went there also to play. Nowadays, you can't do that anymore because you have to look over your shoulders all the time. I do miss those days! | ||
douglasm (douglasm) 2-Debutant Username: douglasm Post Number: 16 Registered: 4-2004 Posted From: 68.113.12.67 |
I remember grade school field trips, mainly factory tours to places like Velvet Peanut Butter, the Vernors plant, and the Wonder Bakery. And my hero, Charlie (Paw Paw) Maxwell, the left handed (as am I) Tiger left fielder of the late '50's. One of the big dissapointments of my youth was going to Gekes (sp) Sporting Goods to buy a Charlie Maxwell autograph model mitt. They had one. It was RIGHT handed. But seriously, most of all, "I Want A Clark Bar". | ||
Stranger56 (stranger56) 1-Arriviste Username: stranger56 Post Number: 6 Registered: 4-2004 Posted From: 165.155.160.122 |
Hey, at least you can still get a Clark Bar, Douglas......I'll never be able to slam my Turkish Taffy again! LOL Jim | ||
ralph (ralph) Moderator Username: ralph Post Number: 51 Registered: 3-2004 Posted From: 209.240.205.61 |
Lady M, Great thread, but I noticed on another thread that you will be celebrating your 30th year soon. I'm sure the list you posted is pretty much all Greek to you. Maybe you remember LPs baby. Linda Di, You are also of tender years. 10 cents for Lik M Ade??? An outrageous fortune by my memory.We paid a penny. | ||
Lady Mystique (ladymystique) 4-Laureate Username: ladymystique Post Number: 143 Registered: 4-2004 Posted From: 199.224.119.131 |
Ralph...Yeah some I don't know about but some I do...especially the summers filled with bike rides! I remember the 45s, LPs, Lincoln logs, candy cigarettes, Jiffy Pop, and water balloons! Oh yes...I do remember the Clark bars! | ||
ralph (ralph) Moderator Username: ralph Post Number: 53 Registered: 3-2004 Posted From: 209.240.205.61 |
Clark Bars. When I was a kid some idiot had started a rumor that to get Clark Bars crisp they put rat hairs in them. | ||
Morgan (leeway) 1-Arriviste Username: leeway Post Number: 5 Registered: 4-2004 Posted From: 152.163.252.166 |
Lady M.- I am so glad someone else did that with the pop cans!! We also did the tack-tap dance "thing" also!!! Remember also catching the white butterflies (grasshoppers and bees) and putting them in a Miracle Whip jar (or a jelly jar) and poking holes at the top, putting some grass in there (I guess we were trying to make them feel more at "home"?) and .....just watching the poor things die? Sometimes we (I) would put my eyeballs up to the glass as close as I could to get a better look at the insects. Those grasshoppers always looked pissed!!! A friend of mine and I were talking about that one day and we wondered why on earth did we do things like that? Especially with the bees cause you could hear them bumping up against the glass jar, and who would want a bee as a "pet"? LOL Strange.... I hated Clark Bars, along with Zagnuts and Charleston Chews. Also the Pink and White Good and Plenty's, yuck. | ||
StingBeeLee (stingbeelee) 1-Arriviste Username: stingbeelee Post Number: 1 Registered: 4-2004 Posted From: 155.139.50.14 |
A box. There were so many things you could do with a box. We would cut a hole in the box and play T.V., or we would cut the sides and use the box for a sled down our stairs. And if someone just got an appliance and left the big box outside, we would be in heaven! | ||
Linda Di. (linda_di_fsg) 2-Debutant Username: linda_di_fsg Post Number: 11 Registered: 4-2004 Posted From: 66.67.193.82 |
Who remembers truly believing that the people on TV were really inside the TV? And the singers on the radio were really in the radio? | ||
count (the_count) 2-Debutant Username: the_count Post Number: 19 Registered: 4-2004 Posted From: 69.14.221.162 |
Rember the FIZZIES, we would take the ROOT BEER ones and put 2wo of them in the toilet at school and not flush, then tell the guys hey go look in the first stall and look what Timmy, or Dickie, or whoever did. That guy we accused of would be so pissed and be embarrased all day.We even put them in the toilet to make a buddy drink from the toilet as an initiation into our klub, "HEY MAN THIS TASTES LIKE ROOT BEER" Remember when "MARY JANES" were kandy? | ||
Moe (moe) 2-Debutant Username: moe Post Number: 19 Registered: 4-2004 Posted From: 66.219.162.219 |
Count, we did that, too, with those FIZZIES!! LMAO!! | ||
douglasm (douglasm) 2-Debutant Username: douglasm Post Number: 19 Registered: 4-2004 Posted From: 68.113.12.67 |
Mary Jane's I can get out here in the Pacific Northwest but I can't eat them. Dentures. Clark Bars I can eat, but can't get and Butterfingers are a poor substitute. Remember when a televised baseball game was a treat? And night games were rare? And the last time the Lions played in an NFL Championship game, it wasn't televised in Detroit. It was a home game. | ||
count (the_count) 2-Debutant Username: the_count Post Number: 20 Registered: 4-2004 Posted From: 69.14.221.162 |
Remember these klocks? My brother and i would shoot at the kats tail while it was moving back and forth with our bee-bee guns, dad would get home from work and kick my ass bekause my brother would tell my dad, Steve did it and dad would believe my brother kause he is 5ive years older then me and dad thought brother George knew better and would never do that. The things us younger siblings would get blamed for brought many ass woopins. "COUNT"  | ||
Moe (moe) 2-Debutant Username: moe Post Number: 20 Registered: 4-2004 Posted From: 66.219.162.219 |
Count, what a great pic!!!! Do you all remember those wax lips & wax teeth?? | ||
Uptight (uptight) 2-Debutant Username: uptight Post Number: 15 Registered: 4-2004 Posted From: 24.55.0.68 |
Linda Di, I think you were the only one who thought people were inside the TV...! (just kidding). We all know they were in the radio, though. I'm sure all us boys at one time pretended to be Superman, using a a towel as a cape. Morgan: I usually let someone else capture the grasshopper or bee in the jar. But I was fascinated looking up close at the insect. It was like scientific discovery or exploration of another species. The refrigerator box was great in the backyard when someone would roll you around in it. Remember playing "telephone" with two cans connected by a string? Or using a periscope to see around the corner of the house? | ||
count (the_count) 2-Debutant Username: the_count Post Number: 21 Registered: 4-2004 Posted From: 69.14.221.162 |
HEY MOE, yea those lips and teeth of wax, also the wax bottles with the flavor drinks in side. Bubble gum cigars, bubble gum hot rod kollector kards(still have mine from 1957--59) chum-gum 3hree stix for a penny,berries, my favorite at the drive-inns. Remember JIFFY POP pop korn and the beat nick in the kommerical of JIFFY POP,"no pots no pans or bowls to foil, you got pop korn, salt, butter and oil, now make with the heat man" Remember the HOLLOWAY all day sucker, 5ive cents, today that monster sucker would be at lease $1.50. "COUNT" | ||
Lady Mystique (ladymystique) 4-Laureate Username: ladymystique Post Number: 166 Registered: 4-2004 Posted From: 199.224.119.131 |
Ralph...that's messed up! Morgan...we did that with the fireflies...Charleston Chews, I used to think my teeth would break with those things, but I bought them anyway and I hated the pink and white Good and Plenty also (licorice)...in fact, my boyfriend eats them in front of me to spite me sometimes because he knows I hate the smell of them...he loves them! Sting...we used to think we were the Flintstones and ride around in our state of the art box car LOL! Linda...I used to believe that...I actually took apart the radio (I DARE not touch the TV) to see if there were people inside...thank heavens I knew how to put it back together! Count...Mary Janes were THE candy! Moe...the corner store used to sell those wax stuff...I used to hate them! Remember Weebles? My older brother had a collection of them! Remember when you used to put an orange wedge in your mouth to make it look like orange teeth? My older brother was into making Go Carts when he was little...and thus cemented his interest in cars! Remember when you were older you played truth or dare or spin the bottle? I used to hate those games because I wasn't that popular...if the boys could see me now... | ||
Uptight (uptight) 2-Debutant Username: uptight Post Number: 18 Registered: 4-2004 Posted From: 24.55.0.68 |
LadyM: you took the casing off the TV..? Funny. And your parents were none the wiser when they came home, huh? Does anyone still use a black & white TV? The screen would glow in the dark for a couple of minutes after turning it off. There would still be a white dot glowing in the middle of the screen for a while. A younger neighbor had Wheebles. They were egg-shaped people, a family. "Wheebles wobble, but they don't fall down..." was the slogan. | ||
Lady Mystique (ladymystique) 5-Doyen Username: ladymystique Post Number: 171 Registered: 4-2004 Posted From: 199.224.119.131 |
Uptight...I didn't take apart the TV...I took apart the radio...touch the TV? I would not be sitting here today! Nah, I think I was an adult when I told her I took apart the radio...she just looked at me and shook her head! My B&W did the glow too! Hey...I am a Doyen! (Message edited by LadyMystique on April 19, 2004) | ||
ralph (ralph) Moderator Username: ralph Post Number: 57 Registered: 3-2004 Posted From: 209.240.205.61 |
Yeah Moe, The wax lips and teeth. Use them for a while then chew them. | ||
Lady Mystique (ladymystique) 5-Doyen Username: ladymystique Post Number: 175 Registered: 4-2004 Posted From: 199.224.119.131 |
This may have came out before my time...I remember when I was little my grandmother bringing over this color sheet to put over the B&W...it had 3 strips of color (I think it was red, yellow, and green or blue...I may be wrong) going horizontally. That's when my mother bought the family the color television (you know the big long wooden ones that you could decorate with knick-knacks) that came with a remote...it matched the television and had 3 black buttons-one each for power, channel, and volume. I remember the remote making a loud clicking sound when you pressed them. When the tube blew, we just threw a doily or something over it and my mum bought a replacement TV to put on top of it! My mum did have style! | ||
Moe (moe) 2-Debutant Username: moe Post Number: 22 Registered: 4-2004 Posted From: 66.219.162.219 |
Lady M, To play a joke on my sister, my parents got one of those sheets with the 3 strips of color & told her we got a color TV. I think it was red, yellow, & blue. Boy was my sister mad when she found out!! | ||
Uptight (uptight) 2-Debutant Username: uptight Post Number: 19 Registered: 4-2004 Posted From: 24.55.0.68 |
LadyM, oops! I had mis-read your post. | ||
Lady Mystique (ladymystique) 5-Doyen Username: ladymystique Post Number: 176 Registered: 4-2004 Posted From: 199.224.119.131 |
Moe...that's funny! Uptight...that's ok! | ||
Soul Sister (soul_sister) 4-Laureate Username: soul_sister Post Number: 77 Registered: 4-2004 Posted From: 68.73.160.101 |
LM; Yeah I experienced those same things too, even had the '57 Chevy, a white convertable with baby moons and an air scoop! LOL! Thanks for the trip down memory lane! S.S. | ||
jrlo (jrlo) 2-Debutant Username: jrlo Post Number: 16 Registered: 4-2004 Posted From: 24.130.218.105 |
Lady M, Thank you so much for that wonderful trip!! Remember those "klick klacks"? They were two large marble balls attached to heavy string adn you would klick them together slowly then you would click them very fast!! Those things were heavy...you could knock someone's eye out!!! | ||
Lady Mystique (ladymystique) 5-Doyen Username: ladymystique Post Number: 211 Registered: 4-2004 Posted From: 66.33.227.122 |
No problem Soul Sister and jrlo! Yeah, I remember the klick-klacks! LOL I think that's why they were put off the market! My brother had them...he used to click those for HOURS...if it wasn't those it was the paddle ball! | ||
Pogo (pogo) 1-Arriviste Username: pogo Post Number: 1 Registered: 4-2004 Posted From: 66.129.42.63 |
Believe it or not us kids would be able to by cigarettes for our parents at one time. You would throw a quarter in the cigarette machine and get a pack back with 3 pennies taped to it along with a pack of matches? Anybody from Detroit walk across the Ambassador Bridge for a dime? Pogo | ||
Uptight (uptight) 3-Pundit Username: uptight Post Number: 33 Registered: 4-2004 Posted From: 24.55.0.68 |
What was the name of those tubes of gummy chemicals that when applied to the end of a tiny straw you could blow it into a bubble? They formed balloon-like bubbles with swirly colors. | ||
Wonder B (wonder_b) 4-Laureate Username: wonder_b Post Number: 104 Registered: 4-2004 Posted From: 81.49.154.96 |
Oh Uptight I was crazy about this stuff... I loved the smell of that gum!!!! Can't remember the name though... it'll pop up at 2.30am and it will wake me up! LOL Wonder B | ||
Uptight (uptight) 3-Pundit Username: uptight Post Number: 40 Registered: 4-2004 Posted From: 24.55.0.68 |
I doubt they make the stuff any longer. It was fun. Was it made by Whammo? And whatever happened to Shrinky Dinks? You draw your favorite design on a sheet of plastic, cut it out, and heat it in a toaster oven. It would shrink into a hard plastic, and you could use it as a pendant or an ornament. Funny stuff. | ||
J5 Collector (j5_collector) 2-Debutant Username: j5_collector Post Number: 16 Registered: 4-2004 Posted From: 68.190.127.252 |
How about this type of home-made fun: remember attaching playing cards to the spokes of your bike with clothes pins so it would sound like your bike had a motor? And on the subject of bikes, did anyone else have -- or crave -- a stingray with a banana seat, sissy bar, and those weird handlebars? | ||
Lady Mystique (ladymystique) 5-Doyen Username: ladymystique Post Number: 240 Registered: 4-2004 Posted From: 216.222.243.111 |
Uptight...I remember those balloons AND the Shrinky Dinks...I used to get Shrinky Dinks EVERY Xmas, birthday, and Easter! J5...I used to do that to my bike! LOL What fun! AND my bike had a basket in the front with a HUGE flower on it AND a metal bell! | ||
Dinelle (dinelle_watson) 2-Debutant Username: dinelle_watson Post Number: 19 Registered: 3-2004 Posted From: 67.35.229.49 |
I remember my mom telling me that she used to play pinball everyday when she was my age. She and her friends played pinball games everyday before and after school at this little candy store. When my mom and her friends would go to school, she'd ask the owner to reserve the pinball for her and friends. I wish there were more candy stores here other than in the mall. Believe it or not, my mom still has her old LPs. I think she has her old record player too. I just haven't been able to find it. I think my stepmom has her LPs too. Unless she threw them or gave them away. I know that one of my older stepsisters has her old record player. I'd play one of her 45's whenever I went by her house. Most of the records she has are Motown records. I always played those. Especially her Marvin Gaye LP. | ||
Juicefree20 (juicefree20) 6-Zenith Username: juicefree20 Post Number: 433 Registered: 4-2004 Posted From: 24.46.184.162 |
Turkish Taffy tastes like candy. It's a cake, it's a candy, it's two treats in one!!! | ||
Dinelle (dinelle_watson) 2-Debutant Username: dinelle_watson Post Number: 20 Registered: 3-2004 Posted From: 67.35.229.49 |
Cool! I would love to taste that kind of taffy if they still make now, but I'd have to wait until my braces come off. | ||
Juicefree20 (juicefree20) 6-Zenith Username: juicefree20 Post Number: 436 Registered: 4-2004 Posted From: 24.46.184.162 |
Dinelle, there's a place that specializes in candy like that. I work for the Post Office & once saw a catalog that sold some of these candies. If I can locate the info, I'll pass it on. What I really wish is that they'd make Cola Jolly Ranchers again. That candy tasted just like cola. It tasted great. | ||
Dinelle (dinelle_watson) 2-Debutant Username: dinelle_watson Post Number: 23 Registered: 3-2004 Posted From: 67.35.229.49 |
Cool! Thinking of all this candy is making me so impatient that I can't wait until I get my braces off. | ||
Moe (moe) 3-Pundit Username: moe Post Number: 56 Registered: 4-2004 Posted From: 66.219.162.219 |
Dinelle, how much longer til you lose the braces? |
