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lighthearted -> RE: Do you remember.............................. (1/11/2008 8:14:28 PM)
playing in the middle of the street until dark, esp in the summertime Welcome Back Kotter! Montgomery Ward Dolphin shorts Horlicks - I loved the chocolate ones pudding in a can "stiff as a board, light as a feather" Wallabees "Z" Channel "Happy Days" and "Laverne and Shirley" the "Haunted Mansion" record... "High on a hilltop near your home lies a dilapidated old mansion..."

christine1 -> RE: Do you remember.............................. (1/11/2008 8:14:42 PM)
candy cigarettes hoppity horse and hoppity hop hoola hoops riding my bike miles and hours away and knowing i just had to be home before bed time and it was okay and safe to do that Seals and Croft The Carpenters Barry White watching Lawrence Welk with my grandmother and being in love with Bobby the original Star Trek series and thinking Cpt. Kirk was a hunk, but more interested in Spock for his strong but silent poise. and later on: mullets hash jeans and overalls platforms white eyeshadow leggings station wagons high heeled clogs Tab bubble letters jeans so tight that a guy couldn't pinch your ass no matter how hard he tried lol.

christine1 -> RE: Do you remember.............................. (1/11/2008 8:21:41 PM)
oh hottie, i forgot about paper dolls! i used to LOVE those!

Greylynn -> RE: Do you remember.............................. (1/11/2008 8:33:22 PM)
catching lightening bugs and putting them in a jar playing out in the rain snow ball fights chinese jump rope hop scotch hanging a tutherball off the street signs to play step on a crack break your mommas back eating Charlies Pizza in the basement of Lazarus MTV actually was music videos and nothing else Jolly Rancher stixs for 10 cents Pixie Sticks as big as I was slathering on baby oil and laying out to get tan Family picnics for every any reason during summer picking and shelling beans hanging clothes on the line the handmade Easter dresses from grandma, the hat, gloves and shoes to go with them. the Barbie Corvette and motorhome halloween costumes with plastic masks Bozo the Clown Uncle Al and Wendy Fritz the Night Owl on 10TV sleeping on a mattress on mom and dads bedroom floor in the summer because their room had an air conditioner Jello Pudding Pops Donnie & Marie Sonny & Cher Dolly & Porter The Mandrells The Statler Brothers - Elvira "Howdeeeeeeeeeeee" - Minnie Pearl, Roy Clark, Buck Owens and all the rest from Hee Haw Saturday morning cartoons Candies clogs gouchos

christine1 -> RE: Do you remember.............................. (1/11/2008 8:38:21 PM)
the Hardy Boys pet rocks Nancy Drew friday night Frightmare theater on TV space invaders chuck norris movies air supply ford pintos magic "8" balls moccassins (spelling i know) bell bottoms nylons to make your legs look tan lol plaid everything

velvetears -> RE: Do you remember.............................. (1/11/2008 8:45:23 PM)
i remember an old man with a pull cart would come down the street in the early evening - not much traffic and he had all kinds of rags he was selling. they were hanging all over his cart - i was leaning out the window asking my grandma who he was and she said he was the rag man - and women came down to buy his rags.

dcnovice -> RE: Do you remember.............................. (1/11/2008 8:53:29 PM)
quote: Banana seat bikes & putting cards in the wheels to make noise as you pedaled down the hills, letting go of the handlebars. Oh my God, yes! [:)] quote: catching fireflies Yep. We called them lightning bugs. quote: being gone all day on your bicycle and no one worried about where you were That too. It saddens me that my nieces and nephews will never experience it. quote: I remember phones with rotary dials...I wish they still had them, they were nice... I kept my black rotary till about ten years ago. If I had a second jack in the apartment, I'd get another rotary. Wouldn't it be great if someone made a rotary cellphone. You could have a wee stylus for dialing. quote: Kaptain Kangaroo, Romper Room i was on Romper Room once! quote: 45 rpm records with the yellow thingie to make them play Did those yellow thingies have a name? Friends and I were trying to remember the other day, and we couldn't think of one. quote: Those fold up paper fortune tellers that you fortold all your friends "true loves" and "best friends for life" I still know how to make them. [:)] quote: mimeograph machines, And getting (mildly) high by sniffing the purple ink! quote: Spirographs Lite Brite Dressy Bessy & Dapper Dan dolls Yes, yes, and yes. quote: Weebles wobble but they don't fall down :) Yep. quote: two all beef patties, special sauce, lettus, cheese, pickles, onions, on a sesame seed bun! LOL! quote: i remember when nuns used to wear habits . Me too. Well, the short ones. quote: the name of the guy who held the position of pope before JPII, however briefly? John Paul I, originally Albino Luciano. We used to joke that he became the patron saint of temporary help. quote: The Electric Company, I remember watching the premiere of that! Now I really feel old. quote: going christmas caroling We did that this past Christmas, I'm happy to report! Even got cookies at one house. quote: Lawrence Welk Show "So long, farewell, and pleasant dreams to you. Here's a wish and a prayer that every dream comes true." quote: The Partridge Family--"I think I love you, so what am I so afraid of? I'm afraid that I'm not sure of........... Their Christmas album is probably still in my parents' basement quote: benji, treswank, They're both back, DG. BruisedHick and KRANWEST, this time round. quote: Tab Ah, yes. quote: i forgot about paper dolls! i used to LOVE those! Me too, much to the distress of my parents.

Greylynn -> RE: Do you remember.............................. (1/11/2008 9:00:12 PM)
Girl Scout sleepovers at COSI laying crayons on the bathroom register to see if they would melt....they did. Milk and cookies as a snack in kindgergarten Silk jackets the mirror wall tiles w/the gold running through them - grandma had them in the kitchen and the livingroom - mom had them in a bedroom Wolfman Jack Kasey Kasim (sp?) and the countdown Grease Hart to Hart Love Boat

proudsub -> RE: Do you remember.............................. (1/11/2008 9:01:16 PM)
All of the above except the rag man. [:o] Also: slide rules .25 movies (double feature plus cartoons plus newsreel of the Korean war) .25/week allowance being paid .25/hr to babysit watching Sputnik pass overhead on a clear night playing kick the can on the corner the Fuller brush man riding the bus to dowtown Seattle alone at age 8 to shop at Woolworths Howdy Doody Mickey Mouse Club

dcnovice -> RE: Do you remember.............................. (1/11/2008 9:28:56 PM)
Pong Easy-Bake Ovens Trick-or-treating for UNICEF "I'm so glad we had this time together . . . " WIN buttons Spy vs. Spy Weekly Reader Romper Stompers Highlights at the doctor's office Getting a lollipop from the barber Nixon Now More Than Ever buttons "Boy, the way Glenn Miller played . . ." Spin art at fairs Mite boxes ". . . a three-hour tour . . ." Squeezing the Charmin Where's the beef? Detente "And that's the way it is . . ." Telephone exchanges that were actual words: PLaza 6-3939 Wonderama Giving things up for Lent "Plop, plop, fizz, fizz . . ." ". . . trustworthy, loyal, helpful, friendly, courteous, kind, obedient, cheerful, thrifty, brave, clean, and reverent" Bifocals with distinct lines Encyclopedia Brown Wacky Packs Those triangular vents/windows in cars Shag carpeting Eric Heiden (one of my first crushes) Misty Malarky Ying Yang Candyland Miss Lillian Who shot J.R.? Skylab "Mr. Grant . . ." Comet Kohoutek The Bicentennial "Marcia, Marcia, Marcia . . ." Solidarity SRAs Dolly Madison Zingers "I got a rock . . ." Green ribbons for Atlanta Old Maid Thinking that clothing wasn't a real gift "You sank my battleship!" The crying Indian on the environmental commercial "How am I doing?" Quisp and Quake Kunta Kinte Iowa Tests of Basic Skills Writing letters to Congressmen (who probably were men) "It's a beautiful day in the neighborhood . . ." Phone booths with directories in them Making wreaths out of IBM cards Lego that wasn't part of some specialized kit The Julie Andrews Show "Have it your way . . ." Archie comics

dcnovice -> RE: Do you remember.............................. (1/11/2008 11:05:11 PM)
Drinking tap water The thrill of (finally!) getting a color TV "Float like a butterfly . . ." Planet of the Apes Passbook accounts Paul Lynde in the center square Beads in doorways "If it says Libby's Libby's Libby's on the label label label . . ." Cheese spread that came in reusable juice glasses Fondue Plastic leis for Hawaiian night at the beach club Getting glasses at the gas station Getting toasters at the bank "Flesh" crayons Macrame Being a bum for Halloween "Kumbaya, my Lord . . ." TRS-80 Yellow ribbons Black-and-white marble notebooks Getting an actual person when you called customer service Erma Bombeck Monster Mash Making chains out of the flip-tops from soda cans Eastern Shuttle Single-digit stamps Book covers made from brown paper grocery bags Adding machines "My country, 'tis of thee . . ." Odd/even days for gas Being shocked that someone was self-important enough to have an answering machine Chow mein Hamburger Helper Soda in glass bottles Stores' being closed on Sunday (Not saying I miss that, but I do remember it) Washing the blackboard at school Fisher-Price people "One of these things is not like the others . . ." Drive-in movies Whiskey sours Switchboards The Miracle Mets ERA Carbon paper Flashbulbs Bermuda bags

christine1 -> RE: Do you remember.............................. (1/11/2008 11:20:39 PM)
lmao! SRA's! we used to call them stupid reading assignments... i can't even remember what they actually stood for...that is a blast from the past...wow!

sharainks -> RE: Do you remember.............................. (1/12/2008 5:19:35 AM)
Going to a restaurant and having them put little glass cups of creamer on the table for my dad's coffee and the little bowl full of pats of real butter that came at the same time. Drugstores with soda fountains and Green River sodas running through the sprinkler on hot summer days learning to drive with my dad next to me in his 56 chevy and a 3 on the column police who understood that teenagers grow up and didn't ticket the little pain in the asses every time they could being able to run the neighborhood with other kids and never feeling scared. cold watermelon on a hot night homemade ice cream from a crank freezer My parents wondering where they were going to buy milk or bread on a Sunday because everything was closed. Raggedy Ann and Andy dolls Barbie and Midge the annual trek to decorate the graves on Memorial day because it was the right thing to do my first pair of pantyhose and getting rid of the "training girdle" I can remember 13 and 14 year old girls wearing girdles just to hold up their stockings. meeting my first boyfriend My first kiss from above boyfriend Setting my hair on large orange juice cans to make my wavy hair straight enough Driving around in big old cars packed with 10 teenagers Getting an "updo" for prom making sure I could walk on the hem of my bellbottoms Listening with baited breath while a friend described her big brothers trip to Woodstock Watching every single night young men getting blown to pieces in Vietnam on the TV (not all memories are good) Worrying about the boys in my senior class going to war and being glad the draft was called off before graduation those ridiculous middle school dances where the boys and girls stood on separate sides of the room until one brave boy managed to start a trend by crossing the room and asking someone to dance. most people not liking microwaves because the food "just didn't taste the same" my little peddle car when I was 5 my first dog

camille65 -> RE: Do you remember.............................. (1/12/2008 5:50:50 AM)
Everything was made out of wood, no such thing as plastic.Curling up in the school hallway for nuclear war fall out practice.Watching MASH and not understanding why my cousin would cry.Only 6 TV channels and no one complained.My phone number was Mayfair3442.Running like the wind and never getting tired.Wooden stilts!Sit N Spin that my friend got and I didn't.Lincoln Logs made from wood.Tinker Toys also of wood.The Bill Kennedy Movie Hour at 4pm.Wonderful World Of Disney every Sunday night ( I was never allowed to stay up to watch the ending).Getting my allowance of .25 and not being able to decide what to buy because there were so many choices.Hippity Hop.Sledding on a metal tray 'borrowed' from the cafeteria at school.My father trying to explain the war news to me, and why so many hated 'those long hairs'.Dressing up to go to dinner, or on an airplane. No casual clothes for travelling.Real metal wings from the stewardesses on a plane and going into the cockpit to meet the pilot.It wasn't 'charming' to receive a gift that was handmade, it was perfectly normal.Party lines on the telephone.Prank calls since there was no caller ID.Halloween Trick or Treating with no parents and yes, in the dark.Men wore hats, not baseball caps but real hats.Women wore frilly aprons in the kitchen.The first Nair commercials.The Farrah Fawcett flip that I got in eighth grade (oh it looked awful hahaha).Fresca & Tab were the 'dietetic' drinks of choice.Metal Slinkies.Serving ware from gas stations!Green stamps.Sending real money in to buy stuff from the back of comic books which leads me to:Tooth blackening gum.Those things (forgot the name) that were supposed to be pets from the ocean but were actually brine shrimp.XRay glasses.Detective kits.Decoder rings.Actual toys in the bottom of a box of CrackerJacks. It really is funny how you can get pretty close to gauging someones age by what they remember from childhood, especially tech toys.What a nice walk down memory lane. Sure not all memories were good but for me most of them were. A different kind of innocence back then.

MissHarlet -> RE: Do you remember.............................. (1/12/2008 6:38:30 AM)
What a privelege to choose to remember the good things and laugh at the good times again . .. and to laugh with others and say to our selves " I hadnt thought of that in years"....and yes to be able to pretty much know the posters age by the memories lol.... lots are remembering things I bought my sons ... but its ok for its still wonderful memories ... a great thread with no flameing just a coming together of shareing of good memories and gentler times that made all of us who and what we are today. We all know there were bad times and things out there during all of this .. but can put those aside for a while... and smile ... what a concept... and to all of you posters ... " thanks for the memories"

Maya2001 -> RE: Do you remember.............................. (1/12/2008 7:23:26 AM)
-horse drawn milk deliveries, milk being in glass bottles -days when you had to actually do math in you head instead pulling out a calculator -summer skies that where blue rather than hazy on the hot days -Seeing the the original news flashes when JFK was shot and seeing my mom start crying - playing with glass clackers that could leave some nice bruises if you got out of rythm -steel tipped lawn darts -evenings when large groups of children played games regularily outdoors, like mother may I , hide and seek and dodgeball - going to donkey baseball games - going to the drive in to make out

Maya2001 -> RE: Do you remember.............................. (1/12/2008 7:30:30 AM)
quote: quote: Kaptain Kangaroo, Romper Room i was on Romper Room once! If you were on Romper room I used to go to school with Betty's daughter, Betty passed away young due to breast cancer You probably remember the Big Al show as well, I was on for my 5th birthday

sharainks -> RE: Do you remember.............................. (1/12/2008 7:33:59 AM)
I grew up in a very small town. Small towns tends to have a number of odd folks living in them as well as a different culture in terms of what they do. Fond memories of that kind of stuff: The two elderly lesbians who ran the local bookstore and kept cats in there who peed all over. They also kept the Playboys behind the counter so men had to ask for them The two old bachelor brothers who still farmed with horses well into the 1980's. They were huge beautiful Belgiums and a sight to behold as they worked. Another two old bachelor brothers who raised hogs. They never owned a pick up truck so when the weekly sale came around they would stuff a hog in the backseat of the car and take it to market. (anyone wonder why they were bachelors?) Going fishing and coon hunting with my dad because he didn't have any sons The grocer who made me cough to get those cherry cough drops that were just like candy and did about as much for a cough The teacher who gave his students in my virtually all white town their first example of what racism looked like. I'm sure some of the kids had seen it from their parents but it was a real eye opener to a lot of us. The 3 old drunks who used to sit on the street corner at night-every night The 22 year old school teacher who married the local sheriff's deputy and "did" most of the junior and senior class boys. Oddly enough back then the consensus among the adults was "who better to teach a boy than a teacher?"

TheHeretic -> RE: Do you remember.............................. (1/12/2008 7:44:08 AM)
quote: ORIGINAL: parttimehotty What do you remember from childhood? Cigarette vending machines, having to get change for any vending machine, politically incorrect cartoons before and after school (with no products to sell you). Realizing that my stack of Bicentennial quarters were never going to be worth more than 25 cents each.

ravennfyre -> RE: Do you remember.............................. (1/12/2008 9:26:08 AM)
In my hometown, we had Mr Licata, the old Italian man who re-soled shoes for decades, sitting outside of his shop on the corner and waving at everyone who went by... Joe Smallbones...resident scary guy..never bathed, heated his home with coal, drove a Model T...and was absolutely brilliant Dave McClellan of the McClellan Corvette era

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