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Fri Feb-25-05 07:13 PM
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You kmow you are old, if you can remember... |
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The original Mickey Mouse Club Mr. Wizard My Friend Flicker The Roy Rogers Show The Howdy Dowdy Show
Davy Crocke Coonskin caps Hula Hoops Ginny or Vogue Dolls
Erector Sets Lincoln Log Cabins
Queen for a day.
Any others?
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The Winchell Mahoney show
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Sat Feb-26-05 02:44 AM
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88. I went too the bozo show. hehehe. N/t |
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Sun Feb-27-05 03:17 AM
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With signs, White & Colored. I saw them as a little boy in a large public building.
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Sun Feb-27-05 03:36 AM
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159. Or Willard Scott playing Bozo |
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Fri Feb-25-05 07:14 PM
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2. the $64.00 dollar question radio show. |
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Fri Feb-25-05 07:16 PM
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7. I think that was "Double Your Money" |
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Started with the One Dollar Question and progressed up to $64.
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Fri Feb-25-05 07:32 PM
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24. You are probably right. I just remember the popular phrase of the |
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times was "Thats the 64 dollar question". It was the catch-all for anything ask and not understood.
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Fri Feb-25-05 07:15 PM
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You're old. :evilgrin:
But I get called "old" by some of the kids today and I am only 40.
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Fri Feb-25-05 07:15 PM
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4. I must be old. I remember every one of those things. |
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makes me old? Really? How about Don't Just Sit There?
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Fri Feb-25-05 07:17 PM
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14. I'm 25 and watched Mr. Wizard when I was young |
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Edited on Fri Feb-25-05 07:18 PM by Dark_Leftist
and played with Lincoln Logs
does that make me old ?
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Fri Feb-25-05 07:19 PM
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Hell, I'm 16 and I can remember seeing Mr. Wizard on TV |
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<wipes brow> I hated turning 30 almost 5 years ago, so I am glad at least 2 20 somethings have watched him too. We are definitely not old. Thanks for posting.
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Sat Feb-26-05 11:31 AM
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130. Mr. Wizard was great television, which is why it's no longer on. |
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18. Time Tunnel? Nah, you're young! |
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How about
Buffalo Bill Jr. Pop machines that sold Cokes for a dime and had the bottles standing in ice water. After you put your dime in, you slid the bottle along a groove to a lever that was loosened by putting the dime in. Fake plastic lips that you gripped with your teeth Betsy McCall dolls tank model bikes with platforms on the back fender Andy's Gang skirts with crinolines that stood out parallel to the floor when you twirled Mary Jane shoes worn with white anklets Spoolie curlers (instruments of torture!) Five Day Deodorant Pads Sugar Jets Sweet Sue dolls Tiny Tears dolls P.F. Flyers The Voice of Firestone Super Circus rickrack TV sets that still had a white light burning in the middle of the screen for several minutes after you turned them off Paying 15 cents for McDonald's hamburgers and 19 cents for cheeseburgers
If you remember this stuff, you remember the 1950s. :-)
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Sat Feb-26-05 12:26 AM
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65. Me ttoo. God, I do feel old. Do you realize that the microwave |
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oven came out in 1947? Go figure. (That's the year I was born)
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63. Very good! You are OLD! nt |
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Sat Feb-26-05 03:32 AM
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92. Oh, those are good. Remember the fries were 10 cents! nt |
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Sat Feb-26-05 03:56 AM
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100. Or: Cars with running boards |
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Vaughan Monroe Julius La Rosa Saturday matinees that always ended with cliffhangers The Longines Symphonette on radio Neighbors who owned Kaisers and Frazers Coronet Magazine Creamsicles and Dreamsicles Trolley buses shooting blue sparks from the wire above nylons with a vertical line up the back Dale Evans purses TV's with round screens Beer cans with conical tops Ding Dong School Watching the Army-Mccarthy Hearings live (I actually did, was home with the flu) No a/c anywhere Wonder Bread Building Strong Bodies 8 Ways The Geritol commercials on Lawrence Welk Milton Cross and Ben Grauer (classical music announcers)
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Sat Feb-26-05 08:44 AM
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110. Mc Donald's ALL AMERICAN MEAL for 47¢ |
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15¢ Hamburger 10¢ Fries 22¢ Shake
and I can still remember when it actually tasted good
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Sat Feb-26-05 06:04 PM
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141. Zanti - I remember it like it was yesterday....I used to vist my aunt |
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and go to McDonalds with ONE dollar. (yeah, I got change). No one believes that fries were once 10 cents! And yes, they were good!
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153. Burger King must have had something like that because I think I remember |
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a Burger King hamburger/fires/shake for no more than $1.50 (perhpas it was a little bit later in reference to the time that you are posting about) but still, long ago adn way cheaper than today's BK prices.
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What's that? I'm way too young to remember that.
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Fri Feb-25-05 07:16 PM
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8. Milk and bread delivered daily to your door - |
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41. I used to have milk delivered to my door and that was only |
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a few years ago...stopped because it got too expensive and I found out the owner of the company was running as a pug in an Illinois Senate race.
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Sat Feb-26-05 12:27 AM
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66. OMG! I remember that. Remember the "cream" at the top |
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up early enough to skim the cream from the top of the bottle, make her cafe au lait with it and let the rest of the family have theirs with what today might be called FAT FREE milk... except, they didn't know that THEY were drinking the healthy stuff.
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most of these and yet I'm only 42. You forgot the Bozo the Clown Show, Hobo Kelly, Captain Kangaroo, Romper Room! Erector set?? Sounds like a sex toy--but I do remember that too.
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Fri Feb-25-05 07:17 PM
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10. What the S and H in S&H Green Stamps stood for, also |
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when Mr Potato Head was just the nose and stuff, and you used an actual potato for the head.
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32. Redstone? What DOES the S & H stand for? |
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The S is my fathers first name......
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Sperry and Hutchinson= S & H stamps.
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S & H Stamps. Got a hookah with - what? - 6 books?
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You get the prize.
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most of these and yet I'm only 42. You forgot the Bozo the Clown Show, Hobo Kelly, Captain Kangaroo, Romper Room! Erector set?? Sounds like a sex toy--but I do remember that too.
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Fri Feb-25-05 07:17 PM
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12. Zorro---the TV show w/ Guy Williams. |
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Fri Feb-25-05 07:17 PM
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13. I'm so old that I remember |
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That it was actually "My Friend Flicka" not "Flicker". :) Also
Milkmen and egg delivery 78 RPM records Rabbit ears Telephone party lines Drugstore soda fountains
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Sat Feb-26-05 12:32 AM
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67. Thanks for the correction. You are right..it's "My Friend Flicka" |
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and I do remember milk delivery (no eggs though). 78 RPMS, of course. Party lines? I almost forgot. We had one. Drug store fountains? Of course. When I was a pre-teen, we used to go the soda fountain and order vanilla or cherry cokes and fries.
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89. I lived in the country in the late 1980's |
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and we still had party lines. I graduated from hs in '93 and it wasn't until a few years later that they finally replaced them. The old woman down the road used to listen to everyone's calls.
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Fri Feb-25-05 07:18 PM
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15. Can you edit "kmow" to "know"? |
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It's just distracting. thanks ;-)
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93. Sorry, tried to edit it, but too late. nt |
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most of these and yet I'm only 42. You forgot Hobo Kelly, Bozo the Clown, Romper Room, Captain Kangaroo, Sheriff John. Erector set? sounds like a sex toy but I remember that too.
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70. Sheriff John..I don't remember. Lived in New England... |
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Fri Feb-25-05 07:27 PM
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20. It's My Friend FLICKA |
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and Howdy DOODY.
How about the original Romper Room? With the Do-Bees and the Don't-Bees.
And my fave, Sandy Becker, kiddie show king, of WNEW TV in NYC.
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also a local New York show, with Claude Kirschner.
Every night when the show ended at 7:30, he used to say, "And now it's time for most of you to go to bed."
And I felt very superior, because I didn't have to.
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21. The difference between |
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'49 and '50 Fords when they were new.
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I killed a million 9-volt batteries by leaving it on under my pillow and falling asleep. It only had an AM band and was bigger than a Walkman, and sounded like shit.
I for one, am making up for lost time living in Audio Hell with my fabu Ipod!!!!!
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68. Me too. What would have life been w/o that little transister radio |
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"Out of the blue of the Western sky, it's Sky King!"
That show kicked butt...
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Fri Feb-25-05 07:47 PM
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31. Out side Johns with a Sears catalog |
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ice boxes ,
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poodle skirts
Juke boxes a dime a play or five for a quarter
sweater sets
kick pleats
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ipana tooth paste
snow suits with leggings
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picture hats
I could go on and on ans on......
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40. I remember all of those. |
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Either at my house or some older relations. Loved Ipana toothpaste. Remember it in a sort of six-sided stand-up squeezy thing. Was that the one that tasted like root beer, or was that Pepsodent?
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57. There was just a thread here the other day about Ipana |
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and Bucky, Bucky Beaver.
And "you'll wonder where the yellow went, when you brush your teeth with Pepsodent."
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52. My daughter came home last weekend wearing ..... |
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Sat Feb-26-05 12:44 AM
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72. How about those curlers for girls called "Spoolies?" |
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If any of you ol' farts wore a "bubble" hairdo, you must remember these?
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69. Oh yeah...Saturdays started w/ "Boomtown" at 6 AM |
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and then we watched ALL the shows....Sky King, My Friend Flicka, Roy Rogers & Dales Evans. etc.
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name of his niece?
name of the actor who played Sky King?
no fair looking
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Sat Feb-26-05 02:52 PM
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132. Name of the plane: Songbird |
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Name of his niece: Penny Actor: Guy Kibbee
And I didn't look. :P
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135. Kirby Grant was Sky King (didn't have to look.) |
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142. And name of the jeep? Nellie Belle....never forget that. nt |
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177. Sorry, but Nellie Belle was the Jeep on the Roy Rogers Show. |
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162. I even remember the KIND of plane! |
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It was a Beech Bonanza (the one with the V-tail). And every other week, he'd have to stuff it with hay bales to toss out to the starving horses in the canyon that'd been cut off (by a rockslide caused by an evil out-of-towner businessman who was setting off dynamite to mine the local diamonds/gold/silver/oil/rutabagas/whatever).
Thankfully, he usually only beaned one or two of the locals with the hay bales.
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I remember all of these things. Does anybody remember the "Quarentine" posters put on your front door when someone in the family had chicken pox?
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28. ...when air conditioning was a luxury, not a right lol nt |
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29. I remember when the doctor actually came to the house! |
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Red Skelton
Red Buttons
Ed Sullivan
mama dolls
penny candy
five cent cokes
You'll wonder where the yellow went when you brush your teeth with pepsodent
when a well dressed daddy wore on a fedora and a starched white shirt and tie
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60. "I once had a doll that was all dressed in white |
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I called her my sweetheart when I'd hold her tight. Her eyes were so blue and her cheeks were so red, I loved her most of all, each time she said, "Mama, mama," One little word she knew. "Mama, mama." It means that I love you."
I can't believe that I remember that song!
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75. Yes, good one. I remember our family doctor actually coming |
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to our home! Seems so weird now.
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101. I had a cold that would not go away |
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178. I used to run and hide, trembling with fear, when the piano tuner |
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Just what I was going to say. :D
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Brothers of the Spear Snip Snap and Snur
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77. Hello, hee hee, my name is Pinky Lee. Oh yeah I remember |
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I remember when Pinky Lee hosted the Gumby Show. Pinky was on a cheesy "Enchanted Forest" set.
I still remember running into Pinky Lee in the mid 80s. He was such a bitter old man...
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Watergate Captain Kangeroo Chatty Cathy dolls Johnny Seven toy machine guns The ORIGINAL Barbies (with the bouffant and ponytail hairdos) Rock'em Sock'em Robots The first "Saturday Night Live" Albums and 45's When John Travolta was in "Welcome Back, Kotter" A UNIVAC computer Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour The Ed Sullivan Show (try explaining THAT to a 17-year-old) Variety shows of the 1960s ("The Dean Martin Show", "The Jonathan Winters Show", "The Glen Campbell Goodtime Hour", etc.) Quadrophonic sound Eight-track tapes (and tape players) Vietnam War protest marches in downtown D.C. Democratic and Republican conventions of the 1960s and 1970s
And, if you grew up in the D.C. area:
Ranger Hal Pick Temple Hot Shoppes, Howard Johnson's, Gifford's Ice Cream parlors, and Topps Drive-In's The Orange Bowl pizza place and Farrell's Ice Cream Parlor at Tysons Corner Mall Listening to AM "Top 40" radio on WPGC, WEEL and WEAM ("The Lively One") Listing to WHFS and WHNC, the "underground" stations Lansburgh's, Jeleff's, Garfinkel's and Woodward and Lothrop department stores When riding Metro from Rosslyn to MacPherson Square was .35 cents
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96. Wow! Talk about "Memory Lane"....when I was 19 I moved to |
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DC and defintely remember
Hot Shoppes Woodys Garfinkels
Man...I feel very like I should be embalmed!
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43. I remember all that stuff |
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163. Brylcreem, a little dab will do yah! |
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I used to use it, too.
But that sexy woman never came out of the tube, like in the commercials.
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78. Oh yeah, remember the "gas wars?' |
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It's the truth.
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Fri Feb-25-05 08:22 PM
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46. Jean Shepard's radio show |
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and yes, I remember when gas at the PathMark gas station in New Brunswick NJ was 25 cents a gallon and they gave out nice green glass tumblers. And cigarettes were 25 cents a pack, and stamps were 4 cents.
And when girls had heavy metal roller skates that you adjusted with a key that you wore around your neck on a string.
And when "The Twist" became popular and adults said we would wreck our backs dancing it. (So THAT'S why I have a bad back now)
And licorice strings and wax lips and wax mustaches and wax fingernails and pixie straws and Italian ice trucks, and those long strips of paper with rows of teensy candy dots that you bit off, one or two at a time.
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You could buy a pet turtle at the dime store? And those silly looking new cars - Gremlins. Did ya ever put a dime in the penny loafers?
Oh I so wanted the twiggy eyes.
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48. Yyup, remember all of it, so I guess I'm older than dirt. n/t |
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49. Peter Gunn - TV show and song |
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Science Fiction Theatre. Scheduled double-headers on the baseball schedule. Test patterns on TV.
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50. when Michael Jackson was a good-looking black man |
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I remember! And there was a nose!! There was an actual nose on his face.
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140. Yep... and a tiny little heartthrob too... |
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the ice box the outhouse chickens hanging on grandma's clothesline clothes hanging on the clothes lines wringer washers naval binders the first television in town the telephone operator party lines a chamber pot under the bed
and, yes, I do remember them all
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80. Man, I thought I was old! You have me beat. |
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When I posted this thread, I didn't want any "Etch-a-Sketch" people....too young.
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I also grew up in the Boondocks.
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Before he took office, there were no dial telephones. You picked up the receiver and told an operator the number you wanted to call.
When he left office and went home to Missouri everyone had dial telephones. He didn't know how to use it.
I remember my amazement when my parents brought home our first dial telephone.
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58. Sing along with Mitch? |
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Follow the bouncing ball.
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loud and strong I want to sing along. Let me hear a melody A simple singing song And I'll sing, sing along."
You guys are making me free associate to all the old tunes that are still stored in my memory circuits.
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62. Help me, Mr. Wizard! (and more blasts from your past) |
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Drizzle, drazzle, druzzle, drone time for this one to come home.
Adding to your list...
TV and toons:
Tennessee Tuxedo Fireball XL-5 King Leonardo and Odie Cologne Hercules Rabbit (and his Guided Muscle) Quisp and Quake ads Topo Gigo Beany and Cecil
Toys:
Jimmy Jet Bill Ding Blocks Gilbert Chemistry Sets Vac-U-Form Sets Varoom Motors for your bike (or even playing cards and clothespins?) Butterfly Handlebars, a Sissy Bar and a Banana Seat Clackers (until Lawn Darts, the most dangerous toy you could own!) Etch-a-Sketch Duncan Yo-Yos Paddle Balls Super Balls Testor's Rubber band powered Airplanes Trolls
Clothing:
Red Ball Jets, Pro Keds (also Chuck Taylor Converse All Stars) Flag Shoes Nehru Jackets Sears Toughskins :puke: Granny Glasses Mood Rings
Other:
Paregoric Cod Liver Oil Geritol Serutan Curb Feelers Veg-O-Matic Mouli (I have an all metal one from 1949 and I love it)
...I think I could go on forever here.
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133. The younger generation has been spared paregoric |
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but it was my grandmother's home remedy for any sort of digestive ailment.
That has to be the most foul flavor I have ever tasted.
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150. I don't care that it was a narcotic |
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It tasted so nasty that I was never even tempted to get addicted to it! Whatever was ailing me was better than that stuff.
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I remember HR Pufnstuff. Never missed an episode. And I am not old, damn it!
You are old if you remember....
The Alamo. or who said "Kiss me, Hardy" or poulaines
Khash.
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82. I am originally from NE, and dont don't know HR.....I feel so out |
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179. I knew the guy who played HR Puffenstuff. He was in the Navy |
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73. I'm so old I knew Sigmund Freud when he was in medical school... |
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Let's see anybody top that...:silly:
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108. Freud's mother used to brag to me |
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Sat Feb-26-05 01:00 AM
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79. Thank you !! For once, I don't feel old! |
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The onle things on the above list I experienced first hand were hoola hoops and Lincoln logs.
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83. "Kukla, Fran & Ollie" and "The Magic Cottage" |
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and The Milton Berle Show.
Back when no one even heard of Johnny Carson.
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87. And before you could buy a TV, the "Bickersons" on the radio. |
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Who from that era could forget "The Kingfish"?
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136. Pat Michael and the "Magic Cottage" |
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84. When the "Ken" doll was invented to keep "Barbie" company |
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85. When a bottle of Coca Cola was a nickle. |
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And you could eat a hamburger, french fries, coke and a slice of apple pie for 85 cents at the local drug store.
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169. When a White Castle Burger was a Nickel. |
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:)
I remember that, and when it went up to 6 cents. I was shocked. :P
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86. and George of the jungle, go speed racer. n/t |
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I loved that guy. and abbott and costello. black and white. saturday mornings. I lived for that.
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Winky Dink was a character whose head was a star. The show allowed participation by the home audience. You bought a Winky Dink screen, which was a sheet of transparent plastic film, a little heavier than Saran Wrap. Then you would draw things on the screen to be a part of the story. The host was later implicated in the Quiz Show scandals of the 1950s.
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94. Radio: The Jack Benny Show, Suspense, Bob and Ray |
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Fanny Brice as Baby Snooks (God, I'm ancient)
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95. Don McNeil's Breakfast Club |
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109. Fibber Magee's closet. |
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151. Actually, the show was Fibber Magee and Molly. |
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Milton Berle and his TV show.
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Coney Island and Steeplechase Park
Car travel before interstates.
...and all the rest here :)
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104. Thank God! I'm not that old!!! I don't remember any of that!!! |
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Whoopee!!!:D But I did have a hula hoop.:shrug:
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112. I remember the original 3 Musketeers Bars |
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Instead of one big chocolate one, originally there were 3 chocolate, vanilla and strawberry cubes in the original 3 Musketeer's package!
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I remember a time when you could drive your Mercury to a gas station. When you pulled up beside the gas pump a man came out of the gas station. He was dressed in a uniform and wore a hat. He would ask you how he could help you and would pump your gas for you. He would check your oil for you. If requested, he would check the air pressure in your tires and top up the air if necessary.
Hard to believe.
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..to believe that the gas he pumped into your tank, was (the lowest I can remember) 25.9 a gallon.
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173. Sometimes it was 19 cents a gallon in Houston... |
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...when there were gas wars.
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Self-service stations are illegal.
During the 19 years I lived in Oregon, I actually forgot how to operate a gas pump!
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148. I want to move to Oregon! nt |
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165. Swifty stations in TN still pump it for you |
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My, how times have changed.
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115. sigmund and the sea monsters...... |
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mcmillan and wife
the moon landing on network TV...there were only 3 channels then.....
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116. Bridge and Turnpike construction set... |
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120. Get Smart, avacado green appliances and |
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squirrel nut zippers Brach's jelly nougats (I'm jonesing for one right now!!!) wax bottles marathon bars Lik'm Aid BB bats (esp. the salty strawberry flavor!!)
We would load up little bags of these from a gas station, go home, dump them on the floor, sift through them and admire them like they were jewels, and then DIG IN!
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127. Hula hoops and My friend Flicka - that's supposed to make me OLD? |
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Not on your life. Why do you tell me impolite nasty things like this on a saturday when I've got the flu and don't look into the mirror because I certainly LOOK old? Very old? What drives you to tamper with my self esteem thus? caledesi, you have something to make up for!
The Flicka-books I still read sometime :)
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128. 'Do You Remember These' |
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149. So sorry EU, if I knew you had the flu I would have NEVER posted |
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Sat Feb-26-05 11:45 AM
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131. "Plunk your magic twanger, Froggy!" |
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from the "Andy Devine Show"
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when Andy Devine was sidekick to the "Range Rider" there was Smilin' Ed, host of the "Cubhouse Gang" who told Froggy to plunk...
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138. Rootie Kazootie, Winky Dink, Andy Devine (plunk your magic |
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Ding Dong School with Miss Frances
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I remember Bozo's Bigtop, Gaptain Kangaroo, Land of the Lost, Hotwheels, Pet rocks and mood rings myself :)
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Dorothy Collins (the Lucky Strike girl) Snooky Lanson Russell Arms
and...(????)
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Lollipop. Purple People Eater and others? Maybe that was before the time you recall.
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166. "How Much Is That Doggie In the Window?" |
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182. "And In The Water She's Going To Stay" |
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Sun Feb-27-05 08:56 PM
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174. Julius LaRosa -- bada bing ! |
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Sun Feb-27-05 03:25 AM
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158. Thanks for making me feel young!!!! |
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I was a toddler when Neil Armstrong stepped on the Moon...watched it with my Mother.
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Sun Feb-27-05 09:29 AM
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161. REAL Cork Inside Coke Bottle Caps... Beer Cans With NO Pull Tabs. |
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Sun Feb-27-05 08:32 PM
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170. Yup... had to pull the cork OUT to fill the caps with melted Crayons |
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so we could play "scully" -- a street game with a chalked 'board' on the asphalt, used the colored crayon-filled caps as 'shooters'.
Yes, I'm old. :)
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Sun Feb-27-05 02:01 PM
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Dad throwing a fit because 5th Avenue candy bars went from having 3 nuts on top of each to two. (Later on, they went to one and then poof!)
Mom being outraged because Krystal hamburgers (the original gut bombs) went up in price from 5 cents to 6 cents each.
Basement or backyard bomb shelters
Duck and cover
Gas wars (I remember 18.9 per gallon here)
Charles' Chips home delivery in those big yellow cans? (cookies and pretzels too!)
The Ernie Kovaks show
Tom Lerher
Kay Kayser's Kollege of Musical Knowledge (and Ish Kabibble)
What did Yehudi do? (And where did the name originate?)
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Sun Feb-27-05 08:35 PM
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171. A Hero Sandwich AND a 16 oz. Pepsi = for a grand total of 50 cents! |
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Edited on Sun Feb-27-05 08:35 PM by mcscajun
When I was 10 or 12 and running deliveries for the local grocer, I'd spend my wealth right back in there (some at the candy store and buying comics, too.)
A salami and cheese hero on good crusty Italian bread (35 cents), an ice cold Pepsi (15 cents), and eating it sitting on the curb in summer. Just a kid and using my own money to buy my lunch -- Damn that was good.
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Sun Feb-27-05 08:44 PM
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172. Candy cigarettes, anyone? |
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Yeah, I remember this stuff, but I'm NOT old, thank you very much.
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Mon Feb-28-05 02:54 AM
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175. Antee antee eye over! |
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Pig's tail! (Words from a kid's game I used to play
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Mon Feb-28-05 04:34 AM
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176. the weather man sticking a paper sun and paper cloud to a board |
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Edited on Mon Feb-28-05 04:36 AM by superconnected
with a map on it, to show the weather, as he spoke. That was in the 70's.
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Mon Feb-28-05 05:54 AM
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180. When the earth was cooling. |
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