Remember When

[Merry Prankster]

This is great!  Lightning bugs caught in a bottle-----so cool PD.

Does anyone remember telephone party lines?   My aunt had one.  Sometimes one would pick up the phone and hear someone chattering away.  Oops!   I hear that the FBI provides such service in today's world......although I suppose they only listen.

[Snowbird]

We had a party line when I was a teenager.  Our next door, gossipy neighbor was on it with us.  She liked to talk to my best friend's older sister and I would listen in when I was a teenager.  They loved to talk about people.

I still have an old black rotary phone but it isn't in use. 

The Ain't No Boogers game was like hiding only you played it at night.  People would hide in the dark and the one who was "it" would go walking around singing, "ain't no boogers out tonight, Papa killed them all last night".  When a booger jumped out of their hiding place they would both race back to base. 

Oh, girdles and garter belts!  I hated those things.  There is another type belt I won't mention but you ladies will know what I mean. 

[Prairie Dawn]

Thanks Snow, for explaining "ain't no boogers."

Those "other" belts!  My mom handed me one of those when I was at "that age" and I just looked at it and said "no way." lol

Remember loading up the car with snacks, putting on your comfies, and going to the drive in?  Stuffed in the back seat with your siblings.  Dad lighting one of those coils called "Pics" to ward off pesky mosquitos? 

[Merry Prankster]

The last post stimulated memories (somewhat hazy) of the drive-in, but at a later time in my life.  I must have been old enough to drive for I recall watching at least the beginning of the movie from behind a steering wheel.  Someone was in the car with me but it wasn't Dad, Mom, Sis or Bro.  Things get pretty fuzzy after that but I definitely remember that I didn't see the entire movie.  The line at the popcorn window must have been really long or something.

[Prairie Dawn]

In response to above post.......


Remember being at the drive in with your family as a child and wondering what was going on in the car next to you as the windows were all fogged up?  Then asking your parents what was going on and suddenly your car was moving to another spot? (True story.  Was that you MP in that car?) 

[Snowbird]

Oh, those last two post do bring back some fond memories.  I remember one particular night when it was so hot, in more ways than one, that we had to roll down the windows and I was eaten up by mosquitoes.

That also brings back memories of going to the Sunday movies.  We always had on our Sunday dresses and the line outside the theater would wind around the end of the block.  I lived in a town where there was a military school and we always looked to see what "bellhops", as we called the boys who went there, were in line.   

[Merry Prankster]

Does anyone remember movie balconies?

[Snowbird]

I remember sitting in the balcony at one of our movies once or twice.  They only let people go up there when the rest of the seats were full.

Did anyone ever have a black and white TV?  The first one we bought was black and white and we had an antenna on top of the house with a little box on the top of the TV so you could make the antenna point in the right direction for better reception.
I would watch American Bandstand when I got home from school.

[ponytail]

Playing Jacks with the girls. Lots of fun and I was really good at it.

[bacali]

Played jumprope every day in the school yard at lunchtime.... rember... CHAMPION ?

[ponytail]

Oh yeah! Double Dutch

[Prairie Dawn]

Loved jacks, jumprope, Chinese jumprope.

Remember playing cat's cradle? Duncan yo-yo's, Romper Stompers, Paper dolls, Superelastic bubble plastic, Colorforms, Spirograph, and Silly Putty? 

[bacali]

Anyone remember" Winkie Dink and You" and the plastic screen you stuck on the front of the little tv screen to crayon on?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AfZGcWGvnuI

[Snowbird]

Captain Kangaroo and Mr. Greenjeans and Howdy Doody. 
From the radio day The Shadow....   The Shadow knows...hahahaha 

[Prairie Dawn]

Remember the Banana Splits, Rocky and Bullwinkle, Bugs Bunny?