The Reality Buzz
Open Floor => Post Games => Topic started by: Snowbird on April 26, 2013, 08:47:54 AM
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This topic is to remember things we use to do that most people no longer do or things we use to use that are no longer in use.
Examples would be the old wringer type washing machines or getting polio shots.
I will start with remember when we use to wear Easter bonnets?
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I particularly remember one that was covered in pick flowers. Holy cow, glad those days are gone.
Remember when you had to get off your butt to go change the channels on the tv set?
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Yes! I was my fathers remote control! Lol, and there were only 3 or 4 channels!
Remember those metal roller skates you would clamp onto your sneakers that made the cooolest, thunking, hollow sound when you whizzed down the street? Your legs would vibrate for hours afterwards!
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I sure do. I broke my arm skating on a pair of those.
Remember when you had to stand within a few feet of your phone to talk to someone and they all had rotary dials?
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Yes! I actually miss a rotary dialer, old fashioned phone.
Remember those "metal slides of death" at the playground? The ones that would peak at about 120 degrees in the summer sun and you would go screaming down.....without a helmet and fly off the end!
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Sure enough!
Remember going to the A&W Drive In and getting a frosty mug of root beer brought to your car on a tray?
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YES! The best root beer float ever!
Remember when penny candy was only a penny and you could get a boatload for 25 cents!
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Yep! Remember when you always wore skirts and dresses to school?
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Snowbird, your topic has managed to release the Prankster's memory Kraken. Why is it such memories cause the characterization of the ol' days to be "good" and create a feeling of wistful longing and mental images with sepia hues? Ah, the impetuous follies of youth and the increasingly selective memory of advancing years.
One of my dominant memories involves "quality of life" as opposed to an antiquated object or service. I grew up in an area where no one ever locked the doors to their houses or their cars. Why? It never occurred to them to do so. Also, from the age of 8 0r 9 until I could drive, in my free time I would roam with others my age all over my own and adjacent neighborhoods, riding bikes, playing sports, etc. and no adults would have a good idea where we were. Why? They never felt the need to do so. Someone would whistle us home for dinner. Halcyon days! Of course, there were occasional bumps and potholes.
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Sounds familiar. Did you have games of kick the can at dusk, too?
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KICK THE CAN! I loved kick the can!
Oh, MP, you just brought back a funny memory. Remember when you would be out playing all day in the summer, stopping only for lunch, kool aid, and dinner. After dinner was the best time to run around, maybe play some kick ball, or clothespin some playing cards to your bicycle spokes and zoom around. Eventually you would hear parents start to call out names and the crowd would disperse one by one. However, my dad did not yell, he mounted a giant bell near the front door and would ring it several times. Heaven help you if you were not home within five minutes! :86:
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Snowbird, your topic has managed to release the Prankster's memory Kraken. Why is it such memories cause the characterization of the ol' days to be "good" and create a feeling of wistful longing and mental images with sepia hues? Ah, the impetuous follies of youth and the increasingly selective memory of advancing years.
One of my dominant memories involves "quality of life" as opposed to an antiquated object or service. I grew up in an area where no one ever locked the doors to their houses or their cars. Why? It never occurred to them to do so. Also, from the age of 8 0r 9 until I could drive, in my free time I would roam with others my age all over my own and adjacent neighborhoods, riding bikes, playing sports, etc. and no adults would have a good idea where we were. Why? They never felt the need to do so. Someone would whistle us home for dinner. Halcyon days! Of course, there were occasional bumps and potholes.
I love the way you write. It is so descriptive and almost poetic.
I roamed all over the neighborhood too. We had a mental hospital about a half mile up the street from where I lived where there were lots of sidewalks where we skated and road bikes.
We would play outside after dark by the light of the front porch. Sometimes when I step out at night and see the shadows of the trees from the moon I think about playing "ain't no boogers out tonight". Did anyone else play that?
Catching lightning bugs was also another after dark activity.
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Lightening bugs! :86:
I have never played "ain't no boogers," what is it?
Remember how excited you would get as soon as you heard the sound of the ice cream man's truck?
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I never played that one either.
Remember when you always used to wear a girdle even if you didn't need one?
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Never play 'the buggers game"either
And, yes, I was skinny but wore a girdle because of the garters to hold up my stockings... -loll
Now.....
How about me turning around and you see how far you can get....
One, Two, Three....
REDLIGHT !
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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.
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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.
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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?
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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.
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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?) -LOL-
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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.
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Does anyone remember movie balconies?
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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.
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Playing Jacks with the girls. Lots of fun and I was really good at it.
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Played jumprope every day in the school yard at lunchtime.... rember... CHAMPION ?
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Oh yeah! Double Dutch
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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?
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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
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Captain Kangaroo and Mr. Greenjeans and Howdy Doody.
From the radio day The Shadow.... The Shadow knows...hahahaha
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Remember the Banana Splits, Rocky and Bullwinkle, Bugs Bunny?
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I never listened to radio shows.. I always remember having a television.. loved Howdy Doody.
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Ah, Howdy Doody! Did you watch the Lone Ranger and his sidekick Tonto? BTW, if you get the chance catch Letterman around XMas. Every year he has on a guest named Jay something or other who tells a really funny story about his experience w/the Lone Ranger (Clayton Moore).
A can't believe I missed this-----Jukebox with a bunch of 45s. The classic ones are so cool. did any of you ever go to a sock hop?
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I loved going to sock hops. We had a Youth Center in our town where we would go on Saturday nights and dance.
There was a drug store on one corner where everybody hung out after school. It was about seven blocks from my school so we would walk there. I can still see that place. As you came in there was the magazine racks on the right and the drug store section was passed that on the right. On the left side of the store was the soda fountain and the booths with those little juke boxes on every table. There was also a big juke box in the back. A dime a play and three plays for a quarter.
-Bee- Anniversary
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That's great Snowbird! I used to go to sock hops at a local high school. We'd dance on the floor of the gym. When I was a little shaver, an aspiring sock-hopper, there was a local TV show each Saturday called "Joe Dean's Sock Hop". My older cousin appeared on it a couple of times.
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Remember reading magazines like Jack and Jill and American Girl...
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Hardy Boys! Hardy Boys! Hardy Boys! I read every one of those suckers. Read 'em until I was bleary-eyed.
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Nancy Drew! And I think i read a few Hardy Boys, too.
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I always read Nancy Drew, also the Hardy Boys
And, I read all the Bobbsey Twins and Cherry Ames books, too.
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Pez dispensers. I used to love those things---so many crazy heads. I vaguely remember some with the heads of Popeye characters. The dispensers might still be around but I think they're not nearly as cool as they were back then.
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I remember my "wicked cool" bike with the flowered banana seat, sissy bar, and tassels on the handlebars!
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Remember those little wax bottles with different colored drinks in them. You bit off the top and drank it but it was only a swallow.
I use to love Bit-O-Honey candy. Do they still make those? Milk Duds was another favorite.
Did anyone ever play spin the bottle?
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Remember those little wax bottles with different colored drinks in them. You bit off the top and drank it but it was only a swallow.
I use to love Bit-O-Honey candy. Do they still make those? Milk Duds was another favorite.
Did anyone ever play spin the bottle?
YES! I had forgotten about those bottles. I vaguely remember some kind of flavored tablets that I could drop into a glass of water and they'd fizz and flavor the water. Was it Pizz? Behave yourself PD.
I think you can still get Bit O'Honey in some convenience stores in more rural ares. My ex was a Bit O' Honey addict and she would stock up whenever we took a road trip and stopped for gas.
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Remember those little wax bottles with different colored drinks in them. You bit off the top and drank it but it was only a swallow.
I use to love Bit-O-Honey candy. Do they still make those? Milk Duds was another favorite.
Did anyone ever play spin the bottle?
YES! I had forgotten about those bottles. I vaguely remember some kind of flavored tablets that I could drop into a glass of water and they'd fizz and flavor the water. Was it Pizz? Behave yourself PD.
I think you can still get Bit O'Honey in some convenience stores in more rural ares. My ex was a Bit O' Honey addict and she would stock up whenever we took a road trip and stopped for gas.
Tthe pills were called "Fizzies" and you can still find them. Oh, I loved them!
@Snow,I remember "spin the bottle" and "seven minutes in heaven." :25: Of course I never played them...............lol
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Remember those huge Christmas lights with reflectors behind them, and finishing off your tree with lots of tinsel?
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Remember those huge Christmas lights with reflectors behind them, and finishing off your tree with lots of tinsel?
Yes! My grandmother had those on her Christmas tree every year!
Remember TV dinners that came in those aluminum trays with the apple cobbler for dessert?
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Remember those huge Christmas lights with reflectors behind them, and finishing off your tree with lots of tinsel?
Yes! My grandmother had those on her Christmas tree every year!
Remember TV dinners that came in those aluminum trays with the apple cobbler for dessert?
I remember both very well.
Each Xmas Dad and I would go shopping for a XMas tree. We'd get a 12' Douglas Fir (not my idea) chop about two feet off each end and put if up in our living room. I called it the Xmas bush.
The tinsel was a whole other story. My mother insisted it go on one strand at a time. I'd last about 20 minutes or 100 strands, whichever came first.
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Agreed, that tinsel was a mess.
Remember poodle skirts and petticoats? (I actually had a parakeet skirt I remember very well)!
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Remember autograph books? You would pass them around at the end of every school year and someone would write something like this in it......
"Remember me well, remember me sick, and when you buy candy remember me quick!"
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Did anyone ever write in a Slam Book. It was a composition book with people's names written at the top of each page. You would sign you name by a number on the first page and then on the corresponding number on each page you would write what you thought of that person.
Usually if you couldn't say anything nice you just put "okay" by the name, no insults. This might have been a southern thing.
Prom dresses were so different then than today. They were all long and I don't remember any that were fitted to the hips. We wore crinoline petticoats underneath. Dang, it was hard sitting down in a car. Your dress would sometimes be in front of your face.
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Remember when your mom used to give you those stinky home perms? Frizzy, frizzy, frizzy. Yoiks.
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Remember the Dorothy Hamill haircut?
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Long, long hair and bell-bottom jeans
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Remember the "Close and Play Phonograph" and "Lite Brite?"
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Remember the "Close and Play Phonograph" and "Lite Brite?"
I never owned either but I do remember seeing them advertised.
I did have an 8-track tape player.
In elementary school/middle school each year when we returned to school we wrote essays on how we spent our summer vacation. What I hoot! I wrote a tongue-in-cheek one for my college applications.
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Remember the "Close and Play Phonograph" and "Lite Brite?"
I never owned either but I do remember seeing them advertised.
I did have an 8-track tape player.
In elementary school/middle school each year when we returned to school we wrote essays on how we spent our summer vacation. What I hoot! I wrote a tongue-in-cheek one for my college applications.
LOL! I wrote a very snarky piece for my college apps.
Remember when your front door was open to let in the cool air on hot summer nights? No one locked their doors.
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Remember trying to sleep on a steamy hot summer night with mosquitos buzzing around your ears.
Of course you had let them in running in and out of the house playing all day.
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In the South we had sleeping porches, rooms with windows all around that could be removed in the summer. Remember when people had to go out on the porch and sit to get cool and those cardboard fans that were in the pews at church.
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I came from colder country up north. Summer nights generally were cool.
Remember three on the tree? (standard tranny w/shifter on the steering column).
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Remember being able to sit up close to your date as you drove around in his car. That was before cars had bucket seats.
I'm glad I grew up before they came along. Those are some fond memories.
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Remember sitting at the counter at Woolworth's and ordering fries and a chocolate shake?
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When I was a kid, I walked to and from school from grades 2-5 (half-mile one-way) by myself. When my kids were in elementary school, we drove them to the end of the street to catch the bus with other kids and waited for the bus to pick them up.
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When I was a kid, I walked to and from school from grades 2-5 (half-mile one-way) by myself. When my kids were in elementary school, we drove them to the end of the street to catch the bus with other kids and waited for the bus to pick them up.
:c029: So funny.
I either waited for a bus( not a school bus... a public bus) ....or walked a little over a mile . with a ton of heavy books.
But, with my children....
I wasn't that bad. I let them walk with the other kids. We bought our house so we were close to the schools.
And, they begged us to. I did take them in pouring rain..snowstorms.
My neighbor has a son who is now in college. He drove this boy to school every day until he was well into High School.... and the school is literally 5 blocks away.
Times have surely changed.
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I loved the jingling of the Good Humor man's bells every summer day. Loved the chocolate sundaes and the 'chocolate cake' on the stick.
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Remember when the Star Spangled Banner played at the end of the broadcast day, and then you would have snow for the rest of the night...
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My mother always made fried chicken for Sunday lunch (but we called it dinner in the south). We had breakfast, dinner, and supper instead of breakfast, lunch, and dinner.
She always made homemade ice cream in the ice tray. It came from some kind of powdered mix. She put in a whole cherry and whoever got it was Queen for the Day. I was the youngest and if I didn't get it i cried.
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Remember when getting dressed up to go to church meant little heels, real stockings that came in pairs and a nice hat and white gloves?
Not any more.
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Remember when all of the music was on AM Radio and FM wasn't available?
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Remember the mood ring that was supposed to change colors ?
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YES! Remember Pet Rocks?
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Remember paper doll books where you would punch out the dolls and their clothes?
Remember those doll houses made out of tin with the plastic furniture and miniature family?
Remember the dime stores? We had 3 in our town, Rose's, Miller's, and Chandler's, and you could buy anything in them.
I guess the equivalent today are the Dollar Stores, Dollar General, and Family Dollar.
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Giving your Dad a big hug when he came home from work.
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I remember watching TGIF on tv ever Friday. I mentioned someone from one of the shows and my niece had no clue who he was.
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One time I was talking to a much younger person on the DC Metro. I mentioned the Beatles and got a blank stare. Then I said, "you've heard of Paul McCartney." She replied, "Yeah, but I thought he played with Wings." Oh well..........
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Those wonderful family vacations...on the road, stopping for burgers, staying in motels, fighting with your siblings, driving forever. I did the same with my kids, and now I am starting with the grandkids.
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Those wonderful family vacations...on the road, stopping for burgers, staying in motels, fighting with your siblings, driving forever. I did the same with my kids, and now I am starting with the grandkids.
You forgot the question---"Are we there yet?"
I remember Orlando before Disney World. We used to drive through it and occasionally stop for the night. Talk about your two-cow town!
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I remember my Mom listening to the soap operas on the radio, I think one of them was Helen Trent.
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I remember when I went to dinner/dances and danced every dance...the faster the more fun.
Now when they play that "Jump, Shout song" , we sit down. :smiley_confused1:
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I remember when my grandmother would come and stay with us for a few weeks. I loved coming home from school when she was there and her having her apple turnovers or potato pies warm from the oven for me to eat. She always listened to her soaps on the radio too. I had to be quiet then.
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Playing jacks, hopscotch, and jumproping double-dutch..
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Remember rip cords on the backs of dress shirts? In middle school no boy (or girl) had one survive the day.
When I was in seventh grade we staged a sit-in the school cafeteria. The burning issue---allowing girls to wear pants to school. We won!
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Remember when they would start the late news with "it's eleven o'clock, do you know where your children are?"
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Remember when you could find a payphone when you needed one? Now, if your cell phone battery dies and you need one- you are out of luck!!!
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Remember having the milkman deliver milk to your home?
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Remember having the milkman deliver milk to your home?
Yes! Metal box, glass bottles. My Aunt and Uncle also received home delivery of beer and potato chips. Pre-conehead coneheads?
Remember Bazooka bubblegum for a penny per piece?
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I still love bazooka gum!
Remember the smell of grandma's house on Thanksgiving? Yummmmmmm!
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Remember when kids actually played outside?
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I know, now they plug into an electronic thingy _Vacum_ -arrow-
Remember when TV was recieved for free with an antenna? -Console- :86: :'( :c029:
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I know, now they plug into an electronic thingy _Vacum_ -arrow-
Remember when TV was recieved for free with an antenna? -Console- :86: :'( :c029:
Give it another twenty years and the kids will be the electronic thingy.
Does anyone remember the TV show "Queen for a Day?" What a funky show!!
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Remember when children were seen....but not heard? What the heck happened to that????
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Remember when the adults were fed first at family gatherings. Now the children are always the first in line.
Remember when it was safe to go to bed at night with your windows wide open and you could feel the night air.
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Remember when the adults were fed first at family gatherings. Now the children are always the first in line.
Remember when it was safe to go to bed at night with your windows wide open and you could feel the night air.
At our large family gatherings, we all ate at the same time and had the adults table and the kids table. One adult sat with us to keep some semblance of order. By the time dinner was nearly over, all of the adults would be at the kids table. We were where it was happenin', man. :Woot_Emoticon: 8) :djparty: -celebrate-
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Remember when going to the movies was a big deal and people were respectful and quiet and the popcorn was fresh and buttery?
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Remember playing with those little rolly polly bugs that would roll up in a ball when you picked them up?
I haven't seen one in ages.
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push mowers! My Dad would cut crazy paths in the lawn first and let us run and play, and then do it all over the right way later on.
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My dad use to "let" me use the push mower and then when he got a gas mower he wouldn't let me use it. He was afraid I would slip and get my foot cut off.
Remember when everyone used real trees at Christmas. We use to go in the woods behind our house and cut one down. Getting it to stand up straight was sometimes a problem but it was all so much more fun that dragging out the box with the artificial tree.
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My daughter and her family cute down their own tree every yr...and we still have a real tree...actually 2 real ones.
...a nice one in the house and a little "Charlie Brown" on the deck outside the kitchen's sliding door.
But, do you remember....those pretty bubble lights? They are a rare find now a days.
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Loved the bubble lights!
We used to "tag"our tree at the tree farm in the fall and go cut it down a few weeks before Christmas. The tree farm would serve hot cocoa and spiced cider in the barn, you could pet the animals.......so much fun!
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We use to make our own candy canes using pipe cleaners and nail polish. We also hung silver bells on the tree but by the time Christmas came they were be about gone.
I still have some of the tree decorations that we had when I was a little girl. They are antiques now but I use them. There is one glass Santa Claus and I would cry if it broke. I always put it up high on the tree so the grandchildren can't reach it.
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...remember your wonderful childhood pets. We were a dog family, and always had one around. Still do to this day!
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Remember "Show and Tell" in elementary school?
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I remember current events every Monday. We had to clip an article out of the paper and tell about it.
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Remember "Show and Tell" in elementary school?
Awwwwww! I loved show and tell day!
Remember giving your mom a big bottle of Jean Nate every Christmas? I actually miss the smell of that!
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Oh that cheap dime store perfume! Blue Waltz!
Remember Walnettos?
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Dads got English Leather.
I wish i still had the dolls I got at Christmas. They'd be worth something today.
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Anyone remember talking Mrs. Beasley dolls?
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How about that wonderful plastic smell of the Betsy Wetsy!
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How about that wonderful plastic smell of the Betsy Wetsy!
I rememeber that!
Remember when the stores would put up their Christmas decorations AFTER Thanksgiving? Now they are up after Labor Day, lol.
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Remember making conutless "potholders" ? Oh my poor mother...she actually looked excited every time I'd show up with a new colored one. -rollinglaugh-
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Remember when you got paid only 50 cents an hour to babysit?
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I remember never having to worry about anything bad happening at school. Now they have to do lockdowns in case someone comes in with a gun. We never had to do those.
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Remember when things were made to last. Now if something like a washing machine breaks down it cost about as much for parts and labor to fix it than it does to buy one new.
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Remember when you got paid only 50 cents an hour to babysit?
Yes..now .. with.working parents...babysitting wages have gone way up....
I was talking with my daughter and she told me that my 13 yr old granddaughter had babysat at a woman's home during Easter vacation. She was there pretty much the whole day for 5 days and made $260.00
The woman usually employs a "nanny". ..so paying this to my granddaughter was nothing to her!!! :c029:
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Remember when there was a gas shortage and you could only buy gas on certain days?
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Remember when you could fill up your gas tank for a couple of dollars.
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Remember when Doctors made house calls? Mine did.
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Remember when you didn't have to fill out pages of paper work to see a doctor.
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Remember when Doctors made house calls? Mine did.
Mine still does!
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Remember when there was no such thing as a MRI or CAT and there were just xrays?
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Rmember when you used to pay for everything with cash?
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Remember ordering a black and white ice cream soda sitting at the counter?
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Remember when you were mad at someone you would say "I could kill you" and not get arrested?
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Remember when a simple whoopie cushion would provide hours of entertainment at a family gathering? -rollinglaugh- -rollinglaugh-
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Remember running around in the rain, splashing in puddles, getting muddy....
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Remember running around in the rain, splashing in puddles, getting muddy....
What do you mean REMEMBER, I still like to do that on occasion! :86:
Rwemember really good root beer popsicles?
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mmmm, I loved them :d030:
Do you remember when a piece of paper could be made to play with, like a paper airplace...wheeee! -SPLAT- :035: :character0029: ;D 8)
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Remember when you actually had to push a lawnmower?
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Yes Cookie!
And those little paper /pencil games like 100 Dots and tictactoe that you used to do at school.
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Remember folding a paper to make a fan?
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Does anyone remember the Joe Pine show?
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No...but I do remember Liberace on in the afternoon. ..and Kate Smith.
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Remember Captain Kangaroo in the morning, Mr. Green Jeans, the moose and the ping pong balls?
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How about Junior Frolics and .....our all time favorite Howdy Doody.
Remember his whole gang.... Buffalo Bob, Clarabelle, Mr. Bluster, Dilly Dally, Princess SummerFallWinterSpring, Mr. Bluster?
I remember when , I guess the show was changing sets, and they were off for a bit, and came back on in a different "tent" ..and Buffalo Bob told Howdy that Clarabelle was LOST !!!!!
They showed him crying and not knowing how to find his friends. He just kept "honking" at strangers.
Well, my sister was absolutely hysterical. I can remember my mom trying to calm her down so she would stop crying... -rollinglaugh-
Those were the days....
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Haha, that is so funny, bacali. Your poor sister.
Remember the Little Rascals? That would be politically incorrect today.
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Oh bacali...that is funny! Not so funny for your sister at the time, but funny for all of us right now!
I loved the Little Rascals/Our Gang (lol, "The He Man Women Haters Club")
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wBIC8JTQMMQ
Remember hula hoops? -Dancingpink-
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Oh yeah, and I was super good.
Remember those delicious kitchen smells when your Mom was baking cinnamon rolls and coffee cake? I never learned to bake like she did.
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My Aunt (RIP Dear Aunt Jane) used to make icing for cake and my cousin and I got a couple of spoons and devoured the leavings in the mixing bowl when she was done.
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My Aunt (RIP Dear Aunt Jane) used to make icing for cake and my cousin and I got a couple of spoons and devoured the leavings in the mixing bowl when she was done.
Same thing here... with dear Aunt Libbie whom we just lost in March at 100 !!
Every Sunday evening from when I first met my husband, we would go to her house for something that she baked.
The whole family would be there, and my children grew up with all kinds of cake and cookies.
One of her specialities was a coffee crumb cake. It was impossible not to pick some of those huge cinnamon crumbs off the top ( if you were passing through the kitchen)....and boy, would she get angry seeing "holes' on the top of the cake when she was serving it.
I miss her alot..RIP, too, Aunt Libbie
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My Aunt (RIP Dear Aunt Jane) used to make icing for cake and my cousin and I got a couple of spoons and devoured the leavings in the mixing bowl when she was done.
Oh my gosh! The "lickins" as we used to call them. We would fight over the mixing spoons, spatulas, anything that went into frosting or brownie batter!
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(And now today, mothers don't let the kids lick the beaters because the batter has raw eggs in it)
Remember when smoking was allowed wherever you went--hospitals, airplanes, restaurants, schools (teachers lounge), every meeting and office. on and on and on. I still remember the haze near the ceiling of some of the establishments (okay, bars) I went to in my youth.
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Remember going for "Sunday Drives" with your family, usually stopping for ice cream at some point?
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Remember always watching "your parent's" television shows?
We only had a few channels..so Sat night ..we danced to Lawrence Welk and followed that by Gunsmoke and Sea Hunt.
Sunday night was always the Ed Sullivan show.
But, the family was always together..... sort of nice compared to today.
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Remember going for "Sunday Drives" with your family, usually stopping for ice cream at some point?
Oh, yes. My dad would drive us around and look at any new houses that had been built. Then we would stop at a place called the Magnolia Creamery where they made ice cream and get a cup or cone. That was the best ice cream. I remember a flavor called tutti fruitti. When I told my friends about tutti fruitti later they thought I was making the name up.
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Remember always watching "your parent's" television shows?
We only had a few channels..so Sat night ..we danced to Lawrence Welk and followed that by Gunsmoke and Sea Hunt.
Sunday night was always the Ed Sullivan show.
But, the family was always together..... sort of nice compared to today.
For my family the Ed Sullivan Show was "must see TV." Elvis, the Beatles, the Stones......and how could one ever forget Ed's intro of "Topo Gigio!"
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Oh...Topo Gigio.... saying...." I love you, Eddie" " Wow, what fond memories.
Now, was he the character that said ..."look at the enemy...don't think so... who was that?
Remember... he'd get down and look at the audience and say this...I can't remember who it was. -duh-
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I can't help you there, bacali. My Dad didn't care much for Ed Sullivan, so we didn't watch it. Yep, remember when you only had one tv set, and your Dad was in control of what you watched?
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Remember when you were your parents remote control? -loll
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Remember when you had to get up off your chair and turn the tv knob to change the channel? :a102:
Yes I am 100 years old -rollinglaugh- -SPLAT-
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Remember when playing with cap guns and squirt guns was not considered a "bad influence?"
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Remember when you had phone numbers with prefixes like Glendale instead of numbers?
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Does anyone remember S&H Green Stamps or have we been over that subject before?
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Well if we have, i don't remember it! Yes, I remember those, and we had some called Gold Bond, too.
Remember cooking everything on the stove pre-microwave? I still reheat stuff that way sometimes.
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I remember them :victory:
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Cookie, remember back in the day when you would ride your dinosaur to work? -rollinglaugh-
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Cookie, remember back in the day when you would ride your dinosaur to work? -rollinglaugh-
Probably dated on them that way...huh..Prairie Dawn ? -rollinglaugh-
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Cookie, remember back in the day when you would ride your dinosaur to work? -rollinglaugh-
Probably dated on them that way...huh..Prairie Dawn ? -rollinglaugh-
How can one forget those double dates on a brontosaurus! Boy did we annoy people at the drive in! -loll
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Remember..those drive in movies O:-)
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Remember..those drive in movies O:-)
Ahhhhh, the memories....... :57:
Remember those silly intermission "commercials" at the drive in with the soda and the popcorn dancing about and singing?
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Remember when Amanda Bynes was acting normal
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No... I don't remember her... -duh-
but, I remember drive in movies... and getting all set up and then your speaker didn't work. :41:
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Bacali! That was the worst! All comfy and the speaker is broken! :96:
Remember starting to drive out of the drive in WITH the speaker still attached to your window! :-\
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And, at drive ins in the summer when you had that circular bug wick to keep the mosquitos out of your car.. funny!
We usually put it on the dashboard. I can still remember the smell...
But,how I miss those drive ins. So much fun.
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And, at drive ins in the summer when you had that circular bug wick to keep the mosquitos out of your car.. funny!
We usually put it on the dashboard. I can still remember the smell...
But,how I miss those drive ins. So much fun.
Yes! I remember those! They were called "pics" or something like that and they were very smoky! I also remember going with my family as a child and my dad scrubbing down the windshield with windex....it was his ritual.
I miss those days too!
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...and the playground equipment right down in front with the squeaky teeter totter.
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but, I remember drive in movies... and getting all set up and then your speaker didn't work. :41:
They had speakers? :dance: The Prankster's set up didn't include speakers. :97:
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Prankster's set up? -rollinglaugh-
(http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-ixfcjyPmRWc/Th9ZRROQIDI/AAAAAAAADmg/0_81M5AUqr0/s1600/custom-van-interior-1.jpg)
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Prankster's set up? -rollinglaugh-
(http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-ixfcjyPmRWc/Th9ZRROQIDI/AAAAAAAADmg/0_81M5AUqr0/s1600/custom-van-interior-1.jpg)
-rollinglaugh- -rollinglaugh- -rollinglaugh- You're set up is alot more comfortable than what I can remember... :57: but, ahem...
the speakers were on those stands when you pulled in.
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Prankster's set up? -rollinglaugh-
(http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-ixfcjyPmRWc/Th9ZRROQIDI/AAAAAAAADmg/0_81M5AUqr0/s1600/custom-van-interior-1.jpg)
Home! Where's the Prankster's lava lamp?
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Prankster's set up? -rollinglaugh-
(http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-ixfcjyPmRWc/Th9ZRROQIDI/AAAAAAAADmg/0_81M5AUqr0/s1600/custom-van-interior-1.jpg)
Home! Where's the Prankster's lava lamp?
Oh my...you had these too?
Remember going steady and having "matching shirts' ...so romantic. And, I actually did wear..his ring around my neck... 'though I liked my ring so much better.
We were such innocent babies compared to the kids today... at least, some of us were. :72:
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I remember wearing my boyfriends ring and his letter jacket in high school! Awwwwwwwwww!
Here is your lava lamp, MP
(http://dormdesign.files.wordpress.com/2010/08/lava-lamp.jpg)
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I had to put a big gob of wax in my boyfriends ring to wear it.
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We wrapped yarn around ours.
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Remember these?
(http://toomanysweetaddictions.files.wordpress.com/2011/10/candy-buttons.jpg)
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??? Little boxes with x's in them? -rollinglaugh-
Remember when you could only buy gas on certain days? and there was no such thing as 24 hour stations?
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??? Little boxes with x's in them? -rollinglaugh-
Remember when you could only buy gas on certain days? and there was no such thing as 24 hour stations?
:29: yes, smartypants little boxes with X's on them, lol! I fixed it.
Remember Wheel-O's?
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Huh? Can't say I do--enlighten me!
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Huh? Can't say I do--enlighten me!
I am happy to! :86:
This is a wheel-o (no, it is not an X with a box around it, lol)
(http://untuckedshirt.files.wordpress.com/2010/10/wheel-o.jpeg)
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For a clothesline...right? -duh-
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It's a toy I think. You roll the wheel back and forth.
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-LOL- It looks similar to the gadget that I have on my outdoor clothesline to keep it together.
So...guess I don't remember..the wheel-o.
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-LOL- It looks similar to the gadget that I have on my outdoor clothesline to keep it together.
So...guess I don't remember..the wheel-o.
It DOES look like the clothesline thing! -loll
Remember when the BB hamsters got PB and J instead of slop?
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Remember when we hysterically laughed at "Chicken" George? He was certainly not a handsome young 20 something ...but, this season got us hooked on BB.
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Loved "Chicken George!"
Remember when BBAD was not censored and beeped to death! :96:
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Ah, the good old days!
Remember when BB had nutty wicked players you loved to watch?
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Ah, the good old days!
Remember when BB had nutty wicked players you loved to watch?
Remember when they actually put likeable people in the house?
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Remember when production (Grodner) did not manipulate to keep their "favorites" on?
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Remember when we had entertaining wicked loveable schemers like Dr. Will?
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Remember being able to buy a treat from the ice cream man for a quarter?
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remember when a big meal was not complete without a jello mold?
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Remember when we had entertaining wicked loveable schemers like Dr. Will?
....and "Chicken" George, who wrapped himself in tin foil and 'blasted' himself out of the shower.
Those were the days and shows that hooked me on BB.
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Remember when you would never see anyone having sex on TV. They even had Lucy and Ricky sleep in twin beds in those long ago good old days.
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Remember when I dream of Jeannie was considered to sexy as OMG, they showed her belly button and it later had to be covered up :16:
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Yep! I remember that very well.
Remember separate dorms for guys and gals and curfews at college?
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Yep! I remember that very well.
Remember separate dorms for guys and gals and curfews at college?
Yes, I sure do.
Remember that special date ending at .....getting a big ice cream to share ? Yup...it was a biggy ice cream !.
We used to go to this place called "Holly's" and get a tandem Ice cream sundae.
It was huge with several flavors of ice cream, different toppings on different spots, whipped cream and nuts and several cherries.
Of course, "i" got to start from my favorite spot...but.... that was FUN.
No going to a bar...seeing who could get the most wasted. We really had good, clean fun.
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Remember when people said "please" and "thank you?"
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Sprinkling clothes--My Mom would gather them off the clothesline, sprinkle them with water (she had a big sprinkler head she attached to a coke bottle) roll them into balls, and put them into a clothes basket for ironing. I spent many an hour at the ironing board when I was little. Now I might iron something a couple of times a year!
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Sprinkling clothes--My Mom would gather them off the clothesline, sprinkle them with water (she had a big sprinkler head she attached to a coke bottle) roll them into balls, and put them into a clothes basket for ironing. I spent many an hour at the ironing board when I was little. Now I might iron something a couple of times a year!
YES! My mom still irons her sheets...and they smell soooooo good!
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no seatbelts! we never wore them when we were kids.
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How about the Corvair?--trunk in the front. Never owned one but I rode in one on occasion.
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Remember when public restrooms had a roll of cloth you had to pull out to dry your hands? Now it is either paper towels and air dryers which I am sure are much more sanitary that the cloth.
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Remember when public restrooms had a roll of cloth you had to pull out to dry your hands? Now it is either paper towels and air dryers which I am sure are much more sanitary that the cloth.
Oh my gosh! I remember those rolls of cloth. Kind of gross now that I think about it! :smiley_confused1:
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Remember when you took a large, brown paper bag and cut it apart to make book covers for your school books?
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Remember when you took a large, brown paper bag and cut it apart to make book covers for your school books?
Yes, I do...and mine had to be "perfect" !!
Also, remember at the end of the school year, sandpapering the sides of the pages of your text books, so they were looking clean and white for the next person to use the book?
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no seatbelts! we never wore them when we were kids.
Seatbelts!!! No one had heard of them.
I have to laugh and wonder how in the world we or our own children survived!
When I brought my children home from the hospital, I had them in my arms.
Now, babies and small children have to have special seats, which many times are installed by police officers who know how to do it properly.
And, different sizes for different kids.. so a lot of young folks need vans.
My husband "drove" the car with the kids in his lap!!!
We'd take a ride, I'd hold the baby.
We have gone the right direction here though... what we did was really dangerous!!
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Remember when you took a large, brown paper bag and cut it apart to make book covers for your school books?
Yes! I loved to doodle all over my book covers!
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Remember when you took a large, brown paper bag and cut it apart to make book covers for your school books?
Yes! I loved to doodle all over my book covers!
We weren' t allowed to doodle...covers had to stay clean. :smiley_confused1:
I went to a very strict school !
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Sheesh bacali, I'll say you did! (strict school) No doodling? Sandpapering the edges of your books? Holy moly, never heard of that one.
Remember going shopping downtown? When there were no malls? So much fun, tagging along with your Mom.
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Sprinkling clothes--My Mom would gather them off the clothesline, sprinkle them with water (she had a big sprinkler head she attached to a coke bottle) roll them into balls, and put them into a clothes basket for ironing. I spent many an hour at the ironing board when I was little. Now I might iron something a couple of times a year!
YES! My mom still irons her sheets...and they smell soooooo good!
Ugh! I'm always ironing. My really expensive Maytag washer just wrinkles the beejeebers out of everything. I can't wait until it breaks.
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Hey cak, good to see you!
Remember when you sat down at the table for noon dinner on Sunday? My Mom would put something in before church, and when we got home the house would smell so good. We would always set the table with the good dishes and silverware for her, and everything was served in nice bowls and platters. That's where we learned our manners!
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Remember when we hated Sept , 'cause we'd have to go back to school ?
Now, I'm looking forward to it... so this hot weather changes.
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Shoot, the kids here started August 12! My grandkids have already been back to school for 2 weeks.
Do any of you remember walking to school? I did almost every day, and it was at least a mile.
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Walking? Well, I do remember.... -rollinglaugh- through the meadows and up mountains...
Actually I tried to catch the school bus, but, if I didn't.. my walk was over a mile, too.
Remember "Veni, Vidi, Vici " .... I came , I saw , I conquered.
First thing I learned in Latin class, and I still remember it.
The teacher would be so proud of me. :whoo:
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Never took Latin. We had German and French in junior high that we had to take.
Remember those awkward PE classes where they taught you how to dance and for your final grade you had to dance with the boy's PE instructor?
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Sarge never danced with his PE instructor! :P He did, however, wash out of Mrs. Botsford's (that was her name--no kidding!) school of etiquette, dance, and culture for young men and women of fine breeding. He still has nightmares about being tapped on the shoulder by Mrs. Botsford's arm extension----a long pole with a small feather duster at the end. It was a sign of her displeasure. Just thinking about it still gives him the willies. Yikes! <shudder> :-\
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Remember those HUGE one piece snowsuits your mother would CRAM you into so you could play outside in the snow?
(For about ten minutes......then you would have to go in to use the bathroom -rollinglaugh-)
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Remember those HUGE one piece snowsuits your mother would CRAM you into so you could play outside in the snow?
(For about ten minutes......then you would have to go in to use the bathroom -rollinglaugh-)
-rollinglaugh- Oh, my Lord, YES.... you couldn't move in them.
Remember the smell of the burning leaves in the Fall before we ever heard of air pollution?
And , falling in those huge raked up piles.... so much fun.
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LOVED jumping in the leaves!
Remember when you would go Trick or Treating and neighbors would invite you in for cider and cookies?
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Remember going to Progressive Dinners? Each hostess would serve one part of the meal and you would travel from house to house. Never see those anymore.
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Remember-- Tupperware parties?
I had so much Tupperware... but, it was the only way to get out of the house and away from the children...way back then...
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Yep--been to one or two of those.
And Avon--and Mary Kay
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Remember when adults use to tell us if we crossed our eyes they might freeze that way.
Remember when adults use to tell us if we hung upside down or stood on our heads that the blood would rush to our heads. I use to wonder if it would rush to our feet when we stood up.
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...and coffee stunts your growth.
Remember when you used to make your Halloween costumes instead of buying them at the store?
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I remember , even with my own children, coming home and putting a towel on the living room rug and dumping all our "loot" out.
We were all so excited just to get all these different kinds of candy. My hubby usually confiscated anything chocolate. Were those great days or not?
Now, the trick or treaters throw out the candy.You have to be so careful. Sad.
This takes all the fun out of the whole experience.
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Remember those Thanksgiving pageants you put on for your parents at school? So much fun.
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Remember trying to get the "item" of that Christmas season and none of the stores had any left.
One in particular..... I remember....is the Cabbage patch doll. And she HAD to have it !!! -loll
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When I was young, my parents used to call fridge...the icebox. ( even though it was long past that time of the box with the ice )
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Remember those home perms using that thin paper with the little pink plastic rollers, and that stinking solution. It made your head stink for a week.
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I remember that so well--and all the frizz you had to deal with afterwards.
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Remember when kids actually played outside? Now they sit in front of the computer all day! As a child during the summer and nice months I was outside all day long.
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When I was young, I had to go to bed early..no tv. Then when I was older, I had so much homework....no tv.
But, during Christmas I was able to watch so many beautiful Christmas specials on tv.
Anyone else remember the really lovely Christmas shows ?
I remember the Andy Williams Show, and I remember a special with Bing Crosby and David Bowie. I remember the scene with them singing...it was the "a rump a bump bump" song. ( can't think of the name LOL)
They still play it today all over the radio during Christmas , and my mind brings me back to that show.
Also, what especially was lovely was that at the end of the shows, they brought out the families. So year after year we watched families grow up.
I miss this during the holidays now. They don't have Christmas specialsl ike this , hey , there aren't any variety shows. I miss these, too.
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I think the name of that song is "The Little Drummer Boy". It is one of my favorite Christmas songs.
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When I was young, I had to go to bed early..no tv. Then when I was older, I had so much homework....no tv.
But, during Christmas I was able to watch so many beautiful Christmas specials on tv.
Anyone else remember the really lovely Christmas shows ?
I remember the Andy Williams Show, and I remember a special with Bing Crosby and David Bowie. I remember the scene with them singing...it was the "a rump a bump bump" song. ( can't think of the name LOL)
They still play it today all over the radio during Christmas , and my mind brings me back to that show.
Also, what especially was lovely was that at the end of the shows, they brought out the families. So year after year we watched families grow up.
I miss this during the holidays now. They don't have Christmas specialsl ike this , hey , there aren't any variety shows. I miss these, too.
Bacali, did we grow up in the same house! I was raised in a no tv house as well! BUT...at Christmas we could watch all of the specials. I still remember Bing and Bowie singing that song. Lot's of tv families would have a special. I remember The Osmond Family Christmas, A Charlie Brown Christmas (a favorite), The Year Without a Santa Claus, Miracle on 34th Street, What a Wonderful Life.
Ah....good memories!
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I think the name of that song is "The Little Drummer Boy". It is one of my favorite Christmas songs.
-duh- Oh my... of course it is.
Funny...and silly little story.
When my older son was small he used to put a dish towel on his head to look like this drummer boy, and march around to the song. My mom who passed away when he was 4 thought with his big brown eyes that he looked like this little drummer boy.... and he did.
Every week now,we watch one of our grandsons and there's a toy drum that is actually his Daddy's.. who is my younger son ( Fisher Price toys don't wear out !!). inside of the drum is stored cymbals and the drum sticks and a tambourine, & a triangle.
Liam " loves" this toy. Every week, hubby and I get handed a different "instrument" ( he now says this word) , and he puts the top back on the drum and the harness around his little neck and off we go as he drums while we "march"...following him in circles around the house.
Of course, he's already given up our instruments , as well as our own dish towels.
What must we look like ....
if the neighbors happen to be looking in our window ?
What must they think we're doing? ... -rollinglaugh-
I don't care at all... I'm having so much fun...and making memories. He may not remember them...but, I sure will.
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Love that story!
And now the grandkids are growing up fast :73:
Remember when you and your siblings would spend every moment you could looking for where your parents hid the Christmas presents?
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Love that story!
And now the grandkids are growing up fast :73:
Remember when you and your siblings would spend every moment you could looking for where your parents hid the Christmas presents?
YES! We could never find them, despite our best efforts!
Remember the anticipation you would have as a child on Christmas Eve? So exciting!
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Remember when three weeks 'til Christmas was "wonderful". I couldn't wait.
Now, three weeks 'til Christmas ..... :41:
Tubs all over the place, nothing decorated, only some shopping done , no cards written, no baking started......
Hey, I just took down all my Thanksgiving decorations...yesterday !
I don't know where to begin..
and, I certainly shouldn't be playing on my computer... -rollinglaugh-
Ho Ho Ho
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Ho ho ho is right--I hear ya, bacali.
Remember when you used to help your Mom get everything ready for her big holiday dinner? I can still remember making hors d'oeuvres with her, and place cards for her guests.
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Remember that magical feeling of really "believing"? I would listen so hard at night to hear Santa flying around in that sleigh. Or.... was that the "red nose" I saw in the sky ? LOL.
That's why it's so wonderful being a child and if not one, having one to watch at Christmas time.
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I am now the subject of remember when! My daughter was constantly saying--remember when you..(insert one of many things here)...Mom?
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I am now the subject of remember when! My daughter was constantly saying--remember when you..(insert one of many things here)...Mom?
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Well that must bring you a wonderful feeling ..knowing that she ..remembers.
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Makes you feel old though....
Remember when you got your first job? I made $500 a month, and had plenty to pay rent, food, car, gas, and extra to spare! Now that doesn't even pay my electric bill.... ???
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Tonight would be the night before the first day of school...and our tummies were nervous?
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Remember when there were many westerns on TV and now I don't think there are any except for reruns.
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The only one even close was Longmire--about a lawman in present day Wyoming. My hubby and I really liked it. I don't think it was picked up for renewal, though.
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Remember Clint Eastwood as Rowdy Yates on Rawhide?
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Yes! What a hunka hunka!
And Lorne Greene on Bonanza and his leather vests.
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And Mitch Miller and the Ed Sullivan Show.
Trivia Question: Who was the original bandleader for Johnny Carson when he took over the Tonight Show?
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Dunno :smiley_confused1: Who was it?
Have Gun Will Travel, and Maverick!
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Skitch Henderson
Maverick---was that James Garner? Loved that guy!
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Does anyone recall watching Mr. Wizard?
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I don't think I ever did.
Watching Walter Cronkite on the CBS news.
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"And that's the way it is...." They don't make 'em like that anymore.
Remember Dobie Gillis?
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Yes, I thought he was so cute...and Maynard?
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Do any of you remember the reflectors that used to be put behind the old fashioned Christmas lights?
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Do any of you remember the reflectors that used to be put behind the old fashioned Christmas lights?
YES! My grandmother had them on her tree, with the big lights. She also had the bubble lights. So pretty!
Remember trying to get to sleep the night before Christmas???
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Sleep? It lasted far into my middle age for me...I would get excited because the kids/grankids were so excited.
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Remember the wonder holiday variety shows every year at Christmastime ?
I was much younger than they were....but...Dean Martin's, Bob Hope's
Bing Crosby, Andy Williams.
They'd bring their families on year after year and we all grew up together.
Anyone else have to watch Lawrence Welk every Sat. night? :72:
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Have to is the key word! I never liked him much, but my Dad did. In those days the Dad was the boss of the TV!
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At my house it was the Mom, but, then...there were only a few shows to choose from.
Today's kids could never fathom only having channels 2,4,7 9 11 and 13 and the TV signing off...yes SIGNING OFF with the Star Spangle banner sometime after the news.
Boy, have times changed!!! -loll
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In my hometown, during the Prankster's childhood the local TV channels would sign off at midnight on Sundays to perform maintenance and put up a test pattern.
Does anyone remember the Lone Ranger? Jay Thomas (DJ/comedian/actor) tells a real life Lone Ranger story on Letterman each year. For those who haven't heard it, it's worth the watch:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yEsbXXsiUUg
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I remember the Lone Ranger very well! If it was a western, it was on in my house. I even remember listening to it on the radio.
Does anyone else remember listening to the radio? My mom was a big fan of Helen Trent, and I can remember listening to it with her.
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When my grandmother would come and visit we always listened to Helen Trent and other soaps on the radio. After she would leave I would be hooked for awhile until school would start. I remember listening to The Shadow, Bobby Benson and the B-Bar-B ranch (not sure of the name) The Lone Ranger.
At night I listened to a music radio show from Cincinnati but can't remember the call letters. They played rhythm and blues.
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Remember when you used to go dance to bands instead of djs? My hubby and I danced our weekends away when we were dating.
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I remember going to see the Beatles when they came to Atlanta in the 60's. The best performance I ever saw in person was James Brown. He really put on a show and he was on stage longer than most top performers were.
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Lucky you! I would have loved seeing the Beatles...or the Doors.
Remember when you took typing in HS?... and typing on those unforgiving typewriters that allowed for no mistakes?
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Worse yet was having to type a paper for school. ..with no mistakes allowed.
You'd get almost to the bottom and .... OH NO..... have to retype the whole page again. :41:
Now....and I know I 'm sounding old....but....LOL....I am.... -duh-
Now the kids use the computers( of course)....zip this out, put in that, click a button and the pages come spilling out.
They should only know what I went through...and how many hours it took to do ONE assignment!!
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My high school had a split schedule due to overcrowding, so my first class was at 6:30 in the morning, and it was typing! Needless to say...never did get very good!
Remember sock hops? So much fun!
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Remember getting dressed up for Church.... :c029::what they wear today.
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Remember quiet summer night listening to the crickets......instead of the hum of air conditioners?
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remember roller skate keys?
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Oh yes, we had such fun roller skating...and now I never see kids doing this any more.
Remember watching Dr. Kildare?
Richard Chamberlain was so cute.
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Remember when dimmer switches were in the car floorboard? and you had to give hand signals to turn or stop?
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and bike riders knew extending your LEFT arm straight out was a left turn and using the same arm in an upward L was a right turn and a downward L means you are stopping!
I think bike riders should have to take a test so you know where they are going! So many of them don't seem to remember a car can kill them!
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Remember when you wore girdles and didn't even need them? Now people who need them don't even wear them (including this person),
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Remember when you used to sprinkle your clothes, roll them up, and then spend hours ironing them?
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Remember when we would smell the Autumn leaves burning?
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Remember when decorating your house didn't leave you so exhausted. :smiley_confused1:
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I don't go full bore for fall--a few leaves and a scarecrow or two, that's it! You should show us a picture, before you have to take it all down and put up your Christmas decorations!
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Remember when you went to the gas station you would drive over a hose that went ding, ding?
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Remember when it said "color" next to the tv show to denote it wasn't in black and white?
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Remember when you used tinsel to put the final touches on the Christmas tree?
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Remember when Survivors used to appear on the early show AND Letterman after they got the boot?
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Remember when you used tinsel to put the final touches on the Christmas tree?
Ponytail, I still love tinsel. I didn't put it on my tree for years because my hubby loved the garland and it would have been too much...BUT. I stopped the garland, I have some long ribbon streamers coming down in a few places now and I decided.... I want tinsel and it's my now finishing touch. ..again.
Remember, when the children's Christmas "specials" were just that...special. We waited a whole year to see them again. Now, with DVR's we can tape them, like I have, and even watch them in July( which we have, too):)
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Remember when most houses didn't have air conditioning and you would go into the basement to cool off?
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Remember running through the lawn sprinkler? It was so much fun.
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Remember when you could go somewhere and not see phones in everyone's ears?
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Remember when there were penny candy stores where you would go in and they would give you a little
brown bag and you could fill it up with all the different kinds of candy that only cost a penny each ? I was
usually given a dime and it took a really long time to make my choices! Loved it. :)
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Remember those little wax things in different shapes that you would bite off a piece of it and drink the juice inside. I remember some being shaped like a drink bottle and some like a cowboy boot. Also remember those wax lips you would chew to get the flavor out. Some were also teeth and other shapes.
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Remember when....we woke up in the morning , jumped out of bed...and nothing hurt. :whoo:
<sorry, LOL>..but, I don't have this happen anymore....showing my age, huh?
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I remember when I would go shopping with my Mom and a young man would carry our groceries out to the car. And
at the gas station when we got gas, they would wash our windows and check our oil. Now that I'm old, I really wish
we still had that kind of service!
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I remember when my mother would cook a big meal for lunch (we called that meal dinner) and cover it and leave it on the table and eat it again for dinner (we called that supper in the south). We never got food poisoning.
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Remember when you went roller skating and you attached your skates to your shoes and tightened
them with your skate key.....then you hung your skate key around your neck ?
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I remember when I was a kid and on summer vacation from school,
I never wore shoes. All summer I would be outside or go shopping
with Mom and was always barefoot. The stores never had those signs
that say No Shoes...No Service! :039:
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I am still barefoot at home! First thing I do when I get home is take off my shoes.
Remember hanging tinsel on your tree at Christmas? And your brothers would get tired of doing it and throw one huge last clump to the back of the tree to get rid of it!
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Remember when you read magazines? I think it was the Ladies Home Journal that used to have serial stories as a feature. You would wait and wait for the next issue to get the latest installment in the story you were reading!
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Remember reading actual books while on summer vacation?
I read all the Bobbsey Twins series, and the Nancy Drew Mysteries. We didn't have any a/c and in the heat of the day, we stayed inside and read book. I had to take a bus to the library and had so much fun picking out a new book and anticipating the story.
Today's children haven't any idea what enjoyment they are missing.
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Speaking of remembering when someone came up with the idea of a program called "Growing up Milledgeville". He got it from a place he visited that did the same thing in his town. He put out of Facebook for people to write him stories of what they remembered from the 50's, 60's, etc. We all got together last Saturday and told about what it was like for us. About 80 people ended up attending. I told about growing up in the shadows of Milledgeville State Hospital. I don't know if any of you ever heard of it but at one time it was the largest mental institution is the US. Every time we told someone we were from Milledgeville they thought we were mentally ill! Haha, Not really but they did make fun of us. Anyway, my mother was an occupational therapist and my daddy worked in the admission office and we lived right down the street from the main building. My cousin, friends, and I used the hospital grounds with all the many sidewalks as our playground. It was a great place to ride our bikes and skate. Some of the patients (as we called them then) had walk out privileges and there was no reason to be afraid of them. I broke my arm skating there and my aunt who was assistant director of nurses took me home. We didn't have telephones on us to call our parents like they do now.
Anyway, it was a good place to grow up and a good time to grow up. Our parents didn't worry about us as long as we were home before dark and we roamed the whole neighborhood.
I also told about my school days, the cloak rooms next to each classroom to keep our book satchels and coats in. Did any of you call them that?
I told about high school and some of our favorite places to hang out.
It was a good time and everyone enjoyed it.
A man came from Augusta, Ga. who use to be my neighbor when I was 6 and he was 7. We didn't know it but we both had a crush on each other at the time.
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Remember when ...you hadn't a worry in the world?
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I grew up in a very small town and when I used to forget things at school(like a jacket, or
homework, or a book I needed) I used to walk back to school a couple hours after school or
even on a Saturday and was able to just walk in and get what I needed and just leave. Now
even in my small hometown, the doors are always locked and no one can enter. During school
hours you have to ring a buzzer and the secretary answers and you have to give your name
and reason for being there. There are cameras at the door so she can see whoever is there.
You have to have a good reason for being there and never can get in after hours or on Sat.
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It's sad how times have changed. I don't know if we are better off with all this technology or not. Families use to talk to each other and now they all have phones in their hands.
Did anyone else learn to square dance at school? In 6th grade the teacher taught us how and we went to a competition at a college campus in our state. I had just got my arm out of a cast and thought my partner would break it again swinging me around. We also danced on TV at a station near by. There was a show that featured classes and they would go around and everyone had to introduce themselves. Then the class would put on some kind of act or the TV station would show a cartoon. Those were the days when we could just get three stations and had an antenna on the roof of our house. They signed off every night with the national anthem.
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Anyone remember the show "Winky Dink and You" ?
Most of our members will not remember this because they may not have been born. LOL
Here is the gist of the show I copied from google:
"winky-dink and you" was the pioneer in interactive programming. The core of the program was children sent away for a kit. The kit had a plastic screen that stuck to the TV tube with static electricity. Crayons were used to draw on the screen. When a character needed special help, children would be asked to draw on the screen, give assistance and free the character from trouble. If a character needed to cross a river with no bridge, the viewer would draw a line so a crossing could be made and escape trouble. Jack Barry, the host, emphasized inviting a friend over to watch the program; sharing in the drawing of assistance was also important. Everyone watched and helped winky-dinky in his adventures and had fun.
Well, as a really young child, I sent away for this plastic screen and sat on the floor in front of the tv, playing along.
I remember it today and all the fun my sister and I had.
Imagine trying to tell a child today how this worked. It sounds like the stone ages!!!
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Remember playing 1,2,3 Red Light, Red Rover, Mother May I, and Rock School?
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Yes, I still play Red Rover with the little ones.
Remember, all the tv Westerns ?
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Never heard of that show! But I remember our neighbors had a plastic screen fixed to the tv that was green on the bottom, orangeish in the middle, and blue at the top to make the shows look like they were in color! Didn't work too well on some of them, but not too bad on the westerns!
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My husband use to love reruns of Gun Smoke and The Ponderosa. Was that it's name. Does anyone remember The Big Valley and The Rifleman?
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Bonanza! Yes, I remember those, and Have Gun Will Travel, The Virginian, and Wagon Train. And Maverick! My Dad was a big fan of westerns, and the Dad always had control of the tv!
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Remember when you used to pick out class rings in school, and go steady? None of that anymore....
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Remember when you used to pick out class rings in school, and go steady? None of that anymore....
I remember. And, we all got the same ring.
Now, when even my kids were in HS, they got a catalogue and you picked out what you wanted. Nooooo
The whole idea was it was the school ring.
I went steady....wore his ring around my neck, as the song said.
Loved my ring, but, when he asked we exchanged rings.....ugg!
And, now... with proms you just don't get asked. There are pomp and circumstances and flowers and signs made. *Nooooo*
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Remember when...Prom dresses were pastel and spring looking? Now I see gowns that are black and boobs hanging out and.....
To let you know how I was brought up. I went to a Catholic school... and we had nuns. We had to bring our Prom dress to the convent to let them approve that it was modest!!!
Can you see the girls now a day doing this?
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Remember when there used to be an organist in church? Maybe some of you still have them, my town is little and I don't even think anyone plays the organ anymore. We have canned music now.
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Remember when...speaking of church...the votive candles were real and you would light them like a real candle. Not any more.... *Nooooo* now they have plastic dome type ones that you push a button on.
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Remember those girdles we wore when we were young? Didn't really need them, but hey, that's what you did anyway.
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Remember on a day like today we would ride our bikes forever.