DO YOU REMEMBER...

[alwaysawake]

The biggest thing I miss from the past is CUSTOMER SERVICE in every shop you or your parents dragged you to, being able to play all day without the latest & greatest toys & games, just our imagination & a stick were enough to have us as cowboys & indians, armies, vikings , big game hunters etc, build our own billy karts.

These days if it don't have batteries or a screen it's "I'M BORED"

If we had our Tonka trucks, a sawdust pile or dirt area, and our imaginations...we had enough to keep us interacting and busy for days as we constructed roads, traded peoperties, etc. OR playing 'kick the can'...a better version of hide and seek. It kept us active and in better physical condition than most kids are now, since we didn't have a computer to blob in front of. If we played 'sit down' games, it was usually cards (Old Maid, Go Fish, Rummy), Monopoly, Risk, Clue, or Yahtzee.

 

[JennyOmanHill]

There is a local community TV station that has great show from our pasts featured like 77 sunset strip, bilko,ozzie & harriet, cisco kid,texas rangers.

As for car 54 where are you it had the guys from the munsters in it.

Officers Toody and Muldoon

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I think "Grandpa Munster" was Officer Schultz?

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[alwaysawake]

Officers Toody and Muldoon

http://www.fiftiesweb.com/tv/car-54.jpg

I think "Grandpa Munster" was Officer Schultz?

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That's right...Al Lewis was Officer Schultz...I'd forgotten that!

 

[Arden]

If we had our Tonka trucks, a sawdust pile or dirt area, and our imaginations...we had enough to keep us interacting and busy for days as we constructed roads, traded peoperties, etc. OR playing 'kick the can'...a better version of hide and seek. It kept us active and in better physical condition than most kids are now, since we didn't have a computer to blob in front of. If we played 'sit down' games, it was usually cards (Old Maid, Go Fish, Rummy), Monopoly, Risk, Clue, or Yahtzee.

I loved playing Risk! My sisters taught me how to play when I was fairly young... I remember it as being the first game that I learned to play that involved strategy...

We lived 13 miles out of town while I was age 5 through 6th grade, in the NEastern cornfields of IL. We spent a lot of time down the road catching crawdads in the creek... along with some pretty bad bouts of poison ivy. One summer we made a rickshaw with the kids next door. Two old wagon wheels, a piece of metal pipe, and two ladders. If there had been many neighbors around to see it, they would have thought we were nuts, lol!

I wouldn't trade those days of having to be creative to find something to do for anything...

 

[Arden]

Officers Toody and Muldoon

http://www.fiftiesweb.com/tv/car-54.jpg

I think "Grandpa Munster" was Officer Schultz?

Jenny, that looks a lot like Fred Gwynn at left - Herman Munster?

Great show!

The original Adams Family show was great too... I loved the way that Gomez went nuts every time Morticia spoke French to him...

Cara Mia!!!! *Kissing her hand, working his lips up her arm...*

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[alwaysawake]

I loved playing Risk! My sisters taught me how to play when I was fairly young... I remember it as being the first game that I learned to play that involved strategy...

We lived 13 miles out of town while I was age 5 through 6th grade, in the NEastern cornfields of IL. We spent a lot of time down the road catching crawdads in the creek... along with some pretty bad bouts of poison ivy. One summer we made a rickshaw with the kids next door. Two old wagon wheels, a piece of metal pipe, and two ladders. If there had been many neighbors around to see it, they would have thought we were nuts, lol!

I wouldn't trade those days of having to be creative to find something to do for anything...

I remember both catching crawdads in a trap, or going down to the creek with some bacon, string, and a 16 penny nail--tying the bacon to the end with the nail close above to hold it down, and toss it close to a branch or log in the creek. We'd watch the bait like a hawk and try to slowly pull the crawdad to shore once he had the bait. We lost more than we caught using that method, but it sure was fun! (We don't have poison ivy out here, but plenty of poison oak and blackberry briars!)

 

[alwaysawake]

Jenny, that looks a lot like Fred Gwynn at left - Herman Munster?

Great show!

The original Adams Family show was great too... I loved the way that Gomez went nuts every time Morticia spoke French to him...

Cara Mia!!!! *Kissing her hand, working his lips up her arm...*

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You are right, Arden. That IS Fred Gwynne, later of the Munsters. I liked Thing on the Addams Family...also Uncle Fester.

 

[JennyOmanHill]

Even though I prefer short hair now,

I have to admit Cousin Itt was a cutie!

http://www.addamsfamily.com/addams/itt-02.jpg

 

[alwaysawake]

Re: Even though I prefer short hair now,

I have to admit Cousin Itt was a cutie!

http://www.addamsfamily.com/addams/itt-02.jpg

I liked the Addams Family tank with the pirahna's...they toss the huge, meat-covered bone in the tank, the water boils for about 10 seconds, then the bone gets spit out...absolutely clean and meat-free...LOL Also, I think the son, Pugsley, had an octopus named Aristotle??

 

[tonitits]

Re: Tupperware!

I had an aunt who became a Tupperware dealer, and I felt so grown up when I was invited to one of her "parties"!

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Loved those popsicle makers!

my mom sold Tupperware for awhile. She made me, and 2 cousins and my sister some, she was older and already married, a Tupperware hope chest for when we got married. I asked her what happens if I never get married??? She said that I could have it for when I moved into my first apt. I had every piece of Tupperware that was ever made, I think, especially after they got the color stuff in. I even got the hostess gifts because mom would order enough to get them for us also. I've used just about all of it from time to time. I finally talked my mom into letting me get rid of some of it a few years ago. I had never had a need for some of the bigger items and mostly didn't have room for them. So she took part of them and I think we sold some at a garage sale. We had the popsicle makers also.

When I bought my house someone gave me a set that was not Tupperware but made like those and Daniel got some new ones about a year or so ago for his birthday that have a straw for when they start to drip, they don't make a mess!!!!

The newest wave of Tupperware I did not get into. They have some neat stuff, but they are too expensive and Gladware and some the other companies are coming out with just as good a product for cheaper! Cheaper is sometimes a very good thing, if it has the quality too!

 

[tonitits]

The biggest thing I miss from the past is CUSTOMER SERVICE in every shop you or your parents dragged you to, being able to play all day without the latest & greatest toys & games, just our imagination & a stick were enough to have us as cowboys & indians, armies, vikings , big game hunters etc, build our own billy karts.

These days if it don't have batteries or a screen it's "I'M BORED"

very true. My son has, tv, radio, cd's, access to computer, Playstation, Playstation 2, hockey equipment, bike, etc... and I still hear " I'm BORED!!"

 

[tonitits]

I liked Addam's Family and the Munsters. I think I like the Addam's Family the best though. They were hilarious! Seem normal, but far from it. The Munsters looked like Monsters but except for Grandpa they never did anything real crazy! I loved his experiments!!! I did like it when someone would spend the night and then all the wierd things would happen. I loved the way the stairwell opened up and the fire breathing dragon would blow!!!!!

 

[Arden]

Toni, Soron just lost a good friend that was in the Broadcasting field in his home city. In a way his friend reminded me of Chip Moody... and on doing an internet search I was shocked to find he had passed on since I left the area. I'll never forget Chip & Clarice doing the nightly news so many years ago...



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[tonitits]

Toni, Soron just lost a good friend that was in the Broadcasting field in his home city. In a way his friend reminded me of Chip Moody... and on doing an internet search I was shocked to find he had passed on since I left the area. I'll never forget Chip & Clarice doing the nightly news so many years ago...



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I'm sorry I didn't tell you. I never really thought about it. Yeah it was really sad when Chip Moody died. You know he continued to work part time, between the surgeries. But at the time he died he hadn't been on the air for about 2 years. I looked online and it said that the last time the viewers saw him was in April 1999. He fought long and hard for many years, but there towards the end when he was on tv he looked pretty much gone! He was so thin and just didn't seem the "old Chip Moody" but he kept a good attitude and tried to keep any of the set backs from his family and friends and viewers. He was a great guy. Did you ever know Gloria Campos?? Well when he died she said that she had met him from time to time, but she was his replacement. I didn't realize that. She said that she always felt kind of bad about getting that job, she thought it was just temporarily until he was able to get back. But of course, he never did.

I am so sorry to hear about Soron's friend. I will keep him/you and the family in my thoughts and prayers.

 

[Gil_T2]

very true. My son has, tv, radio, cd's, access to computer, Playstation, Playstation 2, hockey equipment, bike, etc... and I still hear " I'm BORED!!"

Hi TONI...I often wonder how & if they would survive with what we had as kids (and we were damn happy to have the few things we had, I think TY was on air in Aussie 10 years before my dad accepted it wasn't a passing fad that wouldn't last.

1313 Mockingbird lane was a favorite place for me to get a giggle as was "YOU RANG" but my favorite was cousin IT.

OH Bandit & I are home from DAVID BOWIE & what a show he puts on...a big thumbs up from me & You dopn't need BANDIT'S view as she is a full on BOWIE fan anyway, it made me so happy to see her happy bouncing around to the songs. It was well over 20 years since BANDIT last saw BOWIE.

 

[tonitits]

Hi TONI...I often wonder how & if they would survive with what we had as kids (and we were damn happy to have the few things we had, I think TY was on air in Aussie 10 years before my dad accepted it wasn't a passing fad that wouldn't last.

1313 Mockingbird lane was a favorite place for me to get a giggle as was "YOU RANG" but my favorite was cousin IT.

OH Bandit & I are home from DAVID BOWIE & what a show he puts on...a big thumbs up from me & You dopn't need BANDIT'S view as she is a full on BOWIE fan anyway, it made me so happy to see her happy bouncing around to the songs. It was well over 20 years since BANDIT last saw BOWIE.

glad ya'll enjoyed it. I have never seen him, and he is a bit different singer. I like some of his stuff. I liked Cousin IT also, I was never sure if it was a girl, boy or just an it. I loved Thing, too! the hand that gave them the mail!!! Like AA I always loved the piranhas too!

 

[Guest]

i haven't

been able to keep up on everything, but if it hasn't been mentioned, do you remember when gas was 17 cents a gallon?? and i am not that old!!!

 

[tonitits]

Re: i haven't

been able to keep up on everything, but if it hasn't been mentioned, do you remember when gas was 17 cents a gallon?? and i am not that old!!!

you must be Pretty old, lol,j/k, I don't remember it being under 50 cents a gallon and then the gas wars of the late 70's. Back then we never thought that we would actually pay over a $1 a gallon and now I think the cheapest I have seen around here is 1.53

 

[alwaysawake]

Re: i haven't

been able to keep up on everything, but if it hasn't been mentioned, do you remember when gas was 17 cents a gallon?? and i am not that old!!!

I remember it being 17 and 25 cents a gallon my freshman year in college for REGULAR gas...not unleaded--which didn't exist. And the two grades they had were Regular and Ethyl--used to make jokes about the service station workers always "pumping Ethyl!" LOL

One Addams Family character we are forgetting is Morticia's man-eating plant, Cleopatra, that they fed hamburger and gulped it audibly. Some other stuff that I think I remember are that Thing's g/f was named 'Ladyfingers', Wednesday had a headless doll named Marie Antionette, think there was a marlin mounted above the fireplace with a human leg sticking out of it, and their address was 000 Cemetery Lane.

 

[Guest]

Re: Re: i haven't

you must be Pretty old, lol,j/k, I don't remember it being under 50 cents a gallon and then the gas wars of the late 70's. Back then we never thought that we would actually pay over a $1 a gallon and now I think the cheapest I have seen around here is 1.53

it was in the gas wars that i remember it being 17 cents, my dad owned a gas station at the time so after school and weekends i worked there!!

 

[alwaysawake]

I used to watch Man From UNCLE...anybody remember Girl From UNCLE?! I was about 13 when it aired (the show bombed big time) and absolutely swooned over this 'new actress', Stefanie Powers, later of 'Hart To Hart'.

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[alwaysawake]

I used to watch Man From UNCLE...anybody remember Girl From UNCLE?! I was about 13 when it aired (the show bombed big time) and absolutely swooned over this 'new actress', Stefanie Powers, later of 'Hart To Hart'.

http://www.tvtome.com/images/shows/5/3/19-5652.jpg

Here are a few more that I used to love watching in the evening--Combat (with Vic Morrow), 12 O'clock High with those great B-17 bombers, The Fugitive, and (although it was corny) The Land Of The Giants.

>edited to add...My mind must be in 'nostalgia mode' this morning--a few more: Marcus Welby, MD; Medical Center (with Chad Everett), and Fantastic Voyage (they get miniaturized in a ship and injected in a human body.)

 

[tonitits]

Here are a few more that I used to love watching in the evening--Combat (with Vic Morrow), 12 O'clock High with those great B-17 bombers, The Fugitive, and (although it was corny) The Land Of The Giants.

>edited to add...My mind must be in 'nostalgia mode' this morning--a few more: Marcus Welby, MD; Medical Center (with Chad Everett), and Fantastic Voyage (they get miniaturized in a ship and injected in a human body.)

I think you are right about all the Addam's Family stuff, had forgotten most of it! We loved Marcus Welby and Medical Center, Chad Everett was such a cute doctor!! Don't remember the Fantastic Voyage. I think I remember Combat, LOVED Fugitive, didn't like Land of the Giants too much. I don't remember 12 O' Clock High.

Btw, I watched an episode of Twilight Zone last night, Bob Cummings was on it and he was VERY young.

Do ya'll get TV Land on your cable selections? They play alot of the stuff discussed here. I Love Lucy, Bewitched, I Dream of Jeannie, Leave It To Beaver, Petticoat Junction and the Sci - Fi channel is where I saw Twilight Zone last night.

Hallmark Channel also plays alot of Magnum PI, Gunsmoke, you know some of the classical tv!

 

[MizTabby]

*those were the days, my friend*

Arden dear
'bout time I strayed over here lol, I just read through and this thread of yours
just makes me want to wiggle my nose like Bewitched and go back to those good ole days
I can't believe I was forgetting so many things and thank you for such wonderful reminders!!

Oh yes, I had my share of jacks and splinters, and remember that "sterilised" needle well;
goodness jas and that "instant colour tv" thingie, loved watching those shows, yes AA
Dark Shadows fan me too, and MI, Little Joe in Bonanza had me giddy lol, U.N.C.L.E. too,
my fave was MOD Squad!
and yes Arden I was an Avengers fan too, also got that Simon & Garfunkel LP *wooo hooo*
but my first
45 was "My Boy Lollipop", no wonder I loved candy and bubblegum cigarettes
*siiiigh*soooo many great memories, thanks muchly all I'm just thinking about
the drive-in movies, when you'd have to hook up the radio/sound thingie on the car door OMG,
take me back!!!!!

of course my all time fave cartoon: http://www.zuul.gotdns.com/glitternet/programmes/images/topcat.gif T C


grrrrreat thread Arden!!

 

[alwaysawake]

Re: *those were the days, my friend*

Arden dear
'bout time I strayed over here lol, I just read through and this thread of yours
just makes me want to wiggle my nose like Bewitched and go back to those good ole days
I can't believe I was forgetting so many things and thank you for such wonderful reminders!!

Oh yes, I had my share of jacks and splinters, and remember that "sterilised" needle well;
goodness jas and that "instant colour tv" thingie, loved watching those shows, yes AA
Dark Shadows fan me too, and MI, Little Joe in Bonanza had me giddy lol, U.N.C.L.E. too,
my fave was MOD Squad!
and yes Arden I was an Avengers fan too, also got that Simon & Garfunkel LP *wooo hooo*
but my first
45 was "My Boy Lollipop", no wonder I loved candy and bubblegum cigarettes
*siiiigh*soooo many great memories, thanks muchly all I'm just thinking about
the drive-in movies, when you'd have to hook up the radio/sound thingie on the car door OMG,
take me back!!!!!

of course my all time fave cartoon: http://www.zuul.gotdns.com/glitternet/programmes/images/topcat.gif T C


grrrrreat thread Arden!!

OMG...I'd forgotten about Mod Squad...and the other show that came on either before or after it on the same night, Room 222.