DO YOU REMEMBER...

[enjoyingitall]

Oh yeah,,,and standing in the back waiting for the couples,,,hoping that boy would ask you.

And then when it was ladies choice..hoping you got to the boy you wanted to ask first...
wow...love those memories

LET'S ALL SKATE !!!!!!!!!!!

Sounds fun!


Arden......great thread....it's nice to be reminded of days gone by sometimes.

 

[69forever]

Ohhh yes. The Port Silver Dinner on Siver Spring and Pt. Washington Rd. in Glendale, WI. 50's style, looked like a railroad dining car, or silverstream mobile home. Neon lights. Great food.

My, I miss that place and those times. As usual Arden, great thread.

 

[J. Woessner]

The Snack Shack...B&J's, Frostop Root Beer, sock hops, Friday night football (Hurt 'em)......damn, but those were the days

 

[Icey*Fire]

The forerunners for Sonic,,in Houston they were named ..
The Pig Stand...thats where all the dates took you for sodas.

oh and there were some called the Princess Drive-In too.

Wow..great thread Arden...

 

[Soron]

I can remember cruising the streets on my 20 inch bike, with the banana seat, with baseball cards in the spokes for effect. lol
Geeze, I wonder how many Mickey Mantle and Bob Gibson cards were used for that.

I can also remember fighting with my mom to watch Ed Sullivan...the Stones...Beatles. We usually ended up watching Bonanza instead.

 

[Icey*Fire]

Skate boards with metal wheels...lol

And 45's.......omg...a few years ago I wanted to dig out my 45 collection and my youngest son.,..thought I was talking about a gun collection,,,that was so funny I thought I would die laughing.
When I showed him the records,,,he said..."but how you listen to them???" LOL

Does anyone remember the show that came on in the aftenoons called..."Where the Action Is"??? I used to run home just to flop down in front of our black and white tv..that was my fav show...

 

[Arden]

Sounds fun!

Arden......great thread....it's nice to be reminded of days gone by sometimes.

Nice to see you again, EJ... and everyone else that has stopped by, too!

Now, who remembers watching "Shindig" and "Hullabaloo"?

I remember my 5th grade school class doing a skit at an assembly based on "Laugh In"... Dressed in minidresses, fishnets, etc. We'd dance to stuff we saw on Shindig, then the music would stop and we'd tell bad jokes, then dance again as the music started again... until the next bad joke

 

[Arden]

Does anyone remember the show that came on in the aftenoons called..."Where the Action Is"??? I used to run home just to flop down in front of our black and white tv..that was my fav show...

It's so neat to meet your baby where the action is!

 

[enjoyingitall]

It's good to see you, too Arden.

I just had to tell you that I've spent the last thirty minutes looking at the web site of my home town. I found a link there to the church that I went to as a child and in the history section, they listed members of the newly formed children's choir that was formed in 1965....And there I found my brother's name and my name...now talk about waxing nostalgia!

 

[Arden]

Do you remember your first album or 45?

My sister gave me an album by "Lulu", and the "Bridge Over Troubled Water" album (Simon & Garfunkel) for Christmas one year.

My first 45? I think it was "We Gotta Get You A Woman" by Todd Rundgren.

 

[Arden]

I can remember cruising the streets on my 20 inch bike, with the banana seat, with baseball cards in the spokes for effect. lol
Geeze, I wonder how many Mickey Mantle and Bob Gibson cards were used for that.

I can also remember fighting with my mom to watch Ed Sullivan...the Stones...Beatles. We usually ended up watching Bonanza instead.

I'm jealous, I never had a banana bike. Can I sit on your seat?

 

[enjoyingitall]

Anybody watch "Dark Shadows?" I loved it.

 

[Icey*Fire]

Anybody watch "Dark Shadows?" I loved it.

Oh yeah,,I loved it too..the music was so cool I thought.

 

[enjoyingitall]

Oh yeah,,I loved it too..the music was so cool I thought.

My brother used to go around humming the music to try and scare me at night after we'd watched it...lol

 

[Arden]

The forerunners for Sonic,,in Houston they were named ..
The Pig Stand...thats where all the dates took you for sodas.

oh and there were some called the Princess Drive-In too.

Wow..great thread Arden...

I've missed the Sonic Drive-Ins since leaving TX. My favorite: Grilled cheese with a few jalepeno slices slipped inside.

Some like it hot


My first job (age 16) was that of a car hop at a Dog 'N Suds drive-in in a far South suburb of Chicago. (Like Sonic or A & W) I wore black shorts, white short-sleeved shirt, and a red and white striped vest. We had the option of wearing skates, but none of us did... so we had to wear red sneakers instead.

It was a lot of fun, anyway.

 

[JennyOmanHill]

My favorite doll

Thumbelina!

http://www.octanecreative.com/boomerbaby/toys/Thumbelina.jpg

There was a knob under her shirt in the back which you wound up, and the baby's body would twist slightly. Felt like you were holding a little one in your arms.

Also liked slinkies and Colorforms.

 

[Icey*Fire]

Re: My favorite doll

Thumbelina!

http://www.octanecreative.com/boomerbaby/toys/Thumbelina.jpg

There was a knob under her shirt in the back which you wound up, and the baby's body would twist slightly. Felt like you were holding a little one in your arms.

Also liked slinkies and Colorforms.

Spirographs...such neat shapes...my dad bought me one for xmas one year...

I still remember the smell of the vinyl dolls...they had such soft bodies.

 

[Arden]

It's good to see you, too Arden.

I just had to tell you that I've spent the last thirty minutes looking at the web site of my home town. I found a link there to the church that I went to as a child and in the history section, they listed members of the newly formed children's choir that was formed in 1965....And there I found my brother's name and my name...now talk about waxing nostalgia!

I visited my first school, an early 1900s Catholic school in small town Illinois a few years ago - and found half of it torn down. I was devastated! I was trying to show my kids all the places we had lived, gone to school at, etc. ~sigh~

 

[Icey*Fire]

http://members.shaw.ca/nostalgia/photos7/frosts.JPG

http://members.shaw.ca/nostalgia/cc/6ozcokes.JPG

http://members.shaw.ca/nostalgia/photos5/16pcs.JPG

 

[Icey*Fire]

About three years ago my sister and I drove back down to Houston where we grew up and visited all the places that we used to live at..well the ones that still exisited anyway, and went to the schools we attended. Just drove all over all the old haunts we used to go to.
It was one of the best days I can remember.

But for some reason the houses all looked so much smaller and the streets seemed to be smaller too....lol I guess our prespective has changed after all these years... we had a blast.

 

[Arden]

Did anyone have one of these at home?

Kit-Cat clock... http://www.bebops.net/KC_anim.gif

 

[Soron]

Do you remember your first album or 45?

My sister gave me an album by "Lulu", and the "Bridge Over Troubled Water" album (Simon & Garfunkel) for Christmas one year.

My first 45? I think it was "We Gotta Get You A Woman" by Todd Rundgren.

Geeze, I'm an old fart...my frst was 'Beatles '65', darlin'. "She's A Woman", "I Feel Fine", "Everybody's Trying To Be My Baby".

My first '45 was, "Get Off Of My Cloud", the Stones.

 

[alwaysawake]

My first 45 was 'Hard Day's Night' by the Beatles...my parents forbade me from watching the Outer Limits because it scared the hell outta me and gave me nightmares. I loved watching the Twilight Zone--Rod Serling was a master at presenting a scenario, then planting a seed of doubt in your mind..."Could this really happen?" Some of the other shows we would watch as a family were Red Skelton, Bewitched, I Love Lucy, Lost In Space (loved the robot), and the Glen Campbell Hour...all in black-and-white.

 

[alwaysawake]

Adding a couple of more shows that I loved...Man From U.N.C.L.E. and Mission: Impossible. And the Saturday favorite--American Bandstand...and before the cartoons, Sky King.

 

[Joey3308]

My very first job was at Dubinski Pharmacy and I got paid 65 cents an hour. We had a soda fountain and the most popular drink was a cherry coke. It cost a nickel