DO YOU REMEMBER...

[alwaysawake]

Anyone remember going to the drug store or soda shop and ordering a Green River?! (Can't remember what was in it now)

 

[Joey3308]

Anyone remember going to the drug store or soda shop and ordering a Green River?! (Can't remember what was in it now)

Oh yeah, AA, did a lot of those too...but can't remember the name of the stuff we pumped in there. I used to make a lot of malts too...the good old original malteds mmm

Remember turning on the TV or radio and having to have to wait until the tubes "warmed up".

We used to sell specially medicated cigarettes at the drug store for people with asthma.

 

[Guest]

Remember turning on the TV or radio and having to have to wait until the tubes "warmed up".

*smiles* did anyone have the blue red and green plastic to fit over your black and white tv screen??

instant color tv !!!

 

[tonitits]

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.

My first album was the Beatles - Hard Day's Night, I still have it!

I think my first 45 I think was Elvis Presley - Don't Cry Mama, not sure about that though!

 

[tonitits]

Anybody watch "Dark Shadows?" I loved it.

My aunt loved it, I remember that I was like pre-school and she would be watching it, it was too scary for me with all the vampires!

 

[tonitits]

Re: Re: My favorite doll

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.

I got that for Christmas one year, and loved it!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[tonitits]

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.

We used to watch all those shows too! I always wanted to be like Samantha and just wiggle my nose and my room would be clean, or suddenly appear whereever you needed to be. I loved Mrs. Cravitt's that nosy old bitty!

 

[tonitits]

Remember when these first came out?

Jiffy Pop
Color TV
The Beatles (yep, 40 years ago tonight on Ed Sullivan)
The Ford Mustang
Get Smart jokes ("would you believe...?"
Bill Cosby comedy albums
Bob Newart comedy albums
Surfer movies

I don't remember when they first came out, but I definitely remember them. I always loved Mustangs, I guess that is why I have one now, finally!

 

[Joey3308]

Sunday evenings we would watch Bonanza, then Carol Burnett, then Ed Sullivan and off to bed

 

[tonitits]

I miss my Chatty Cathy Doll!


http://www.chatty-cathy.net/can-blue.jpg


Mine was the one in the red shoes

I never had a Chatty Cathy doll, but I remember them. I had a Mrs. Beasley doll, like Buffy had on Family Affair, and had a string that you pull and she would say different phrases.

 

[tonitits]

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 remember we used to go to the Pig Stand when I was a kid and A&W drive in's and get a root beer in a frosty mug, loved it! I also enjoyed getting the Root Beer Floats. I think we also thought that if we drank enought A&W that we would get drunk!!!!!

 

[tonitits]

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

I don't remember those shows but I remember Laugh In. I also remember the fishnet hose and also lacy hose for dress up occassions and then of course, had the regular opague "tights" that we called panty hose to make us feel older, more mature. But I had I think every color under the rainbow. I had a pair for every outfit that I owned. I thought I was one hot little girl. I remember I think I was in the 6th grade I had some tights that were like a sweater. And someone had given me this off white sweater dress with a turtleneck collar and I wore red "sweater hose" with it. Not only did I think I looked hot, it made the walk to school in the winter alot better.

 

[tonitits]

My cousins used to have this doll, I don't remember what her name was, but she was like a big Barbie doll and you could style her hair and if you push a button on her belly you could make her hair grow, I think it was in a pony tail on top of her head and you pushed the button and pulled it and she could have hair down to her butt, and then there was something that you did to make it go back in and have shorter hair. I thought that was sooo cool!

I remember have the color forms the little plastic figures and things that would stick. And the Brite Lites. I never had one, but I was watching commercial for Clean Sweep and there was this grown man that had a Brite Lites that they were trying to get him to get rid of, but he didn't want to! I loved etch a sketch.

I also remember and loved the hula hoop. There was also this game thing that had a plastic circle that had a lemon on it and you put the ring around your ankle and then as it spun around, you try to jump the lemon with your other foot! So cool.


Did anyone ever have the "Klackers"?
the glass balls on string that you made hit together. We practiced at PE to see who could do it the longest. My forearms were so bruised and I finally talked my mom into buying me one and I was one of the best and then there was a report that when they hit, the glass would splinter sometimes and some ppl got glass in their eyes. So they stopped selling and making them. I told my mom that they were just stupid, you weren't supposed to do right in front of your face and why did I have to throw mine away, because they were stupid!!!

They still have them but they are plastic, and they are not near as fun and don't work as well.

 

[Arden]

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.

When we lived out in the country, once in a while my father would take us to eat at The Princess Cafe in a nearby town. I have memories of the world's best pork chops, spiced apple rings, and illuminated Hamms beer signs on the old brick walls...

 

[Arden]

*smiles* did anyone have the blue red and green plastic to fit over your black and white tv screen??

instant color tv !!!

I never saw one of those! I remember the Christmas that my father bought our first color tv. It was a console style set. I think we kept it more than 12 years

 

[Arden]

Driving through the never-ending Illinois cornfields, I remember seeing red and white sets of BURMA-SHAVE signs... I was 6 years old the year they discontinued the use of the signs, but they remained on the highways for what seemed to be years.


His face
Was smooth
And cool as ice
And oh! Louise!
He smelled so nice
Burma-Shave Lotion

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[Arden]

Anyone remember going to the drug store or soda shop and ordering a Green River?! (Can't remember what was in it now)

My Dad used to make those when he worked as a "Soda Jerk" at a drugstore in South Chicago during his teenage years. (1930s) The Green River syrup was mixed with soda water.

I remember having one from a glass bottle once.

 

[Arden]

I remember we used to go to the Pig Stand when I was a kid and A&W drive in's and get a root beer in a frosty mug, loved it! I also enjoyed getting the Root Beer Floats. I think we also thought that if we drank enought A&W that we would get drunk!!!!!

I lived in Waterloo, IA for 5 years when very young. There was an A&W in town, and I remember going there on numerous occasions. I was always sat on the armrest in the back seat, between my sisters, in our early 1950s black bubble car. They made miniature hamburgers for kids, and had child-sized glass mugs for root beer too. I felt so grown up having my own hamburger and cup

 

[Arden]

Remembering one of my favorite TV shows...

The AVENGERS

"Extraordinary crimes against the people and the state have to be avenged by agents extraordinary. Two such people are John Steed, top professional, and Emma Peel, talented amateur...otherwise known as the Avengers."

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3/28/1966 - 9/15/1969 ABC 60 Minutes
First aired in UK in March of 1961
161 episodes, 25 in color

The Avengers ran for five years in the UK before arriving in the US in 1966. In the early shows, Steed (Patrick Nacnee) helped a man find his wife's killers. That scenario got abandoned and Steed became a government agent with a partner, Cathy Gale, played by Honor Blackman who left the show to become Pussy Galore in "Goldfinger." It would be 25 years before these early shows would be shown in the US.

The shows aired in the US were the golden years of the Avengers. America got Emma Peel (Diana Rigg). The sexy, liberated, bridge playing widow (we thought) of test pilot Peter Peel was a gifted amateur who assisted Steed. And no, it was never clear what their relationship was.

"Mrs, Peel, we're needed." Dressed in boots and leather, Emma Peel was a sharp contrast to Steed, who epitomized the upper crust English. He wore a three-piece suit, bowler hat and carried a bumbershoot. He lived at 3 Staple Mews and liked his coffee stirred counter-clockwise.

 

[sassykat]

Anybody watch "Dark Shadows?" I loved it.

This was my favorite...stopping at the little corner store on the way home from school with the 3 cents that was my milk money for lunch, buying 6 pieces of penny candy (actually 2 for a penny, lol) and running in the house to catch "Dark Shadows." I even taught myself Anjelica's Theme song on the piano. Loved the music from the series.

A few years ago when I started getting the Sci-Fi Channel I was so excited to see them playing "D.S." re-runs, but for some crazy reason, they just don't seem as good as they did when I was a child.

 

[sassykat]

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.

I think my first album was one of those 60's conglomerations with anyone from the Spinners, Tina and Ike, to the Rolling Stones. Loved singing and dancing around the family room to it...the other one would have been "Jesus Christ, Superstar" another one that I could sing word for word to.

 

[sassykat]

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.

My mom actually still has my Tumbelina doll. And my original Barbie which I received in 1964 along with all my other Barbies. My brothers first dump truck which was metal. Our etch-o-sketch, tinker toys, building blocks, and almost all our old books...it sometimes amazes me what she has kept, but is fun to go through.
I loved my slinky and we had the steps to use them on. Jacks were a favorite of mine too, but I used to "shoot" more marbles than play jacks...lived in a neighborhood of boys and had brothers and they all thought jacks were just for girls...lol! I still have what is left of my marble collection...used to be pretty good and won some nice ones, but they always talked me into giving them back...lol, silly girl that I was.

My brother and I spent hours making pics with our spirographs! Mom probably thought that was the best thing she ever bought. Then there was the little oven thing, can't remember what it was called now. Mine made flowers and butterflies and I think his made spiders and worms and such...you would pour this liquid in a mold, run it through the machine and you would have these rubber like decorations. Wish I could remember the name but I think I have been on too many pain pills of late and have lost a little of my memory...lol!

Great thread, Arden! Brings back lots of memories!!!

 

[tn_8tiv]

Nice thread Arden.

Real true "Drive In's" where the carhops were cute and the food greasy. Could also apply to theaters...

Howdy Doodie time on tv...real black and white days...Buffalo Bob, Clarabelle the Clown.

Milton Berle show

Speaking of 45's...being from Memphis, how can I forget the first Elvis 45...Sun Records.

Convertibles with big engines and wide white wall tires - and Fender Skirts.

Oh to remember...

 

[Guest]

gee i do remeber a few things

i remember when i was young the theater in our little town had a movie on saturday and sunday night only, but at the time one dollar would get you and your date in as well as buy a soda apiece and a bag of popcorn!!

 

[JennyOmanHill]

Color T.V.

I remember the first show I watched in color (on my aunt and uncle's color t.v.) was "Bonanza"! I remember how excited I got watching the flame burn the map as the theme song started!

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