DO YOU REMEMBER...

[Dhalgren150]

ahh just was reading here..... nice thread..... i enjoyed it very much....
well i bet some have all ready posted this one but I shall also....

Sen-Sen... loved them!

 

[ReBeLBeLLe]

I miss http://www.c-els.com/products/03000006310.jpg and I miss Bakeries. I can still remember the smell when I walked into one on Sunday mornings with my Dad.

 

[Gil_T2]

I was talking with my loverly lady BANDIT about the differences between her early years growing up in New Zealand & mine in Australia & the main thing we both came up with is HOW DID WE EVER SURVIVE?????
We had no computers,video games,play station,walkmans,mobile phones(cell phones),electronic toys,DVD,video recorders, microwaves,TV (we didn't have one till the 60s as dad said they would never last) & only black & white at that, etc......yet we were able to go all day with nothing more than a vacant lot & a stick to entertain us & if we were really lucky we got to go the the MOVIE theatre & we would go early to see the serials that ran before the movie like the SHADOW (brain gone blank & that's the only one that comes to mind now) & the movie would play for weeks or up to a month unlike today, recently saw a movie add on TV & a week later had the time to go to see it but it was gone?

 

[NoOtherName]

I love this thread, Arden...

Many of the posts have brought back a lot of fond memories...

I remember all the kids in the neighborhood getting together for kickball games out in the street...being able to 'take off' on a Saturday morning to go play with your friends with the only admonition from your mom being 'be home for dinner'...descending on whoever's house we happened to be closest to for lunch and being treated by that mom just like our own...chasing down the ice cream man and hoping he had blue popsicles today(and idling away a significant amount of time discussing just what flavor blue popsicles were anyway!)...Betsy Wetsy dolls...hula hoops...the worst transgression in school being caught chewing gum...respecting your teachers and being embarrassed about displeasing them...walking to and waiting at the school bus stop with a bunch of other kids and walking home from the bus stop, 'cuz in those days the bus didn't stop at every freaking driveway...3 speed bikes(yep...count 'em...3!)...

Anyway...those are just some of the things I remember...

 

[Gil_T2]

Thinking of that Dire Straits song..." all you mother's better lock up your daughters..."

DOWNUNDER we had a rock & roll guy named Billy Thorpe & one of his albums was "Lock up your daughters" he released in the 90s a history type compilation boxed set called "Lock up your mothers" but now think it should have been called "lock up your grannies" as the years have past the mothers for him (he's older than me after all).

 

[Gil_T2]

And the Fickle Finger of Fate award goes to...

http://www.timvp.com/laughin.html

Very interesting............ Now this was a hit in AUSSIE but my parents didn't get any of it while my sister & I would be rolling around laughing our heads off.

 

[Gil_T2]

I love this thread, Arden...

Many of the posts have brought back a lot of fond memories...

I remember all the kids in the neighborhood getting together for kickball games out in the street...being able to 'take off' on a Saturday morning to go play with your friends with the only admonition from your mom being 'be home for dinner'...descending on whoever's house we happened to be closest to for lunch and being treated by that mom just like our own...chasing down the ice cream man and hoping he had blue popsicles today(and idling away a significant amount of time discussing just what flavor blue popsicles were anyway!)...Betsy Wetsy dolls...hula hoops...the worst transgression in school being caught chewing gum...respecting your teachers and being embarrassed about displeasing them...walking to and waiting at the school bus stop with a bunch of other kids and walking home from the bus stop, 'cuz in those days the bus didn't stop at every freaking driveway...3 speed bikes(yep...count 'em...3!)...

Anyway...those are just some of the things I remember...

A 3 speed bike wasn't even thought of as your got a perfectly good one & those modern things are just to get your money & brake a lot costing even more money (another of my dads predictions).I only got a 3 speed bike when I started working my first job.

 

[Soron]

Donna Mills and Clint Eastwood in, 'Play Misty For Me'...

http://members.fortunecity.com/noops184/donna_mills0007.jpg

 

[Arden]

Donna Mills and Clint Eastwood in, 'Play Misty For Me'...

That was an eerie movie

 

[Soron]

That was an eerie movie

But, Donna Mills was nekkid in it, so it was all good.

 

[Arden]

I always liked Mitch Ryder & The Detroit Wheels....Devil With The Blue Dress On.

Had a candy treat earlier this week that I hadn't seen for years but still love--A & W Root Beer Barrels...yummy stuff!

I took my daughter to the local A & W the other day, and we tried something new on the menu. Root beer flavored vanilla ice cream in a cone. Sort of like a root beer float without the cup... Buy 1, get 1 free after 6 p.m. - very good!

 

[Arden]

Can you answer all of these?

1.) From "route 66" Your car.... the powder blue T-Bird

2.) Drop out

3.)

4.)

5.) The Chicago Seven

6.) Ed Sullivan

7.) Draft Cards

8.) Spot

9.) Luv Bug & Punch Buggy

10.)

11.) Beatniks

12.) Life

13.) "On Route 66"

14.) "To Protect the Innocent" Dragnet

15.) Shaked, not stirred....

16.) Bongol? Jethro Tull

17.) Valley of the Dolls

18.) Slide Rule

19.) Buddy Holly

20.) "Do the Driving"

21.) Limbo

22.) CHOCHOLATEEEEEEEEEEE

23.) Twiggy

24.) Louis Armstrong

25.)

26.) Sputnik <never forget>

27.) Timex

28.) Hula Hoop

29.) Hair!!!!

30.) #1 ? #2 "God Bless"

Whew, those were hard...even for an old guy.

But you did very well for an old guy!

 

[Arden]

1.
2. drop out
3. silver bullet
4.
5.
6. Ed Sullivan
7.
8. Spot?
9. luv bug and punch bug
10.
11.
12.
13. Route 66
14. to protect the innocent, Dragnet
15. stirred, not shaken?
16. the lion sleeps tonight
17.
18. slide rule?
19. Buddy Holly
20. Do the driving
21. limbo
22.CHOCOLATE
23. Twiggy
24.
25.
26.
27. Timex
28. hula hoop
29.
30.

I didn't know or forgot quite a few, guess it is because I am such a young thing, hahaha!

~Quietly slips Toni and Elizabeth the answers~


THE ANSWERS



1. "Kookie; Kookie; lend me your comb."

2. The "battle cry" of the hippies in the sixties was "Turn on; tune in; drop out." Many people who proclaimed that 30 years ago today are Wall Street bond traders and corporate lawyers.

3. The Lone Ranger left behind a silver bullet. Several of you said he left behind his mask. Oh, no; even off the screen, Clayton Moore would not be seen as the Lone Ranger without his mask!

4. "When the rooster crows at the break of dawn, look out your window and I'll be gone. You're the reason I'm traveling on; Don't think twice, it’s all right."

5. The group of protesters arrested at the Democratic convention in Chicago in 1968 was known as the Chicago seven. As Paul Harvey says, "They would like me to mention their names."

6. When the Beatles first came to the U.S. In early 1964, we all watched them on the Ed Sullivan Show.

7. Some who protested the Vietnam War did so by burning their draft cards. If you said "bras," you've got the right spirit, but nobody ever burned a bra while I was watching. The "bra burning" days came as a by-product of women's liberation movement, which had nothing directly to do with the Vietnam War.

8. Dick and Jane's dog was Spot. "See Spot run." Whatever happened to them? Rumor has it they have been replaced in some school systems by "Heather Has Two Mommies."

9. It was the VW Beetle, or more affectionately, the Bug.

10. A Broadway musical and movie gave us the gang names the Sharks and The Jets. West Side Story.

11. In the late fifties-early sixties, the drop-out, non- conformists were known as beatniks. Maynard G. Krebs was the classic beatnik, except that he had No rhythm, man; a beard, but no beat.

12. At the end of "The Life of Riley," Chester would turn to the camera And exclaim, "What a revolting development this is."

13. "Get your kicks, on Route 66."

14. "The story you are about to see is true. The names have been changed to protect the innocent."

15. The real James Bond, Sean Connery, mixed his martinis a special way: shaken, not stirred.

16. "In the jungle, the mighty jungle, the lion sleeps tonight."

17. That "adult" book by Henry Miller was called Tropic of Cancer. Today, it would get a PG-13 rating.

18. Back in the sixties, members of the math club used a slide rule.

19. "The day the music died" was a reference and tribute to Buddy Holly.

20. The matching slogan was "Let Hertz put you in the driver's seat."

21. After the twist, the Mashed Potatoes, and the Watusi, we "danced" under a stick in a dance called the Limbo.

22. "N-E-S-T-L-E-S; Nestles makes the very best....chooo-c'late." In the television commercial, "chocolate" was sung by a puppet - a dog. (Remember his mouth flopping open and shut?)

23. In the late sixties, the "full figure" style gave way to the "trim" look, as first exemplified by British model Twiggy.

24. Our parents shared this great jazz trumpet player with us. His name was Louis Armstrong.

25. Joe's regular visitor at the bar was Crazy Googenheim.

26. The Russians put the first satellite into orbit; it was called Sputnik.

27. What takes a licking and keeps on ticking? A Timex watch.

28. The large plastic ring that we twirled around our waist was called the hula-hoop.

29. The "Age of Aquarius" was brought into the mainstream in the Broadway musical "Hair."

30. Red Skelton's hobo character was Freddie the Freeloader. (Clem Kaddiddlehopper was the "hay seed.") Red ended his television show by
saying, "Good night, and May God bless.

 

[Arden]

I just came upon Literotica and this thread, but I since moved here to North Canton, I noticed we have not just one but 3 !!! small shops that make their own (yummy)

SDB

Welcome to the thread, SDB. North Canton, Ohio? I lived in the Portage Lakes area for a few years... longer ago than I'm willing to admit.

 

[Arden]

Re: mmmmmm, Icecream

Speak of....We have an Icecream sotre in the area I live.. It has been open since 1940 (ish)> Always, Always packed from open to close.. Usually it opens in Feb. and closes around Nov..

We have one of those here too, but since they are also a restaurant, they stay open year round while other seasonal businesses close. They ran out of ice cream on Labor Day, which caused locals and tourists to flock to our tiny Dairy Queen in droves. DQ had their best day in 40 years, raking in over $5500.00

 

[Arden]

ahh just was reading here..... nice thread..... i enjoyed it very much....
well i bet some have all ready posted this one but I shall also....

Sen-Sen... loved them!

Were those little licorice things in a small packet? Glad you have enjoyed the thread, Dhalgren!

 

[Flight420]

things I remember (sortof...)

Army Men on Television (Vietnam)


*as a kid I thought the Viet Kong was a giant ape


Apollo Space Missions and the first
steps on the Moon (July 20 1969)

American Airlines' "ASTROJETS"

Sonic Booms

Piggly Wiggly grocery stores

My brother (6+ yrs older) being a hippie
and hearing all the wonderful music that
went with his "hippiness"

Watergate
*as a kid, at first I thought
it was about a major dam breaking.

Whip-n-Chill dessert

Horny Toads (horned frogs), haven't seen one
in ages-they used to be quite common in Texas.

The Partridge Family/Brady Bunch/Love American Style
being current, prime time shows.

my 6th grade teacher Ms. Moritz (you f'n BITCH!)

-----later on:

my very first OrGaSm!

my first pube

Candy Cigarrettes

the first ATM (Pulse) machines

Touch Tone telephones

my first check book and my first bounced check (probably
occurred within 1 week)

gasoline @ .64 cents per gal.

Real cigarettes

$10.00 Lids (bags of weed)

black mollies (not the fish)

First Sex (with a girl.. Thank You Gwen!!! too bad I'm
mostly a "mo")

Second Sex (with a guy.. found the beef, Gwen was tighter!)



-- it gets blurry from here on

 

[Arden]

I miss http://www.c-els.com/products/03000006310.jpg and I miss Bakeries. I can still remember the smell when I walked into one on Sunday mornings with my Dad.

Quisp and Quake lol... and Crispy Critters when they added the moose... "Call for orange moose!"

 

[Arden]

I was talking with my loverly lady BANDIT about the differences between her early years growing up in New Zealand & mine in Australia & the main thing we both came up with is HOW DID WE EVER SURVIVE?????
We had no computers,video games,play station,walkmans,mobile phones(cell phones),electronic toys,DVD,video recorders, microwaves,TV (we didn't have one till the 60s as dad said they would never last) & only black & white at that, etc......yet we were able to go all day with nothing more than a vacant lot & a stick to entertain us & if we were really lucky we got to go the the MOVIE theatre & we would go early to see the serials that ran before the movie like the SHADOW (brain gone blank & that's the only one that comes to mind now) & the movie would play for weeks or up to a month unlike today, recently saw a movie add on TV & a week later had the time to go to see it but it was gone?

Heh... with not much to entertain us, we spent a lot of time down at the creek catching crawfish and poison ivy!

 

[Arden]

I love this thread, Arden...

Many of the posts have brought back a lot of fond memories...

I remember all the kids in the neighborhood getting together for kickball games out in the street...being able to 'take off' on a Saturday morning to go play with your friends with the only admonition from your mom being 'be home for dinner'...descending on whoever's house we happened to be closest to for lunch and being treated by that mom just like our own...chasing down the ice cream man and hoping he had blue popsicles today(and idling away a significant amount of time discussing just what flavor blue popsicles were anyway!)...Betsy Wetsy dolls...hula hoops...the worst transgression in school being caught chewing gum...respecting your teachers and being embarrassed about displeasing them...walking to and waiting at the school bus stop with a bunch of other kids and walking home from the bus stop, 'cuz in those days the bus didn't stop at every freaking driveway...3 speed bikes(yep...count 'em...3!)...

Anyway...those are just some of the things I remember...

Welcome, NoOtherName! I wasn't introduced to kickball untill I was in the 6th grade, when we moved from the countryside to a suburb of Chicago. But we did play 'kick the can' a lot, which didn't require a level playing surface or a ball.

I loved root beer popsicles most of all. I had a Betsy Wetsy doll, and a Chatty Cathy. I almost got my mouth washed out with soap at school once in the 5th grade, but the fire alarm rang. Gave a whole new meaning to the term "saved by the bell"

 

[69forever]

But you did very well for an old guy!

Heh....should have stayed with my original answer for #1!!!

Started second guessing thinking "Nah, Kookie was too cool to borrow someome HIS comb"

Now what was the lyrics of the song that played on intro?

 

[Arden]

Very interesting............ Now this was a hit in AUSSIE but my parents didn't get any of it while my sister & I would be rolling around laughing our heads off.

When I was in 5th or 6th grade, my class (all 14 of us lol) did a "Laugh In" type sketch during a student assemby. I wore an orange dress with a nehru collar and fishnet stockings. I thing we were dancing 'the swim,' pausing now and then to tell corny jokes.

 

[Arden]

A 3 speed bike wasn't even thought of as your got a perfectly good one & those modern things are just to get your money & brake a lot costing even more money (another of my dads predictions).I only got a 3 speed bike when I started working my first job.

I got my first 10 speed bicycle in 1971 for a elementary school graduation gift. It was a powder blue Schwinn Super Sport. I still have it today, down in my basement. It's 33 years old lol

 

[Arden]

But, Donna Mills was nekkid in it, so it was all good.

Donna Mills was never a favorite of mine, maybe because she played the royal bitch part so well on that series in the 1980s lol.

 

[Arden]

things I remember (sortof...)

Army Men on Television (Vietnam)


*as a kid I thought the Viet Kong was a giant ape


Apollo Space Missions and the first
steps on the Moon (July 20 1969)

American Airlines' "ASTROJETS"

Sonic Booms

Piggly Wiggly grocery stores

My brother (6+ yrs older) being a hippie
and hearing all the wonderful music that
went with his "hippiness"

Watergate
*as a kid, at first I thought
it was about a major dam breaking.

Whip-n-Chill dessert

Horny Toads (horned frogs), haven't seen one
in ages-they used to be quite common in Texas.

The Partridge Family/Brady Bunch/Love American Style
being current, prime time shows.

my 6th grade teacher Ms. Moritz (you f'n BITCH!)

-----later on:

my very first OrGaSm!

my first pube

Candy Cigarrettes

the first ATM (Pulse) machines

Touch Tone telephones

my first check book and my first bounced check (probably
occurred within 1 week)

gasoline @ .64 cents per gal.

Real cigarettes

$10.00 Lids (bags of weed)

black mollies (not the fish)

First Sex (with a girl.. Thank You Gwen!!! too bad I'm
mostly a "mo")

Second Sex (with a guy.. found the beef, Gwen was tighter!)



-- it gets blurry from here on

Many memories that I can relate to, Flight420! But I'm not telling which ones!