Hide and seek at dusk
.......Hot bread 'n butter
...........Sittin on the porch
..............The 'Ice Cream Man'
................Doin steps
.............."Red light,Green light"
.............Lunch tickets
...........Chocolate milk
........Penny candy in a brown paper sack
.Playin Pacman in the corner store
Hopscotch ,double dutch,butterscotch
.....Jacks,kickball and dodgeball y'all
........Mother may I? hula hoops and sunflower seeds
..........Jolly Ranchers,Mary Janes, blow-pops,grape & watermelon Now-Laters
............Running thru the sprinkler (OK but but don't get my hair wet)
..........The smell of sun and lickin' salty lips
........
Come on ,you can think of some too if you try :D
Hide and go seek on bikes, Kick ball, Catchin' frogs,turtles and crayfish. Sling shot wars with acorns. Rock candy. Fishing for sunfish in the cow ponds. Daring the youngest kid to jump in a cow pie. (Hosing him off before his mom saw him) Climbing trees. (falling out of them) Roller skates, Pogo sticks.(scraped knees) Flexible Flyers and Flying Saucers. Doing "The Whip" while ice skating.
Those are wonderful Frankay,
Bicycling ,tricycling, roller skates to the store for penny candy, Home-made scooters from an orange crate and a broken skate, fishin' off the RR trestle, catching craw-dads under the bridge and Saturday at the noon matinee shows with serial endings, Hoppalong ,Roy, Dale, Trigger,Scout, Lone Ranger, a silver bullet, a dog named Bullett and a horse named Silver =)
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Pulling my grandparent's Pampas Grass plumes to pretend I was a soaring eagle, or a dragon. Being able to pretend a stick or a broom was a mighty steed. Leaping from the piano bench or the picnic table with a towel tied around my neck trying to fly like Superman. Tom Hatten and "Squiggles." Reading and loving it.
Gosh,I was always playing 'horsie' and loved to read but now I can only find time for this luxury in the winter.
I used to read cereal boxes at breakfast and Mom would say that I would read everything in the world if I could.
This winter I plan to revisit Clan Of The Cave Bear series
by Jean Auel.
How about
Watchin' Sunday morning cartoons:Roadrunner,Fat Albert,He Man,The Three Stooges and Bugs.
Catchin' lightning bugs or honey bees in a jar,playing sling shot and around the corner seemed far away
And going downtown was really going somewhere
Bedtime sleepy time
Climbing trees,a million mosquito bites and sticky fingers
For some reason this thread is very relaxing to read (-_-)zzzz
That "sound" on Sunday evenings when Disney came on "the world is a carousel of colors....."
Red Rover, Red Rover...
Sledding down the hills for hours and hours and coming home with stinging wrists to find cocoa and cornbread, making angels in the snow, doing somersaults down those same hills in the spring, summer and fall.
Popping tar bubbles, going way way way beyond "bike limits", sneaking off to the gravel pits (yup, grew up in Indiana) backyard baseball with every darn kid in the neighborhood, setting off fire-crackers in the burn barrels to make them sound louder. Being a total pest to my big brother as he and his friends built their tree forts.
Being taken to the "Y" 'downtown' one Saturday night a month in the winter for family swim. The annual bug collection for my older sisters to get their grade in high school - how come I was the collector of both bugs (climbing over barbed fences) and the tetanus shot? Do you realize that they (my older sisters) had to do a bug/butterfly collection each summer for presentation in September?
How the heck did I ever grow up without Tetras?? LOL
Dea, lol I hope you at least had some black mollies or guppies. :D
Sunday night was always Disney, with folding trays and TV dinners. Davey Crockett and Rin-tin-tin. When Hitchcock's "Birds" was first aired it scared me into nightmares. I was NOT allowed to watch Psycho. Sea Hunt with Lloyd Bridges, and Sky King. My Little Margie, just cause she was cute.
This thread is great! Brings back so many memories. "My little Margie" for goodness sake! I hadn't thought of that show in years.
We ALWAYS played outside in summer, because our house had no form of air conditioning. It was cooler outside, even if it was 110. Besides, our parents might want us to be "helpful" if we caught there attention inside of the house:-)
Sunday night was always "Disney" in our house, too.
Vickey
Riverside, CA
Kick the can, the Little Rascals (the original ones!), whole family in the station wagon at the drive-in theater, hula hoops, poodle skirts, the very first Mickey Mouse Club show, Beeman's gum, miniature golf, the Steve Allen show - gosh, my childhood was better than I realized!
Incredible thread! I could smell the red hot dollars in the brown paper bag and see my box full of locust shells (cicadas). This thread is way too cool to let go...
Riding my Big Wheel down Dead Man's Hill
Catching tadpoles
Candy necklaces...and bracelets...and rings...
Creepy Crawlers
Sea Monkeys
Wax lips
Dracula slip-on fangs
Running outside to look at the Moon and shouting to my father (and literally believing it) that I could see Neil Armstrong.
Running through the woods with the dogs till I dropped
Highlights magazine
"The Giving Tree"
Sneaking on my big sisters platform shoes (aka Elton John shoes)
Watching my big sister bleach her hair and then iron it (no joke LOLOL)
Thanks so much for bringing back these memories!
Annie
How sweet of you to bump this up .
Many new peeps are sure to enjoy reading this.
I remember having the first Atari of anyone we knew.
Heeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee. DD and I sitting there to the weee hours of the morning watching a white dot bounce from side to side on a black screen
boink - boink - boink ....
Hugs,S
Flash Gordon (reruns in late 60's early 70's)
Little House on the Prarie
The Waltons
Dr. Who
H.R. Puff N Stuff
The Monkees
The Brady Bunch
Wiley Coyote & Bugs
Spanky, Alphalpha, Darla and the Gang
Welcome Back Kotter
:o)
Mr. Greenjeans, Mr. Moose, Bunny Rabbit, Captain, Dancing Bear, Grandfather Clock, Fred, The Town Clown, Tom Terrific and his Mighty Dog Manfred, and ping pong balls.
Walking down to Uhles (the corner store) for candy we weren't supposed to have, riding bikes to the Dairy Queen for footlong chili dogs, doing gymnastics in the yard, crawdad fishing, Miss Mary Mack Mack Mack.....
building forts with sheets in the house, playing with barbies and easybake ovens for hours and loving it. Going to petting zoos. The smell of a someones fireplace burning on a freezing cold winter night. Opening your mouth as wide a possible to eat snowflakes. Snuggeling in freshly washed sheets on the weekends, knowing all you had to do was play all day. Smelling fresh coffee brewing in the mornings. Jumping with full abandon into puddles.
Laying flat on your back in the grass at twilight to look at thousands of stars, same during the day to see shapes in the clouds.
Well, some kids these days don't get to have Sega, Nintendo or Playstation. I won't allow them in my house! They do have some computer games, but most of them are educational.
What my boys did today: Rode bikes through the sprinklers, drew all over the driveway with sidewalk chalk, played "bad guys and good guys", realized how bad it can smell when you put a bunch of leaves in a bucket full of water (their "potion") and leave it for about a week, built cars out of their thousands of Legos.
Something I used to love to do was make mud pies!
Didja ever convince your little sister or little brother that they "TASTE GREEEAAAAT!" ...just like Tony the Tiger says, to see if they'd actually eat it?
Bwahahahahahaaaaaa!
>:o}
Well, I was the little sister so I didn't have anybody to convince. I do remember my sisters trying to get me to eat some "soup" they made out of grass, rocks, salt and pepper...etc.
Dating myself: Red Skelton? Ed Sullivan?
roflol @ frankay
Last Saturday I only hit 100 mph 3 or 4 times, not really intentional. I just need to have the Grim Reaper keep his eyes open. If he doesn't want to watch I can up the ante. Wish I had a P-51. Or a Me-109! Ferrarris of the skys.
Sheesh, You are up on me , I only hit the mark a couple of time this year .
I loved Red Skelton, especially Freddie the Freeloader. Good night, and may God bless.....
Remember seeing the Rolling Stones on Ed Sullivan and thinking they were awful......
First thing in the morning was to hurry up and eat my little box of cheerios and
hurry outside to build on my very own scooter .
I made it from an orange crate , scraps of 2x4 and a broken roller skate . ;-))
How about "Kick the wicket"? Played with a tin can and four street corners. Going to the oyster store to watch him fill your jar with oysters he pried open while you waited. Listening to the Lone Ranger -on the radio and The Shadow," Who knows what evil lurks in the heart of men? " The Shadow knows", Buying roller skates at the local hardware store.
Saving fat from cooking and taking it to the local A&P store - to be used in the war effort ( That is WWII) Meat and Sugar tokens - these items were rationed.
Victory gardens - so large commercial food producers would have more to send to the troops. My aunt, raising hogs, 20 or 30 at a time and only allowed to keep one of them for her family - the rest went to the troops.
Dancing in the streets when Victory over Japan happened, and getting bubble gum at the penny candy counter for the first time in years? And the absolute joy of all our neighbors contemplating the return of their children, fathers and grandfathers.
sidewalk chalk , hopscotch and who could have the nicest lagger.
A playing card that you clothes pinned to your bicycle frame for imaginary motor sounds when it hit the spokes.
Or a balloon that made great wheel sounds but did not last long.
Running home from school so fast and wishing you could fly.
Neighborhood puppet shows or maybe even a circus held in a tent made by hanging blankets from Mom's clothes lines.
The word "bored" was not in our vocabulary ;-))
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Just re read this thread ................
Gosh how I miss frankay :-(((
Yeah, me too.
Doh! Did someone mention a P-51 Mustang?????
Oooooooooooooo!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I'm 49, so most of my memories have been covered. I loved the ''popping tar bubbles'' Dea!
We played a lot of games, and I still love the rhymes that counted you out, as being ''it.'' I wrote down as many as I could remember once. If I find my list, I'll start a thread.
Three Stooges! They still make me laugh! I consider them family!
Ahhh, nostalgia!
billy - did you have the 'Miss Marsha" show on your TV? She had a magic mirror - she'd say -"Magic Mirror, tell me do..." My kids loved watching the show. They also watched the original Mousketeer show - the Mousketeers are past middle age now - and of course "Howdy Doody Time - with Ranger Bob. And Captain Kangaroo and Mister Greenjeans. Wow, the time flew by so fast!
Claire
I don't remember Miss Marsha, but we had Romper Room. She held up a glassless mirror at the end and called out kids names the she could ''see.''
I'd give anything to see the private jokes between Mr. Moose, Bunny Rabbit ( I love both to this day) and Captn. Kangaroo.
Howdy Doody and the Mouseketeers are before my time. We had Captain Ernie's Showboat. He showed the Popeye and Bugs Bunny cartoons. We also had Dr. Max and sidekick clown Mombo.
Time has gone fast. Too fast sometimes, yet I'm happy where I am.
I remember:
Collecting icee cups to cut out & redeem the bear coupons so I'd have enough money to go to the county fair
Spend-the-night company (we never called it sleep-overs) and mama entertaining us girls with ghost stories, homemade pulled taffy and playing twister with us.
Playing 45 records "She wore short-shorts" and "Itisy bitsy teeny weeny yellow pokadot binki", and my granny yelling her famous words "Turn that nonsense off, that's scandalous!"
Elvis's debut on the Ed Sullivan show, next came the Beetles...and then, there was Woodstock.
many more but the tears are rolling right now. Gotta go.
Well, I think my post was a little off topic but I got so engrossed reading everyone's childhood toys I forgot the subject was happy things before.... Which by the way, most listed were in my toy box. Maybe the next poster can get it back on subject. sorry...
Deborah
On long trips, we kids in the backseat would count doodle bugs (volkswagens) as they'd drive by. Still happy things to me.
edit to say: the game was the doodle bug pinch! who ever saw it first called out "doodle bug" and then pinched the person sitting beside them. Oh how many times did daddy threaten to pull the car over!
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Cordeledawg, we played the same game over here, but we called it slug bug. When you saw one, you called out "slug bug" and the color of the bug, and then slugged the person sitting next to you. ;o)
That's too funny! I think I had rather had been slugged than pinched!
