Take a walk down memory lane with us

Ditto, Diane...I have been trying all day to grout these terra cotta pots that I put mosaic tiles on for Christmas gifts. But I don't want to get my hands dirty because then I couldn't respond to some memory that one of you jolted.....and if I turn the computer off, I might miss something....what a fun dilemma!

put on your non vinyl gloves silly! they're cheap and when you want to switch to the puter, toss that pair and then put on a clean pair.

I hope you don't mind me joining in. I have so much enjoyed this thread.

I remember Ricky Nelson, Andy Williams Christmas Show when the Osmond brothers were so little on there.

I remember Capt. Kangaroo and Mr. Greenjeans with Magic Drawing board and Dancing bear!

I remember the Friendly Giant show and a show with "Froggy Gremlin?" Not to forget the Little Rascals. And Mr. Rogers!

I can remember my Mom sending me across the street with a quarter for two cokes and a bag of peanuts!

I was never taken to an actual store until I was about 5. My father hunted for our food or we fished for catfish. My first "public" outting I remember was at a huge laundry matt...and sitting on the little shelf playing with the bubbles that came out of the machine. I also remember my Mom pushing wash through the old roller ringers at my Grandmothers.

And I think what I miss the most...everything was made from "scratch" and not from a box! So hard to have time anymore and life always seems to be in a rush. We need more time around the dinner table.

Oh, and don't forget Moondoggy and Gidget movies!
Debbie



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Already thought of that, but I only have one pair of vinyl gloves and don't want to take time away to go get more.....but I now have a damp cloth right beside me.....so, trust me, all is well...Got all my bases covered. Y'all just keep right on remembering, I will catch up in a little while,Jude..

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welcome Debbie,

all are welcome to add to this thread. we're having a ball reading everyones memories.

you reminded me of another. . . Buster Brown and his dog Tad! anyone remember the jungle he sang?

who did the "PLUNK YOUR MAGIC TWANGER FROGGY?" have to race off to class and this will haunt me until I get back to see the answer.

Oh, one more thing when we finally had a TV I loved watching Perry Como, he was just great and so easy going

easy going was Dean Martin. Wow how I loved that man. cried more when he passed than for E.

"PLUNK YOUR MAGIC TWANGER FROGGY?" That was Andys Gang, and that was the one Froggy Gremlin was on! Yep, memory is creakin back!

I love Dean Martin, my kids love him, and right now I have his Christmas CD in my car to listen too!

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Perry Como.....loved him, Maria.
And...remember "That's Amore"?

Yes, I do but do one ot my favorite one was was " Find a wheel and it goes round and round" the otheer one at Christmas was "Ave Maria'

Battery operated & hand-cranked phones, a child needed a chair to stand on to reach the mouthpiece and hold the receiver with it's big magnets to your ear - the almost yell to be heard - we had a 32 party line in N. Minnesota.

Outhouses - really a pain in the winter with all the snow, bug filled in the summer heat.

Horse drawn farm implements.

Pushing a 1-wheel cultivator in the garden.

Seeing animal tracks in the road or along the lakeshore the first time. Learning to identify them. That's a female deer, that's a fawn...

Hearing the sound of the loons in the evening. Catching a mason jar of fire-flys and trying to read by the light (just like in the comic books).

Loved all the radio shows - most were mentioned, but a few were missed:
The FBI in Peace and War, Dragnet, Tails of the Texas Rangers, Gunsmoke with William Conrad as Matt Dillon, Hallmark Hall of Fame, Hopalong Casidy, Cisco Kid and Pancho, Buck Rogers and the Space Cadets.... Im sure there were others - just a "senior moment" here.

Amazing how different the characters looked on TV - vs - the imaginary characters on the radio.

TV shows - Texaco Star Theater with Milton Berle, Omnibus, Lawerance Welk, can't spell any more.

me and my dw are going to see andy williams christmas show at the mohegan sun hotel and casino. guess he isn't as popular now since the most expensive tickets are only 37.50. the date is dec 19th. at 7 p.m.


my sons can't understand how we survied without a remote control for the t.v. he can't believe we actually had to get up to change the channel.

coal chute was right. thats what it was called. thanks.

anybody remember "stoop ball" or playing a ball game where you slapped at the ball and there was only first, second and home. we called in "triangle" cause thats what the field looked like. also remember girls putting so much hair spray on that you could bounch a baseball off their head. LOL

these sure was a great thread. brought back so many fine memories. one last thing though, i used to love wednesdays because that was the day we left public school early so we could go to, let me see if i can spell this right, "catercism" now they call it CCD. it was religious instructions that got you ready for your first communion and confirmation. and last but not least let us guys not forget about carpet guns.

and as dean martin sang, memories are made of this.

thanks for the memories.

Another memory...comic books. Little Lulu and Nancy and Sluggo. We traded them till they were ragged.
Anybody ever play jacks? That was a great game to play when the weather was so bad we couldn't go outside for recess. And pick up sticks, but jacks were first.
Tinker toys, too.

BUBBA - are you telling me that someone besides *James Arness* played Matt Dillon!!!!!!!?????!!!! Well, I never! Gunsmoke was a Saturday night staple for us at my Grandparents house.

Tinker toys, erector sets, and board games were always scattered around the living room. We would sometimes make popcorn balls, fudge or cookies after the supper chores were done. Sometimes we played word games - My Ship Comes Loaded With.... while us kids did the dishes and clean-up.

One of the biggest highlights of the year was after Thanksgiving when we "helped" Mom make our Christmas cards. She and I still make them every year, and yes, I still "help" her!
ginni

We played jacks outside and inside and had big competitions. The boys played marbles and so did I if there weren't any girls around for jacks. We loved Tinker Toys!! Some of those things were hard to figure out, but it kept us busy. No instant gratification there, that's for sure.

We had comic books and I think they cost about nothing, but it was such a big deal to have a new one.

We used to play cowboys and Indians, using our fingers for guns and making the sound with our mouths, slapping our hands on our legs to make the sound of horse hooves. Again, there I was playing with the boys.

We always had indoor plumbing, but my uncle owned a farm that had an outhouse. I thought it was the coolest thing. Kids used to tip them over on Halloween.

The first phone I remember was a huge black thing that sat in the dining room and it was a big deal if it rang. And everyone was on a party line, so you had to be careful what you talked about. Kids weren't allowed to use the phone.

I loved raw dough, such as that for pies, and one time when my mom left the room I filled my mouth with as much as I could hold. She made me spit it all out in the trash and told me that I would get worms if I swallowed it. Yuck!! She made noodles from scratch, too. Everything was made from scratch, like you said. And everyone wore aprons to do housework and to cook. And those head scarves with a bow tied on top of your head (like Rosie the Riveter) to do heavy cleaning, such as the spring cleaning everyone did. Washed the curtains, hung out the blankets and pillows and beat them half to death, turned over the mattresses, washed the walls and the windows, scrubbed the floors on hands and knees. Life was hard work back then.

no comic books allowed at our house, but we survived.
I do remember eating my first popcycle in 8th grade. yes deprived child that I was, we were told they were nothing but sugar and water and would rot our teeth. I was an adult before I got sugar candy. by then I couldn't stand the stuff.

On a brighter note though, The first medical tv shows, Dr. Zorba and Ben Casey. Dr. Kildare

Roy Rogers and Dale Evans, Hopalong Cassidy, Our Miss Brooks, The Lone Ranger and Tonto. . .

and how about all the commercial jingles and tag lines? I'll start this thought with LSMFT. Lucky Strike means fine tobacco. Dial. Aren't you glad you use Dial, don't you wish everyone did?

add your own.


a lot of those products are gone but not forgotten. Duz for one. Pride polish? ( I carried a picture for many years of two bottles one of Pride, the other of Joy, would show them to folks as my pride and joy when they started with all the baby pics)

And sometimes in the boxes of DUZ there were water glasses, maybe that was only during the war.
And of course we weren't supposed to have comic books, but that was the fun of it. Didn't you ever read with a flashlight under the covers when lights were out. I had a cousin who sneaked them to me. Never could figure out why she could have them and I couldn't.
My great grandmother had an outhouse, but she lived pretty far away and we didn't visit much.
I was 8 when we got our first TV, but my granddad had a phone in his house way earlier than that. Very few others near him had a phone, so there was not much of a party line, if one at all. We didn't have a phone till later, and we did have a party line.
Have we mentioned jump rope?
I had polio when small, so it was a long time before I could jump, but I could be the one who threw the rope, and eventually could jump though I am sure it wasn't a pretty picture when I did.
OK, back to the grout.

the give-aways reminds me
S&H green stamps. My maternal grandmother had some books stashed in her room when she passed, still hoping that they would be valid again.

Depression glass (before my time to remember) which I collected for years, was originally a gas station etc. give away with purchase. Now what each piece costs is staggering considering its origin.

how many llittle plant pots are you doing? This seems to be an all day project, or are we getting in the way of completion with this thread? lol
will take a break and cook something before I faint. forgot to eat before right now, oops. no wonder my blood sugar is haywire.

Did one pot, came back to the thread.
Did another, same thing.
Eventually I did 3 pots and 2 small trays, but still have to wipe them all down. And of course I killed my nails in the process. It is like planting flowers, I can't ever get it right till I touch that soil with my fingers. Same with grout, can't get it right till I smooth it out with my fingers.

I have some depression glass, my grandmother's, but don't know its history. Also have something called clown glass?? Know nothing about it, maybe some of you do.

Family dinners were a big deal, so I do remember my grandmother using all these glass and crystal pieces, just don't know much about their origin.

OK, I am finished with the grout, so we can get back to the good stuff now!

I remember my Mamaw getting glasses in boxes of powder detergent..Towels also...man, that has been a long time ago...

what about those jungles? anyone remember them besides me?

Yes, I remember towels in the Laundry detergent too. Comic books...Archie and Little Rtichie. I used to like some comics about fashion models...but my memory is dim on the name of them.

Perry Como...Sigh there's nobody like him now.

Don Ü

Can't remember jungles??? The lion sleeps tonight??

duwop!
what about barbershop? A bicycle built for two, etc etc etc

I just caught this thread by accident. Some real memory jerkers here !!! We used to get glassware in boxes of "DUZ" soap.....of course they were always, "saved for good".....but "good" never seemed to happen !!!!

We went all through catholic school, so the kneeling on the floor to measure skirt length was a daily occurence...for my sisters, not me....us guys got our pockets checked for cigarettes....and our lockers searched for "True Detective" magazines.....

My three older sisters were in love with Steve Lawrence, Elvis, and Frankie Avalon.....
I was more in to Eydie Gorme, The Beatles and (God forbid) The Rolling Stones.

The family staion wagon, a '57 Ford got passed down the line to each of us....we could get 15 kids stuffed into it to go to the beach.

The first time I ever saw my dad cry was when JFK got shot. The second (and last) time was when my mom died. Men just didn't cry. We're allowed to now.

We never locked our front door...there was no need to.

We took a 45 minute BUS RIDE across L.A. to see Rosemary's Baby...so no one would recognize us...
of course we got caught.

We loved Phyllis Diller....DEAN MARTIN...and Carol Burnett.....

A "not nice" girl we knew got pregnant out of wedlock... GASP !!!!! She simply vanished...never to be heard from again. We were SO not allowed to play with her!

Mom would jump up out of her chair and change the TV channel when that commercial came on that said "I dreamed I barged the Nile in my Maidenform".....SMUT !!!!! LOL

too funny JasperDale, the Maidenform bit still has me giggling

fun to have a guy's perspective.

I remember watching Queen Elizabeth's coronation on TV...when would that be?

On our local station..every night..at 10 o'clock..An announcer would come on..I dont remember what the screen had on it or if it did have anything on it..but he would say..."It's 10 'clock. Do you know where your children are?"
My kids laughed when I told them this..Times have sure changed.

OK, Jude...just for you:

Drive your Chevrolet through the USA.....

And the burmashave signs

And....
Look sharp!....da da da da dee dee
Be sharp!.....something, something that I can't remember, but like with a big gong sound...

And I always wanted to be the Breck girl....

And the fairy tales.....The Gingerbread Man,
Little Red Riding Hood,
Three Little Pigs,.......

plop plop, fizz fizz, oh what a relief it is..

I remember that one...

Does anyone remember the show Hazel, about the maid...and Mr. B? I loved that show!

What about Prell shampoo with a pearl in the bottle? I remember the towels in the soap powder also. And getting glasses with the jelly, would use it up and save the glass.

My mother would never let me watch Rowan and Martins laugh in....that was smutt. Then we met Dan Rowan, and it was OK after that! LOL

The wrigleys spearment gum commercials and the doublemint twins. How many licks to the center of a tootsie pop? One...Two....Three....three lick to the center of a tootsie pop!

Debbie

good one, I had forgotten it.
remember the little Snap Crackle Pop figures? I entered some kind of contest and won a little ring that had one of the figure's face on it, and when you turned the little red knob on the top of his head, his features would move.
Also had a Daisy Duck watch.
My brain is full of grout, can't remember anything else.

"...Does she...or doesn't she...??? Only her hairdresser knows for sure..."

(and her minister, and her butcher, and her mailman.........LOL)

That's all I remember about that commercial....what was it "she" "did or didn't do" ???
Am I missing something here? Was this about "the pill" or something? My mom was always telling us that people who went to the "beauty shop" told their hairdresser "everything"....

I was only about 5 when that came out....it has mystified me ever since...is this somehow connected with what went on while "she" was " barging the Nile" ??? Even Calif. wasn't that liberally minded back then.....

Anyone care to explain this????

I believe that was a Miss Clairol commercial...about coloring her hair! LOL

Use Miss Clairol maybe? Or some other hair product.
While going down the Nile on a barge.......

What about the Nehi drinks, grape, orange and cherry nehi! LOL I mentioned to my DH a few years ago how I remembered that from when I lived in Florida, and used to love Nehi, they don't have it up north here. Well, for Christmas, I opened an entire box of grape and orange nehi...they didn't make Cherry anymore. Would you believe I sat and cried like a baby. Meant so much to me that he searched and found that. However, after growing up....it is WAY to sweet for me now! LOL

Debbie

I remember Nehis, they used to have a peach flavor that I loved.

Also remember when margerine came out. It was white, and in a little package with red coloring in it. You squeezed the whole package to mix the color in so that it didn't stay white.....
ugh, a sick color.
And Cloverine salve. I had a great aunt who carried a little round tin around with her, used that stuff for chapped lips, bug bites....whatever. It was a red jell like substance, smelled I guess like cloves.

And there was a black chewing gum....Black Jack, maybe? Maybe it was a local thing. I wasn't allowed much gum, but always wanted to try that because it was black. Of course, I always wanted what I couldn't have.

I remember Black Jack....I think it was a licorice flavor. Wasn't fond of it...or the big red hot cinnamon gum. I think that is still available.

Geez!!! I have just read all 148 posts on this Forum and it sure has put me in a nostalgic mood. Thanks, Frank!!! You turned me on to this Post! Memories--What is that song by barbara Streisand??? Like the "something" of our mind?????

I was taking notes as I read all the posts...I am there with you all! I remember 90% of everything mentioned here. I guess that makes me "ancient".....What a trip back to the way things were....

Do you remember "I remember Mama"??? The TV show? Prggy Wood starred and her husband's name was Niels...She always said "Jah"....

I. like Maria, came to the US after WW2 as a refugee in 1951 and was hit head-on by all things American. Man! What a transition! The change was undescribable!

The first movie I saw was "Student Prince" with Mario Lanza and totally fell in love with him. I was--like--obsessed.....Matter of fact, I got obsessed by ALL movie stars and started collecting pictures from all of them from any source. I still have a box-full somewhere...Wish I had saved all the Movie Star magazines. They would now be worth a bit of money to collectors.

Leslie Caron....Robert Taylor (be still my heart)....Stewart Granger (OH MY!!!)...Johnny Weismuller as Tarzan! Sabu in the "Jungle Story"--the pit with all the snakes....I had such a simple mind then. My all-time most impressive movie I saw was called "Miranda". I was 10 or 11. It was about a fisherman who catches a mermaid entangled in his net, takes her home, falls in love with her, had all kinds of humorous moments as he tries to pass her on at social occasions as a humsn....etc.... Does anyone remember that? It ended up when she got pregnant and fled back to the sea and had this baby mewrmaid. I would guess it was out in the late 40's??? Another one was "Children of Mara Maru". It was about a group of kids that set out in Africa to find their lost pony (or something like that). They had to survive on their own....It was somewhat akin to "Children of the Corn".

The projector you could put a picture under and project it on a wall and make a drwing.

Entering a contest to name Roy Roger's Pony. I won 3rd prize--along with maybe 1000 other kids.

Learning English and, forever wondering, what it meant when everyone said "Hi" to everyone else....

Wearing lime green, puffy-panted gym suits in high school and having to take mandatory showers afterwards. Most of us just went in and ghot our backs wet and came out. Playing "golf" in gym classes with little crocheted balls we hit off of door mats against the wall of the gym.

Wearing those little, white collars with sweaters and using these pins to hold them in place. I still have a couple of the collars and a couple of the pins. I save everything!

Aluminum clips in out hair, after we washed it in the sink with regular soap, to give it some "waves".

Sleeping in hard plastic curlers all night (with the nets around our heads to keep them all in place) so we would look beautiful (??) the next day.

Secretly shaving my legs for the first time so my Mom would not get upset.

Wearing a "sanitary belt" (sorry, Guys!) And garters to hold up stockings--which all had seams in the back and you had to get them straight.

Learning to put on a pair of pantyhose the first time when they came out...NOT easy!

All the fettish about petticoats. The more the better! Circle skirts to wear them under.

Going downtown and paying $7-$8 for a pair of heels.

Chicken sack dresses my Mom made for us. Yeah! They were pretty nice!

My Mom using a Maytag wringer/Washer and hearing horror stories of someone who had gotten their hand caught in them. Rinsing and wringing out all the laundry by hand. Ironing everything!

Paying 5cents to ride the streetcar to school. Always rising to give my seat up to anyone older thn me.

Bying a hat to wear to my first job interview at a Drug Store as a "fountain girl". Walking 2 miles to the interview. Got the job, but was fired in 2 weeks for putting too much whipped cream on the Sundays. :o(

Falling in love with anything on TV. Roy Rogers. Tonto. Arthur Godfey Show. To tell the Truth with Garry Moore. Howdy-Doody. Montovani!. AND!!!! "Sing along with Mitch". Man! I loved that show but always wondered how all the people could dance and jump around and still sing in perfect harmony. Then I found out one day that they were all "lip-synching". I was devastated--and never watched that show again!

My first car--a 1960 Valiant. It still is the only car that had push-button transmission. I paid $2150 for it.

My grandmother's sewing machine that my Mom made all out clothes on. It was one step BEFORE the treadle! It was hand-cranked. You turned the wheel by hand to sew.

Living and partying in Baltimore--Gunther beer was "IT". So was "Hamms" (brewed with Sky bkue waters--remember?). So was "National Boh". The hugest steamed crabs I have ever eaten were 50 cents a piece in this bar downtown called "The Pump Room". It still exists.

Thanks for all the memories, you Guys!!! Yes! I think a book would be a wonderful thing.

If I remember any more stuff, I will post again.

Gita

Black Jack made your teeth, tongue and lips all turn black. That was it's appeal for kids. I don't remember that it tasted all that good.

One of my favorite kitchen jobs was massaging the dye into the white margarine. I was disappointed when it came already dyed.

We used to get dishes at the movies. Anybody else remember that? And the jelly glasses were special, all carved and cute, and everybody had a bunch. Again, you just didn't waste anything.

Nobody worried that you would grow up warped if you read and/or listened to the fairy tales. They were make-believe and everyone knew it. No big deal.

My favorite romantic movie was "The Prince and the Pauper" with Tony Curtis and Piper Laurie. That was only if you could get me away from Roy Rogers and Dale Evans. I loved Johnny Weismuller as Tarzan. Terrible actor but great yell. LOL

I remember when we wore those white collars over the necks of our sweaters and some of them were angora. We also used sugar water to starch all those petticoats and my grandma got mad because I used up all her sugar. You had to let them drip dry on the clothesline to keep the sugar from being all over the floor.

I hid that I was shaving my legs until I cut myself and could not explain how it happened. And those horrid curlers and hair nets. Or pincurls, even worse. And fuzzy slippers, always pink or blue.

We traveled a lot and so the Burma Shave signs were a big deal and gave us all a smile along the road, if not a downright laugh. My dad loved them.

Queen Elizabeth was crowned in the early 50s. I was in jr. high school and thought that whole pageantry was just what I wanted when I grew up. My parents just rolled their eyes, I'm sure.


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