Take a walk down memory lane with us

I take it "coloring your hair" was a "taboo thing" ????? Darn...I thought it was something really scandalous they were referring to.

Anyone remember "MY OLD PAL, OVALTINE" ???
"Ice Blue Secret"...it kept you "cool, calm and collected"....

Anyone ever have a "Veg-O-matic" ?????

Ozzie and Harriet....Pete and Gladys.....I Married Joan......PINKY LEE !!!!!

I remember some TV show where this married couple had monkeys instead of children...but they dressed them up in clothes, and they slept in beds etc.

Glad you joined us, Gita. You fit right in. I do remember "I Remember Mama" and everything else you remembered. The little white collars, pins, and oh my goodness: STEWART GRANGER. Be still my heart.
Now the plastic curler thing was not for me. I wrapped my head in a scarf and pinned it down with a gazillion bobby pins so my hair would straighten. And ironed it. Amazing i have any hair left. I also wound it around orange juice cans so that it would dry straighter. (I sat up a lot of nights) That must have been in the 60's when the style was bouffant.
So I am outta here for tonight. Looking forward to more memories tomorrow.

Yoo hoo, it's me, my name is Pinky Lee!

TUPPERWARE !!!!!

If you were a guy and wanted to be really cool, you put STP stickers on everything you owned. (It was an oil additive for cars...) we told the nuns it meant "Stop Teenage Pregnancy"....and they believed us......for a while....

Turquoise Melmac dinnerware.....you could drive the car over it and it wouldn't break.....

Blue Bonnett Margarine..."Everything's better with Blue Bonnett on it "

My sisters used to iron their hair, too...they hated it that I had straight hair. Then they discovered chemical hair straightener.....the active ingredient in it was sodium hydroxide...also known as "Drain-O "...it's true...read the label....

I faded early tonight and woke to check back in to see what you've all been up to

I remember Pinky Lee, I remember Mama and all the rest. Who was the woman in the show that began with her leaning out the window of an apartment in what I think was maybe Brooklyn? Right now I can't remember her name or the name of the show but she yelled "Yoohoo, Mrs. Goldberg ...or was she Mollie Goldberg? Wish I could remember but not right now

Two tv shows just popped up , The Thin Man,and
the one with the dog named Astor, what was that show?

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YIKES, Draino to straighten hair, gotta wonder who figured out that the same chemical would clear drains and straighten hair.

how bout the single serving of kellogs cereal that came in a package with about 6 other kellog cereals and in the middle was a toy. they had to stop this eventually cause the kids were just popping out the toy. not me though. LOL

anyone remember bohacks supermarket.

I think Astor was the dog on The Thin Man.

Do you remember Mr. Ed and My Favorite Martian? And the original Batman series, Boof, Bam, Pooowwww. LOL

What about Imperial Margerine, the Margerine fit for a King (and the crown appeared on person eating it).

Who wears short shorts, we wear short shorts, i f you dare wear short short, Nair for short shorts.....LOL OH those naughty women with those toooo short shorts!

Being sent outside to play with the neighborhood kids and "be home before dark" was the rule! There was no cell phones or pagers for you to be tracked down, parents rarely knew exactly where you were in the neighborhood....and they felt safe about that.

Silver Christmas trees....with a light dial that put red blue or green colors on it! And the rich people had them that revolved...ohhhhhhh wow!

All these post invoke memories for me....of couse I am older than most of you......

Does anyone remember using sugar water to make those nice waves in their hair? It also worked as a hair spray and held it in place....the bees loved it!

Here is a Burma Shave jingle I remember well:

Slow down Pa,
sakes alive
Ma missed signs
4 and 5!
Burma Shave

JasperDale...it wasn't so bad to color your hair.....but we TRIED to get it to look so natural that "only our hair dresser knows for sure".

How about the movie "Forever Amber"? I was not allowed to see it but managed to sneak and go to the movies....when I was supposed to be "accompanying" my older sister and her current beau to the roller rink...I opted to go to the movies instead...AT NIGHT....alone! My Mom would have killed us both.

Jo

Does anyone remember F.W.Woolworth, the five and dime store? Things mostly really costing a dime? We were pretty poor, so we bought lots of things there and the prices were really low on everything. I think we even got underwear and my beginner bras there, but I'm not sure about that. I know they were cheap. My father worked for Montgomery Ward (remember them?) so a lot of our things came from there. Everyone called it Monkey Ward, but I never understood why.

Those aluminum Xmas trees with the color wheels are all the rage now with young kids in their 20's....they "fly" out of the 2nd hand stores....for HUNDREDS of dollars...

I thought a sanitary belt was a drink from a clean shot glass.

In Calif. we had "Chicken Delight"...fried chicken delivered to your door...from a Dodge Valiant with a huge chicken mounted on the roof..."Don't cook tonight...call Chicken Delight"

Our first house had a Murphy Bed in the den closet.

Remember ovens that had to be lit with a match???? "Now...you kids get OUT of the kitchen....I'm gonna LIGHT THE OVEN " .....AAAAHHHH !!! The only other thing that instilled more FEAR in us was the Pressure Cooker !!!

JasperDale, clean shot? OMG, too funny!
I remember mother's pressure cooker blowing up once, the contents was all over the kitchen, ceiling and all.

My very first apartment had a Murphy bed, and an oven in that was match lit. I didn't know and the first time I tried to use it, preheated it or so I thought as I mixed my batter. Then put the cake in, smelled gas, got the matches and boom! I was blown across the kitchen. Neighbor heard the bang and took me to the emergency room for treatment. No scarring, just barely have eyebrows though to this day.

Broasted chicken anyone?

Being able to identify every car manufactured by it's headlights, taillights or profile. "Counting cars" while on road trips with the family.

Children had manners, seen and not heard. Speak when spoken to, etc. Not like today!

wearing french braids until I was in 7th grade.

we played a game we called 7-up with a volley ball against the side of the house, until we were shooed off because of the thudding heard inside.


pedal pushers, clam diggers, Capri pants.

OMG..The PRESSURE COOKER! To this day, I REFUSE to use one. My Momma's made some much racket..sounded like it was gonna either explode or take off like a rocket..I truly have a phobia of those.
And, yes, I have been told the ones these days are nothing like that..Still..I am NOT taking ANY chances!!

Well, now, good morning, gang....
Fun messages to wake up to. I must have faded away early last night, and got up to some snow flurries this morning. A nice day to play the memory game.
Remember Cracker Jacks that came with really neat prizes, plastic figures, and real games, not paper ones.
And sugar water.....after I combed all the curl out of Sparkle Plenty's hair I gave it a good dose of sugar water thinking I could get the curl back in it. Didn't happen....just a sticky mess of stringy stuff.
And here is a pressure cooker story. One Christmas my Dad went hunting. Now first, you need to know that my Dad didn't hunt, so I am not sure where that fit into the great scheme of things, but he came back with a very large duck. My mother made Dad clean the duck, and I got some pretty colorful feathers out of the deal. Early on Christmas morning my mother put the duck in the pressure cooker and then she had plans to bake it later, I guess. About the time we were experiencing the great fun of opening presents, probably very early in the morning, from the kitchen there came a great, loud WHOOF sound. We ran to the kitchen, parts of the pressure cooker lid met us on the floor....brown juicy meat dripped from the ceiling, duck juice was on every wall and counter, and about all that was left of the duck was the feathers I had kept.
The smell was pretty sickening! A heavy and greasy and gamey smell.
I don't remember what we had for Christmas dinner that year, but the smell was so bad, we left a cleaning lady to get rid of the duck thingies that clung to the wall, and to try to get rid of the smell, while we went to visit relatives, where we stayed till we thought the kitchen might miraculously have been cleaned. Mom never did tell what had happened to our Christmas duck, but that was the last time we had a pressure cooker.
I do like pressed duck occasionally now, but usually I stay away from any kind of duck on a menu.
And that is my thought for this very cold snowy morning in KY.
sharon

Jude, I hadn't read your message when I posted my story, what did we do, transfer thoughts or something?
Remember the little buckle thingy on the back side of pedal pushers?
And my french braids were so tight my eyes squinted.

lol, squinting. my older brother used to pull his eyes to the side with his fingers and then yell.. "Hey, Ma, you pulled my braids too tight!" makig fun of me and my squealing as my braids were redone.

Sorta reminds me of the time my DH was trying to help around the house. I had just had surgery and was home recuperating. He decided to change the filter on our heating unit..and after doing so, he noticed how dirty and dusty it was..So he got the Shop Vac..plugged it in..and was just suckin that ole mess right on up into the holding tank..SO he thought..I came out of the bedroom..and behind him I saw a HUGE cloud of black soot!! It was EVERYWHERE..the furniture....the carpet..oh! and my collection of Fenton Glass and the Vaseline Glass..It took HOURS to clean that mess up..Even my DH looked like Rocky the Raccoon! It really was funny..Needless to say, his days of running any kind of vacuuming device were over that day!

Thanks for lettin me post this..I sorta got off topic..Now,
Back to yall!!

tubosbabe, there are no OT in this thread. all memories are valid here.

And if the day was hot, by the end of it my braids had corkscrewed into themselves. Looked like two coiled springs sticking out beside my ears.
My brother called them horns. Good thing my brother and I live a few hundred miles apart. Otherwise he would be paying dearly!

What about our mothers putting a Lilt or Toni in our hair....oh man, talk about some bad picture days! I looked like I had been electricuted! My kids still laugh when they see my 3rd and 4th grade pictures! And she never did my bangs....they were straight as a board, but the rest of my hair you couldn't get a comb throug....or anything else the curls were so tight!

Sharon, Part of it was...

To Look Sharp, and be on the ball.
Be Sharp, use Gillete Blue Blades
For the quickest, slickest shave of all.

Gillette sponsored baseball games for years when I was a teen and that was their commercial jingle.

Guys used "Butch Wax" to keep their hair in place while the "crew cut" was growing out.

My sisters had this green glop called "Dippity Doo" that was supposed to do something to their hair....what, I have no clue...I don't think they did either...

"Bell Brand" potato chips always had ONE chip in the bag that was shaped like a bell.

Mom would WASH the PLASTIC FLOWERS with dish soap and hang them on the clothes line...upside down of course...

You folks have found a hot topic - many many additions.

Remember a few more - Sargent Preston of the Royal Mounted Police and his dog King - from one of the cereal boxes - I sent away and received a deed for 1 square inch of Alaska Gold producing land.

Captain Midnight. Queen for a Day. Tennesee Ernie Ford.

Yes, Bill Conrad played Matt Dillon on the radio version of Gunsmoke, but was not hired for the TV version because he did not look like what the producers thought a US Marshal should look like. The producers had a bigger problem when they hired James Arness - where to find a horse big enough.

Remember the Joe Namoth commercials....soft as a babies behind....and one about the panty hose?

Right, darius....I could remember the jingle, just couldn't remember where it came from.
Jasper, Dippity Dooooo...that was some powerful stuff, probably had glue in it. It must have come along before hairspray, but served the same purpose, holding hair in place....forever.
I am going to have to start taking notes, can't remember what I thought about as I read through the latest posts.

Does anybody remember Car 54 Where Are You?

Sure, Car 54 - and Get Smart, the Avengers, BatMan, the Monkies, Hullabaloo, Shindig, That Was The Week That Was.

I also remember seeing Eisenhour's inauguration on TV. That had to be in the very early 50's. And we all remember what we were doing when Kennedy was killed, and the death of LHO on tv the following Sunday....

One of my favorite shows as a teen was Omnibus, aired on Sundays. Too grown up for kiddies.

Hey Jude..Thanks for that!..Now I will walk around all day with the song in my head...lol..

You GO Bubba!!! Now yer talkin !!! Hullaballoo...KAM NELSON in her go go boots dancing in that cage !!!! She married Bruce Jenner. Shindig !!! Good One !!!

Paul Simon tried out to be one of the Monkies...and was rejected.
Anyone remember Joey Heatherton ????

Ann Margret in Bye Bye Birdy.

Joey Heatherton, wow! now that's bringing up other... Kim Novak? those eyes and her cat (sp) Pywacket!

remember Jayne Mansfield's death too, that was disturbing, beheaded!

beheaded, Bewitched. Elizabeth Montgomery, and her death later, tragic.

Donna Reed
Father knows best
Bandstand, Dick Clark, did he EVER get older? we did, why not him?

Amos and Andy
Mills Brothers, still listen to them

and Twiggy. Remember her? and the Mary Quant clothes.
I had nightmares when Jayne Mansfield was killed in that car. First time I think I had ever heard of beheading.
Learned to dance watching Dick Clark.
Can't remember how Elizabeth Montgomery died. Loved her cat!
And later, I dream of Jeannie.
Who was the guy in the movie with Elizabeth Taylor....maybe Montgomery Clift, he died after that movie, I think. I mourned him, too. Now I can't remember the movie, also had Shelley Winters and a boat. What was that movie?

The sultry, sexy James Dean... Rebel without a Cause, Giant, etc.

E. Montgomery had ovarian cancer I think or some other female cancer.

Marlon Brando when he was thin. Stella!!
and later the Devil.... wow, that was a real trip!

Buddy Holly....l cried real tears when he died....the Big Bopper, and the song Blueberry Hill....
La Bamba, still one of my favorites.
The Mills Brothers
The Diamonds....Little Darlin'
and Otis Redding
I can't even understand the words in today's music, except country and I don't enjoy country music enough to listen.