Take a walk down memory lane with us

Kim Novak...Bell Book and Candle....it was the inspiration for the Bewitched series.
Was it Anne Margaret who had some terrible accident when filming a movie???

CONNIE STEVENS !!! Say no more. !!!

that's because the rest of todays music is 1) NOT music and 2) unlistenable ( gee I love coining appropriate words) 3) unintelligible 4) offensive when you can make out a word here and there 5) corrosive to the soul of those within earshot 6) played WAY too loud in passing cars which vibrate their screws loose from the base thudding.

On my way to class yesterday, the vehicle behind me was playing some of that cr-p so loud it was hurting my ears. We pulled up to the red light and I parked for a minute to run back to his car and tell him that I didn't want to listen to that stuff. He looked at me but couldn't hear me until he turned it down, then when I repeated he was dumbfounded that I didn't like his music!

Ann Margret did have an accident, an on stage accident, I think.
The movie I was trying to remember with Elizabeth Taylor and Montgomery Clift was "A Place in the Sun" maybe? A real tear jerker.

Ann Margaret fell in a dance routine on stage in Vegas and broke her jaw. Never been quite the same since but still a beatiful woman. My older brother dater her in high school. We lived in towns with common borders and all went to New Trier.

I think the Shelley Winters Monty Clift movie was The Long Hot Summer....(i THINK...)

Sharran...you're right...I was wrong...it was A Place in the Sun !!!

Today's music:
Behind my house there is a road that circles, and it is about a rooftop higher than my house. When the teenagers that live on that street are coming home at night...late....my house starts thumping to the beat of their music.....a whole block away!! This too shall pass, I tell myself with a pillow over my head.

Dick Clark moved to Calif. so he could be 3 hours younger !

Thanks for explaining Jasper, it's bothered me all these years.

bicycles built for two! and a neighbor got a unicycle to play with and we wll felt like we were at the circus.

Remember the BIG TOP!

Rin-Tin-Tin. Lassie. Cyd Charise--and those legs of hers!!! Farley Granger (Mmmm)....
Singing "Itsy Bitsy Teeny Weeny yellow polka dot bikini". There really were no bikinis as we know them today. They were called two-piece bathing suits. There was no such thing as a "high cut" leg to the bottoms. Not even in the movies. All bathing suits were like grandmas underwear....

Rotary dial phones and letter prefixes (NO area codes then). Dialing "O" to get an Operator to call long distance or in an emergency.
Small, glass Coke bottles in soda machines. Did they really have some "coke" in them then?
Diaper Service. I had cloth diapers for both my daughters. You put the stinky bucket outside on a certain day and the "Diaper man" came and got them and left you a bag-full of nice, clean diapers.
Milk was delivered much the same way by a local Dairy. You left them a little note what you wanted, and they left the milk in one of those galvanized, insulated boxes with a lid on your front steps. I still have those too....:o)

I know stores are regional, but here I DO remember "Woolworths" and "Brager Gutmans" and when all the major department stores were in one big block downtown. It was a big deal to go "shopping" in those days.
NO malls! NO Interstates! NO Beltways! I remember when all these were built. Our first Mall here was called "Mondawin Mall". I still remember the jingle in the adds: "Mondawin, Mondawin, Now better days are dawning, something.....?????...You've never seen shopping like this before."

Hechingers---Then Home Depot did them in. That and Sears were the only places to buy tools.
Hutzlers Department store (only in Baltimore). A 100 yr. old, family owned, high class store.
Mowing my Mom's lawn with one of those push-mowers. Good for your stomach muscles.....
OC in the 50's--there was nothing but the old part. A sleepy, little resort.
Driving to Philly on the old, 2-lane Rt. 40. Took about 4 hours. It is 2 hours now.
Driving to Western Maryland to go skiing at Deep Creek lake Resort took about 5-6 hours.

BTW--that dogs name in the TV show was Asta--not Astra. It is often in crossword puzzles...

I take notes now of anything I think of during the day that I rememeber. This is such a neat thread! I bet 90% of DG'ers have not yet discovered it!
Also--It has to hold the record of the number of posts on a single date--and going......As I write this, there are about 200 Posts, and this was started on Dec. 3rd--ONLY 4 days ago! WOW!!!!!!

Gita

Hang in here with us, Gita. Everytime someone has a new memory, it triggers one for the rest of us. It is an addiction! A nice one, though.

the reason there are so many posts is that some of us (ahem, myself included) are prolific posters of whatever pops into our heads throughout the waking hours.

while none of this thread is earth shattering, will bring world peace or end hunger, it does out hearts good to think back and reflect on a simpler time in our lives and take a few minutes out of our today lives to just BE.

I think Coca-Cola stopped having cocaine in it in the late 1800's. I haven't Googled it to be certain, though.

Coca-Cola in those green bottles tasted different. Had something to do with light passing through the green bottles vs. the clear bottles, and the size.

Sorta like comfort food, chocolate comes to mind. Which triggers another memory. Mom had a candy board made of marble. We made a kind of taffy, had to be pulled and twisted, and was delicious!

Edited to say: this thread is sorta like comfort food, in response to Jude.

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Remember when men wore hats, everywhere, even to work outside. Those nice Fedora-type hats. And they tipped them to ladies. Plus they stood up when a lady entered the room and gave her their seat if that was appropriate. Boys were trained to respect women--and NEVER to hit one.

The E.Taylor/M.Clift movie I remember was "Raintree County" and I think he died during or right after, so it made us all sad to see the movie. I was all grown up by the time that happened. Remember her in the ORIGINAL "National Velvet" and the ORIGINAL "Lassie"? I think I cried for days after seeing "Lassie". My mom told me I could never go see a dog movie again. : ^ }

Sharran--Remember pulling taffy? With butter all over our hands? Boy, that was some good stuff.

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YES!! Butter all over our hands, that is what I was trying to remember...I made myself sick eating tons of that taffy.
Raintree County. This summer a friend gave me two golden raintrees, she is about our age, and asked me if I remembered that movie. Of course we had to have an old movie conversation.

Taffy Pulls.... Yum. I remember having church youth hay rides in the snow and coming in for a taffy pull. Why we ever ate it is a mystery because we sure made a mess!

CAKE mascara girls, wasn't that stuff fun!

Tangee lipstick...

oh yeah, tangerine color and looked terrible on everyone

and melted in your purse..

Gosh, the things we are pulling out of our memory banks!!

Someone above mentioned shoes. I finally talked my mother into letting me have the white "Joyce" shoes that EVERYone else in school had. She made me wear ankle socks with them, though. I'd get down the street, take off the socks, and put them into the laundry that night. She came home from work early one day and caught me with them in my hand. She then told me the story about going to school with long stocking-type socks that her mother made her wear back in the 1920s. She'd get down the road and roll them down into ankle length like the other girls had. We had a good laugh and I didn't have to wear the socks anymore.

Edited for spelling.

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capizo shoes were the rage for a time in the mid 60's we had them in every conceivable color to go with each outfit.

Don't remember the Joyce shoes, but maybe we called them something else. I do remember the oxblood colored t strappy things, with a fancy little cut out on the top, and little holes poked in that created a design....what were they?
I have a similar sock story.....will think more about that.

The Joyces were white and almost identical to what nurses wore for a while. We put taps on them and thought we were so cool. Of course, that's when the guys wore white t-shirts with rolled up sleeves, Jimmy Dean style. They didn't dare put cigarettes into their sleeves back then. The school would have called their parents!!

Capizios! and I think you mentioned the jellied shoes earlier, very different from the jell shoes of today. My favorite were the sort of hot pink capazios.
And in the 50's, with white bucks, we wore tall socks that we rolled down, looked like a fat donut around our ankles...that was along with the white collars, the pony tails, and spit curls. And a guy's school jacket completed the look.....

letter sweaters, had to be huge on you or it looked like your bf was a wimp

wearing "his" ring on a chain around our necks.

wearing 'his" ring on our finger with the bottom wrapped with fuzzy yarn or thread that was nailpolished in place. wow, those things were heavy no matter how I tried to wear them.
going steady and breaking up too

Melted wax in his ring, too....just to make it fit.
And the letter was so heavy it hung down around my waist....must have been cotton sweaters.

Crepe paper flowers. Remember those? Did you ever make them?
And do you remember the gel like stuff that you used to make copies....I think the phrase was "to make dittoes". You used a master copy that was heavily inked, it was placed on the gel, the ink soaked in to the gel, the master was lifted, the design/words/whatever was backward, but then you placed the blank paper on top and rubbed it, lo and behold, when you pulled the paper up the image was on it.....and it was no longer backward! You can tell I spent a lot of time with my mother, the schoolteacher!

I remember those, and yes I made crepe paper flowers with friends for hours. Our fingers turned tcolor.

do you remember BANKER's HOURS? back when it meant something

also, my uncle always had his hair cut "banker style" meaning that it didn't look freshly cut, but always was just the same length

Not that long ago, but I also remember when women who were pregnant did not walk around in public with their bare bellies exposed.

Perry Como always wore his trademark sweater, sleeves inverted that special way that many men copied.

Had a pregnant student last semester, the baby due in June. Tight t shirts, belly showing.....all of it. Not a pretty picture.
Yes, I do remember Perry Como's sweater...
Probably not much you mention that I don't remember.

of course you remember what I do, and maybe a little teensy bit more (tee hee)

i got my first set of "french toe" shoes when i was about 11 years old. i treated them like gold. anybody ever play johnny on the pony. it was the reason why so many of us have back problems now.

i still remember the guy with the horse drawn cart coming up the blck and sellng fresh vegetables. also, the sanitation men sweeping the streets with a broom and shovel and how about the post man on foot coming twice a day to deliver the mail and 3 times during christmas.

going to church and hearing the mass in latin with no musical instruments. standing in line for an hour to get your confession heard.

i remember it being an option to have a heater in your car when you bought it new.

are there any older italians out there who remember the cure for a headache was to break two eggs in a soup dish and then placing it over your head and sprinkling pepper into the dish. this was to ward off the evil spirits that were giving you the headache.

but my fondest memory was being able to eat anything i wanted and plenty of it and never gaining a pound because after dinner we went out and placed stick ball for 4 hours.
remember when an upset stomach was an upset stomach and not reflux or 100 other names they have for it.

thats it for now. getting a headache thinging of all this stuff. LOL

We always got a Seven-Up for upset tummy. That was the only time we got any kind of soft drink!!!

I remember when I got the mumps - at first it was fun - but after the first week it got real old and I was ready to go back to school! (I had it on one side at a time, so it went on for two weeks!!!!!!)

Tee hee yourself, Jude...you are the one with the upcoming birthday!!!!
So...how about Kewpie dolls
and Hoagy Carmichael
and Stormy Weather
and ......

And bolero sweaters....shrugs they were also called. I see them now, but they have a new name...

shrugs are for girls with no hips in my book. I can't wear them without resembling a pear.