A Walk Down Memory Lane (fun post)

[Star*]

My Mom (on dad's payday every other friday) would put a new pair of socks or tights on the bottom of our single beds (mine and my sister). THAT was huge...new socks. (could be the reason I'm a sock snob)

I had pearl handled pistols and watch Roy Rogers on Trigger - and had a red plastic stick pony with a white yarn mane and black pole - that was MY horse. (I now have a collection of them) not pistols....although all those years did make me a natural shot and I am home, home on the "range"...but I collect special, moving, sound making stick horses.

I remember Shasta Cola - I think it was a dime or .08 on sale...we were allowed that during camping. I love to camp. I still have our family camper.

I'm the most aggressive scrabble player in the world. I'm okay at Monopoly. Wish I had been more aggressive at Monopoly and less aggressive at Scrabble - I'd have LOADS of realestate and money but be a poor speller?

I still have my Astrocade (it was a step up from Atari) it's like brand new in a box...with games. But oddly enough I can't stand PS2, or Wii. Too complicated.

I'm with the rest of you as far as ditching the belt and love whomever put 2 sided tape on a "diaper".

I still have a mood barette.....My pet rock? Well we had to make our own because they were just stupid....and I wore my necklace of the USS Enterprise so much I wore the warp speed jets off it. (Live long and prosper)

I remember when Creature of the Black Lagoon on Big Chuck and Hoolihan (now Big Chuck and Little John) was so scary you put your back into the couch and covered up to your nose with a blanket.

The signal to come home was a porch light (with NEW yellow bug light) being flipped on and off.

When the biggest CHORE I had was to pick up the TON of Barbie stuff I had....and I had EVERY single thing Barbie had out. VERY Spoiled. I still have a dress my Mom made my barbie - it was my favorite.

wishing for those days -

 

[KTMom91]

Remember when the TV Guide would specify if a show was in COLOR?

My mom would exercise with Jack LaLanne every morning, and then I could watch Romper Room and Captain Kangaroo.

Kaboom cereal.

The candies my grandparents had in their Ben Franklin. BB Bats, Kits, boxes of little Jawbreakers...

Nancy Drew. She's the best. I would drive my dad crazy by being able to name the correct title when he gave me the book number. 45? The Spider Sapphire Mystery. 31? The Ringmaster's Secret.

Playing Geography, Going to the Store, or just singing on long car trips.

Saturday morning cartoons...Bugs Bunny (my favorite!), Josie and the Pussycats, the Archies, Wacky Racers...

 

[compassion]

More:
Captain Kangaroo, Bazooka Bubblegum, Crackerjack prizes, pennies inloafers, snowpants uner my dress so I could sled, sqare braidng, Trixie Belden mystery soties, Archie comics, Flintstones and the Jetsons, Disney movies Sunday at 7 with the NBC peacock, Black 8 fortune teller ball, Ouji board, Red Rover and tether ball at recess, church every Sunday (lutheran) and Vacation Bible school each summer
Compassion

 

[ThreeShadows]

Boy, do I feel like a foreigner! My sanitary napkins were made of cloth. I had to wash them by hand and hang them to dry!

We had no vacuums, every Wednesday the Parisian housewives and cleaning ladies would open the windows, no matter the cold, drape the orientals over the wrought iron balconies and wallop the carp out of them with rattan beaters. When we went to visit friends the moms had us skate around the fancy waxed floors using felt cut in the shape of the sole of a foot because we kids were not the center of the Universe and only the adults had the right to scuff up the floors.

I remember my mother always warning me not to speak English in the streets, the French hated the US (because we liberated them). If we were found out Mom would be charged double for every purchase. I remember the butcher shops with sawdust on the floor to catch the blood, the delivery men dressed all in white, carrying the carcasses with metal hooks, their backs all covered in blood. We shopped for food twice a day, everyone did. My Grand-Maman in the South of France had an ice box, the ice man home delivered the blocks of the precious cold stuff. Fridays the fish man delivered his catch and you bought what ever was available.

No TV, just a radio, and if I was very, very lucky I could get Radio Free Europe and hear my precious mother tongue. I was so desperate to figure out what it meant to be an American.

Every Sunday Mass, my mother would cry because she missed her family. I remember having to invent sins for confession because mom always kept an eagle eye on me and I never got a chance to sin. But of course, the lying about having sinned was a sin in itself!

I sure wish I could share these memories with someone who has been there done that. It's so lonesome feeling like an alien.

 

[Jena]

My big wheels, mr. potatoe head, my weeble wobbles but they won't fall down lol, my barbies oh i loved them and ken!!

and my slinky and colorforms!

difficult child's toys i love and umm play with......

her barbie dream house toilet bowl flushes!! her bead maker, and oh yea her easy bake oven love it !!!

 

[DazedandConfused]

Malibu Barbie. Geez, how I wanted her! My Grandmother was a doll collector and wouldn't get me one! She would always try and steer me to the "bubble headed" ones that now are worth THOUSANDS!

My sister had a Barbie Country Camper.

husband still has his "Tube A Loop" radio (am only of course)

I loved Romper Room and for those that lived in So Cal "Sheriff John" and "Hobo Kelly" . Hobo Kelly spoke with an irish accent and would look through her "magic" glasses (actually, those HUGE plastic things) and would see presents and all kind of things parents were hiding from their kids. How I would silently plead that she would say my name.

How about Dittos jeans? I never did get an official pair. Always knockoffs.

My students marvel when I tell them that I paid 5 cents for a bag of M and Ms.

Sodas were a rare luxury and never drank with dinner. I was told to drink WATER a lot.

Movies were in the theatres for weeks and a hit movie was in the theatre for MONTHS. Now, if I want to see something in a theatre, I have to HURRY before it goes to DVD. Disney movies were re-released to movie theatres. husband remember spending whole saturdays at the movies with kid's matinees.

Okay this is going to be a bit racy, but I can remember going to the corner liquor store with my Dad and the porn being right out on the front counter in little racks. Of course, the women on the covers always had "stars" on their private parts.

 

[Hound dog]

I remember Malibu Barbie. That xmas my sister got her and I got Malibu PJ. My sister liked PJ better and kept snitching her from me. I remember the camper because Mom got it for me at a yard sale. I think I played with it until it literally fell apart. We had blow up furniture for our Barbies too. Loved it.

Someone else mentioned Shasta pop. OMG we were thrilled when Mom would pick up a case. (maybe twice a year) We drank water alot growing up. I thought it was cool that my aunt Janet served milk with her meals. lol