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Mamie316
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07-08-2003

Friday, April 25, 2008 - 8:20 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Mamie316 a private message Print Post    
Tim Considine was Mike. Who are you talking to, Darrell? LOL

Urgrace
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08-19-2000

Friday, April 25, 2008 - 8:45 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Urgrace a private message Print Post    
Beachcomber is right on with the cartoons, Flip and Carol! They were the best ever.

Hukdonreality
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09-29-2003

Friday, April 25, 2008 - 8:49 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Hukdonreality a private message Print Post    
This outhouse was my Grandmothers. You filled it with water, then when you opened the door he would turn around and pee on you. I always thought that was the funniest thing! So when my Grandmother died, it was one of the things of hers that I HAD to have!



Hukdonreality
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09-29-2003

Friday, April 25, 2008 - 8:51 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Hukdonreality a private message Print Post    
This is my Cootie game. Back then, the cootie really looked like a cootie bug! I made one especially for you all:



Hukdonreality
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09-29-2003

Friday, April 25, 2008 - 8:53 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Hukdonreality a private message Print Post    
I was born in 1956, but found this Tom Mix slider whistle ring at a flea market for a steal. It was produced in 1949:



Hukdonreality
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09-29-2003

Friday, April 25, 2008 - 8:55 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Hukdonreality a private message Print Post    
I used to play this game when I was young. This is another flea market find. I was positively giddy when I found it, and in such great condition!



Hukdonreality
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09-29-2003

Friday, April 25, 2008 - 8:57 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Hukdonreality a private message Print Post    
...and for anyone who thinks my house must look like a toy store, it really does. I display things in a 2 shelf glass door'd bookcase, and periodically rotate things. My kitchen is a mix of a 1950's diner and a 1950's kitchen.

I don't live in the past, I relish in it!

Urgrace
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08-19-2000

Friday, April 25, 2008 - 9:02 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Urgrace a private message Print Post    
TV -
Walter Cronkite newscaster
Elvis first appearance on Ed Sullivan
Jack Benny Show


Radio -
Mystery Theatre on the radio
WGN radio station and Wolfman Jack
Call-in dedications on the radio


Aviation -
Sonic Booms
Gary Powers - U2 Pilot
Heli-Logging
Sputnik


Urgrace
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08-19-2000

Friday, April 25, 2008 - 9:04 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Urgrace a private message Print Post    
Huk, I have a friend who is furnishing her entire kitchen from antique stores in the 30's style!

Mamie316
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07-08-2003

Friday, April 25, 2008 - 9:06 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Mamie316 a private message Print Post    
I want to go and play at Hukd's house!

We had the cootie game. We had lots of games because our family was big into family game playing. We still are in fact.

Escapee
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06-15-2004

Friday, April 25, 2008 - 9:42 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Escapee a private message Print Post    
Mamie, that's what I am excited about as my girls grow up. As a kid, sis and I always played games. We played a game called tension a lot, it was fun. DD1 and I play memory right now, and I am teaching her 'Go Fish'.

Mamie316
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07-08-2003

Friday, April 25, 2008 - 9:47 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Mamie316 a private message Print Post    
I play games with the daycare kids all the time. I taught them Go Fish, Crazy 8s, Old Maid, etc. We have played Chutes and ladders, Candyland, Cootie, etc. And now we are onto Monopoly and harder games. We have a great time especially because they don't play them at home.

Hukdonreality
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09-29-2003

Friday, April 25, 2008 - 9:51 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Hukdonreality a private message Print Post    
Here is my glass piggy bank from when I was a kid. There is no plug in it, so you were supposed to smash it to get the money out. I just used a butter knife and got it back out of the slot



Hukdonreality
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09-29-2003

Friday, April 25, 2008 - 9:52 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Hukdonreality a private message Print Post    
Here are a few of my flicker rings. I especially like the John Kennedy/American flag one!



Merrysea
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08-13-2004

Friday, April 25, 2008 - 9:52 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Merrysea a private message Print Post    
Hukd, I had that piggy bank, too, and I did the same thing to get money out! LOL!

Hukdonreality
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09-29-2003

Friday, April 25, 2008 - 9:58 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Hukdonreality a private message Print Post    
Ha ha, I just noticed that my camera's date says 3/1/08. I actually made you the cootie bug this morning.

I would like to say I'm surprised that most people didn't keep their childhood things, but over the years I've never found anyone else who was quite so attached to theirs as I am. And what I didn't keep, or anything that I wanted then but didn't get, I try to locate on E-Bay.

Since my niece will get my things when I croak, she will have documentation of which things were actually mine and which I bought as an adult.

Wargod
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07-16-2001

Friday, April 25, 2008 - 9:59 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Wargod a private message Print Post    
Same here Hukd and Merry. In fact, I'm pretty sure that piggybank is floating around one of the kids rooms (probably Kota) right now, lol.

Urgrace
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08-19-2000

Friday, April 25, 2008 - 10:11 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Urgrace a private message Print Post    
Yes, we had that piggy bank and used a butter knife, too.

My mother was an organizational nut, and with five kids she tended to throw out anything that we were too old for, or that was too worn out to pass down to the next kid or friend's kid, in order to preserve space for organized living. I never felt like replacing my childhood treasures with someone else's.

Mamie316
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07-08-2003

Friday, April 25, 2008 - 10:11 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Mamie316 a private message Print Post    
I had it too! I also had a really big pink piggy that we did have to smash to get the money out.

Beachcomber
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08-26-2003

Friday, April 25, 2008 - 10:20 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Beachcomber a private message Print Post    
Mousetrap, puzzles, and card games were big fun at our house. And we spent hours outside playing roll-a-bat, badminton, running through the sprinkler, building pinestraw forts, and pretending we were Batman and Robin. Being the younger sister I always got stuck playing Robin!

Escapee
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06-15-2004

Friday, April 25, 2008 - 10:22 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Escapee a private message Print Post    
Any 80's babies remember Rose Petal Place? we had the card game that played like old made as well.

Anyone remember Lady Lovely Locks?

Mamie316
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07-08-2003

Friday, April 25, 2008 - 10:27 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Mamie316 a private message Print Post    
I remember the old Hot Wheels race tracks. My brothers, sister and I would put it up on the fireplace mantel and then make the big loop at the bottom. We thought that was great fun.

Hukdonreality
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09-29-2003

Friday, April 25, 2008 - 10:31 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Hukdonreality a private message Print Post    
Urgrace, I understand why you wouldn't want to replace your childhood things with someone else's. I just have almost a "drive" to have them, even if they weren't all mine. I do have a ton of things that are mine, but it's those missing things I am compelled to replace. Maybe I'm sick...

Other people collect teacups or whatever, I collect things that help keep my memories real.

Hukdonreality
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09-29-2003

Friday, April 25, 2008 - 10:34 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Hukdonreality a private message Print Post    
Hotwheels tracks didn't come out until after I was the age to play with them. I did have this toy:


You wound up the thing and pressed a button. The car would go up the ramp, through the ring of fire, then smash into the barrels.

I'll never be able to replace that toy, even if you find it, it's price is absolutely crazy!

Darrellh
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07-21-2004

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