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Hukdonreality
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09-29-2003

Saturday, April 19, 2008 - 9:45 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Hukdonreality a private message Print Post    
Just for the fun of it, I'm reminiscing today...

Hey Rocky, watch me pull a rabbit out of my hat!



Hukdonreality
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09-29-2003

Saturday, April 19, 2008 - 9:47 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Hukdonreality a private message Print Post    
Watch "Fractured Fairytales - Rapunzel" here:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=nea6Azgh1Pk

Hukdonreality
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09-29-2003

Saturday, April 19, 2008 - 9:50 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Hukdonreality a private message Print Post    
We should have a folder called "Reminisce Here" or something (for us old folks)

Here's Beany and Cecil. I actually still have my Beany Boy doll, and he still talks. Aren't you all jealous??



Hukdonreality
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09-29-2003

Saturday, April 19, 2008 - 9:52 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Hukdonreality a private message Print Post    
We used to fight over who got to stick the stamps in the books.



Hukdonreality
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09-29-2003

Saturday, April 19, 2008 - 9:55 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Hukdonreality a private message Print Post    


Hukdonreality
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09-29-2003

Saturday, April 19, 2008 - 10:00 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Hukdonreality a private message Print Post    
See the USA in your Chevrolet!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KGZvQoPxhNs



Mamie316
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07-08-2003

Saturday, April 19, 2008 - 10:03 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Mamie316 a private message Print Post    
I am jealous that you still have your Beany doll. I remember having the cap with the propeller.

Mom used to collect Blue Chip stamps. I remember putting them in the book and then going down to the shop and picking things out.

Hukdonreality
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09-29-2003

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Hukdonreality
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Hukdonreality
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09-29-2003

Saturday, April 19, 2008 - 10:09 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Hukdonreality a private message Print Post    
I hated it when it was my turn to take the ice cubes out of these trays! If your hand was damp, it would stick to the handle! I still have 2 of these trays from when we were children. I tend to collect things from my childhood that nobody else finds important.



Mamie316
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07-08-2003

Saturday, April 19, 2008 - 10:16 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Mamie316 a private message Print Post    
I'd forgotten all about those!

Hukdonreality
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09-29-2003

Saturday, April 19, 2008 - 10:19 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Hukdonreality a private message Print Post    
I still have my roller skates, but alas...no key. Phew! I'd kill myself on those things!



Mamie316
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07-08-2003

Saturday, April 19, 2008 - 10:25 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Mamie316 a private message Print Post    
I wish I still had all my old toys. It's great that you've still got them.

I remember how you could adjust the size on the skates. I was very happy when I graduated to the white lace-up boot skates.

Hukdonreality
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09-29-2003

Saturday, April 19, 2008 - 10:27 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Hukdonreality a private message Print Post    


I found the red, blue, and green books in mint condition at a flea market years and years ago. Got the 3 of them for $10.00!

Hukdonreality
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09-29-2003

Saturday, April 19, 2008 - 10:33 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Hukdonreality a private message Print Post    
Mamie, we had so few toys that were actually our own that I was very protective. Most of our things were shared, so I really treasured those few individual things. I still have my Easy Bake Oven, Creepy Crawlers, Vac U Form, Freeze Queen Ice Cream Maker, and my teddy bear. All have their original boxes and are in pretty good shape. I have my Kaboom game (you had to take turns pumping up a ballon until it exploded), and there are even some original balloons in it! Also have my slot car set that I got for my 9th birthday. I wanted it because the 1965 Ford Mustang was on the box cover. Every bit of it is intact, yay!



Hukdonreality
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09-29-2003

Saturday, April 19, 2008 - 10:35 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Hukdonreality a private message Print Post    
We used to put these directly on our tongues and see who could hold it the longest! They still make these apparently, but they're full of Splenda or something. With all of the other drinks available today, Fizzies probably are unknown to most children



Hukdonreality
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09-29-2003

Saturday, April 19, 2008 - 10:56 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Hukdonreality a private message Print Post    
This is an ad for the actual dishes we had when I was growing up. I have a full set of each color, and have given a set to my sister. My mother called my 2 sisters and I her "dishwasher." Grrr...



Mamie316
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07-08-2003

Saturday, April 19, 2008 - 11:00 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Mamie316 a private message Print Post    
Fizzies! And Kaboom! You are really making me very nostalgic and I thank you.

We weren't allowed to have an easy bake oven or creepy crawlers. My mom thought the four of us would catch the house on fire or burn ourselves. (like you can do that with that little watt bulb!) We did get to play with them at friends houses or our cousin's house. One of the first things I bought my daughter when she was old enough was an Easy bake oven but it wasn't the same.

We had some toys, especially Barbies because my mom was so in to them but looking back, we didn't have a lot and what we did have weren't expensive like the toys today.

Mamie316
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07-08-2003

Saturday, April 19, 2008 - 11:01 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Mamie316 a private message Print Post    
I used to love to make Incredible Edibles at my friend's house.

Hukdonreality
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09-29-2003

Saturday, April 19, 2008 - 11:04 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Hukdonreality a private message Print Post    
My neighbors had Incredible Edibles and I was SO jealous...until I ate one! Blech!!

Glad you're enjoying the trip down memory lane with me. I have such fond rememberances of my childhood, and have kept so much of it. I'm very lucky to have born when I was, and to the parents I had!

Mamie316
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07-08-2003

Saturday, April 19, 2008 - 11:05 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Mamie316 a private message Print Post    
We've got our own thread! LOL

I feel the same way. I was lucky to grow up when I did with my family and the neighborhood that we had. I don't have any bad memories of my childhood. My father was raised in foster homes so our childhood was like getting to live his over again. He made everything even more special.

Hukdonreality
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09-29-2003

Saturday, April 19, 2008 - 11:06 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Hukdonreality a private message Print Post    
My father was a long distance truck driver and sometimes he found cough**HOT**cough items in New York City. One day he brought each of us kids an am transistor radio. We thought we were the bomb.
They didn't look exactly like this one, but I couldn't find a picture of the ones we had. Doesn't matter, they were cool.



Hukdonreality
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09-29-2003

Saturday, April 19, 2008 - 11:09 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Hukdonreality a private message Print Post    
My oldest sister eventually got a portable reel to reel tape recorder. It's still in my attic, along with the tapes of both of my sisters, my neighbor, and me, practicing our instruments. My 2 sisters and neighbor played violin, and I played viola.

Again, it didn't look like this one exactly, but for those youngsters around here who don't know what a reel to reel is...



Mamie316
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07-08-2003

Saturday, April 19, 2008 - 11:12 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Mamie316 a private message Print Post    
I remember going to the dumps with my dad and we'd always end up bringing some junky thing home and my mom would get so mad at him.

I remember getting my first transistor radio. It had big old ear buds.

Hukdonreality
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09-29-2003

Saturday, April 19, 2008 - 11:15 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Hukdonreality a private message Print Post    
I know they still sell these sleds, but I doubt many children of today have really used them much. We would get a running start and head down whatever semblence of a hill we could build. One time I took my running start, flew into a laying down position on the sled...and promptly ran out of snow. Came to a screeching halt on some stones. Took a massive amount of skin off of my nose, right up in between my eyes. I'd held on tight to the steering bar, but my nose headed North to the front bar... It was the bloodiest of bloody messes anybody had ever seen. Didn't stop me though. We were made of tough stock.