Archive through May 12, 2001

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Nancy

Saturday, May 12, 2001 - 06:39 pm Click here to edit this post
yeh gail i had that stuff to make flowers--my sister in law gave it too me one winter when i had broken my leg(i was 12 she was umm 23 and SOO cool to me(hippieish but way cool)

Whit4you

Saturday, May 12, 2001 - 06:39 pm Click here to edit this post
Oh my gawd Nancy - I LOVEEEEEEED my viewmaster! I would look at the same ones over and over and over!


My favorite one was one of a cavern

Nancy

Saturday, May 12, 2001 - 06:41 pm Click here to edit this post
i had an awesome one of yosemite--and of course the requisite cartoon ones(flintstones comes to mind)...

Whit4you

Saturday, May 12, 2001 - 06:42 pm Click here to edit this post
Did an of you gals play that hand clapping um thing?


"He jumped in a lake and ate a snake and came out with a belly ache"


and lots of others you know what I mean where you and a friend would clap hands then each others hands then your thighs and so on??


Oh and jump roping? I did that for hours and hours on end!

Gail

Saturday, May 12, 2001 - 06:43 pm Click here to edit this post
I had click-clacks - had monster bruises on my forearms from learning to use them.

Trouble, trouble, that's the name of Kohner's popamatic game.

Game of Life, Careers, Probe

Marbles you played with instead of just collecting.

Red Rover, Red Rover send _______ right over.

In rollerskating rinks making a big chain of people and playing crack the whip.

Hokey pokey

Soeur

Saturday, May 12, 2001 - 06:44 pm Click here to edit this post
Hokey Pokey & viewmasters!!

Whit4you

Saturday, May 12, 2001 - 06:44 pm Click here to edit this post
I remember when the seperated the boys from the girls so we girls could watch a "special" movie.
You know the one?

Wonder what the guys did while we watched that movie???

Whit4you

Saturday, May 12, 2001 - 06:46 pm Click here to edit this post
Gail LOL! I forgot all about those click clacks! Also reminds me of my baton - I played with that for hours and hours on end - I'm still good at it lol!

Whit4you

Saturday, May 12, 2001 - 06:49 pm Click here to edit this post
When I was a kid everyone had a huge marble collection and for a few months every year we'd play marbles and gamble (od's even's) with marbles. I had one of the best collections in school and TONS of um "steelies" and boulders


LOL


Don't know if other schools did that or not...?

Willi

Saturday, May 12, 2001 - 06:49 pm Click here to edit this post
5th grade..."The movie"

Miss Merry Mack...(hand claps)...

Did anyone wear Dittos?

Puka shells?

(Love this thread Whit!)

Gail

Saturday, May 12, 2001 - 06:50 pm Click here to edit this post
Oh yes - viewmasters!! Those were so cool! I laughed when I saw you guys post that above.

I remember that clapping thing and playing chinese jumprope and hopscotch. French hopscotch was really cool. Learned it in France - instead of what we had, it was a grid of two rows of three large squares. The 4th square was for Thursday - a rest day. It was a lot more challenging then the american version.

Did anyone do that thing with a piece of paper where you folded in across diagonally, then trimmed off the edge, then folded it over and over and wrote little notes in the inside? I remember you used the thumb and fore finger of each hand to move it around.

Jacob's ladder with string.

Nobody likes me, everybody hates me, going to the garden to eat some worms. . .

Found a peanut . . .

100 bottles of beer on the wall.

Whit4you

Saturday, May 12, 2001 - 06:53 pm Click here to edit this post
Oh gawd gail - we did those folded note things ALL the time!!!! LOL I had completely forgotten about those - whatever did we write in them??? :)

Nancy

Saturday, May 12, 2001 - 06:54 pm Click here to edit this post
four-square---

yes gail i did the paper thing..(sometimes little things you made people do or sometimes notes like i like you etc)..

Kick the Can early evenings---

red rover red rover send lori right over..

giant step (Mother may i) red light green light..old lady witch are you comming out tonight?

Gail

Saturday, May 12, 2001 - 06:56 pm Click here to edit this post
And, who can forget when the :) started

Have a nice day!! :)

Chevy Vega, Plymouth Duster, AMC Gremlin

Willi

Saturday, May 12, 2001 - 06:56 pm Click here to edit this post
Four square & teetherball.

Folded notes with numbers/colors on them with hidden notes underneath...Very fun!

Gail

Saturday, May 12, 2001 - 06:57 pm Click here to edit this post
Simon Says!!

Nancy

Saturday, May 12, 2001 - 06:58 pm Click here to edit this post
my very First car(bought at 19 was a ford pinto--shortly after i sold it a year later--was when they had all the scared about them blowing up in a rear-end collision

Gail

Saturday, May 12, 2001 - 07:03 pm Click here to edit this post
Does anyone remember this: There was an exercise song by Robert Preston called Chicken Fat. I think it lasted about 2 - 3 minutes. Situps, every morning, 10 times not just one. Give that chicken fat back to the chicken and don't be chicken again!! I actually downloaded that off of napster last month. Was hysterical to hear it again.

In my gym class, my teacher had execise routines to Baby Love by the Supremes and Listen to the Band by the Monkees.

Remember field hockey, archery and basketball?
Any of you have to wear those hideous gym suits? I had one that was a bright blue, one piece that snapped up the front and had elastic gathered on the thighs. I bet the guys loved seeing the girls in those!! Merlin?

Nancy

Saturday, May 12, 2001 - 07:04 pm Click here to edit this post
i remember always calling my moms friends mr and mrs so and so..the first time i called them their first names i think i was prob 20 something(and it felt so strange LOL)

Nancy

Saturday, May 12, 2001 - 07:06 pm Click here to edit this post
ohmygod gymsuits!! navy blue one peice snap-ups

Gail

Saturday, May 12, 2001 - 07:13 pm Click here to edit this post
I still call my mom and dad's friends Mr and Mrs _______

Misslibra

Saturday, May 12, 2001 - 07:14 pm Click here to edit this post
This thread has brought back so many memories, when I think back on them they are like a dream now. And I don't know about you all, but I would like a REPEAT !!

Whit, this is a good thread you have started here.

I remember when I was a brick house, that was until I had my darling children

I remember at age 12 how I couldn't wait to be grown, and out on my own. Now I would like to be 12 again, and let Dad and Mom pay all the bills.

I remember those bell bottoms and hip hugger pants, and don't forget the halter tops, and hot pants I wore them very proudly.

Oh yes, those platform shoes that I almost broke my neck in.

I remember when sodas only came in glass bottles, and the taste was much better compared to plastic.

I remember Kennedy, and Martin Luther King's death's and how sad and in shocked people were about it.

I remember the riots in 67 and the pictures of people being hose down, and dogs being let lose on them. We were worried that the riots would spread to our city.
There was a rumor going around that if you put a red light bulb in your porch light that would keep you safe some how. Thank God riots never spread to our city.

I remember the Kent State protest, and students getting shot.

I remember when Jimmi Hendricks was the baddess guitar player around.

I remember when I was a wannabe hippie, but was to young to hang out with any real hippies.

I remember those 8 tracks, and 45's and Lp's too. My Dad has saved all of his.

My Dad plays a Sax, and I remember listening to Jazz all day every single day. Which is why I think I rebelled, and turned to rock for a while. My family don't understand how I could like rock til this day.

I remember the Trixx comercial and how I felt bad for the rabbit.

I remember watching soupy sales, and captain Kangeroo every single morning before going to school.

I remember believing that Santa Clause was a real person and on one Christmas I remember waking up before I was suppose to and being so scared that Santa would catch me awake and put stardust in my eyes. I'll never forget that, I was traumatized ! I told my Mom after I was older how scared I was, she just laughed, it wasn't funny to me.

I remember hoola hoops, and the slinky.

I remember my easy bake oven, I made some good choc. cakes in it.

I remember my snow cone machine.

I remember my Dad's 56 Buick, and my Mom's 65 mustang.

I remember the landing on the Moon, I was coming home from camp.

I remember those flat popsicles we use to get from the icecream boy, now everythings pointed now.

Nancy

Saturday, May 12, 2001 - 07:19 pm Click here to edit this post
buried treasure ice creams--wher e if the prize was a white horse you'd get a free ice cream ;)

Max

Saturday, May 12, 2001 - 07:21 pm Click here to edit this post
OMG! I was busy all day and just read through the thread. It's brought back SOOOO many memories!

Remember the Mitch Miller Show? They'd sing songs and the lyrics would scroll along the bottom of the TV screen. A bouncing ball went along the top of the words so you could keep time with the music. "Follow the bouncing ball" is forever stuck in my head! Of course this was way before anyone ever heard the word Karoke!

I had the clacking ball thing, played incessantly with the folding paper fortune teller thingy, and had a Chatty Cathy doll that I used until it's voicebox gave up the ghost. I was sooooo sad!

And, yes, Gail. We had those ugly gym suits, too. Ours were red one-piece (school colors were red and white) with snaps up the front. Elastic was only at the waist tho, thank goodness! At least you didn't have to worry about a t-shirt coming untucked and flying up or shorts getting pulled down. We did, however, have fun sneaking up on girls we didn't like and pulling all their snaps open!


Bravo to Whit for starting this thread! Now I know I'm truly among contemporaries. :)

Misslibra

Saturday, May 12, 2001 - 07:22 pm Click here to edit this post
Remember ole mary mac mac mac all dress in black black black... We would do that hand clap thing with each other while singing it.

And remember doing those string things, like making a cup and sauce with a string, and jacobs ladder ?

My viewmaster was one of my favorite toys to. The pictures were so vivid and colorful.