Archive through October 11, 2001
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Archive through October 11, 2001
Donut | Saturday, September 22, 2001 - 12:24 pm   i have some of my grandparents movie dishes-just found out that they came from the movies a few weeks ago. i rmember when my mother didnt want me to see Dr. Zhivago cuz it was an adult movie. and I remember being scared of public toilet seats that glowed flourescent purple and I remember when there was a show called BigBrother where the houseguests all liked each other |
Abbynormal | Tuesday, October 09, 2001 - 03:43 pm   I got my oldest son's baby walker with green stamps. He's 20. I rem. glasses and towels in laundry soap also. Around here, you can still buy flour that has a dish cloth attached at the end. Does anyone rem. Chocks vitamins? This has driven me crazy for years. I even rem. the commercial with the guy in the kid's stomach talking about the junk kid's ate. A big lollipop came down and a bunch of other stuff, and then a big Chocks vitamin came down. That made everything just fine and dandy. You could eat all the crap you wanted as long as you rememebered to take that vitamin. |
Kstme | Tuesday, October 09, 2001 - 04:13 pm   Abby...Chocks were "chock full" of vitamins... Yep, I remember them! |
Weinermr | Tuesday, October 09, 2001 - 04:35 pm   I remember Chocks too. Who remembers Salvo? It was a laundry detergent capsule that looked like a hockey puck. |
Llkoolaid | Tuesday, October 09, 2001 - 04:41 pm   I remember the stamps, the ones we had were called Gold Bond Stamps, growing up as a poor kid, when we got a enough saved up to get something it was like Christmas, I can remember my grandmother giving me enough to get this big walking doll, the two weeks or so that it took to come in seemed like forever but I can still remember how proud I was carrying that package home from the grocery store. |
Abbynormal | Tuesday, October 09, 2001 - 04:43 pm   Yay! It's such a small thing but every once in a while things like this thread get going and I always ask about Chocks. NO ONE ever remembers. |
Weinermr | Tuesday, October 09, 2001 - 04:50 pm   OK, I REALLY need some help with this one. Years ago Sunshine made cookies called "Cup Custards". They were a filled cookie, with a vanilla-like cream filling, and had kind of a butterscotchy flavor. They were my absolute most favorite store-bought cookie ever, and they disappeared off the store shelves. Sunshine, which was later bought by Keebler, doesn't make them anymore. Does ANYBODY out there remember Cup Custard cookies? |
Weinermr | Tuesday, October 09, 2001 - 06:58 pm   Cup Custards? bump |
Franny | Tuesday, October 09, 2001 - 07:11 pm   uhhhh..no...but I remember blue chip stamps..my mom furnished our whole house with them..things like those star-burst clocks that you had to wind with a key. |
Franny | Tuesday, October 09, 2001 - 07:14 pm   I remember my dad going to the Mobil station with the big red horse with wings, 8 days straight buying a few cents worth of gas each day so we could have a complete set of dinner glasses..OMG can you imagine what your kids would think about that today.. |
Cutiepie007 | Tuesday, October 09, 2001 - 07:29 pm   grooch: your mentioning of the movie "Dr. Zhivago" reminded me of a conversation that went on between my oldest sister and our aunt. my sister went to see the movie and was discussing it with this aunt. my aunt (who grew up in russia) said that my sister couldn't really appreciate the movie because she didn't live through it. well, after going back and forth on this, my sister got upset and finally said, "look, i didn't live through the civil war, but i can still appreciate "Gone with the Wind." lol lol Who remembers Bosco? Also, remember N E S T L E S, nestles makes the very best....CHOCOLATE!!! |
Cutiepie007 | Tuesday, October 09, 2001 - 07:30 pm   were the dishes that were bought in movie theaters called "depression" dishware? |
Cutiepie007 | Tuesday, October 09, 2001 - 07:59 pm   i remember in 1967, when i first came to california, my middle sister had a volks and would go to the gas station and get 50 cents worth of gas. today, you are lucky if it doesn't cost you 50 cents just to look at the hose. lol lol |
Babyruth | Wednesday, October 10, 2001 - 08:53 am   I remember Bosco!! I named my kitten that because he went so well with milk! |
Llkoolaid | Wednesday, October 10, 2001 - 09:02 am   Nestles is still around, at least in Canada |
Twiggyish | Wednesday, October 10, 2001 - 09:08 am   We collected the blue and green stamps. My mother and grandmother would fill books of them. We bought all sorts of things with them. I remember trying to mail a letter to Captain Kangaroo with a green stamp on the envelope. |
Llkoolaid | Wednesday, October 10, 2001 - 09:13 am   Since we are talking of memories of our childhood, here's an idea for your own Kids.I collected and have saved all my kids letters to Santa, when they have children of their own I plan to give them to them. I think they will love to have them, I know I would. |
Rogue | Wednesday, October 10, 2001 - 09:34 am   That's a great idea, Llkoolaid! I'll remember that one. |
Chippy | Wednesday, October 10, 2001 - 09:53 am   I've been saving all my kid's meaningful t-shirts. You know, the ones from school, concerts, trips, activities, etc. My goal is to make them a quilt (or have it made lol) out of the lot of them by graduation from high school. I'd better get started. |
Llkoolaid | Wednesday, October 10, 2001 - 12:44 pm   I made a quilt for my daughter to give to her on her graduation, so she could take it to university, I secretly had all her highschool friends outline their hands and I appliqued (sp) them with their signatures in the school colors. She loved it. |
Honey51 | Thursday, October 11, 2001 - 06:51 am   I remember sharing a coke, popcorn, and mosquito coils at the drive-in movie. |
Franny | Thursday, October 11, 2001 - 07:32 am   Ok, I give..what are mosquito coils? Drive in movies!!! We just closed our last one here about 3 years ago..remember going with a couple of people in the trunk so they didn't have to pay.. okay so maybe we were dishonest |
Tksoard | Thursday, October 11, 2001 - 07:39 am   I remember getting a hamburger, fries and a coke at McDonalds and getting change back from a dollar!! (or maybe that was my mom)  |
Franny | Thursday, October 11, 2001 - 07:49 am   I'm sure it must have been your mom, because I have that same memory and I'm sure it was from my childhood...lol |
Kayewer | Thursday, October 11, 2001 - 07:59 am   A mosquito coil is a like a swirly incense stick with repellant in it; Raid puts them out still, I think. The ones in drive-ins were big electric suckers, though, if I remember correctly, and could've easily been mistaken for an oven rack except that it glowed and sometimes smoked. I remember mimeograph machines, 8mm movie cameras, 8-track tapes, the "Winky Dink" interactive kids' show, "The Flintstones" and "The Jetsons" in primetime television. I remember Hasbro toy ads featuring the "little old toymaker," PF Flyers sneakers, Bob Barker hosting "Truth or Consequences" on TV, the original "hot pants," raccoon tails on car aerials. . . . |
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