Archive through May 12, 2001

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Lancecrossfire

Saturday, May 12, 2001 - 03:03 pm Click here to edit this post
Good one Gail--Rawhide. Clint Eastwood as Rowdy Yates.

Did anyone say Mr. Ed yet?

Sea Hunt, with Lloyd Bridges as Mike Nelson. They always cut each other's regulator hoses in the days of the 2 hose regulator. They always cut the left hose, which is the exhalation side.

Tess

Saturday, May 12, 2001 - 03:16 pm Click here to edit this post
Flipper

Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea

I Dream of Jeannie

life before BankAmericard (precursor to Visa)

when the suburbs were separate little towns -- or, (gasp) non-existant and still farmland

hiding under our school desks to prepare for a nuclear blast

ice cream trucks that went down our street every afternoon

the junk man and his truck came every week

Lancecrossfire

Saturday, May 12, 2001 - 03:26 pm Click here to edit this post
"Where The Action Is", hosted by Tony Dow after Leave It To Beaver went off the air. It was basically American Bandstand on a beach.

I have a Man From UNCLE lunch box and thermos. They were only made 1 year. It took my ex sister in law (who is an antique dealer) 3 years to find it. 7 years ago the pair cost $400.

"Secret Agent Man" starring Patrick MacGoohan. He later created a show called "The Prisoner", about what happens to agents who try to quit.

Soeur

Saturday, May 12, 2001 - 03:38 pm Click here to edit this post
What ever happened to Patrick MacGoohan?

I remember watching Disney musicals on the big screen.

I remember using knobs & dials to change channels and volume on the TV

...rotary dial phones

...busy signals

...op art

...My Favorite Martian

...Bill Bixby

...cigarette ads on tv

...pez

...nair

...my horoscope diary

...cheez waffles

...the diamond patterened coke can

...mood rings

I remember when Mad mazazine came out!

Lancecrossfire

Saturday, May 12, 2001 - 03:42 pm Click here to edit this post
Dipitty-Doo commercials with Sandy Duncan. btw, that product is still going strong. That in itself is amazing to me.

Car 54 (Fred Gwenn)

he also starred in The Munsters

Tksoard

Saturday, May 12, 2001 - 03:48 pm Click here to edit this post
My sister and I gave our Barbie Dolls to our 2 younger sisters for their birthday present, along with the carrying case and clothes. No house yet.

Betsy Wetsy (friend stole it)

Bride doll-very large doll

Oxford shirts with fruit loop

Tksoard

Saturday, May 12, 2001 - 03:50 pm Click here to edit this post
Route 66

My Mother the car

Writing in my diary

Soeur

Saturday, May 12, 2001 - 03:54 pm Click here to edit this post
Mr. ED

Merlin

Saturday, May 12, 2001 - 04:02 pm Click here to edit this post
The most awesome model you could assemble.......The Visible V8. On completion you watch a scale model of an 8 cylinder engine "run".

I hated my sister's Chatty Cathy doll, that thing never was silent.

Soeur

Saturday, May 12, 2001 - 04:07 pm Click here to edit this post
I remember paint by number kits. I did a score of them. I tried the paint-on-velvet kits too, but went back to tried and true.

Tess

Saturday, May 12, 2001 - 04:52 pm Click here to edit this post
Soeur, my mom did so many of those paint by number kits...she once did one of The Last Supper...took her forever!

We did "paintings" with colored sand, too.

Party lines --had one til I was in high school

my brother built model airplanes and model cars

our old oldsmobile with running boards

Soeur

Saturday, May 12, 2001 - 05:09 pm Click here to edit this post
Tess, that is funny. I missed that kit and it would have been the absolute last one I would have picked. Landscapes and animals were my forte. I also remember spirographs and those geometric string pictures made with nails. My ouija board which never really gave me any definitive answers on what I needed to know. Does anyone remember that kit where you could make rubber insects by pouring the stuff into heated molds?

I remember going from NY to Maine in a VW beetle which had 2 adults, 3 kids and a dog plus enough luggage for 10 days. It took 12 hours as it was a holiday weekend. The dog was a cairn terrier named Pepper and we bonded in the back seat.

Gail

Saturday, May 12, 2001 - 05:51 pm Click here to edit this post
Creepy Crawlers!! We had one too! Plus a sno-cone machine.

We had 2 dachshunds - Solo and Dudley (I now have three Cairn terriers)

Woodburning kit, chemistry kit, microscope, easy bake oven . . .

Hot wheels, HO Cars, miniture trains,

Gail

Saturday, May 12, 2001 - 05:59 pm Click here to edit this post
And wasn't the companion to creep crawlers was incredible edibles?

I also had a hamster named Skippy, a cat named Trixie and a pair of guinea pigs named Salty and Pepper.

I remember a war show on tv but can't remember the name of it. I think it was B & W though.

Tksoard

Saturday, May 12, 2001 - 06:07 pm Click here to edit this post
Easy bake ovens
Pretzel makers
Crazy 8 Ball

Most Favorite-Dr. Suess snap together creatures. They were the best except when you put the little pieces up your nose on a Sunday morning before Sunday school and have to go to ER to get it out.

Mr. Potato Head (pipe included)

Tksoard

Saturday, May 12, 2001 - 06:09 pm Click here to edit this post
F Troop (my dads favorite)

Hogans Heros

Sea Hunt

Tksoard

Saturday, May 12, 2001 - 06:12 pm Click here to edit this post
Before dial phones, when you talk to the operator, no I didn't have to crank it first, our phone number was 61351

Nancy

Saturday, May 12, 2001 - 06:13 pm Click here to edit this post
lol i had the flower version of creepy crawlers--(where you could make jewerly and things)...

hoola hoops! barbie barbie and more barbie(no kens and no dream houses or cars lol)..baby secret(red haired dolly like me that talked when you pulled her string--i think she said about 4 or 5 phrases--i only remember I have a secret do you?

Whit4you

Saturday, May 12, 2001 - 06:26 pm Click here to edit this post
Dang I amsoooooooooo glad I started this thread - just spent the last half hour reading your posts and it brings back so many fun memories and hehe ya'all make me feel sooo young even if I am a gramma :)


I"m off to a movie will be back in a few hours


I remember when the TRANS AM was THE car to have

I remember thinking those silly PUSH BUTTON phones (as opposed to our rotory dial ones) looked soooo strange!


R

Whit4you

Saturday, May 12, 2001 - 06:27 pm Click here to edit this post
LOL! ya crazy 8 balls were THE thing to have when I was in school

Soeur

Saturday, May 12, 2001 - 06:29 pm Click here to edit this post
I always wanted an ez-bake oven! Those teeny muffin cups and itsy bitsy mixing utensils. Didn't the mix come in paper envelopes? sigh. We had friends whose daughters had every cool toy and game ever invented. One entire wall in their (high-ceilinged) room was shelves stacked with stuff to play. (It always seemed strange that will all those things to play with the two girls fought constantly over the same toy and how they wanted to play it -- but I digress...)

Operation was the best game.
there was also one which was like a camera obscura which worked with mirrors and projected images onto paper to draw (very hard to figure out)

Games: twister, trouble, risk

Soeur

Saturday, May 12, 2001 - 06:30 pm Click here to edit this post
Oh! does anyone remember those click-clack balls that were recalled because they could explode and blind kids? they were fun!

Gail

Saturday, May 12, 2001 - 06:35 pm Click here to edit this post
Anyone remember that stuff where you shaped pieces of wire and dipped them into some kind of colored plastic and wound them together into flowers.

Remember the fringed leather jackets and camel chaser shoes?

Tksoard

Saturday, May 12, 2001 - 06:36 pm Click here to edit this post
My very favorite games were Candy Land and Chutes and Ladders. For the last Many years, I've been buying them for kids in the family for Christmas.

Whit, Thank you for doing this thread!! I cried alittle this afternoon thinking about how old I feel and the memories that won't stop. Mostly good. But some bad, like I miss my dad. Oh well! I'll keep going down memory lane and get over it. Thanks for the Memories (Dean Martin?).

Nancy

Saturday, May 12, 2001 - 06:37 pm Click here to edit this post
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