Merlin | Saturday, May 12, 2001 - 02:04 pm   Lennon Sisters on The Lawrence Welk Show(I still gag at the thought of that show) |
Merlin | Saturday, May 12, 2001 - 02:05 pm   Hey, this is good practice, I expect Altzheimer's (or however that is spelled) disease could be around the corner for some of us. |
Tess | Saturday, May 12, 2001 - 02:08 pm   our worst prank in high school was putting a skeleton in Mother Superior's office (yes, I went to an all-girl's convent school--does that explain things now?) nickle candy bars that were bigger than today's regular bars summer movies for a dime for kids taking the street car downtown to see The Sound of Music for my birthday bread for 19cents being expensive hamburger for 19cents/pound being able to go downtown with a 12 year old friend alone when I was 10 in SanFrancisco and being perfectly safe when 60 minutes was the only new magazine show watching the Twenty First Century on Sunday nights Watching Walt Disney on Sunday nights |
Tess | Saturday, May 12, 2001 - 02:12 pm   Yup, Merlin---I had blocked out the Lawrence Welk Show...mom used to get soooo mad when we kids would make fun of it...she really needed a sense of humor! was there something called Fortran?? I seem to remember something like that in high school |
Gail | Saturday, May 12, 2001 - 02:13 pm   super skates Yes, I had a slinky and I also had silly putty. I did not have legos - my little brother had them and I played with his til I was about 16 (he still has them too). I had lincoln logs, tinker toys, erector sets, and some other kind of bricks. For Christmas when I was 10, I got a portable reel to reel tape recorder. Remember when they didn't make drip style coffee pots? |
Merlin | Saturday, May 12, 2001 - 02:15 pm   First year of college, Fortan was THE course to take if you wanted to sove a simple equation using THE college computer. |
Gail | Saturday, May 12, 2001 - 02:16 pm   My first memory of anything on TV was a show called Checkmate. I can't tell you anything about it, I just remember the opening of it. I also remember Paladin (just the theme song) and my mom says that I used to get excited when the Perry Como show came on. |
Merlin | Saturday, May 12, 2001 - 02:17 pm   For an extra ten points, what was on Palladin's business card? |
Soeur | Saturday, May 12, 2001 - 02:18 pm   I remember ko-rect-o-tape ....Richard Brautigan ....Sweet Baby James ....Layla ....modular furniture ....pop tarts ....tang ....begging to be allowed to watch the Monkees ....flip flops ....passing notes in class to my friends ....having a crush on my math teacher ....flower power ....walking barefoot downtown ....getting Felix Cavaliere's autograph (many times) he lived next door and I kept losing it and going back for more ....having an autograph book and getting anyone I could to sign it I remember thinking growing up would mean getting to choose whatever I wanted to be I remember finding out that's true. This is a great thread! |
Gail | Saturday, May 12, 2001 - 02:18 pm   I remember our first new family car - a sky blue 1959 Ford Falcon. We had that car til 1967 then traded it before we left France for two nice oil paintings that are still in our family today. |
Gail | Saturday, May 12, 2001 - 02:19 pm   Have Gun Will Travel |
Merlin | Saturday, May 12, 2001 - 02:21 pm   good one Gail, but you didnt mention the logo |
Tess | Saturday, May 12, 2001 - 02:22 pm   Gail, we had those other bricks, too---were they red with white windows and doors? The Bing Crosby Christmas Specials Ted Mack Amateur Hour Elvis and The Beatles on Ed Sullivan (and Topo Gigio (sp?) the little mouse Shari Lewis, Lamb Chop and Charley Horse Dark Shadows - the soap opera |
Tess | Saturday, May 12, 2001 - 02:25 pm   Gunsmoke Get Smart Secret Agent when TAB first came out when panty hose was invented |
Tess | Saturday, May 12, 2001 - 02:29 pm   The Wild, Wild West Man from U.N.C.L.E. I Spy Girl from U.N.C.L.E Gumby When they had cartoons at the start of every movie when you went to the theater When you could see two movies (like a double header) Drive in theaters Drive in restaurants Life before McDonald's |
Lancecrossfire | Saturday, May 12, 2001 - 02:37 pm   Merlin, it was a knight (chess). |
Lancecrossfire | Saturday, May 12, 2001 - 02:38 pm   Oops, don't know if you will give any extra points for knowing the star. Richard Boone |
Merlin | Saturday, May 12, 2001 - 02:40 pm   Correct Lance, would have done the actors name but wasn't able to recall it till you posted. |
Juju2bigdog | Saturday, May 12, 2001 - 02:46 pm   1965 Rambler, first car with seats that folded all the way back flat, like into a, ahem, bed. |
Gail | Saturday, May 12, 2001 - 02:50 pm   Mission Impossible The Immortal It's About Time Wagon Train Rawhide The Everly Brothers and The Brothers Four (There was a 2 day Get Smart Marathon on TV about a month ago.) Gigantor Doing Muscular Dystrophy carnivals where it cost you more money to set it up then you made. When you could go trick or treating without risking your life. When you got gas someone else pumped it and they also washed your windshield. When you could trust your car to the man who wears the star. on the radio . . . The Whistler and X minus 1 |
Merlin | Saturday, May 12, 2001 - 02:51 pm   Better than that Juju, how about a 1963 Studebaker station wagon, back seats folded down, and the entire back half of the roof slid under the front half(like current sun roofs) and you could look at the stars if you , ahem, used it to sleep in. |
Merlin | Saturday, May 12, 2001 - 02:54 pm   Ummm, Gail. Back then miniskirts was the fashion and working in a gas station and cleaning windows was a bonus for the employees. |
Tess | Saturday, May 12, 2001 - 02:56 pm   The Jetsons Lost in Space watching one of the Apollo rockets explode on the launch pad....long before the Challenger |
Gail | Saturday, May 12, 2001 - 02:56 pm   Good one Merlin! I wouldn't have thought of that. |
Merlin | Saturday, May 12, 2001 - 03:00 pm   Gail, didn't you wonder why there would be two or three guys trying to clean your windows and maybe, just maybe there was someone left at the pump nozzle? |