Archive through October 13, 2001

The ClubHouse: Archive: Do you remember when ....Long haired short people need not apply: Archive through October 13, 2001

Pcakes2

Thursday, October 11, 2001 - 08:00 am Click here to edit this post
I remember going to the candy store and getting
a Charleston Chew for 12cents. All the candy was either 7 cents (ie:package of Now & Laters) or 12cents (ie:candy bar like Milky Way, 3 musketteers, etc) One of my all time favs was a Marathon Bar...it was caramel covered in chocolate
and braided and about a foot long.

Juju2bigdog

Thursday, October 11, 2001 - 09:50 am Click here to edit this post
Hamburger, fries, coke at McDonalds - 45 cents.

Penny candy.

Babyruth

Thursday, October 11, 2001 - 09:55 am Click here to edit this post
Winky Dink and you, Winky Dink and me,
We will have a lot of fun together!

Now, kids, be sure your Magic Screen is covering your television screen before you use your special markers! HAHA Man, what a blast!

Chippy

Thursday, October 11, 2001 - 10:31 am Click here to edit this post
I remember putting on our flannel pj's with the feet attached and loading up in the station wagon (no seatbelts to my recollection) and heading for the drive in movie.

Kstme

Thursday, October 11, 2001 - 11:13 am Click here to edit this post
I remember my first Hula Hoop...probably couldn't do it now if I had to...lol

I remember "no limit" to the number of clams you could dig up on the Washington St. beaches.

Oh, Penny Candy! Those were the BEST! Red wax lips, coconut "bacon" strips, marshmallow ice cream cones and red hot hot dogs...NO, this wasn't BEFORE the depression...OK?

Weinermr

Thursday, October 11, 2001 - 04:02 pm Click here to edit this post
Cup Custard cookies from Sunshine - does anyone remember? bump

Franny

Thursday, October 11, 2001 - 04:46 pm Click here to edit this post
Keep trying Weinermr...either I'm too old or hopefully too young..

I remember watching Howdie Doody and Buffalo Bob.

I remember big round grape bubble gum balls for a penny each.

I remember 35 cents for a double feature (both 1st run movies).

Abbynormal

Thursday, October 11, 2001 - 04:50 pm Click here to edit this post
poor weiner, now you feel like me and the chocks. I still buy the cheese nips from sunshine. I rem getting off the bus everyday and buying a huge candy bar and a 20 oz pepsi for .25 I also rem wearing mother-daughter dresses to church. I thought I was hot stuff, when I matched my mom.

Franny

Thursday, October 11, 2001 - 04:52 pm Click here to edit this post
Ohh here's the worst..I remember silver foil Christmas trees with those big round color wheels that would change from green, yellow, red, and blue. Wow we thought they were so cool...ewwwww.

Abbynormal

Thursday, October 11, 2001 - 07:12 pm Click here to edit this post
Franny, those silver trees go for big bucks on ebay, guess they are in again. ewwww too

Babyruth

Thursday, October 11, 2001 - 07:19 pm Click here to edit this post
Are you kidding me? Wish we'd saved ours, then. We had one of those when I was growing up, with PINK and BLUE ornaments! Ewwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww
I have a photo of me standing outdoors in front of the picture window and that tree is inside, front and center. About 1964, I think.

And this was in Illinois! With no shortage of REAL trees!

Weinermr

Thursday, October 11, 2001 - 09:43 pm Click here to edit this post
Alas... cup custards are no more... sigh........ I'm probably the only one who ever ate them, which is the reason they don't make them anymore. LOL

Cheese Nips I remember - aren't they the same as Cheeze-Its? They taste like baked cheese.

Franny

Thursday, October 11, 2001 - 10:32 pm Click here to edit this post
but weren't cheese nips elongated and cylindrical? I think they tasted the same but were a different shape. Do they still sell those?

Sunshinemiss

Thursday, October 11, 2001 - 10:33 pm Click here to edit this post
I remember.. before 8 tracks; I got as a gift a 4-track!!! A concept which obviously never took off. It was called a "Playtape", they were about the size of a modern audio cassette but slightly more squared. I still have my player but unfortunatley no longer have the Beatles Magical Mystery Tour tape that I got with it for my 10th birthday in 1968...

My favorite candy bar, Choco-lite.. no it wasn't a diet bar, it was kind of whipped while it cooled so it had a lot of bubbles, sounds weird but I loved them, there went the majority of my one dollar allowance at Gemco when I was a child...

Weinermr

Thursday, October 11, 2001 - 11:48 pm Click here to edit this post
Gemco... Think of the stores that are gone in So. CA...
Gemco, Fedco, Zody's, Buffum's, Builder's Emporium, Ole's, ... what else?

Franny

Friday, October 12, 2001 - 06:41 am Click here to edit this post
Gemco, now that was the store..I loved being able to shop for clothes, jewelry and groceries all in the same place.
In Northern CA there was
Gemco
Ralph's Market
Alpha Beta Supermarkets
Capwells
Woolworth
Sprouse Ritz
Swans
I Magnins
J Magnins
Service Merchandise
Best
Most recently...Wards

What about Chicken Delight? They were the only place that delivered..

Kathi25

Friday, October 12, 2001 - 08:32 am Click here to edit this post
TG&Y which became Newberrys was down here in SoCal

Kstme

Friday, October 12, 2001 - 09:00 am Click here to edit this post
Franny...the slogan...

"Don't cook tonight! Call Chicken Delight!" LOL

Comic books were 10 cents. The bakery truck came to your house. Milk was delivered in bottles. Cream was cream. SloMo was the best Hydroplane out there! Fredick & Nelson's in dt Seattle. Best's clothing before Nordy's bought them out. The soda fountain at Kress'...order water and put a "Fizzie" in it!

Cinnamongirl

Friday, October 12, 2001 - 10:55 am Click here to edit this post
I kown this is gonna be long, but its fun.
Take a break from everyday life and remember a time that seems to be growing distant at an ever accellerating pace, childhood.

Before the Internet or the Mac, Before semi automatics and crack
Before SEGA or Super Nintendo...
Way back........

I'm talking about hide and seek at dusk.
The Dickie Dee man,
Red light, green light.
The corner store.
Hopscotch, butterscotch, doubledutch, jacks, kickball, dodgeball.
Mother May I? Red Rover and Roly Poly
Hula Hoops
Running through the sprinkler
The smell of the sun and licking salty lips....
Wax lips and mustaches
An ice cream cone on a warm summer night
Chocolate or vanilla or strawberry or maybe butter pecan.

Wait......

Watching Saturday Morning cartoons...short commercials,
Fat Albert, Road Runner, He-Man, The Three Stooges, and Bugs,
Or staying up for Gunsmoke
When around the corner seemed far away,
And going downtown seemed like going somewhere.
A million mosquito bites.
Sticky fingers.
Cops and Robbers, Cowboys and Indians, Zorro.
Climbing trees,
Building igloos out of snow banks
Walking to school, no matter what the weather.
Running till you were out of breath
Laughing so hard that your stomach hurt
Jumping on the bed. Pillow fights
Spinning around, getting dizzy and falling down was cause for giggles.
Being tired from playing.... Remember that?
The worst embarrassment was being picked last for a team.
War was a card game.
Water balloons were the ultimate weapon.
Baseball cards in the spokes transformed any bike into a motorcycle.

I'm not finished just yet...

Eating Kool-aid powder
Remember when...there were two types of sneakers for girls and boys
Keds & PF Flyers) and the only time you wore them at school, was for "gym."
It wasn't odd to have two or three "best" friends.
When nobody owned a purebred dog.
When a quarter was a decent allowance, and another quarter a miracle.
When you'd reach into a muddy gutter for a penny.
When nearly everyone's mom was at home when the kids got there.
It was magic when dad would "remove" his thumb.
When it was considered a great privilege to be taken out to dinner at a real restaurant with your parents.
When girls neither dated nor kissed until late high school, if then.
When any parent could discipline any kid, or feed him or use him to carry groceries,
and nobody, not even the kid, thought a thing of it.
When they threatened to keep kids back a grade if they failed
....and did!
When being sent to the principal's office was nothing compared to
the fate that awaited a misbehaving student at home.
Basically, we were in fear for our lives but it wasn't because of
drive -by shootings, drugs, gangs, etc.
Our parents and grandparents were a much bigger threat! and some
of us are still afraid of them!!!

Didn't that feel good?..... just to go back and say,
"Yeah, I remember that!"

Remember when............

Decisions were made by going "eeny-meeny-miney-mo."
Mistakes were corrected by simply exclaiming, "do over!"
"Race issue" meant arguing about who ran the fastest.
Money issues were handled by whoever was the banker in "Monopoly."
The worst thing you could catch from the opposite sex was cooties.
It was unbelievable that dodgeball wasn't an Olympic event.
Having a weapon in school, meant being caught with a slingshot.
Nobody was prettier than Mom.
Scrapes and bruises were kissed and made better.
Taking drugs meant orange-flavored chewable aspirin.
Ice cream was considered a basic food group.
Getting a foot of snow was a dream come true.
Abilities were discovered because of a "double-dog-dare."
Older siblings were the worst tormentors, but also the fiercest protectors.

If you can remember most or all of these, then you have LIVED!!!!

I sent you this to give you a break from your "grown up" life... now, don’t let anyone take this away from your children, EVER!!!!

Franny

Friday, October 12, 2001 - 07:15 pm Click here to edit this post
Thank you, I found myself singing "Memories, light the corner of my mind, Misty water colored memories of the way we were"

Zed

Friday, October 12, 2001 - 08:37 pm Click here to edit this post
Fizzies

Close-n-play Record player

Babyruth

Friday, October 12, 2001 - 08:41 pm Click here to edit this post
Superballs and Klick-Klacks!

Sunshinemiss

Friday, October 12, 2001 - 09:06 pm Click here to edit this post
Moon shoes .. those awfully dangerous fun metal springs sandwiched between two shoe-shaped pieces of metal.. you were as likely to fall over as jump up but loads of fun!

Rockem Sockem Robots

Creeple Peeple !! I still have mine- I marvel at the hot metal plates that melted the "goop", an accident waiting to happen (but I loved it!)

Anybody know where to buy the "goop" anymore? (only partially kidding)

Chippy

Friday, October 12, 2001 - 09:56 pm Click here to edit this post
I have a scar on my right hand from that creepy crawler thing. Or was it my Easy Bake oven? I can't remember.

Franny

Saturday, October 13, 2001 - 06:41 am Click here to edit this post
fizzies..I loved them. Remember when your mom made your play dough. Or when part of your wardrobe included rubber golosshes(sp) because you walked to school even if it rained and then you could jump in puddles all the way home(drove my kids everyday, they missed out on so much fun).