Do you remember when ....Long haired short people need not apply

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Sunshinemiss

Monday, October 22, 2001 - 12:19 pm Click here to edit this post
Thanks Pcakes, I'll check it out.

Remember when the Mtn Dew cans had the Hillbilly on them? (also very collectable)

I guess one sure sign of getting older is that almost EVERYTHING from your childhood is getting collectable (except the stuff you saved, ha-ha)

Babyruth

Monday, October 22, 2001 - 12:42 pm Click here to edit this post
LOL, you're so right, Sunshinemiss!

Weinermr

Wednesday, October 24, 2001 - 01:06 pm Click here to edit this post
"Yahoo, Mountain Dew, there's a bang in every bottle!"

That was their slogan!

Honey51

Wednesday, October 24, 2001 - 01:50 pm Click here to edit this post
How about Clint Eastwood's LP album When he was playing Rowdy Yates on Rawhide?

Sunshinemiss

Wednesday, October 24, 2001 - 04:26 pm Click here to edit this post
Anybody remember having John Travolta's record from the Vinnie Barbarino days?

How about Leonard Nimoy's Spock album, if I remember right he "spoke" some poetry in his Spock persona.. memory is pretty dim on that one. Anyone?

Jadarville

Saturday, October 27, 2001 - 04:26 pm Click here to edit this post
sunshinemiss I have John Travolta's album from Vinnie Barbarino days. The last time I went to the family house I found some of my old albums stored in a closet. I also have Leif Garrett's first album and a collection of Bay City Rollers.
I loved them! lol

Neko

Sunday, October 28, 2001 - 07:56 am Click here to edit this post
Whoa....all of this old stuff. Most of this stuff, I've never heard about.Hehe

Laffy

Tuesday, November 13, 2001 - 01:45 am Click here to edit this post
been growing my hair for a year now so i officially am a "long-haired short person" now!

Kayewer

Tuesday, November 13, 2001 - 09:48 am Click here to edit this post
I have Rick Springfield's first album released here in the US, before he was a soap star.

I remember when McDonald's had only burgers, one size of fries, and shakes. A family of three could eat for $3.00.

Does anybody remember early commercials for Veg-O-Matic or PF Flyers sneakers?

Are there still Sinclair gas stations, with the dinosaur logo?

How about BP gas stations that used to give out free molded plastic flower decals with flower seeds included, so you could plant a garden and stick the flower on your car? Their old mascot was a bee, I think.

Pcakes2

Tuesday, November 13, 2001 - 12:06 pm Click here to edit this post
Being a quasi-Rick Springfield-groupie (paging Dr. Noah Drake), I have that album also.

I still have my mom's veg a matic...it slices, it dices and still works after all these years!

Juju2bigdog

Tuesday, November 13, 2001 - 04:33 pm Click here to edit this post
Kayewer, saw Sinclair gas stations this summer between Washington state and Yellowstone. Think they must have been in Montana.

Babyruth

Tuesday, November 13, 2001 - 05:35 pm Click here to edit this post
Juju, weren't they just a blur from your vantage point of hanging your head out the car window?

Juju2bigdog

Tuesday, November 13, 2001 - 09:45 pm Click here to edit this post
Babyruth, um, you don't have pictures of me or anything do you? I mean, with my head out the window? I'm not supposed to do that, you know. Especially when I am driving, but it is so dang much fun, I just can't help it sometimes.

Babyruth

Wednesday, November 14, 2001 - 10:05 am Click here to edit this post
Take heed, Juju2bigdog!

http://www.dog-e-data.com.au/Specials/going_somewhere.htm

Juju2bigdog

Wednesday, November 14, 2001 - 02:48 pm Click here to edit this post
Oh! Thanks, Babyruth. I know just what to do with this information. <lopes off for the Santa thread>

Sunshinemiss

Wednesday, November 14, 2001 - 05:10 pm Click here to edit this post
Re- title of this thread...
Is it referring to the song "Signs" circa 1969?

If so, isn't it "long-haired FREAKY people need not apply?"

Or is this a Randy Newman reference?

For those of us that like a trip down nostalgia lane (me included) all you need to do anymore is just open the pages of any fashion magazine- I recently bought a pair of bellbottoms that are almost exactly the same as I was wearing in 7th grade...

"everything old is new again..."

Weinermr

Tuesday, November 20, 2001 - 06:08 pm Click here to edit this post
I remember Vegematic commercials right from the very beginning. And the Ronco bottle and jug cutter, and on and on and on. That Ron Popeil has gotten rich off the rest of us buying his gadgets, except I would never spray my head with that hair stuff. (not that I need to or anything)

Babyruth

Tuesday, November 20, 2001 - 07:44 pm Click here to edit this post
A good Bass-O-Matic beats a vegematic anyday!
Woohoo! That's one of my fave SNL skits.

Urgrace

Thursday, December 06, 2001 - 10:45 pm Click here to edit this post
Well, does this thread make me feel reallly old! I remember when the first family in our town got the first television! We didn't get one for a couple more years, and then we only got to watch tv for a few hours of the day, then the big test screen would come on, after the Star Spangled Banner played! I have a picture of the tv screen at the precise moment that man first stepped on the moon! I remember the first McDonald's that opened in the big town 35 miles away, and when they first displayed on their sign 1 million sold! I remember the only things we teens had to do when we went out on a date was pick the movie playing at the indoor theatre or the outdoor theatre! I remember when they brought our first CRT and installed it at work. The computer was occupying a WAREHOUSE somewhere in Kansas. I remember taking typing class at school and not getting to type on the one and only electric typewriter, because it was only used by the best typist in the class! I remember using a brownie camera. I remember using the copy machine that you had to type a stencil for, then lay it on the inked machine and turn the crank by hand to make the copy! I remember when they made cartridges for fountain pens and later on they made ball points! I remember all the girls in town getting a Barbie doll (except me). I remember when hula hoops were the rage and yo yos came back in style! I also was lucky enough to be a teenager with a great figure when everyone was wearing mini skirts, and Twiggy was skinnier than Colista Flockhart! Then the trend went to mumus and the 'Jesus Freaks' and flower children walked around barefoot, while the moonies shaved their heads and stalked airports. I remember watching Elvis and the Beatles on their first tv appearances and saw I Love Lucy when she had Desi, Jr. I remember when soap operas were only fifteen minutes long! At school I could buy a coke for a nickle and lunch for a quarter. My mom had a hissy fit when bread went up to 10 cents, and the ice man brought a block for the ice box, and the wringer washer was replaced with an electric clothes washer! I helped my grandmother make lye soap in big 'cookie sheets' then cut the soap into blocks for the bath and grated a block or two for the washing machine! I remember being taught in school that there was nothing smaller than an atom, then learning that they had to rewrite history books when the atom was split! I remember watching tv all day at school, on the one and only tv brought into the auditorium,on the day when John F. Kennedy was shot. I remember seeing Sputnik and hearing a jet plane break the sound barrier!

However, I also remember my mother-in-law doing more stuff in three hours than I could do in three days! She could put up a batch of canned peaches, sew an entire dress, vacuum the house and wash the floor in the kitchen, do a couple loads of laundry and hang them out to dry, wash the dishes, and watch a tv morning show, then come over to my house at 10 am and expect me to have my house cleaned already! I was lucky to have gotten my kids to school and washed the dishes by 10 am!

Dahli

Friday, December 07, 2001 - 09:45 pm Click here to edit this post
Wow Grace, those are some memories you got going on there... many of which I can relate to, including wearing the mini first time around, and having the legs for it LOL.
The first colour TV set we got still stands out as a big day - The colours on the Bewitched and I Dream of Jeannie intros were incredible and Disney on Sunday nights - those visuals are unforgettable.

When I was really young the milkman had a horse pulling the milk wagon!

Whoami

Friday, December 07, 2001 - 11:29 pm Click here to edit this post
The first show we watched on our first color tv was Fantasy Island (we were poor, so it took us longer to get a color tv than most). I remember thinking how great the colors of the plant life on FI was!

Urgrace

Friday, December 07, 2001 - 11:57 pm Click here to edit this post
I remember when my dad brought home a paycheck for $100 for the week and thinking how rich we must be! Especially since we had moved into the 'white' house across from the lake, and there was indoor plumbing! I personally didn't own a color tv until 1977! Then when I got used to seeing color tv it was such a disappointment when a show was still running in black and white! Now they have some of the old movies colorized.

Weinermr

Saturday, December 08, 2001 - 06:36 am Click here to edit this post
Remember the controversy when they started colorizing old movies? Personally, I really hate it when they take an old classic movie that was made with such care in black and white, and they colorize it. It never looks realistic, and sometimes it looks just terrible. Ted Turner took alot of flak for doing that. Ironically, the Turner channels now NEVER show colorized movies, and in fact show alot of movies in wide screen or letter box format.

But the great thing they have started doing is to restore alot of old movies, which disintegrated to the point of almost being lost, as well as alot of old beloved classics which had fallen into almost ruin. There are so many - The Sound of Music, My Fair Lady, The Wizard of Oz, Vertigo, and so many more. The difference between the pre-restoration and post-restoration quality is just startling. We've seen many of these restored movies in theaters where they were meant to be seen, and that's a whole lot of fun too.

Urgrace

Saturday, December 08, 2001 - 01:34 pm Click here to edit this post
Aren't you lucky to have seen the restored movies in a theater! They don't do a lot of that here, and I would have to go to the big city to see them which isn't one of my habits. If I get a chance to watch tv during the day, my first choice is an old movie! Ted Turner has ruffled many feathers over the years, but he doesn't seem to mind too much! I hate watching the channels he owns, for all of five minutes you get to watch the show and for the next eleven minutes you get to watch commercials! Have to admit that I do love seeing Gone With the Wind in color.

Beagle

Saturday, December 08, 2001 - 11:57 pm Click here to edit this post
I agree with you 100% Weinermr. There's few things that bother me more than tuning into a "colorized" movie. The whole thing looks so fake. Have you ever noticed when they open their mouths they are still in black & white? Look next time. The people who colorize have never been able to figure out how to get that just right.

Wow Grace, reading your post brought back many happy memories for me too! Yes, there was a time when I too (gulp) sported a mini skirt and even hot pants from time to time...lol

Yes Dalhi, I remember the old milk wagons too. The horses knew the routs so well the milkman never had to touch the reins!

Urgrace

Sunday, December 09, 2001 - 12:12 am Click here to edit this post
Hey Beagle, were your hot pants also hip-huggers? And when the milk was delivered, my husband says (cause he's a bit older than me) they used to bring it in in the winter with the cap sitting a couple inches above the lip of the bottle on top of the 'iced' cream.

Beagle

Sunday, December 09, 2001 - 04:54 am Click here to edit this post
Well, my hot pants were sort of hip-huggers. I had two pair, one was and one wasn't...lol

I don't remember the cap sitting on top of the bottle. Mind you , I was only 5 or 6 when we got milk trucks so my memory is only of the horses that I loved so much.

Here's another memory for everyone though... does anyone remember "Honey Wagon's ?" If you do, share your memories with us! I'll bet there are many folks who have no idea what they are. Here's a hint, don't let the name fool ya!

Tksoard

Sunday, December 09, 2001 - 07:00 am Click here to edit this post
My husband says it's a "Poop Distribution Cart" used in Korea for fertilizer. Does he win the booby prize?

Beagle

Sunday, December 09, 2001 - 07:22 am Click here to edit this post
LOL sure, I'll award him the booby prize! Kinda...

When we were growing up in the city in the 1960's and even into the very early 70's there were still many homes without indoor plumbing. Twice a week the "Honey Wagon" would come around and switch pails to keep the scent down. Does anyone else remember those? Maybe they were called something different in the States, I'm from Canada.

Dahli

Sunday, December 09, 2001 - 11:21 am Click here to edit this post
I remember the very very cold milk! The caps were cardboard sort of with a tab thing and they often had that crystal ice thing going on.
We also used to leave the empty bottles on the stoop with the money(coins) in them...for the very early morning delivery - those were the old days LOL!

Sage

Sunday, December 09, 2001 - 03:14 pm Click here to edit this post
My mom used to have milk delivered up until a few years ago! I remember times of getting yelled at for not bringing it from the front stoop early enough, as it would get too warm. Of course, in the winter months we had to make sure it wasn't out too long to freeze!

Hot pants and go-go boots.. now those were the days! I had a friend who said her mom didn't like the short shirts I wore with my hip hugger corduroys, as she didn't like seeing my belly, so I was careful not to wear that stuff around her. I wonder what she thinks of the way the young people dress today.

Tksoard

Sunday, December 09, 2001 - 03:38 pm Click here to edit this post
I remember Ernie our Milk Man!! He used to give us choc. milk in the little glass bottles. We thought they were free and he was just SO nice, until a few years ago when I was reminecing (sp) with my mom about it. She said it wasn't free, that she had to pay for it!! I was really disappointed in him then. I did thank HER for it then. I LOVE MY MOM!!!

Urgrace

Sunday, December 09, 2001 - 06:19 pm Click here to edit this post
Hey Beagle, we didn't have a honey wagon because we were in a rural area. But my mom built us a three holer, sized for papa bear, mama bear, and baby bear! The first joke I ever remember hearing was...
What is the difference between a rich girl and a poor girl?
The rich girl had a canopy over her bed and the poor girl had a can-o-pee under her bed!

What a nice mommy, Tk! Chocolate Milk! Here's another one. After school snack - bread and butter with sugar on it.