Archive through May 12, 2001

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Tksoard

Saturday, May 12, 2001 - 10:28 am Click here to edit this post
When they advertised cars for $1995.00, I thought they meant $19.95. I wanted my mom to just buy half the groceries, and get something other than that big, old, ugly station wagon!!

Whit4you

Saturday, May 12, 2001 - 10:36 am Click here to edit this post
Ok guys first lemme say on my behalf I lurked and kept my hands off keyboard for the entire game II :)


So cut me a lil slack today - for talkng to much please? I think I've shared a few things that everyone can benefit from - so hopefully you'll bear with the rest of my rambles??? :)


But I gotta ask.. I still have my original barbie - my sis bit her nose off in oh about '69...


but do any of you ladies have or when do your remember giving you your orignal barbie?

What was your favorite paper doll - did you play with em???


Guys - an orignal GI Joe - or when did you give it up? Those basball cards that'd be worth a fortune now .. ?

One of my fav toys as a kid besides my tinkertoys/legos was my slinky = when did they come out - Gail did you have one when you were lil - you seem to be 5 yrs or so up on me :)

Whit4you

Saturday, May 12, 2001 - 10:41 am Click here to edit this post
I think you all noted the topic I used to start this thread -


Long haird freaky people .. need not apply...


and


Short people got .. no reason to . short people got.. no reason to live...


LOL :)


Just wondering .. when you were um just getting into boys (or girls) at that age.. what was THE songs you remember most.. (Those were not mine i just used them as a marketing tool to ..draw attention to the thread LOL )


The songs that "did" it for me when I was at THAT age - were mid 70's songs...


Sad Eyes = Robert John

Babe - Styx

and um I cold go on and on I lived and brethed music then - that was when I learned sleep was irrelevant.... but - well there's two for me :)

Merlin

Saturday, May 12, 2001 - 10:45 am Click here to edit this post
Summer of 65 I think, at the public swimming pool, trying to charm volumptous Judy Bean, and hearing repeatedly over the pool loud speakers.........."I can't get no satisfaction"

Whit4you

Saturday, May 12, 2001 - 10:51 am Click here to edit this post
Do you remember the Farrah Facett haircut?

The body suit?


Koolots ?


Leif Garett?


Chokers?


Black lights?

"Grooooovy" (I never said this one hehe)

"FAR OUT!" (didn't dew this one either

guys in polyester shirts (I never liked those - what WA up with those???? LOL :)

Whit4you

Saturday, May 12, 2001 - 10:54 am Click here to edit this post
Merlin - I can still dance to...


I can't get no...satisfaction....


BIGTIME :)

It's a song I can be oooooohhhhh so expressive too...


I can't get no..


I can't get no...


SAT IS FACTION

I"VE TRIED>..... and i've TRIED and I'VE TIRED!!!!!!


I CAN"T GET NO!!!!!! SAT IS FACTION!

(SHUTTING UP NOW DAMMIT LOL)

Egbok77

Saturday, May 12, 2001 - 11:19 am Click here to edit this post
I remember . . .

. . the yellow Helms Bakery Truck with its unique sounding horn telling us he was in the neighborhood with his delicious donuts and baked goods! 10 cents got you a huge glazed donut.

. . watching my first color TV show - "Bonaza", the one about Hoss and the Leprechuns. I also remember the NBC peacock with all the colorful tail feathers.

. . going to Hollywood 5 nights in a row to see "Star Wars" at some glitzy movie theater with all the sights and sounds!

. . walking through open fields and picking wild flowers (no more open fields, just rows of houses)

Max

Saturday, May 12, 2001 - 11:31 am Click here to edit this post
Okay, i'm late to the party, but here's my initial offering.

Roberta Flack - Killing me softly

The Jackson Five was always fave music at slumber parties in junior high.

I remember being taught in elementary school how to use a dial phone (not push buttons, dialing). Prior to that, we had real live operators.

I had a job in high school at a Title/Mortgage company and had to fill in people's payment books with principal and interest amounts. To figure it out, I used a calculating device that had rows of buttons from 0-9 and a big shuttle kind of thing on top. You'd punch in the amounts on the rows of buttons, then crank a lever and the whole top shuttle started spinning and moving left to right as it did the calculations. It was actually kind of scary!

I had a job in college at an older hotel working the switchboard. It was an old style board with cords you pulled out of the console and plugged into the board to make the connections. I didn't have that job very long 'cause I usually plugged things in the wrong places! That hotel still had an elevator operator, too, because the elevators weren't automated yet.

My favorite Five & Dime candy was winners pops. I think they cost a nickel (which was a LOT back then). Each pop had a sticker on the back and if you got lucky, you got a "winner" and won a free pop.

We also went to the movies for $1 and stayed most of the day (newsreel, cartoon, double-feature). It was 85 cents to get in and then you had 15 cents for candy. I remember thinking long and hard every Saturday over how to spend that 15 cents. You could get one popcorn or three candy bars. Since you were going to be there most of the day, it was important to choose stuff that would last, so we usually got things like Big Hunks (do they still make those), and Watermelon Sticks, and Sugar Daddy's 'cause they all took a long time to eat. :)

Oh, my, I might have to add several installments here!

Whit4you

Saturday, May 12, 2001 - 11:35 am Click here to edit this post
Woohooo you go Max :)


Got me laughing and ..remembering already :)


Late to the party ? You must be one of those who believe in sleep?? :)


Oh and what .. pray tell si this thinga-ma-jig

:I used a calculating device that had rows of buttons from 0-9 and a big shuttle kind of thing on top:


And is it in the Smithstonien?

Merlin

Saturday, May 12, 2001 - 11:42 am Click here to edit this post
That is the "Monroe" adding machine.

Max

Saturday, May 12, 2001 - 11:44 am Click here to edit this post
I remember getting milk delivered every week to the front porch in real bottles.

I remember when it wasn't scary to walk to school alone or play outside under the street lights on a warm summer night.

I remember not worrying about locking the front door all the time.

I remember "rooter's busses" that took us to away football and basketball games in high school and then coming back to the school afterwards and waiting in line as each kid used the one pay phone booth to call their folks for a ride home.

I remember when the most scandalous prank ever pulled in our school was taking all the desks out of a teacher's room and setting them up on the roof. (Done by the guys in my senior class.)

I remember when the most dangerous thing you could get from having unprotected sex was pregnant or a venereal disease that could be cured with a penicillin shot. (This was before anyone used the term STD.)

I remember when JFK was killed and we got sent home from school. The teachers were in the cafeteria watching news coverage and crying--first time I can remember seeing an adult cry.

I remember watching Bobby Kennedy be killed on TV.

I remember the song "Abraham, Martin, and John" and it still makes me get teary-eyed.

I remember Kent State, although I wasn't old enough to go there yet.

I remember helping with McGovern's campaign, even though I couldn't vote yet. I remember when you couldn't vote until you were 21.

I remember love beads and wishing I could go to Haight-Ashbury and just hang out. ("All those who come to San Francisco. Be sure to wear some flowers in your hair.")

I remember when I thought it was cool to shop at the Army-Navy Surplus store for bell-bottoms.

I remember when pinball was the only electronic game available. I remember when Pong first came out and my friends all thought it was lame.

I remember VisiCalc (even went to a class on it).

I remember the Apple Lisa (predecessor to the Mac) and when a 5MB hard drive was HUGE.

I remember when Bill Gates said that 64K of memory was all anyone would ever need.

I remember 8-inch and 5-inch floppy disks. I remember working on standalone word processors and when the very first IBM PC came out.

I remember 300-baud modems that you put the handset of your phone into the cups to use.

Grooch

Saturday, May 12, 2001 - 12:11 pm Click here to edit this post
I remember when I was in elementary school I went to a gifted class for the summer and it was about computers. Funny thing was, everything programmed was punch cards and they showed us the ticker tapes they used to use. LOL!

And I am not that old!!!

Grooch

Saturday, May 12, 2001 - 12:14 pm Click here to edit this post
Whit, this seems to be a very popular subject. I logged on this morning and there were less than 10 posts and now later today, there are more than 50. All in one day. I think you struck a nerve!! LOL!

Lancecrossfire

Saturday, May 12, 2001 - 12:15 pm Click here to edit this post
I remember taking a programming class (basic) in high school, and everything was on ticker tape!

Merlin

Saturday, May 12, 2001 - 12:19 pm Click here to edit this post
Thanks for that one Grooch, I think you are ahead of me just enough that I dont feel like everyones parent.

Lancecrossfire

Saturday, May 12, 2001 - 12:39 pm Click here to edit this post
I remember doing calculations in chemistry class on a slide rule.

I remember when all watches were analog.

I remember gas being 39 cents/gallon.

As George Carlin has said, I remember when being "up for the game" was a spiritual thing.

I remember when playing in sports was for myself, and it didn't matter if parents watched or not.

No one has brought up the Osmonds yet (Max talked about the Jackson 5). Donnie Osmond and the Osmonds.

I remember mutton chop side burns.

I remember double clutching.

I remember a song called "Chevy Van" (70's).

I remember when it was ok to talk to a stranger, or be a stranger that was willing to help out.

I remember Bonanza.

I remember the TV show Super Man with George Reeves.

I remember the TV show The Lone Ranger with Clayton Moore and Jay Silverheals as the Lone Ranger and Tonto.

Gail--yes on the Green Hornet---Americia's introduction to Bruce Lee.

The TV show Time Tunnel--cheesy today, but back then it was ahead of it's time.

The original Outer Limits and the original Twilight Zone. (Rod Serling was a genius)

Merlin

Saturday, May 12, 2001 - 01:13 pm Click here to edit this post
Remember when Ron Howard had hair and was a six year old son of Andy Griffin living in Mayberry?

Merlin

Saturday, May 12, 2001 - 01:15 pm Click here to edit this post
No inference intended Lance, your shows reminded me of this one.:)

Lancecrossfire

Saturday, May 12, 2001 - 01:31 pm Click here to edit this post
None taken Merlin---I've never been on TV when I was 6. (although I was on the cover of a magazine when I was about 4)

Ok, how about the Jackie Gleason show?? At the end of each show, he did a skit as a bartender, and the character of "Crazy Googenhym" was the patron. He did a weird voice and told jokes with Jackie for most of the skit. Then at the end Jackie would ask him to sing a song, and he'd use his real voice. I can still remember it being one of the most beautiful baritone voices I've ever heard. His real name was Frank Fontain.

Yes, I know I remember ridiculous things from way back as a kid. I always try to remember the real names--not just the character's name.

Merlin

Saturday, May 12, 2001 - 01:34 pm Click here to edit this post
What cover of a magazine Lance? What did you do at the age of 4 to get this recognition?

Lancecrossfire

Saturday, May 12, 2001 - 01:46 pm Click here to edit this post
It was a trade magazine Merlin, having to do with the lumber industry. My mom worked for a lumber company when we lived in Roseburg, OR. The lumber company was in Winston, OR, just outside of Roseburg. The wanted a young kid to pose for a Thanksgiving issue where I was holding a rope with a turkey on the other end and reaching for an ax that was leaning up against a stump (as if I would have eventually cut the turkey's head off).

Of course the ax was taller than I was, so it looked pretty funny. So did I as a 4 year old.

Tess

Saturday, May 12, 2001 - 01:56 pm Click here to edit this post
I remember buy our first tv when I was 4 years old (1958) it was a huge console with a little b/w screen

I remember being at lunch at school when JFK was killed and the coverage being the only thing on tv for days.

I remember working for McGovern and Joe Alioto (big SF politician) for Civic class

I remember learning to use an abacus in grade school

Slide rules in high school

I remember Patty Hearst vividly because they robbed MY BANK and I had been there earlier in the day. Then the police came door to door searching...

I remember going downtown in high school to work on the campaigns and getting caught in the middle of the "peace riots" it was brutal

I remember the "love ins" at Golden Gate Park in SF

Chatty Cathy dolls

The original Batman -- loved it!

Original Jeopardy

College Bowl

when roller skates had to be put on using a key

wearing dog tags to kindergarten for identification

Merlin

Saturday, May 12, 2001 - 01:59 pm Click here to edit this post
Thank goodness PETA more than likely didn't exist back then. It could be traumatic for a four year old to experience what Mike did for his pork feast.

How about scanning the picture for your fans? It couldn't have been that funny unless the turkey was also taller than you.

Tksoard

Saturday, May 12, 2001 - 02:00 pm Click here to edit this post
I remember hitch-hiking and picking up hitch-hikers.

I remember Sky King on Sat. at noon and having Tomato Soup for lunch with my dad.

I remember The Brooklyn Bridge (song-The Worst that could Happen).

I remember Romper Room and Captain Kangaroo with Mr. Greenjeans.

I remember my first job associated with computers was Keypunch Oper. on IBM cards.

I remember the worst prank in high school was setting fires in the bathroom and water balloons.

Tess

Saturday, May 12, 2001 - 02:02 pm Click here to edit this post
Oh, I remember watching Jackie Gleason, the Dean Martin Show, mom watching the Lennon Sisters on (what was the name of that show????)

The original I Love Lucy

Petticoat Junction, Gidget

The original Mousketeers

our first wall-to-wall carpeting...oooh