Archive through May 12, 2001

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Merlin

Saturday, May 12, 2001 - 02:04 pm Click here to edit this post
Lennon Sisters on The Lawrence Welk Show(I still gag at the thought of that show)

Merlin

Saturday, May 12, 2001 - 02:05 pm Click here to edit this post
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 Click here to edit this post
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 Click here to edit this post
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 Click here to edit this post
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 Click here to edit this post
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 Click here to edit this post
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 Click here to edit this post
For an extra ten points, what was on Palladin's business card?

Soeur

Saturday, May 12, 2001 - 02:18 pm Click here to edit this post
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 Click here to edit this post
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 Click here to edit this post
Have Gun Will Travel :)

Merlin

Saturday, May 12, 2001 - 02:21 pm Click here to edit this post
good one Gail, but you didnt mention the logo

Tess

Saturday, May 12, 2001 - 02:22 pm Click here to edit this post
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 Click here to edit this post
Gunsmoke

Get Smart

Secret Agent

when TAB first came out

when panty hose was invented

Tess

Saturday, May 12, 2001 - 02:29 pm Click here to edit this post
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 Click here to edit this post
Merlin, it was a knight (chess).

Lancecrossfire

Saturday, May 12, 2001 - 02:38 pm Click here to edit this post
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 Click here to edit this post
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 Click here to edit this post
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 Click here to edit this post
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 Click here to edit this post
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 Click here to edit this post
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 Click here to edit this post
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 Click here to edit this post
Good one Merlin! I wouldn't have thought of that.

Merlin

Saturday, May 12, 2001 - 03:00 pm Click here to edit this post
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?