Archive through February 19, 2003
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Archive through February 19, 2003
Sadiesmom | Tuesday, February 18, 2003 - 04:52 am     This seems very appropriate for this thread. How about Mr. Peabody and his way back machine? |
Suitsmefine | Tuesday, February 18, 2003 - 06:04 am     Egbok....do you remember your actual birth too? LOL Does anyone else remember when we had no worries except whether our homemade koolaid freezie pops were frozen yet? God , I miss those days right now....... |
Marysafan | Tuesday, February 18, 2003 - 06:07 am     I remember when we cut the grass with "grass cutters" ...now we mow the lawn with lawn mowers and many of those you ride on. |
Conejo | Tuesday, February 18, 2003 - 06:31 am     I remember freezing my @ss off in the winter going to the out house! Always being the one that sat on top of the ice cream machine while the men took turns cranking. I remember my uncle getting a car with power windows. I remember throwing blocks of salt out for the cattle. Ringing chickens necks and plucking their feathers. |
Conejo | Tuesday, February 18, 2003 - 07:45 am     I remember boiling water to fill up the galvanised wash tub on the back porch to take a bath and using homemade lye soap (talk about making your hair soft) I remember my grandmother finally getting running water (cold only) in the kitchen (there was no indoor bathroom)! |
Crazydog | Tuesday, February 18, 2003 - 08:42 am     Sadiesmom, I loved that cartoon - they were on during "Underdog" right? I love the old cartoons, especially Superfriends. |
Sadiesmom | Tuesday, February 18, 2003 - 09:07 am     no, no, Mr Peabody and his boy were on Rocky and friends. |
Sanfranjoshfan | Tuesday, February 18, 2003 - 10:54 am     In West Texas in the mid to late fifties (I was born in 1950)... I remember having a B&W television hooked up to a 54ft antenna in the back yard....we got TWO stations (9 and 12), and ABC, CBS, and NBC shared them. I remember that during tornado alerts we hunkered down in the cellar....which was exactly like the one in The Wizard of Oz...a wooden door leading down into a dirt cellar underneath a small hill-like mound of dirt. It locked from the inside by hooking a wire over a nail! I remember "Duck and Cover" drills in grade school....as if hiding under an open desk next to a wall of windows would protect us from an atomic bomb blast....that is if the Russians had chosen to bomb a little farm town a hundred miles away from nowhere anyhow! I remember that a hamburger at the local "hamburger joint" was only 25¢.....except at "Tillie's" where they were 5 for a dollar. When my dad took me to the Rattlesnake Roundup in Sweetwater Texas one year, he was complaining that the hamburgers were a whopping 40¢ each! We each ordered two (which we typically did) but they were so big we couldn't finish them. I remember whining for a new toy and my parents giving me a damn button threaded onto a long loop of string to twirl around between my two hands (like a tiny version of a jump rope or something) because they claimed that was all THEY had for toys when they were kids! I remember my mom getting a break by taking us kids to the picture show and leaving us there all day long to watch the horror show or cowboys and Indians over and over (or just run up and down the aisles) until she came to get us. I also remember standing in line at the picture show with two mercury head dimes in my hand...one for my movie ticket and one for my popcorn! I remember going to the picture show to see a really scary movie called "Plan 9 From Outer Space" when it was first released! LOL (It's now considered the "worst movie ever made"!) I remember Tom Terrific and Manfred the Wonder Dog cartoons....with his arch nemesis, Crabby Appleton, who was "rotten to the core". I remember watching Pinky Lee on television, but today all I remember about him is that that was his name.... I remember my first grade teacher passing around one of the NEW pennies in class....the one with the Lincoln memorial on the back. To tell you the truth....the only thing I'd like to have back are the 25¢ hamburgers!!! |
Crazydog | Tuesday, February 18, 2003 - 11:25 am     oh, that's right Sadiesmom. I thought it was great they went to different time periods in history. Very cool I remember when soda came in 16 oz. glass bottles. You needed a bottle opener to open them. You had to RETURN them to the grocery store. And you never would have thought of consuming the whole thing all at once all by yourself! Nowadays kids drink 24 oz. plastic bottles with nary a thought! I remember when saccharine ("the pink stuff") stopped being used widely because "it causes cancer in rats". I remember when M&M's didn't come in red (or blue for that matter) because the red dye was poisonous. I remember when they were called "TV dinners". They came in aluminum trays and the mashed potatoes were always terrible. |
Marysafan | Tuesday, February 18, 2003 - 12:03 pm     I remember watching the Wizard of Oz on our black and white TV and my mother telling us that she saw it in the movie theater. She tried to explain how pretty the Land of OZ was in color and we tried hard to imagine it. The "horse of a different color" bit was totally lost on us. I remember that popcorn came in cardboard box like containers that we would fashion into "goggles" by ripping off the top and bottom flaps and tearing away part of the sides to make ear holders. We got school shoes, church shoes, and sneakers...and snow boots. I always had to take extra care of mine because I was the oldest and they would be passed down. I would walk or ride my bike to the grocery store for my mother everyday after school...in the winter I pulled a sled (which she liked because I could carry more). We all ate at the table together. We ate whatever was served and if we didn't like it...we ate some of it or we went hungry. Afterwards "the girls" did the dishes. Chores were divided into boys stuff like taking out the garbage, cutting the grass....and girls stuff like dishes, dusting, baking cookies, setting the table, ironing, laundry, looking after the little ones...etc. Yes...it was as lopsided as it looks. We ALL shoveled snow! The TV guide used to list what programs were in color. Dad used to ask one of us to turn the channel for him...we were his personal remotes! lol! I remember Captain Kangaroo reading us stories like "Stone Soup". |
Whoami | Tuesday, February 18, 2003 - 02:01 pm     OMG! I forgot about the TV Guide listing which programs were in color (or not). I can now clearly see in my mind's eye, the black "rounded" box with a white BW printed inside it. It was next to the titles of the shows airing in black & white. Funny though, I don't remember a symbol for "color." |
Bbfreak | Tuesday, February 18, 2003 - 02:24 pm     This thread is great! I remember the start of Summer Vacation (They actually lasted a whole 3 MONTHS) and the first week going bare foot and having tender feet from wearing shoes all year. I spent summers at Grandmas house and the first day , I would go down to the creek and bury my shoes ( I would later tell Gramma I LOST THEM)I can see an archeologist discovering several pairs of shoes in a few 100 years, LOL. Fishing all day and getting lost in the bayous, always discovering something new. Mom not worrying about where we were until the street lights came on. Saturday morning was the only time we watched television for more than an hour. Puff N Stuff,Land of the Lost,American Bandstand,Zoom, Electric Company, the Gong show (We'll be riiiiiight back with more STUFF!) Never even THINKING about bothering Dad when he had his nap on Sunday afternoon! ("Don't make me come out there!") Praying as a family when the Vietnam War ended, thanking God for bringing our soldiers home, and praying for the families who lost loved ones. My Dad taught us to shake Vets hands and say "Welcome Home". I still do that to this day. Pet Rocks, ( Just HAD to have one!) Slinkys (The metal kind that cut your hands to ribbons when they got all bent up),Huge Spools that telephone cables came on, for the Table in the "Fort". Going to the drive in and seeing The Apple Dumpling gang, Herbie the Love Bug, Bad News Bears. Pop Rocks, Icees, Huge sweet tarts, and those long straws of pure sugar that wired us up for DAYS. Candy necklaces and candy rings. <sigh> |
Denecee | Tuesday, February 18, 2003 - 03:31 pm     OM! Bbfreak, we must be the same age. I'll never forget, how my brothers & their friends would make the best forts and not let us girls in until they were finished with it. |
Queenfish | Tuesday, February 18, 2003 - 04:34 pm     moodrings, Kiss, platform shoes, Farrah hair, Tiger Beat, Happy Days, Soap, and Saturday night Fever |
Julieboo | Tuesday, February 18, 2003 - 04:48 pm     Bbfreak, Denecee & Queenfish, we all must be about the same age. Great memories BBfreak and Queenfish. My favorite TV shows as a little kid were Emergency and Brady Bunch. Remember that "shag" was a haircut and a carpet? Did ya wear a puka shell necklace in high school? |
Hippyt | Tuesday, February 18, 2003 - 05:36 pm     OMG Land of the Lost,remember the Sleestacks???? LOL We all must be around the same age. I remember my Dad taking me to see The Apple Dumpling Gang. Did anyone else have a rabbit fur coat in Junior High? accck,lol |
Mygetaway | Tuesday, February 18, 2003 - 06:09 pm     It's fun strolling down memory lane, isn't it? It's so true about feeling so safe back then. I mean once in awhile you got the "creeps" about something, but it seemed so much safer. I too remember riding my bike at a young age about 3 miles across town to the library and spending all day there by myself, never worrying. I remmeber taking the bus to the mall with my best friend and sitting in the very back acting all crazy, and then hanging out at the Mall all day in Jr. High. It was no big deal. I've had a very hard time giving that same freedom to my stepdaughters. |
Melfie1222 | Tuesday, February 18, 2003 - 06:19 pm     Crazydog... that part about tape recording your favorite songs on the radio... that is classic! Cordless phones when the phone part was about as big as a shoebox.. and VCR's that were about as big as the tv, and were either beta or VHS. Before VCR's my family would sometimes check out a projector, screen and films on reel from the library. Also Atari at home.. but the big deal was going to the arcade at the mall.. a few people would be playing the "old" games (PacMan, Centipede, Galaga) but a few brave players would go to the "new" games, the ones with all the cool graphics and color (the one I can think of was called something like Dragonslayer? if I remember right) everybody else would crowd around and watch and most were too scared to play... until a couple weeks later when the next new game arrived. MTV once showed music videos almost all the time. On weekdays you could watch game shows almost all day long and the only talk show was Donahue. When the NC-17 movie rating came out and some people were like... cool now we get to see really naughty movies at the regular movie theatre... but how many NC-17 movies have there been, like four or something? |
Nanarobin | Tuesday, February 18, 2003 - 09:37 pm     REMEMBERING Stroll with me...close your eyes...and go back before the internet...before bombings, aids, herpes, before semiautomatics and crack...before SEGA or Super Nintendo...way back! I'm talking about sitting on the curb, sitting on the steps...about malt shops,hide-and-go-seek, Simon says and red-light-green-light. Lunch boxes with a thermos...chocolate milk, going home for lunch, penny candy from the store, hopscotch, butterscotch, skates with keys, jacks and Cracker Jacks, hulahoops and sunflower seeds, wax lips and mustaches, Mary Jane's, saddle shoes and Coke bottles with the names of cities on the bottom. Remember when it took five minutes for the TV to warm up. When nearly everyone's Mom was at home when the kids arrived home from school. When nobody owned a purebred dog. When a quarter was a decent allowance. When you'd reach into a muddy gutter for a penny. When your Mom wore nylons that came in two pieces. When all of your teachers wore neckties and female teachers had their hair done every day and wore high heels. Remember running through the sprinkler, circle pins, bobbypins, Mickey Mouse Club, Rocky and Bullwinkle, Kookla, Fran and Ollie, Dick Clark's American Bandstand...all in black and white and your Mom made you turn it off when a storm came. When around the corner seemed far away and going downtown seemed like going somewhere. Climbing trees, making forts, lemonade stands, cops and robbers, cowboys and Indians, staring at clouds, jumping on the bed, pillow fights, ribbon candy, angel hair on the Christmas tree, white gloves, walking to the movie theater, running till you were out of breath, your first haircut, laughing so hard that you stomach hurt...remember that? Not stepping on a crack or you'd break your mother's back, paper chains at Christmas, silhouettes of Lincoln and Washington, the smells of school, of past and "Evening in Paris" perfume. When you got your windshield cleaned, oiled checked and gas pumped without asking -all for free-every time. You didn't pay for air and you got trading stamps to boot. When laundry detergent had free glasses, dishes or towels hidden inside the box. When it was considered a great privilege to be taken out to dinner to a real restaurant with your parents. When the worst thing you could do at school was flunk a test or chew gum. The prom was in the gym or the lunch room and you danced to a real orchestra. When they threatened to keep kids back a grade if they failed -- and they did it. When being sent to the principal's office was nothing compared to the fate that awaited the 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! But we survived because their love was so much greater than the threat. Remember when people went steady; and girls wore a class ring with an inch of wrapped adhesive tape so it would fit their finger. When no one ever asked where the car keys were because they were always in the car, in the ignition, and the car and house doors were never locked. Remember playing baseball with no adults needing to enforce the rules of the game. And, with all our progress, don't you wish, that just once you could slip back in time and savor the slower pace...and share it with the children of today? There, didn't that feel good? Just to lean back and say: "Yeah, I remember." |
Nanarobin | Tuesday, February 18, 2003 - 09:47 pm     I WANT TO GO BACK TO A TIME 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." Catching the fireflies could happily occupy an entire evening. It wasn't odd to have two or three "best friends." Being old referred to anyone over 20. The net on a tennis court was the perfect height to play volleyball and rules didn't matter. The worst thing you could catch from the opposite sex was cooties. It was magic when dad would "remove" his thumb. 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. It was a big deal to finally be tall enough to ride the "big people" rides at the amusement park. Getting a foot of snow was a dream come true. Abilities were discovered because of a "double-dog-dare." Saturday morning cartoons weren't 30-minute ads for action figures. No shopping trip was complete unless a new toy was brought home. "Oly-oly-oxen-free" made perfect sense. Spinning around, getting dizzy and falling down was cause for giggles. 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. Taking drugs meant orange-flavored chewable aspirin. Ice cream was considered a basic food group. Older siblings were the worst tormentors, but also the fiercest protectors. If you can remember most or all of these, than you have LIVED!!! |
Conejo | Wednesday, February 19, 2003 - 05:44 am     Nanarobin, OMG you just brought back soooo many memories that I had forgotten! Red Light, Green Light! Thanks  |
Ddr1135 | Wednesday, February 19, 2003 - 05:57 am     hula-hoops, hopskotch, marbles, jacks, and what was that thing called that you put around your ankle that had a plastic line with a ball and you would jump over it? |
Ruditoo | Wednesday, February 19, 2003 - 06:08 am     Do you remember when I proposed the question what was an approprite gift to give to a newly married,new Americans, Hindu young couple (It was an arranged marriage and they followed Hindi living customs. I met them threw the groom's mother whom I visited with and she was very kind invited me into their home and had me try so many new foods all of which she had made from scratch! Well, back to why I'm putting this here and the news I have to tell. I always intended to come back with: what I had decided on as a gift for their home and their reaction along with how they were fairing in their new country. And thanks again to all who had input on my delemma. The reason I've been mute is shortly after my last post, I found out K had lost his job at WC, had packed everything into a U-haul, turned their keys in early and told the staff that they would contact them where to send their deposit. The leaseing agent told me she would tell me when she received thier forwarding address and I'm still waiting. I just know they are fine. K I think is mature of mind and heart with strong believes and close familys not in miles, but where it counts in true family spirit and I have great faith they will to well. When I do learn more I will post. |
Staceyinpa | Wednesday, February 19, 2003 - 06:13 am     Ddr, They were called "Lemon Drops" back then (The ball was a lemon), they call them "Skip-It" now. That was my favorite toy.,.... |
Ddr1135 | Wednesday, February 19, 2003 - 06:33 am     Thanks Stacey, it was driving me crazy trying to remember what it was called. |
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