You kmow you are old, if you can remember...

[caledesi]

The original Mickey Mouse Club
Mr. Wizard
My Friend Flicker
The Roy Rogers Show
The Howdy Dowdy Show

Davy Crocke Coonskin caps
Hula Hoops
Ginny or Vogue Dolls

Erector Sets
Lincoln Log Cabins

Queen for a day.

Any others?

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

1. Bozo

The Winchell Mahoney show

[Lisabtrucking]

88. I went too the bozo show. hehehe. N/t

[Milspec]

155. Water Fountains

With signs, White & Colored. I saw them as a little boy in a large public building.

[fortyfeetunder]

159. Or Willard Scott playing Bozo

or Ronald Mc Donald....

[Racenut20]

2. the $64.00 dollar question radio show.

[trof]

7. I think that was "Double Your Money"

Started with the One Dollar Question and progressed up to $64.

[Racenut20]

24. You are probably right. I just remember the popular phrase of the

times was "Thats the 64 dollar question". It was the catch-all for anything ask and not understood.

[johnnie]

3. Damn!

You're old. :evilgrin:

But I get called "old" by some of the kids today and I am only 40.

[Racenut20]

4. I must be old. I remember every one of those things.

[snacker]

54. Me too. n/t

[Jamastiene]

5. Remembering Mr Wizard

makes me old? Really? How about Don't Just Sit There?

[Huckebein the Raven]

14. I'm 25 and watched Mr. Wizard when I was young

and played with Lincoln Logs

does that make me old ?

[name not needed]

Hell, I'm 16 and I can remember seeing Mr. Wizard on TV

[Huckebein the Raven]

17. I loved that show

[Jamastiene]

30. A big WHEW!

<wipes brow> I hated turning 30 almost 5 years ago, so I am glad at least 2 20 somethings have watched him too. We are definitely not old. Thanks for posting.

[Huckebein the Raven]

34. no problem

:)

[NNadir]

130. Mr. Wizard was great television, which is why it's no longer on.

[MikeG]

6. Time Tunnel.

[Lydia Leftcoast]

18. Time Tunnel? Nah, you're young!

How about

Buffalo Bill Jr.
Pop machines that sold Cokes for a dime and had the bottles standing in ice water. After you put your dime in, you slid the bottle along a groove to a lever that was loosened by putting the dime in.
Fake plastic lips that you gripped with your teeth
Betsy McCall dolls
tank model bikes with platforms on the back fender
Andy's Gang
skirts with crinolines that stood out parallel to the floor when you twirled
Mary Jane shoes worn with white anklets
Spoolie curlers (instruments of torture!)
Five Day Deodorant Pads
Sugar Jets
Sweet Sue dolls
Tiny Tears dolls
P.F. Flyers
The Voice of Firestone
Super Circus
rickrack
TV sets that still had a white light burning in the middle of the screen for several minutes after you turned them off
Paying 15 cents for McDonald's hamburgers and 19 cents for cheeseburgers

If you remember this stuff, you remember the 1950s. :-)

[MikeG]

19. Born in 1958.

[Lydia Leftcoast]

25. Born in 1950

So there! :-)

[lumberingbear]

27. Born in 1947

[caledesi]

65. Me ttoo. God, I do feel old. Do you realize that the microwave

oven came out in 1947? Go figure. (That's the year I was born)

[SW FL Dem]

81. Same here, n/t

[caledesi]

63. Very good! You are OLD! nt

[caledesi]

92. Oh, those are good. Remember the fries were 10 cents! nt

[Hardrada]

100. Or: Cars with running boards

Vaughan Monroe
Julius La Rosa
Saturday matinees that always ended with cliffhangers
The Longines Symphonette on radio
Neighbors who owned Kaisers and Frazers
Coronet Magazine
Creamsicles and Dreamsicles
Trolley buses shooting blue sparks from the wire above
nylons with a vertical line up the back
Dale Evans purses
TV's with round screens
Beer cans with conical tops
Ding Dong School
Watching the Army-Mccarthy Hearings live (I actually did, was home with the flu)
No a/c anywhere
Wonder Bread Building Strong Bodies 8 Ways
The Geritol commercials on Lawrence Welk
Milton Cross and Ben Grauer (classical music announcers)

[The Zanti Regent]

110. Mc Donald's ALL AMERICAN MEAL for 47¢

15¢ Hamburger
10¢ Fries
22¢ Shake

and I can still remember when it actually tasted good

[caledesi]

141. Zanti - I remember it like it was yesterday....I used to vist my aunt

and go to McDonalds with ONE dollar. (yeah, I got change). No one believes that fries were once 10 cents! And yes, they were good!

[flordehinojos]

153. Burger King must have had something like that because I think I remember

a Burger King hamburger/fires/shake for no more than $1.50 (perhpas it was a little bit later in reference to the time that you are posting about) but still, long ago adn way cheaper than today's BK prices.

[Ivan Sputnik]

168. Time Tunnel?

What's that? I'm way too young to remember that.

[ConcernedCanuk]

8. Milk and bread delivered daily to your door -

.
.
.

[ikojo]

41. I used to have milk delivered to my door and that was only

a few years ago...stopped because it got too expensive and I found out the owner of the company was running as a pug in an Illinois Senate race.

[caledesi]

66. OMG! I remember that. Remember the "cream" at the top

of the bottles?

[flordehinojos]

154. Yes, and I actuall had an aunt (who must now be in heaven) who used to get

up early enough to skim the cream from the top of the bottle, make her cafe au lait with it and let the rest of the family have theirs with what today might be called FAT FREE milk... except, they didn't know that THEY were drinking the healthy stuff.

[Kikosexy2]

9. I remember ...

most of these and yet I'm only 42. You forgot the Bozo the Clown Show, Hobo Kelly, Captain Kangaroo, Romper Room! Erector set?? Sounds like a sex toy--but I do remember that too.

[Redstone]

10. What the S and H in S&H Green Stamps stood for, also

when Mr Potato Head was just the nose and stuff, and you used an actual potato for the head.

Redstone

[A HERETIC I AM]

32. Redstone? What DOES the S & H stand for?

The S is my fathers first name......

[BobMorr]

35. S & H Stamps

Sperry and Hutchinson= S & H stamps.

[TheCentepedeShoes]

55. Damn yes !!

S & H Stamps. Got a hookah with - what? - 6 books?

[Redstone]

114. Bingo!

You get the prize.

Redstone

[Kikosexy2]

11. I remember ...

most of these and yet I'm only 42. You forgot the Bozo the Clown Show, Hobo Kelly, Captain Kangaroo, Romper Room! Erector set?? Sounds like a sex toy--but I do remember that too.

[cruadin]

12. Zorro---the TV show w/ Guy Williams.

[skygazer]

13. I'm so old that I remember

That it was actually "My Friend Flicka" not "Flicker". :)

Also

Milkmen and egg delivery
78 RPM records
Rabbit ears
Telephone party lines
Drugstore soda fountains

[caledesi]

67. Thanks for the correction. You are right..it's "My Friend Flicka"

and I do remember milk delivery (no eggs though). 78 RPMS, of course.
Party lines? I almost forgot. We had one. Drug store fountains? Of course. When I was a pre-teen, we used to go the soda fountain and order vanilla or cherry cokes and fries.

[xmas74]

89. I lived in the country in the late 1980's

and we still had party lines. I graduated from hs in '93 and it wasn't until a few years later that they finally replaced them.
The old woman down the road used to listen to everyone's calls.

[trof]

15. Can you edit "kmow" to "know"?

It's just distracting.
thanks
;-)

[caledesi]

93. Sorry, tried to edit it, but too late. nt

[Kikosexy2]

16. I remember ...

most of these and yet I'm only 42. You forgot Hobo Kelly, Bozo the Clown, Romper Room, Captain Kangaroo, Sheriff John. Erector set? sounds like a sex toy but I remember that too.

[caledesi]

70. Sheriff John..I don't remember. Lived in New England...

was the show there?

[LiberalEsto]

20. It's My Friend FLICKA

and Howdy DOODY.

How about the original Romper Room? With the Do-Bees and the Don't-Bees.

And my fave, Sandy Becker, kiddie show king, of WNEW TV in NYC.

[latebloomer]

56. Terrytoon Circus

also a local New York show, with Claude Kirschner.

Every night when the show ended at 7:30, he used to say, "And now it's time for most of you to go to bed."

And I felt very superior, because I didn't have to.

[LiberalEsto]

118. Yes!

Good memory, there.

[RC]

21. The difference between

'49 and '50 Fords when they were new.

[pink-o]

22. Transistor Radios

I killed a million 9-volt batteries by leaving it on under my pillow and falling asleep. It only had an AM band and was bigger than a Walkman, and sounded like shit.

I for one, am making up for lost time living in Audio Hell with my fabu Ipod!!!!!

[caledesi]

68. Me too. What would have life been w/o that little transister radio

under your pillow at night? Gawd, I really feel old now.

[blackcat77]

23. Sky King

"Out of the blue of the Western sky, it's Sky King!"

That show kicked butt...

[JitterbugPerfume]

31. Out side Johns with a Sears catalog

ice boxes ,

Pin curls
Maybelline Mascara when it was a hard cake of black stuff you spit on and ran a little brush across

poodle skirts

Juke boxes a dime a play or five for a quarter

sweater sets

kick pleats

running boards

ipana tooth paste

snow suits with leggings


pot belly stoves

aprons

pointy toe shoes with three inch heels

picture hats

I could go on and on ans on......

[TheCentepedeShoes]

40. I remember all of those.

Either at my house or some older relations. Loved Ipana toothpaste. Remember it in a sort of six-sided stand-up squeezy thing. Was that the one that tasted like root beer, or was that Pepsodent?

[latebloomer]

57. There was just a thread here the other day about Ipana

and Bucky, Bucky Beaver.

And "you'll wonder where the yellow went, when you brush your teeth with Pepsodent."

[cmd]

52. My daughter came home last weekend wearing .....

pointy toe shoes with three inch heels. They were evil looking.

[caledesi]

72. How about those curlers for girls called "Spoolies?"

If any of you ol' farts wore a "bubble" hairdo, you must remember these?

[caledesi]

69. Oh yeah...Saturdays started w/ "Boomtown" at 6 AM

and then we watched ALL the shows....Sky King, My Friend Flicka, Roy Rogers & Dales Evans. etc.

[Gabi Hayes]

102. name of the plane?

name of his niece?

name of the actor who played Sky King?

no fair looking

[Lydia Leftcoast]

132. Name of the plane: Songbird

Name of his niece: Penny
Actor: Guy Kibbee

And I didn't look. :P

[immoderate]

135. Kirby Grant was Sky King (didn't have to look.)

--IMM

[caledesi]

142. And name of the jeep? Nellie Belle....never forget that. nt

[RadicalMom]

177. Sorry, but Nellie Belle was the Jeep on the Roy Rogers Show.

[Buns_of_Fire]

162. I even remember the KIND of plane!

It was a Beech Bonanza (the one with the V-tail). And every other week, he'd have to stuff it with hay bales to toss out to the starving horses in the canyon that'd been cut off (by a rockslide caused by an evil out-of-towner businessman who was setting off dynamite to mine the local diamonds/gold/silver/oil/rutabagas/whatever).

Thankfully, he usually only beaned one or two of the locals with the hay bales.

[jojo54]

26. OMG I am old

I remember all of these things. Does anybody remember the "Quarentine" posters put on your front door when someone in the family had chicken pox?

[steve2470]

28. ...when air conditioning was a luxury, not a right lol nt

[caledesi]

74. Yes, being from New England we never had AC, but I just thought

of another one. Color TV. Wow! There were only a few (mostly only kids) that had a color TV. It was a real treat to see it. Talked about it for hours.

[acmavm]

29. I remember when the doctor actually came to the house!

.

[JitterbugPerfume]

36. Arthur Godfrey

Garry Moore

Red Skelton

Red Buttons

Ed Sullivan

mama dolls

penny candy

five cent cokes

You'll wonder where the yellow went when you brush your teeth with pepsodent

when a well dressed daddy wore on a fedora and a starched white shirt and tie

circle pins

neck scarves

penny loafers

[Lydia Leftcoast]

60. "I once had a doll that was all dressed in white

I called her my sweetheart when I'd hold her tight.
Her eyes were so blue and her cheeks were so red,
I loved her most of all, each time she said,
"Mama, mama,"
One little word she knew.
"Mama, mama."
It means that I love you."

I can't believe that I remember that song!

[caledesi]

75. Yes, good one. I remember our family doctor actually coming

to our home! Seems so weird now.

[Hardrada]

101. I had a cold that would not go away

They thought it was pneumonia and much-loved Nels Olson, our family doctor came to see me several times during a two week period. I was in 3rd grade.

[RadicalMom]

178. I used to run and hide, trembling with fear, when the piano tuner

came to the house with his big black bag, because I thought he must be the doctor.

[kentuck]

33. Pinky Lee

:)

[TheCentepedeShoes]

37. LOL !!!

Just what I was going to say. :D

[Snap]

39. Yancy Derringer

Brothers of the Spear
Snip Snap and Snur

[caledesi]

77. Hello, hee hee, my name is Pinky Lee. Oh yeah I remember

him.

[The Zanti Regent]

111. Pinky Lee and Gumby

I remember when Pinky Lee hosted the Gumby Show. Pinky was on a cheesy "Enchanted Forest" set.

I still remember running into Pinky Lee in the mid 80s. He was such a bitter old man...

[Penndems]

38. O.K., here goes:

Watergate
Captain Kangeroo
Chatty Cathy dolls
Johnny Seven toy machine guns
The ORIGINAL Barbies (with the bouffant and ponytail hairdos)
Rock'em Sock'em Robots
The first "Saturday Night Live"
Albums and 45's
When John Travolta was in "Welcome Back, Kotter"
A UNIVAC computer
Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In
The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour
The Ed Sullivan Show (try explaining THAT to a 17-year-old)
Variety shows of the 1960s ("The Dean Martin Show", "The Jonathan Winters Show", "The Glen Campbell Goodtime Hour", etc.)
Quadrophonic sound
Eight-track tapes (and tape players)
Vietnam War protest marches in downtown D.C.
Democratic and Republican conventions of the 1960s and 1970s


And, if you grew up in the D.C. area:

Ranger Hal
Pick Temple
Hot Shoppes, Howard Johnson's, Gifford's Ice Cream parlors,
and Topps Drive-In's
The Orange Bowl pizza place and Farrell's Ice Cream Parlor at
Tysons Corner Mall
Listening to AM "Top 40" radio on WPGC, WEEL and WEAM ("The Lively One")
Listing to WHFS and WHNC, the "underground" stations
Lansburgh's, Jeleff's, Garfinkel's and Woodward and Lothrop department stores
When riding Metro from Rosslyn to MacPherson Square was .35 cents

[caledesi]

96. Wow! Talk about "Memory Lane"....when I was 19 I moved to

DC and defintely remember

Hot Shoppes
Woodys
Garfinkels

Man...I feel very like I should be embalmed!

[miss_kitty]

42. shut up! SHUT UP!!!

[Piperay]

43. I remember all that stuff

I'm older than dirt.:D

[RC]

53. You must be older than me.

'cause I only remember when dirt was clean. :P

[Piperay]

105. Hehehehe

:bounce:

[kwassa]

44. Glass milk bottles that the milk man delivered to your house

with the little cardboard tabs

[flordehinojos]

156. we spent part of a summer at an aunt's house in Mississippi. She and my

uncle had a few cows and they sold fresh milk to a few people in the town. I remember going with them on the milk route as they were delivering those milk bottles with the little cardboard tabs to their customers and oh, how those bottles would rattle "clink-clink" on the ride to their homes...it was almost like a symphony orchestra in the car riding along.

[kwassa]

163. Brylcreem, a little dab will do yah!

I used to use it, too.

But that sexy woman never came out of the tube, like in the commercials.

[bobthedrummer]

45. I'm 55 and remember when you could smoke in retail stores, I remember

horsedrawn "junkmen's" wagons, electric trolleys in Milwaukee, 20 cents a gallon leaded gas, nickel candy bars and sawdust on the floor of the meat market...

[caledesi]

78. Oh yeah, remember the "gas wars?'

I remember going from station to station saying "Hey dad., it's 24 cents/gallon over there and they are giving free drinking glasses."

It's the truth.

[DainBramaged]

46. Jean Shepard's radio show

[LiberalEsto]

119. My mom lovedJean Shepherd's show

and yes, I remember when gas at the PathMark gas station in New Brunswick NJ was 25 cents a gallon and they gave out nice green glass tumblers. And cigarettes were 25 cents a pack, and stamps were 4 cents.

And when girls had heavy metal roller skates that you adjusted with a key that you wore around your neck on a string.

And when "The Twist" became popular and adults said we would wreck our backs dancing it. (So THAT'S why I have a bad back now)

And licorice strings and wax lips and wax mustaches and wax fingernails and pixie straws and Italian ice trucks, and those long strips of paper with rows of teensy candy dots that you bit off, one or two at a time.

[BensMom]

47. How about when

You could buy a pet turtle at the dime store?
And those silly looking new cars - Gremlins.
Did ya ever put a dime in the penny loafers?

Oh I so wanted the twiggy eyes.

[TheCentepedeShoes]

59. Had a turtle from the pet store

Probably did cost a dime, mom was too cheap to spend more. Had to give him (guess it was a "him") away when folks split up. Folks got back together so lost the turtle for no good reason. Gremlin? Hey, my first car in '72. It was yellow. Dime in penny loafers? Did that. Twiggy eyes? no.

[RebelOne]

48. Yyup, remember all of it, so I guess I'm older than dirt. n/t

[Doctor_J]

49. Peter Gunn - TV show and song

Science Fiction Theatre. Scheduled double-headers on the baseball schedule. Test patterns on TV.

[Skittles]

50. when Michael Jackson was a good-looking black man

he was

[Sugar Smack]

107. Heee heeeee heeeeee!!

I remember! And there was a nose!! There was an actual nose on his face.



:bounce:

[Skittles]

181. he was a cutie pie

I had a crush on him

[Misunderestimator]

140. Yep... and a tiny little heartthrob too...

[cmd]

51. the ice man

the ice box
the outhouse
chickens hanging on grandma's clothesline
clothes hanging on the clothes lines
wringer washers
naval binders
the first television in town
the telephone operator
party lines
a chamber pot under the bed

and, yes, I do remember them all

[caledesi]

80. Man, I thought I was old! You have me beat.

When I posted this thread, I didn't want any "Etch-a-Sketch" people....too young.

[cmd]

106. LOL Yep, I'm older than dirt

I also grew up in the Boondocks.

[Seabiscuit]

99. A true story about President Truman

Before he took office, there were no dial telephones. You picked up the receiver and told an operator the number you wanted to call.

When he left office and went home to Missouri everyone had dial telephones. He didn't know how to use it.

I remember my amazement when my parents brought home our first dial telephone.

[Kadie]

58. Sing along with Mitch?

Follow the bouncing ball.

[Lydia Leftcoast]

61. "Let me hear a melody, I want to sing along

loud and strong
I want to sing along.
Let me hear a melody
A simple singing song
And I'll sing, sing along."

You guys are making me free associate to all the old tunes that are still stored in my memory circuits.

[HamstersFromHell]

62. Help me, Mr. Wizard! (and more blasts from your past)

Drizzle, drazzle, druzzle, drone
time for this one to come home.

Adding to your list...

TV and toons:

Tennessee Tuxedo
Fireball XL-5
King Leonardo and Odie Cologne
Hercules Rabbit (and his Guided Muscle)
Quisp and Quake ads
Topo Gigo
Beany and Cecil

Toys:

Jimmy Jet
Bill Ding Blocks
Gilbert Chemistry Sets
Vac-U-Form Sets
Varoom Motors for your bike (or even playing cards and clothespins?)
Butterfly Handlebars, a Sissy Bar and a Banana Seat
Clackers (until Lawn Darts, the most dangerous toy you could own!)
Etch-a-Sketch
Duncan Yo-Yos
Paddle Balls
Super Balls
Testor's Rubber band powered Airplanes
Trolls

Clothing:

Red Ball Jets, Pro Keds (also Chuck Taylor Converse All Stars)
Flag Shoes
Nehru Jackets
Sears Toughskins :puke:
Granny Glasses
Mood Rings

Other:

Paregoric
Cod Liver Oil
Geritol
Serutan
Curb Feelers
Veg-O-Matic
Mouli (I have an all metal one from 1949 and I love it)

...I think I could go on forever here.

[Lydia Leftcoast]

133. The younger generation has been spared paregoric

but it was my grandmother's home remedy for any sort of digestive ailment.

That has to be the most foul flavor I have ever tasted.

[caledesi]

143. Not to mention, it was a narcotic! I remember that licorice scent and fl

I am a very sick puppy!

[Lydia Leftcoast]

150. I don't care that it was a narcotic

It tasted so nasty that I was never even tempted to get addicted to it! Whatever was ailing me was better than that stuff.

[sundog]

64. HR Pufnstuff

[khashka]

71. I hate you sundog

I remember HR Pufnstuff. Never missed an episode. And I am not old, damn it!

You are old if you remember....

The Alamo.
or who said "Kiss me, Hardy"
or poulaines

Khash.

[sundog]

76. I was having a conversation

with some friends of mine who are in their mid 20's. I was talking bout HR Pufnstuff, and they looked at me like I was talking about aliens or something. I felt ooooollldd :scared:

[caledesi]

82. I am originally from NE, and dont don't know HR.....I feel so out

of the "ol' farts" loop.

[RadicalMom]

179. I knew the guy who played HR Puffenstuff. He was in the Navy

stationed at Great Lakes, and dated a girl in my dorm, freshman year, 1971/72. Don't know the real name. They all called him H.R.

[edbermac]

73. I'm so old I knew Sigmund Freud when he was in medical school...

Let's see anybody top that...:silly:

[China_cat]

108. Freud's mother used to brag to me

about her son, the doctor.

j/k

[SW FL Dem]

79. Thank you !! For once, I don't feel old!

The onle things on the above list I experienced first hand were hoola hoops and Lincoln logs.

[Seabiscuit]

83. "Kukla, Fran & Ollie" and "The Magic Cottage"

and The Milton Berle Show.

Back when no one even heard of Johnny Carson.

[Seabiscuit]

87. And before you could buy a TV, the "Bickersons" on the radio.

[Seabiscuit]

98. Oh yes... and the radio version of "Amos & Andy"

Who from that era could forget "The Kingfish"?

[immoderate]

136. Pat Michael and the "Magic Cottage"

--IMM

[Seabiscuit]

84. When the "Ken" doll was invented to keep "Barbie" company

[Seabiscuit]

85. When a bottle of Coca Cola was a nickle.

And you could eat a hamburger, french fries, coke and a slice of apple pie for 85 cents at the local drug store.

[mcscajun]

169. When a White Castle Burger was a Nickel.

:)

I remember that, and when it went up to 6 cents. I was shocked. :P

[Lisabtrucking]

86. and George of the jungle, go speed racer. n/t

[KitchenWitch]

90. Soupy Sales

Tinker Toys

[Donailin]

121. oh, soupy sales

I loved that guy. and abbott and costello. black and white. saturday mornings. I lived for that.

[LiberalEsto]

122. Philo Kvetch

The Mask and Onions Oregano

[mykpart]

91. Winky Dink

Winky Dink was a character whose head was a star. The show allowed participation by the home audience. You bought a Winky Dink screen, which was a sheet of transparent plastic film, a little heavier than Saran Wrap. Then you would draw things on the screen to be a part of the story. The host was later implicated in the Quiz Show scandals of the 1950s.

[caledesi]

144. I don't remember that, but I do remember Mr. Wizard asking his

audience to put a saran wrap over the TV to participate in one of his experiments. Needless to say, Saran Wrap did not exist in our house....so deprived.

[Hardrada]

94. Radio: The Jack Benny Show, Suspense, Bob and Ray

Fanny Brice as Baby Snooks (God, I'm ancient)

[Hardrada]

95. Don McNeil's Breakfast Club

A Chicago radio show.

[China_cat]

109. Fibber Magee's closet.

[caledesi]

146. OMG! My mother (who was not the best housekeeper) used to

refer to the closet which held EVERTHING....as "go to the Fibber Magee".....oh yeah, real dyfunctional family.

[China_cat]

151. Actually, the show was Fibber Magee and Molly.

[Hardrada]

97. Uncle Miltie

Milton Berle and his TV show.

[Catchawave]

103. The Auto-Mat

Like a cafeteria, but the food was behind windows with coin slots.

Coney Island and Steeplechase Park

Car travel before interstates.

...and all the rest here :)

[nuxvomica]

124. I still think of NYC as having automats

But I guess there really aren't any left. When I was a very young kid, my folks took us to NYC to see Betty Grable in Hello Dolly. Afterward, we went to a nearby automat for a late dinner. I figured they would replace all other types of restaurants.

[Rhiannon12866]

104. Thank God! I'm not that old!!! I don't remember any of that!!!

Whoopee!!!:D But I did have a hula hoop.:shrug:

[The Zanti Regent]

112. I remember the original 3 Musketeers Bars

Instead of one big chocolate one, originally there were 3 chocolate, vanilla and strawberry cubes in the original 3 Musketeer's package!

[achtung_circus]

113. Well, children,

I remember a time when you could drive your Mercury to a gas station. When you pulled up beside the gas pump a man came out of the gas station. He was dressed in a uniform and wore a hat. He would ask you how he could help you and would pump your gas for you. He would check your oil for you. If requested, he would check the air pressure in your tires and top up the air if necessary.

Hard to believe.

[liberalpress]

117. Harder still...

..to believe that the gas he pumped into your tank, was (the lowest I can remember) 25.9 a gallon.

[Blue_In_AK]

173. Sometimes it was 19 cents a gallon in Houston...

...when there were gas wars.

[LiberalEsto]

123. They still pump your gas in NJ

and if you go to a Hess station they'll clean your windshield

[Lydia Leftcoast]

134. They still pump your gas for you in Oregon, too

Self-service stations are illegal.

During the 19 years I lived in Oregon, I actually forgot how to operate a gas pump!

[caledesi]

148. I want to move to Oregon! nt

[HamstersFromHell]

165. Swifty stations in TN still pump it for you

n/t

[caledesi]

147. I am an ol' fart bec I remember that distinctly. And of course,

don't forget how the station gave you free glasses or whatever.

My, how times have changed.

[rppper]

115. sigmund and the sea monsters......

the 1st season of scooby doo

maude

mcmillan and wife

the moon landing on network TV...there were only 3 channels then.....

[liberalpress]

116. Bridge and Turnpike construction set...

..God, I loved that.

[Donailin]

120. Get Smart, avacado green appliances and

Drive-In movies. That's as far back as I go

[radfringe]

125. Felix the Cat

Tom Terrific
and Freddy Friehofer

[Sugar Smack]

126. brands of candy-

squirrel nut zippers
Brach's jelly nougats (I'm jonesing for one right now!!!)
wax bottles
marathon bars
Lik'm Aid
BB bats (esp. the salty strawberry flavor!!)

We would load up little bags of these from a gas station, go home, dump them on the floor, sift through them and admire them like they were jewels, and then DIG IN!

[neweurope]

127. Hula hoops and My friend Flicka - that's supposed to make me OLD?

Not on your life. Why do you tell me impolite nasty things like this on a saturday when I've got the flu and don't look into the mirror because I certainly LOOK old? Very old? What drives you to tamper with my self esteem thus?
caledesi, you have something to make up for!

The Flicka-books I still read sometime :)

---------------------------

Remember Fallujah

Bush to The Hague!

[NeoTraitors]

128. 'Do You Remember These'

by the Statler Brothers is a great rant/list of '50's nostalgia, all in one song.

[caledesi]

149. So sorry EU, if I knew you had the flu I would have NEVER posted

this. :argh:

[neweurope]

152. You're forgiven :))

:hi:

---------------------

Remember Fallujah

Bush to The Hague!

[Karenina]

129. The "Breck Girls"

THEY had "good hair." :evilgrin:

[freebird1]

131. "Plunk your magic twanger, Froggy!"

from the "Andy Devine Show"

[immoderate]

137. Before Andy...

when Andy Devine was sidekick to the "Range Rider" there was Smilin' Ed, host of the "Cubhouse Gang" who told Froggy to plunk...

--IMM

[yellowdogintexas]

138. Rootie Kazootie, Winky Dink, Andy Devine (plunk your magic

twanger Froggie)

Ding Dong School with Miss Frances

[Misunderestimator]

139. Oh good, I don't feel so old anymore... :)

I remember Bozo's Bigtop, Gaptain Kangaroo, Land of the Lost, Hotwheels, Pet rocks and mood rings myself :)

[immoderate]

145. Your Hit Parade...with

Dorothy Collins (the Lucky Strike girl)
Snooky Lanson
Russell Arms

and...(????)

--IMM

[flordehinojos]

157. remember some of the things they played on the hit parade like,

Lollipop. Purple People Eater and others? Maybe that was before the time you recall.

[freebird1]

160. "He was a one eyed flying purple people eater"

- but at least he didn't "put beans in your ears" or "roller-skate in a Buffalo heard"

[kwassa]

164. itsy witsy teeny weeny yellow polka dot bikini, that she wore for the

first time, today

[immoderate]

166. "How Much Is That Doggie In the Window?"

Arf, arf!

--IMM

[freebird1]

182. "And In The Water She's Going To Stay"

:silly:

[Blue_In_AK]

174. Julius LaRosa -- bada bing !

[pauliedangerously]

158. Thanks for making me feel young!!!!

I was a toddler when Neil Armstrong stepped on the Moon...watched it with my Mother.

[arwalden]

161. REAL Cork Inside Coke Bottle Caps... Beer Cans With NO Pull Tabs.

[mcscajun]

170. Yup... had to pull the cork OUT to fill the caps with melted Crayons

so we could play "scully" -- a street game with a chalked 'board' on the asphalt, used the colored crayon-filled caps as 'shooters'.

Yes, I'm old. :)

[HamstersFromHell]

167. More tidbits...

Dad throwing a fit because 5th Avenue candy bars went from having 3 nuts on top of each to two. (Later on, they went to one and then poof!)

Mom being outraged because Krystal hamburgers (the original gut bombs) went up in price from 5 cents to 6 cents each.

Basement or backyard bomb shelters

Duck and cover

Gas wars (I remember 18.9 per gallon here)

Charles' Chips home delivery in those big yellow cans? (cookies and pretzels too!)

The Ernie Kovaks show

Tom Lerher

Kay Kayser's Kollege of Musical Knowledge (and Ish Kabibble)

What did Yehudi do? (And where did the name originate?)

[mcscajun]

171. A Hero Sandwich AND a 16 oz. Pepsi = for a grand total of 50 cents!

When I was 10 or 12 and running deliveries for the local grocer, I'd spend my wealth right back in there (some at the candy store and buying comics, too.)

A salami and cheese hero on good crusty Italian bread (35 cents), an ice cold Pepsi (15 cents), and eating it sitting on the curb in summer. Just a kid and using my own money to buy my lunch -- Damn that was good.

[Blue_In_AK]

172. Candy cigarettes, anyone?

Yeah, I remember this stuff, but I'm NOT old, thank you very much.

[Hardrada]

175. Antee antee eye over!

Pig's tail! (Words from a kid's game I used to play

[superconnected]

176. the weather man sticking a paper sun and paper cloud to a board

with a map on it, to show the weather, as he spoke. That was in the 70's.

[baron j]

180. When the earth was cooling.