Topic: Middle Aged Memories

May 6, 2012 10:08 AM, edited May 6, 2012 10:10 AM by elimar

My fave marionette saga was Supercar.  The only names I remember are Mike Mercury, Dr. Beaker, and Mitch.  That is the monkey.  Loved that monkey.

                               .......Surpercar.......it's the marvel of the age........

May 7, 2012 06:58 AM schatzi14 wrote:

Otter..

Just saw your posting about Ipana toothpaste. How strange! My DH and I were just talking about ole Bucky the other day and the yellow tube. LOL I can still remember the taste. Wonder why there is nothing similar these days. YUM 

May 21, 2012 03:55 PM Paula66 wrote:

Eli we did the same thing with cans.  I know this is gonna sound gross (but we did split worms in half to fish) but we would take the lightning bugs (firefly, depending where you live as what they are called) we caught and would pull the light up part off and wear them as jewelery.  I know I know gross, but when your a tomboy gross isn't a word, oh cool was more like it.   LOL the funny thing is I wore more lightning bug jewelery back then, compared to the amout I wear now.  Only a nose stud!

Jun 16, 2012 11:21 AM elimar wrote:

Hard to believe there haven't been any memories in the last month or so.  I've put so many memories on here already, it makes me wonder if I am more nastalgic than the average person or just have a good memory for things I did 40 years ago?  Is that one of the early signs of Alzheimer's...remembering 40 years ago, but forgetting to buy dog food at the store this morning?

Anyway, as a teen I got into making macrame (who didn't!) but I also got into working with leather in the most basic way.  I had some tools for doing designs on belts and wallets, and would go to the Tandy store to get my leather and leather dye, and buckles.  I wonder if I still have those leather tools somewhere?  They could be so handy in the post apocalyptic world.

Jun 17, 2012 11:48 AM elimar wrote:

I haven't touched a craft for a few years, not after my "retirement" from Cub Scouts.

Jun 19, 2012 07:58 AM Meece wrote:

I loved the crafts for the kids, but one can have too many picture frames made out of puzzle pieces.

I was remembering this weekend when in the 70s the Avon Lady would come by with her little turqoise case of new products.  I loved when she would leave those little sample "tubes" of lipstick even though I was much too young to wear any.  I was looking at an Avon catalogue recently and there is so much that isn't toiletries that I was surprised.

Jun 21, 2012 07:40 AM NativeMainer wrote:

Jun 21, 2012 11:28 AM, edited Jun 21, 2012 11:29 AM by elimar

I had a 70's pearly white sample from my neighbor's mom.  She was a little old to embrace the mod lips of the time.

That reminds me...cake eyeliner was very big at that time.  I had a cake of white eyeliner.  I ACTUALLY WORE IT.  I cannot say I looked good.

p.s.  I had blue mascara too.  Maybelline.

Jun 21, 2012 03:57 PM NativeMainer wrote:

Jun 22, 2012 07:51 AM Meece wrote:

Marybe gave me a chuckle with the short ???s that she wasn't able to wear.

My mother had one eyeshadow during my whole childhood.  It was blue and in a tube like a lipstick.  Since she had it the whole time, you can guess how often she wore it.

Jun 23, 2012 11:15 PM MinusTwo wrote:

Ladies: I've been wearing nothing but Tangee lipstick for several years now.  It doesn't "run" into those senior creases around the lips.  Below is the link where I buy it.  

www.vermontcountrystore.com/st...

If you've never seen it, you would all enjoy the catalog from this store.  It has almost everything we had as kids.  Oh the candies & the toys & the Lanz nightgowns.  I've been holding off on purchasing "Evening In Paris", but I'll splurge one day to remember high school.

Jun 24, 2012 06:24 PM elimar wrote:

I remember SenSen, the little breath sweeteners; but we thought they were just exotic candies.  Mmmm!

Then again, I remember Parke-Davis Throat Lozenges, in the slide out box.  Tasted kind of like ginger/clove x 10, and would numb your mouth.  Used to have contests with them, who could eat the most at one time.  Then it got a new formula, so you would not get numb.  No fun after that.

Jun 25, 2012 01:37 PM Marybe wrote:

I did not like SenSen....my grandfather who was a smoker used them, I think to cover the nicotine breath.  I tried them thinking it was going to be something good and it was a bit of a shock to my tongue.  Cherry cough drops...OMG....I could go through a box of those in ten minutes....I loved both Luden's and Smith Brother's.  I am not familiar with the Pine Bros. brand.  My grandmother used to get horhound drops and would give us one of those if we had a cough, but I always wanted the wild chery ones. 

I checked out that catalog Minus2....I used to love those coconut balls in the pastel colors....those were something else we always had at Grandma's house.  She had a candy dish that always had something in it....those jelly filled mints seemed to be a favorite of hers and also the wintergreen mints that were pink....the white ones which were peppermint I did not like so much. The ones I really hated and still do are Starlight mints....she would send one of us over to the dime store to buy a half a pound of those from the candy counter.

Jun 26, 2012 08:03 AM Meece wrote:

I don't think I ever tried SenSen, but Luden's mmmmmmmmmmmmm.  I loved it when my mom got them for my "cough" but hated it when she got "Halls" they tasted like medicine!  Go figure!!!

Jul 15, 2012 09:11 PM dutchgirl6 wrote:

Of course 8 track tapes.  We had a player in our station wagon, and we thought it was just the height of coolness!  The only tapes we had for it were Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass and Andy Williams.  Looking back I guess it wasn't so cool after all, lol.  But, I do know the words to Moon River, thank you Andy.