My Favorite Childhood Memory is.....
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How about Love's Fresh Lemon and Love's Baby Soft? Those will always remind me of junior high.
I was never allowed to have go-go boots. NO FAIR!
How about swooning over The Monkees show on tv each week and how dreamy Davy Jones was?
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Designer Mom:
I looked at your website, and your clothes are adorable! Granted, one of the tutus might only work as a garter belt on me...but the hooded bath set/towel are off the chain adorable. My neighbor is having her first baby soon, if not right now, and I am seeing a little present in their future. I am not sure about sizing for a baby though? I think I can ask on your website, but it there a sizing for the hooded towely thingy?
Dippity Doo indeed, Noxema of course! pop rocks and more
Amy, I did swoon over Davy, but my true crush was Randy Mantooth from the show Emergency.Remember the ads for vicks vapor rub, then I think vasoline for everything including one's baseball glove?
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Oh I remember white Go Go boots! My sister and I were to fly and visit my Grandparents. It was the first time we ever flew by ourselves so my Mom dressed us alike in light blue leather mini-shirts with matching vests, white blouses and the white Go Go boots! Hadn't thought of that in years!
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Stanzie,
Were you ever at Dallas Cowboy Cheerleader's mini-camp for girls? Sound like your trips to your grandparents were in the finest fashion, and may have been the inspiration for our lcurrent Cowboy Cheerleaders outfits...I bet the teams designer was on the flight with you all. Eureka!
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squid- I'll pm you a special discount code I set up for my BC friends. Yeah, I was crazy about Davy Jones and the Monkees. But then I went really nuts for Mick Jagger and the Stones! Fast forward to the late 60's and I was rocking my bell bottom jeans with a little knit tank top that looked like an American flag. I should put that photo up as my avatar!0
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Now there is something I never thought I'd be asked even if it is a mini camp for girls !!! LOL!
I too adored Davy Jones but I had my hair cut like Peter Tork when I was 7 and thought I was just adorable! Ummm not!
Designer Mom- love your website and designs - quite wonderful and creative.... now if I just knew some babies but I'm sure soon enough I will and will keep you in mind.
I loved Lemon Up shampoo and Aquamarine shampoo and conditioner! I so miss how well toys were made even board games. When I buy toys and games for my kids they are so expensive and fall apart so quickly - boy I wish I had saved my games and such!
I loved stuffed animals and my Mom used to buy me every so often one of the Steiff animals. I still have a few which I have given to my kids but they don't really love them like I did. Funny how the things I saved for them they have no interest in....
We used to have a local TV show called The Popeye Club and I remember going to the studio to be on televison which was such a huge deal back then. I think they got all the kids in town on at least once - I was in a brownie group I think.
I also remember when the circus would come to town and they would set up in the parking lot of the mall and put up bleachers. Then as we left they were giving water to the elephants on the side of the road leading out of the parking lot and everytime for years and years I would have to say to everyone in the car that is where they watered the elephants which became a tradition in my family.
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Stanzie...
you just reminded me of a family joke we have, and it happened at a little four way stop outside of Trumansburg NY. Back when my father drove, there was a day when the local ambulance was out trying to raise money. They held bedpans (clean, ack!) and went up to each car as they got to the four way stop. Dad was pulled over for not coming to a complete stop, after he gave his donation. He argued against the ticket and won, but we NEVER heard the end of it...for the next 30 years, I think he failed to mention it once, then we were so uncomfortable, waiting for it, not getting the "remember when they pulled me over..." story that finally one of us broke, and brought it up. LOL, such a great memory! My family gets a hold of something, and never lets go. Hee
Designermom,
I did get your PM, thank you! My neighbor walked by, still pregnant, tomorrow is her due date, first baby. I am excited for them, such a sweet couple. I will wait until baby is here, then take a little visit to your store. Thanks for the BC discount. YEAY!
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stanzie- Thanks for the compliments. And yes, I am STILL producing all my products right here in America! Like you, I am beyond fed up with the terrible quality of everything. And the problem is, you can't even find anything NOT made in China. My family is accustomed to me ranting "plastic piece of Chinese crap" as yet another thing breaks. Imagine the landfill! About your beloved Steiff animals. Better put them away for safekeeping. Have you seen the price of them on the Aniques Roadshow? They could put your kids through college!
By the way, I have a discount code for any of you ladies who want it. Just pm me and I will give it to you.
Okay, back to happy childhood memories. I grew up riding my beloved horse, Jackbox. My best memories were in the summertime. Every day was spent at the stable and then riding in the open fields in Iowa with my other horsey girlfriends. We would pack a lunch, tie our horses to graze, then get back in the saddle and gallop off on yet another fantastical adventure. I can still smell that incredible clean, horse sweat, dry grass and sunshine smell. When I was in chemo, that is what I would visualize to take me away to a better place.
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DesignerMom,
Beautiful horse memories, who could imagine it today? Spending time on horseback with childhood friends sounds like one of the best fantasical adventures ever. You might enjoy a thread where many are reminiscing about the horses in their lives. Some have horses now, and others like me always loved horses, and am thinking about getting back in the saddle (as a form of rehab for me, as my last ride ended with surgery for me, whoops.) I bet you would get a lot out of it...cannot remember the thread names, but I bet the word horse would get you there toot sweet.
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so many awesome memories!! I think I have memories of many of the things you all mentioned.
How about fish net hose? I wanted go-go boots to wear with them, but I didn't have them...I was under the age of 10...so mom said no!
gym uniforms...uggghh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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oh, I remember fish net hose alright. How about putting wonder bread bags inside your snowboots? I grew up in the North
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no idea why the big type
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Wow, just catching up, here. We made tents out of old blankets, too, but the best was when my Dad came home from an auction dragging a parachute! It had yellow, white, and orange sections, but we discovered that the opening in the top was too big for a pole. But Dad rigged up one of those round grill tops from a charcoal grill onto the top of the pole and that worked great! So we had this ginormous parachute/tepee in the side yard that was about 10 or 12 feet high.
I never did eat Play Doh, but Mom tells me I ate that white paste glue when I was in the first grade!
I gave myself a haircut around the same age. I have always had this enormous cowlick which made my hair go up in a wave in front. I didn't like it, so took a pair of scissors and cut off just that spot, leaving a 'hole' in the hairline. Mom was mortified and was quick to tell people that I did it. The worst was that it stuck straight up while growing in and didn't flop over again until it was about 2 inches long.
As I was helping Mom mix up a cake mix one time, I leaned too far over and managed to get my hair in the mixer blades. It wound itself up to the hairline with cake batter everywhere.
I remember the old lady who lived next door to my grandma who taught me how to crochet using bread wrappers cut into strips. You could make a waterproof bathmat, using whatever colorful wrappers you wanted (Wonderbread was good) and just kept going in a circle until it was the size you wanted. Later, one of my neighbors taught me how to turn corners and make something square or rectangular.
Remember Sea Monkeys?
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Oh my gosh, Sea Monkeys! Do I ever!!
I am trying to remember the name of the toy, that was a plastic circle with a rope and a ball attatched. You put the circle around your ankle, and started rotating it, just like you would a hula hoop..this would get the rope to go around, and with the weighted ball it would "whip" around. So you would then take the opposite leg and jump over the rope as it swung around. One ankle " hula hooping" and the other ankel/foot jumping over the rope. Back on sukmmerof 86, a bunch of us went to the Finger Lakes Performing Arts center for an all day jazz concert...we brought the toy along. People were so tickled to see this old familiar toy, that they lined up 15 deep to each take a try at it.
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Were they called "Footsies"?
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I'm not sure...but it was light on the technology
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Whatever it was called, I sucked at it. I was constantly tripping myself. I did a halfway decent baton twirl, though!
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LOL
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yes....I did that too! Omg...now that is one memory....I totally forgot about!! It was easier to slip on your snow boots...and helped keep your feet dry. I am in and always have been in Ohio!
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I was talking about the bags in the shoes...lol
Yes...it was a Footsie!! I had one. I remember taking it to school and using it on the playground. I went to a Catholic school for 5 yrs..no playground equipment. From what I remember, I was pretty good at it.
Sea Monkeys...yes, I remember those too.My older brother's had wood burning kits...I loved it when they used them...the smell was good!
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Gym uniforms! That's a blast from the past. We had these doozies. They were blue, cotton one piece things with sort of bloomer shorts. We had to take them home each week and wash and iron them.
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I remember that.
What about the first roller skates that you
couldnt lose the key for them.
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Foots,
Mine did not have a key, but we would expand them to fit our feet by moving the metal plates.
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I'm off to shop for some expandable ice skates for my son today! I bet they got the idea from those rollerskates!
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Riley - wow your poor hair had a work out as a child! Makes good pictures for funny memories though.
One time my daughter who didn't get hair till she was almost 3 had one of those small round brushes and it got totally stuck in her hair. I was going to take her to the hair salon as I couldn't budge it but of course along the way I had to drop off her brother at school. She could have died even at 4 year old - totaly embarrassment! Ended up going to my Mom who patiently unrolled it strand by strand. I wouldn't never have been able to do that. Then went home and threw out all round brushes!
I LOVED ice skating! I took lessons and belonged to a figure skating club(kids club) and we put on a "show" each year. I remember my group was supposed to be "Labor Day". Have no idea why but we were dressed it pink and white check outfits with poofs of material on our hips with yellow tuille and then wore black spats and a sparkly black derby hat and they pink outfits glowed in black lights so we thought we were really special. Well that is till the end when we were supposed to get down low with one leg out straight ( called shoot the duck) then turn and end up in a pose. Well I over shot and went straight under the curtian then had to climb back out under the curtain for the final pose! I'm sure my family was killing themselves laughing! Fun memories!
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How about when You were coming home from Sunday
church all the stores where closed, more family time.
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stanzie- Oh my! I'm LOL at your ice skating performance. Funny now, must have been awful as a kid!
I was a late bloomer, flat as a pancake. Actually, all the other girls were early bloomers, very curvy at age 11. So I took nylon stockings (before pantyhose days) rolled them up and stuffed my bra. I even pinned them in my swimsuit top!
Other 1965 memories include wearing a psychedelic paisley panty girdle (size 3, imagine how tiny I was and wearing a girdle). I also cut the ends off of orange juice cans to roll my hair and get it real straight. We didn't have a hairdryer, so in those days you could put the vacuum hose on the other end and it would blow hot air. We dried our hair with it!
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Stanzie,
Ah, the dreaded shoot the duck move..awesome image of you leaving the arena momentarily LOL! I didn't have much better success with this move on roller skates.
Foots,
Remember the "Blue Laws" where stores could not be open on Sundays? My Dad and I were talking about that the other day.
DesignerMom,
Size 3 and wearing a girdle? I was thinking the other day, that for all the times I have felt overweight in my lifetime, when I look back I wish I could be so thin now.
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squid- Isn't it the truth about weight! When I was younger, I would be obsessing about not wearing a size 8, I didn't know how great I looked! I feel the same about photography. My SIL never wants to be photographed. I tell her "you are going to wish you had photos looking this good, because you're only getting older"!
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When I was in high school I weighed 153 and was told
I need to be 135, almost had to look like Olive Oyl.
Use to love to collect bottle caps and Popsicle sticks
and make houses and toys out of them
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