Middle Aged Memories
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Always looked forward to making those cookies with mom. She let me eat the ones that would break.
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I had the basic autograph book in grade school but I coveted the more deluxe Autograph Hound Dog.
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Spinoffs from last post…
Once upon a time, I had the autograph of Bob Crane (Hogan Heroes), before he became an unsolved mystery, of course. Anyone else out there get an interesting autograph as a child?
—————Bean bag animals started a long time before Beany Babies were a thing, right? If you love the mid-century decade you were born in as much as I do, you might even remember how there were some cute beany animal ASHTRAYS. Sure they had regular round shaped ones, but some companies (underwritten by big tobacco) made a bunch of them look like toys to infiltrate the average home and kids could play with them while also getting the subliminal message to hurry up and start smoking at age eleven.
Look how cute…now go sneak one of mom's Kent's or dad's Pall Malls. The little plaid puppy wants you to.
(Disclaimer: I do not condone youth tobacco use. The above is my sense of humor. If that was not apparent to you, you will want to avoid every post ever made by me, past and present.) 0 -
elimar, as a kid I met the original Huggy Bear from Starsky & Hutch. It was at a Chucky E. Cheese in Massachusetts
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I met Bob Keeshan, Captain Kangaroo, twice. The first time was on the beach In RI when I was a kid watching his show and again in the mid 1990's in VT where he had retired.
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Eli - thanks for the memory. I had a yellow autograph hound.
I was actually on the Captain Kangaroo show with my brownie troop sometime in the late 1950s.
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Remeber the Jolly Rancher Stix candy?
My favorite was Watermelon.
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Mmmm, Jolly Rancher Watermelon is the best.
Captain Kangaroo…aka the Baby Boomer's Mr. Rogers. Who could forget him?
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Yep. My mom had me watching him when I was a really little girl back in the '70s.
I loved The Muppets. My favorites were Fozzy, Gonzo, Kermit, Rowlf, Piggy, Statler and Waldorf. The two old guys heckling everyone was hilarious!
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