Middle Aged Memories
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I remember my mother dressing us in our Sunday Best to fly on an airplane when I was three. My brother got the pilot wings and my sister and I got Stewardess pins...not flight attendant pins.
We flew Continental: They really move their tails for you
I'm Meece, Fly me.
Fly the friendly skies of United
Up, Up and Away with TWA
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And you got your choice of an entree!
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Remember when the people who took you to the airport could go into the waiting area with you, and when you walked off the plane your greeter was right there at the opening to the walkway?
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You can't travel very far on this, but getting there was a lot of fun...Hoppity Hop!
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I always wanted one, but had to settle for playing on the one's my friends had.
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I was too uncoordinated to get them to work !
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My legs always seems to be too long, there was no bounce for me. I was awkward and uncoordinated. Was? I am.
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I can remember when the local airport had an observation deck--anybody could go up there anytime to watch the planes come and go, didn't even need to be meeting someone coming in!
The thing I remember about the Hippity Hop was not being allowed to use it indoors, and the sticks and stone in the yard popped it the very first day while my sister was using it. I never got to try it at all.
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We never had one of those balls.....probably we were too uncordinated to use one since both my sister and I broke off front teeth growing up....me going over the handles of my bike and she falling from a sliding board going down on her stomach. I wonder if those exercise balls they have out now got the idea from them. The name hoppity......does anyone remember a frog catoon, Hoppity Hooper?
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Cant say I do, but the alliteration in the name reminds me of another cartoon, Tennessee Tuxedo, a penguin.
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I had a hoppity hop. Do you remember the cereal boxes that would have record on the back of the box? A 45 I beleive - I think I got the archie's sugar sugar. Does anyone remember Quisp cereal?
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I remember the records, and they worked, for awhile. I also remember, for grownups, that some magazines like Look or Life had little vinyl records in tem, they were so flimsy you had to put an lp under them, and sometimes, they just wouldn't spin because the weight of the needle was too much.
My son got me one of those reporduction record players so I could play my lps and 45s again. Once in awhile, I get a notion, and play record after record.
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Aprilgirl1-Every so often, the grocery store by us sells Quisp. I loved it, and still do. But at $4 a box (and the box is small) I don't buy it very often. I remember blasting the 45 of "Rockin' Robin" by the Jackson 5. Those were the days.
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I think my earliest album was Alvin and the Chipmunks. My Mother probably still has them somewhere.
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MTG: I got my first record player, the box style with a handle in flourescent green. I received two albums, the Chimunks' Christmas Song and It's a Small World.
I have my mother and my uncle's oldie records. 1950-something Rock Around the Clock and Unchained Melody (Think Ghost) and many more.
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Me and my friends used to "collect" aluminum cans and flatten them with a hammer. Then my dad would take us to turn them in for money-remember back then you got paid by the pound! (Now that I think of it, I'm not even sure they were aluminum-some kind of steel blend?)
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Do you remember having soda bottle drives? Going door to door for a youth group, and asking everyone for their bottles?
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I don't remember bottle drives, but I do remember going with a friend many a time to search through the tall weeds on the vacant lot on the corner to get a couple of bottles to convert into penny candy money. This was back before the big "Please, please...Don't be a Litterbug" campaign, so the lot always had a few bottles carelessly discarded there.
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The trick with a pop bottle drive was to get an adult to drive their truck, drop us off at one end of the block and wait at the other end for us to bring the bottles.
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Remember how many tv channels you got when u were a kid? I remember when I was a kid we had a antenna on a pole.When we wanted to watch something my dad went out with a pipe wrench and turned it till we said STOP!
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How about rabbit ears on the tv, with some aluminum foil on the "ears" to enhance the picture?
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I remember our b & w television when I was little the big dial had 2-13 + UHF and the "fine tuning" dial found the rare channel from outside your area.
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We used to watch the test pattern on the screen until it was time for shows to come on. The first time we ever saw a show in color was on our neighbor's television and we went over there to watch Peter Pan. Is that your Xmas tree for this year Meece?....all decorated and looking lovely? I remember we used to get fruit and nuts in our Xmas stockings.....would children today stand for such a thing?
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An orange in the toe, a banana sticking out the top. a handful of nuts and a bunch of little goodies in between was the stocking stuffing pattern as I was growing up. We could go get the stockings as soon as we woke up Christmas morning, and we had to eat either the banana or the orange before we could open presents. That was my mother's way of making sure we got at least one decent bit of food Christmas Day! I doubt kids today would be able to handle the kind of stocking stuffers we got--all little, fun things, but not one thing that needed a battery. In fact, if we got batteries in the stocking we knew there was a gift that needed batteries under the tree and that was unusual and special!
I remember test patterns on TV. I also remember the national anthem playing while pictures of the flag were showing just before the station went off the air for the night. Does anyone remember family viewing time? Shows with certain content or subjects couldn't be shown until after what was it, 8 or 9 pm? Things have changed, haven't they?
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Wow, our mothers could have been from the same family. I always got an orange in the toe ot my stocking, and and apple and nuts. I think it was also done to fill the thing up. It looked loaded. I remember one year I took my stocking into my room and forgot about it until the orange molded!!! Ewwwwwwwwwwwww!
Yep, that's my tree. Because of surgery, I had DH set it up before thanksgiving, and the Monday after Thanksgiving, I sat and directed where I wanted everything put on it. It was the easiest decorating I've done. and I was good, I didn't even go over an re-do what anyone did.
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My grandparents always had those same kind of nuts that Santa brought sitting in a bowl with a nutcracker, but I wasn't sharp enough to catch on. Remember the hard candy at Xmas?...I liked the red ones that I think were supposed to look like a raspberry and they had soft red stuff in the middle. And ribbon candy was always on hand at Xmas. They sell the same candy still at Big Lots and places like that, and I always think of my grandmother's at CHristmas time when I see it. I always hated candy canes, but for some reason love peppermint stick icecream.
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I am with you on the candy canes, and pepeprmint icecream. I loved those raspberry filled candies. How about the hard candies that had the flower in the center? I remember some of them tasted like licorice.
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I saw ribbon candy in the store the other day--haven't seen it in ages! I remember the hard candies, too, some of them had designs in the them--stars, trees, ornaments,
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I watched "how it's made" once and those with thees and such in them start out at a rope about five inches in diameter and then they stretch it to make those little 1/2" candies.
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Once I got a Christmas stocking with a hard, black, kind of dusty, rock shaped toy in it.
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