Middle Aged Memories
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I also remember Gold Bell Gift Stamps. (Got a tennis raquet with them.)
The doll on page 13 is Charmin' Chatty. Chatty Cathy is below. I had that one with the dark hair and the pink and white striped dress, with white pinafore. (Could not find pic of that one.) She was in storage for a long time. When I showed her to my kids, her string voice sounded like she needed an exorcism.
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How about the "Grapevine" three piece suits after Saturday Night Fever came out?
Up until the late 80s we had a "drive thru" dairy store. We could drive up and a man in white would come to the car and take the order and go to refrigerators and get the milk, in glass bottles, and bring it back to you. I was sad to see it close. I kept my return bottles in my pantry for years.
I haven't though t about the decorated soap in years. If you are going to glue something to soap and make it unusable, why not just decorate the box? I used to make deco soap by taking an oval bar of Dove, putting netting over it, and gluing eyes on it. It made a fish shape. Go figure!
I had Francie. Her swimsuit was one piece with pink bottom, a belt, and a multi colored vertical striped top. I was too little to have her and I bent her leg back and forth so much, it fell off at the knee. It gave my sister more of a reason to discriminate against my dalls.
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"What's your sign?" might be a disco pick-up line, but I remember zodiac stuff being popular about 10 years earlier than that. Zodiac medallions were groovy. One of the first posters I ever bought was the 12 signs of the zodiac. Very colorful, not the blacklight one tho', and NOT the X-rated one -- I was just a kid!
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I wasn't into zodiac, I knew what my sign was. And I think I was born on a cusp, maybe...
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I remember having a great Peter Max puzzle with the zodiac on it. My older sister thought it was so cool, she copied and painted it as a mural on her wall.
Does anyone remember making lanairds at camp. Woven flat plastic string is the best way I can describe them. They could be made into necklaces or key rings.
As for click-clacks, my Mom also took them away from me. She was terrified I'd know out my teeth.
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I remember the lanyards. I remember making the ones that were sort of square and then ones that were round. The plastic string was long enough to make them up to 8 or 10 inches as I recall.
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I had a flash about a t.v. show from my childhood the other day.
Daktari, a show about a vetranarian in the African wilds, They drove animal stiped trucks, had a chimpanzee named Judy, and a crossed-eyed lion named Clarence. There was a little girl played by Erin Moran, the actress who eventually played Joanie on Happy Days.
At least that's what I remember.
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MTG, I was just thinking about Peter Max too, after I posted about the Zodiac. I think because there were a lot of Peter Max wall posters around the same time.
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Oh yes, made the lanyards too, in the summer with the Parks & Recreation program. We called it something different, so for some years I thought I missed out on all the lanyard fun til I found out I was making the same thing.
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We called those plastic strips "boondoggle." I made dozens of them at the summer recreation center. Also made my mom potholders from the cotton loops on a metal loom.
Remember the snack, "Screaming Yellow Zonkers"? Kind of like Crunch 'N Munch, caramel corn and peanuts.
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Wasn't the packaging on the Screaming Yellow Zonkers black with almost flourescent yellow popcorn exploding?
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Oh my goodness I've had fun reading through these posts... does anyone remember...
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You know I heard Kilroy started out overseas during one of the WWs. Does anyone know of this?
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WWII...yep
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Whew, now I know I am not crazy. At least about that bit of trivia.
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I remembner making lanyards and key chains--we called the plastic stuff "gymp" and it came in all kinds of colors. . .
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DD still makes lanyards.....I can do the basic square one but none of the others....also some one mentioned the "loop" potholders....I did them with my older DD and still have the frame and loops somewhere in the basement.....keep the memories coming!!!
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I had two loop=-looms, one was a set size, and the other had wing nuts and screws on the edges and you could expand or shrink the size.
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The looms are still around. My granddaughter got one for her birthday and we made a pot holder. I must say the "loops" are really cheesey these days. The potholder was very small with lots of "holes" in it.
My grandmother and mother used to make wool braided rugs. I learned how to braid and made a small one for my favorite aunt. I still have the one my Mom made........needs some sewing to repair it. I also remember going to some smelly wool factory to buy the materials. With the high cost of a real braided wool rug today, wish I remembered how to stitch it all together! Sue
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I have a set of "cones" to put over the ends of the fabric for braiding rugs. They make the edges of your strips turn under for a soother braid. I haven't braided for 24 years!
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My grandmother took plastic bread sacks and braided them to use for door mats outside. They held up amazingly well.
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I had something else that braided yarn into a long rope... It was like a wooden spool with nailheads on one end. I remember that you had to hook the yarn over the nails over and over and a long rope would be produced. Anybody know the name of this, 'cause I still have it in a closet somewhere, maybe I could Google for directions?
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Elimar, I had one but for the life of me I cannot remember WHY! Sue
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NOW were getting into "middle aged memories" and the lack thereof!!!
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I remember the spools, I had a set of three to make Barbie clothes with. We also did that sort of braiding using our fingers, of course it only had five loops and it was very loosely braided.
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Speaking of spools...what about spoolies...those round heated hair curlers...
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They had metal clips to go over them didn't they? And a heat reactive dot ont he end to let you know they were ready to use. At least mine were.
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I remember those kind Meece...but mine were the type that just folded over themselves. Made hair ringlets...lol
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I think I remember those as well. Not 100% sure though.
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How about getting your mouth washed out with soap? I remember calling my brother a penis one time, not knowing what it meant, and my mom had to give me a bar of soap while covering her smile. It was of course "for my own good." I think that's was caused my cancer.
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