Middle Aged Memories
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As my youngest child graduates high school, I remember my own h.s. days. Everyone had a Bowie haircut back then (girls and guys) or else long, long hair parted in the middle like me (girls and guys.) Our class song was Bowie's "Changes." Ch-Ch-Ch-Ch-Changes! Well, "Stairway to Heaven" and "Dream On" had been taken by previous classes.
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Did I become a threadkiller, going on about the Bowie haircuts back in the day?
O.K., then, back to fast food...do you remember when Burger King called their fish sandwiches "Whalers?" Maybe the name sounded too inhumane to whale lovers, but it's not like it was real whale meat!
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How about hip huggers and mini skirts guys in tight jeans. The Mod Squad.The doll that was the size of a three year old and if you held her left hand she would walk with you.
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I LOVED the Mod Squad! and I remember fighting with my mother to be allowed to get a pair of hip huggers to wear to school. She only let me wear them with a bodysuit--remember those? And Mrs. Beasley dolls?
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I thought Mrs. Beasley dolls were so stupid because she had pants sewn on! She was a scarey clown looking doll, too.
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Care Free Summers
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I barely remember what those were like!
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I know, wouldn't it be awesome to experience that again. This time we would actually appreciate them!
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Getting hamburger, FF and drink at McDonalds for under $1.00. Buying hamburgers across town from where I lived 10 for $1.00. Those plastic mesh car seats for in your car to sit on because cars didn't have A/C then. Aspirin in those little tins that held 12 and you pushed on the corner to open it. $.10 snowballs (I was just somewhere and they wanted $1.00). Chatty Cathy dolls. Bobble heads. You put them in the back of your car behind back seat and their heads "bobbled". Milkman that came to your door delivering milk. Thinks came in glass bottles and tin cans (not cardboard) Soda machines where you opened the door and pulled the bottle out. I remember cigarettes in the machine were $.35. I was about 6 and my mom would let me get them for her. I liked to pull the knob out. (she has since quit a long time ago) And you used to be able smoke anywhere, even in stores. Troll dolls, saddle shoes, capezio's, John Romaine pocketbooks, fish net stockings. Those truly were the good days.
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Remember these?
Well I just saw a commercial for these:
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I remember it tasted kind of medicinal. (Maybe someone slipped my an Alka-Seltzer. Ha!)
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Maybe they only addedfruit flavor to Alka-Seltzer! They were too expensive and my Mom wouldn't buy them. I had to experience them at friends' homes.
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When I found some Fizzies at Grocery Outlet I bought several packs. My son, in his 20's, would pack his mouth full of them then drink a soda. The trick was to keep his mouth shut as long as possible before the bubbles burst out of your mouth. Gross? You bet! I have pictures of he and several friends blowing Fizzie bubbles all over my front yard!
And I would love to have just one carefree summer again...
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I need a vacation or a new job. The stress is just awful. I wanna have a carefree summer, too.
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I think we should all just go on a vacation and have FUN! No work, no stress and no cancer!
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I'm in!
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Me too!
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Squirt guns were around when I was a kid...but the parents in my neighborhood were not so quick to purchse toys. Instead we were given empty dish detergent bottles to squirt each other with. That giant Palmolive bottle was like the bazooka of squirt guns! Those were pretty care-free summers.
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In a related squirting incident...I pulled the old invisible ink trick on a teacher. Back in elementary school, fountain pens had made a comeback, so it was not difficult to fill the barrel with invisible ink. Told the teacher it was not functioning and shook it til it sprayed his white shirt. He did not take the joke very well and went red in the face (like he always did, which is why the class was always trying to anger him.) At least I did not have to go to the Principal.
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I can still remember the smell of palmolive dish soap. The soap bottles is what we used, too. Once in awhile, we would take our savings to the five and dime and get a squirt gun, but they rarely worked for long.
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I was so happy to see someone mention Bobby Sherman. I saw him at the Circle Star Theater
in Palo Alto, CA. He, David Cassidy, the Cowsills and the Osmonds were everything to me.
How about Nancy Drew mysteries ? Started reading them about 1960, enjoyed them so
much. Old Christmas lights. They were so hot to the touch. I stlll have my clackers.
Thanks for the memories. Also loved the Smothers Brothers show. And of course Dark
Shadows. I walked home so fast from school to watch it every day.
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I remember Nancy Drew mysteries, and the Cherry Ames nurse series, and the Hardy Boys mysteries, too! I also had a bunch of "little big books" that were small but thick--probably 5 inches high, 4 inches wide and about 2 inches thick. I wanted to watch Dark Shadows, but it was on at the same time as either one of my mother's soaps, or baby brother's Sesame Street.
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DH and I were walking through the toy section of target today. I asked if he remembered the "Barrel of Monkeys" game, and not one minute later, we saw a stack of them. They look the same from the outside. I had red and Grandma had blue.
I also read the Bobsey Twins Series.
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Remember Fuzzy Wuzzy soap? It grew this furry stuff on it and had a plastic charm inside.
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Fuzzy Wuzzy!!!! Yes!! That was so much fun!
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Is it too late to revert back to childhood???
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Well, now we've come full circle. That was the first post on this thread (with picture too.)
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I blame it on chemo brain!
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Somewhere I read that "Growing old is inevitable, growing up is optional." I say we make that our motto! And so what if we repeat a few things--we can say it's for the benefit of the newbies!
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If I say I remember riding in a rumble seat I'll really sound old, but when I was a kid someone in the neighborhood had (an already classic) car from the 40's and he let some of us kids ride in the rumble seat.
Much later, when my own two kids were screaming in the back of my Honda, I can truly say it is a shame that the rumble seat is no longer an option!
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My parents drove from CA to CO in a stationwagon when I was a few months old. They went tot the furniture store and picked up a refrigerator box, cut it down (10 inch sides) and placed it in the back of the car for me to ride in. Car seats were only for the convenience of letting the baby see out of the window. They were not a safety device.
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