Middle Aged Memories
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I still have one of those 3-D puzzle key rings. Not sure if it was from HoJos???
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I am at aloss for the 3-d keyring...
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My key ring had a little figure that had about 5 interlocking pieces. You can get the idea from this picture...
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Okay, I remember those, but never had one.
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I remember a really cool elephant puzzle key ring that I had.... Elimar - you're always great with the pictures. Thanks !
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Bowling. No, I don't think I ever bowled where they used manual pinsetters, but remember when it was not as automated? You kept your own score on a piece of paper, and did the math. The ball return was above ground, Remember the bowling alley smell? What was it...stale smoke, foot odor, grease from the snack bar all rolled into one? I'm glad they are not smokey any longer. Remember the "new" concepts of "rock'n'bowl" and "glo-bowl?"
About 12 years ago, some local lanes got that pneumatic tube ball return. When I took my kids, they gave us a warning not to reach for the ball til it was completely out of the tube. Eight frames later, my 6yr. old had his hand wedged in that tube and was screaming for help. I bruised a couple fingers forcing the ball back to free him. He got a bag of ice on the hand and a ring-pop. Good times.
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We did have a bowling alley at our local Rec department that had two lanes and a manual pin setter. I remember watching his hands go down to pick up the pins, and then the ball, and roll it down the chute. We had another large bowling alley we played at, especially during high school, but they sold out and it is now a home improvment center.
My kids still love bowling with me. I just don't have the stamina for five games in a row anymore.
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My father had an after school job as a pin setter when he was in high school...back in the late '40s.
I had one Barbie doll and her sister. Not sure if it was Skipper or Midge but I recall she had flat feet. I also had a Ken doll but my brother used to take him from me to play with his GI-Joe. The Easy Bake Oven was one of my favourite toys growing up. I never had a 3-D key ring. Now I feel like I was deprived! lol They look neat...I would have liked having one.
Remember the Lucky Locket Kiddles? They were so cute!
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Skipper had the flat feet.
If I am thinking of the right locket dolls, then I had the one called "Violet." I think I did some coveting, and then a neighbor gave it to me.
Came back to say...Her name was Lilac (all names began with "L") and here she is.
I think the neighbor gave it to me 'casue she didn't have her locket anymore. Either that or I did not covet hard enough. Sorry, if I broke a commandment, y'all.
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I think I had Lilac, too. I have a mouse and a tiger "Animiddle Kiddles) somewhere in storage.
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The Lucky Locket Kiddles were all named after flowers, weren't they? I had one that was gardenia scented, and whenever I smell gardenia, I am reminded of that toy. She had the smallest feet with the tiniest toes!
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I had this one, but lost it. I vaguely remember the smell of the locket kiddles.
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This is one like I still have, I will try to find a picture of the tiger one, too.
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Found one!
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Meece, you are a genius with your toy searches!0
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Too bad it isn't that easy to find my real ones. I thought I would have daughters to pass my toys down to one day.
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You and me both, Meece. My Skipper had to finally get sold on Ebay!
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I still have my Barbies packed away. I did get rid of my baby doll a couple years ago. My daughter would be 25 this year.
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((Hugs)) Meece.0
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I had all my Barbies, with their extensive wardrobe, and baby dolls. My daughter loved to play with them. Our house burned down a few years ago, and the dolls went with it.
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What a shame. Mine have probably been munched on my mice in storage. It's been awhile since I
ve had them out.
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Should we send the Hoarder's crew over to your place?
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Not to my place, the stuff is in a storage unit. I have moved four times in the past 7 years, so there are boxes that we just put into storage so we could park the car in the garage. Plus I still have a son in the military, and one renting a room elsewhere, so we are storing their "stuff".
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I forgot about little kiddles - I had Lilac Locket. I just had one (I liked my barbies better) but my sister had several Little Kiddles cause she liked them better. Thanks for bringing that up ladies. As an aside, I never had an easy bake oven, I never wanted one then and I don't reallly want my adult sized oven now as that would imply that I have to cook
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That is too funny, Suz. And me, I'd like to have one of those huge Wolfe ranges with 8 burners and two ovens.
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I'm sure we can all remember those old pull tabs, from soda and beer cans. My friend's dad and his buddies drank a lot of beer out at their cottage, and their hangout (the garage) was decorated with chains of those tabs linked together (fashioned by my friend and myself.)
There was a hand-made mini-bar in their garage, and the top surface had been made from bottlecaps from pop and beer bottles (that people like to collect back then) stuck into some kind of grout with clear glass placed on top. I guess you could still make that these days with twist-off tops, but where the old school fun in that?
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I had so many cuts from those pull tabs. Pulling off pull tabs was NOT one of my talents! I've seen mini bars made from the bottlecaps but not for a while. I remember my parent's minibar, it had a rough wood paneling around the outside and a black laminate top. They threw some great parties in the 60s and 70s.
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One thing I do not miss is getting a cut and bloody foot from "finding" those pull tabs in the sand at the public beaches!
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I was just thinking about that...Margaritaville. Those pop tops were everywhere. Back in the 70s there was some sort of thing if you collected poptops, and turned them in to some organization, it would pay for some amount of time for a patient to have dialysis or something like that.
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Does anyone remember when the metal soda caps came with a decorated flexible plastic insert (dont remember what was on them) that you collected and, I think, traded in for something. I remember trying to pull them out was no easy feat.
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