Middle Aged Memories
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I know about it, but never have seen it. I was watching Sound of Music today.
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I've seen "Mr. Limpett" long ago. Love those fantasy films from the 60's. Another one I liked was called "The 7 Faces of Dr. Lao," also from 1964. Tony Randall was Dr. Lao (and I think he played seven different characters.) The special effects for this film were make up and stop-motion animation using models. I thought it was magical back then.
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Gg08 Bonnie, what part of Louisiana? My home state also, can you say horny toad on the half-shell? We were poor growing up, but I remember when hula hoops came out and we wiggled until we dropped. I also remember doing the twist to Chubby Checkers as a little girl. Do you remember the one eyed, one horned flying purple people eater?
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I remember that one, mary!
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I was watching Sound of Music yesterday, too! I really like that movie, and Chitty Chitty Bang Bang is another that I watch whenever it's playing. Also Mary Poppins--on the school playground we used to jump off rocks and the monkey bars with little umbrellas pretending to fly like Mary Poppins did.
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I wonder if children today would be as inncocent as we were, and try that. With all of the stuff they are sujected to in cartoons alone, and the vide games the kids are encourage to interact with at infant ages, it feels like they they are being deprived of their age of innocence.
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Not to mention imagination, critical thinking and problem solving.
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Wow, Bonnie, I do remember Buckskin Bill and watched him daily. I wrote him a letter once. There is a facebook page for him, too. I'm from the Baton Rouge area. 1/2 cajun as my dad's family was from Lake Charles. My dad was warden @ Angola for 8 years, but that was when I was much older. I know where Amite is. I do miss Louisiana. Did you route for the Saints during the SuperBowl? I had my grandkids running around saying "Who Dat." I remember when cokes were 5 cents. We did not get them regularly as we were quite poor when I was young. We played outside a whole lot. We only had 3 tv stations and that was when I was a little girl. The Wizard of Oz scared the BeeJesus out of me.
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I wanted go-go boots, but I never got them. I was the youngest of 6 with 3 older sisters, hand-me-downs were my regular wardrobe. I still have my grade 2 class picture, and in the front row is a girl with those beautiful boots, I remember being sooo jealous.
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Amazing the clothing I see today--I should have saved everything from jr. and high school. Same stuff.
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It's true. I figure that if I never throw anything away, eventually I will be in style again.
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Oh yeah, had the bell bottoms with hip huggers. And I had the cutest hips back then
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Loved tetherball. Can almost rememeber the smell of my hands after 30 minutes of recess and tetherball.
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My older sister was five years older. Pretty embarrassing when she got whatever was in fashion, and I got it five or six years later. Not so in fashion then. I never got her shoes though. Wierd, don't remember anyone getting them. She probably throug them away just to keep me from getting them.
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I remember when The Lord's Prayer song came out...I was in grade 3!
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I remember singing the Lord's Prayer in choir in elementary school.
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I had a version (different tune) of the Lord's Prayer sung at my first wedding.
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I remember the Lord's Prayer by Sister Janet Mead and I remember singing it in church in the 70s - I'd play my flute to it with the church choir.
I don't remember the movie Hello Down There but remember and like the song!
Does anyone remember the movie, "It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World"? I love that movie - I remember when it was on at the Drive In Movie and I was a very little girl and my parents would take us to the drive in in our PJs and pop popcorn and put it in a paper bag. My Brothers and Sister and I would play on the playground til dark and then lay on a mattress in the back of the station wagon. I was supposed to be sleeping for this movie but remember not falling asleep and watching this movie - I had to be only four or five.
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Never saw "Hello Down There." Just when I thought I had seen all the Tony Randall movies! That Yoooo Tooooob video was so retro and funny.
In my early teens, we snuck (hope that's a word) into the drive-in on foot. Either went up front and watched from the swings they had there, or hung out in the last row, where they still did have speakers so we could hear it. I think all drive-ins did have a "security" person to chase away kids like us, and chase they did sooner or later but that didn't mean we weren't back the next week.
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My friend and I used to stuff our boyfriends in the trunk, and only pay for 2 tickets, when in actual fact, 4 of us saw the movie. Sometimes we thought about just leaving them in there, but we never did
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It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World is my brother's favourite movie. We've watched it on TV so many times.
I, too, have fond memories of going to the drive-in in my pjs in the station wagon with my parents. I remember seeing Finian's Rainbow, Paper Moon and Fiddler on The Roof. Lot of good movies!
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Never went to the drive in with my parents, but did go. Now out here it seems that most drive ins are home of the weekend swap meet, and don't play movies. I remember taking lawn chairs and parking our pick-up backwards and sitting in the lawn chairs to watch the movie.
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That doesn't ring a bell.
Remember Tang and Space Food Sticks? My parents would always take tang camping with us and we would go to a mineral spring and fill up water jugs, add Tang, and have orange soda. I think we only got Space Food Sticks once. I remember them tasting likeTootsie Rolls.
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Metal Lunchboxes! This is one like I had, it came with magnets to use as markers for the game on the back.
I liked pink, even back then!
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I remember Tang oh so well. We drank it all the time in grade school. It tastes a lot like Sunny D. We never had Space Food Sticks. I remember my mother used to go to her sorrority meetings on Monday nights and she used to make us either Kraft Dinner and Skillet Strips or Hamburger Helper. Had the Taco Casserole in the box been available here, I'm sure it would have been in the rotation!
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How many of you remember the atomic bomb drills in school? I remember getting under my desk and being petrified.
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No. we have earthquake drills, and the standard fire drills.
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