Middle Aged Memories
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DH pulls that on me all the time. Do you likeXXX? No. Have you ever tried it? No. He has found out that he likes a lot of things.
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Speaking of that, and back to memories:
You gonna try it?
I'm not gonna try it.
Hey, let's get Mikie.
Yah, He won't eat it. He hates everything.
I always wondered why you would even try to put it in front of a kid who won't eat it because he hates everything. I thought that was stupid even as a kid.
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I also remember the space stix and pixie stix. How about the TV would go off after the 11:30 news and the test pattern would come up. I remember seeing my first window air conditioner. My grandparents had gotten one about 1965. I hated it. They always had it so cold. My grandmother would drink "metrical" to help her lose weight. It was like a thick chocolate milkshake. The pearl in Prell shampoo. Back them you could probably count on both hands all the different brands of shampoo, deo, soap. Now there are so many brands. I remember my mom would buy a quart of chocolate milk every Friday and after supper we would all get a glass. There was just enough for 4 glasses. That was a real treat. I remember when tasteycakes were $.12 - $.15 a pack and bread was $.35/loaf. On Saturdays my mom my brother and myself would go downtown shopping and we would stop and eat lunch at a 5 & 10. They had balloons you could pop to see how much a banana split would be if you ordered one. I always wanted to get one, but my mom would never let us because the price was $.01 - .$.59 (depending on how lucky your balloon was).She always that we might get the $.59 and that was too much.
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I was just thinking about those "dime stores" too. I remember the balloon specials for the banana splits too. My mom was also realistic, like yours, so I never did get one. My mom didn't object to me going over to look at the fish and birds they had for sale. That was free. Usually other kids were there looking while their moms shopped too.
Speaking of unattended children...Remember when the "Amber Alert" of our youth consisted of a child's face being printed on a milk carton?
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The old Woolworth's here has turned into an antique mall, but the restored the lunch counter. When I worked downtown, DH would meet me for lunch there. Sort of nostalgic.
My mother had Ayd's to help her lose weight. Oh, they tasted so good (probably because I had to sneak them).
Remember when shampoo came in glass bottles? They got slippery in the shower! And the Breck girls?
Saturday morning was grocery time. We went to three different stores, one for the meat counter, and the other two for the best bargains. We would pick up my Grandma, my mom would honk the horn for her, and sometimes she would let us. It was easier than letting three kids out of the car and then try to get us back in. We could pick out the cereal for the week, we had to share but we each got a choice, as long as it was under .59!
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I remember Woolworth's, which later became Woolco (all Woolco's in Canada were bought by Wal-Mart in 1994). I also remember Kresge's. I think it's K-Mart now?? We don't have KMark here anymore.
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No, our first of the three station wagons was a white Ford, then a gold Plymouth Fury III, and then a copper colored Chevrolet. Luckily by the time I started driving, one sibling was out of the house and we were a sedan family.
We have Super K-Mart and Big K-Marts. Not many though. Several Walmarts, including two Super Walmarts.
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We had a navy blue Plymouth Fury back in 1973. I remember piling in the Fury and going on family road trips. I learned to drive in a gold station wagon with panelling down the sides!
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I remember using Wella Balsam to wash my Farrah Fawcett hairdo!
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I remember some shampoo that smelled so strong of strawberries. Whatever it was, i loved it.
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I remember the hairspray called Psssssst! I didn't Google it, so who knows how many S's were in that spelling!
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I used Aqua Net hairspray!
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Aqua net is still around. That's the heavy duty stuff.
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I keep Aqua Net in the laundry room. Nothing is better at getting ball point ink stains out. The fancy expensive brands don't have the solvents that get the job done.
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How long has Aqua Net been around? I gave it a quick Google, but could not find the answer. Know it was around in the 1960's holding those teased up flips, and had it's glory days in the Big Hair Decade of the 1980's, but I'm pretty sure it was also holding the beehives and spit curls in place back in the 1950's also. Anybody know?
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PatMom, I had forgot about that tip. I have two of DH's shirts awaiting ink removal.
Aerosol hairspray was invented in 1948. And Aqua Net has been around since sometimein the 50s.
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We had a lemonade stand on a regular basis, and raked in the money on hot days.
We lived on a bus stop and could count on commuters from NYC getting off the non air-conditioned bus after a half hour or longer ride and just before a several block walk up the hill to their houses and apartments. The buses arrived with new customers about every 20 minutes for a couple of hours.
The worst part was having to hold your breath as the bus pulled out to avoid breathing in all those black fumes.
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We had lemonade stands, and as I recall the Mailman was our best customer.
"Mr Fink" our mailman had our route throughout my childhood. Once I was about 5, my mother would let me walk to the other end of tht block when I saw him coming. My 4 yr old neighbor Jeff would walk with me. When Mr. Fink got to our block, across the street, he would watch as we safely made our way across. We would then hold onto his cart and walk with him and talk down the other side of the street, and back up our side.
I would post a picture of the letter carrier cart, but for some reason the pictures areen't posting for me last night or today.
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Meece, I'm having problems positng pics, too. Not sure what's up with that, but I hope it fixes itself soon!
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Is anyone else having problems posting pics?
I will try my desktop coputer later.
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The morning of 9/11, I had just dropped my one boy off at elementary school and was driving home. I heard about the first plane crash on the car radio. Unbelievable! I had to make a quick stop to get groceries, but I was really hurrying to get home to see a news report. Then, while watching the report on Tower One, I saw the live crash into Tower Two. The fabric of my reality tore a little bit that day.
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You could see the NYC skyline from the end of the block where I grew up. I watched them build those towers that looked too tall, and just so out of place, kind of like a gawky teenager. Then I watched as a whole city of tall buildings grew up around them, and they became an integral part of the city.
After years of traveling through the PATH station and lobby, frequently just before 9 AM on my way to college classes, we finally did the sightseeing tour of the observation deck in August 2001. By the time we finished the roll and got the pictures developed, the towers were gone.
My thought the first time I saw the "new" NYC skyline was how lonely the Empire State Building looks. I still think that every time we head up the Turnpike.
I was lucky. No one I knew was killed. My brother wasn't so lucky. He had worked for the Port Authority for a number of years, and several of his friends and former co-workers were killed.
I am still always struck by how few people died that day. I know that seems like an odd statement, but having seen and been part of the absolute sea of people traveling through there at that hour, seeing the sheer size of the buildings and knowing the huge number of people who worked there, I expected to hear a number that was closer to 40 or 50 thousand. Those firefighters and police did an unbelievable job getting so many people to safety.
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I agree. It is amazing how well they cleared the area. When you think that enough people worked in those towers to populate a small city.
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Speaking of terrorists...I've destroyed some ant infrastructure in my time. Ooops! The ant farm I had looked exactly like this, but I am sure it was called Uncle Milton's Ant Farm. You could send away for the ants with a certificate, but I always just captured my little farm workers out on the pavement. Come to think of it, that was a very bad idea because the small ones could squeeze through the air holes on the top of the farm.
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My mom isn't a bug person, so we never had one of those. There were kids who brought them to show and tell.
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Nobody's had a memory for a few days? Me, I'm always having them...I was just thinking about those old photos booths. I remember them being in dime stores and at the train and bus stations. Four pictures for .25, the last time I got in one of those booths. I think there are still some in existence, for retro-coolness, but with camera phones there not much of a need anymore, is there?
Those pics are of Andy Warhol. I remember pop art from the 1960's too.
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I've run across those photo booths in a few places over the years. Not sure how many pics you get, but you pay dollars instead of cents now!
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I do remember adding material to make flares. I also remember in grade school we all wore either Levis or GWG jeans. Other kids used to try to pull off the Levis tags so we used to sew it down so it couldn't be torn off. Our Prime Minister in Canada during the late '70s was Pierre Trudeau and his wife Margaret had a line of jeans called "Maggie T's." Those who were lucky enough to Maggie T's were the envy of the other girls at school (I never had any Maggie T's...but I sure wanted them!).
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Girls didn't get to wear pants to school until the early 70s around here. I got my first pair of jeans in 1974. Not long after that came Jordache...I never could afford them. But we already hit on Dittos from that era earlier in this thread.
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