Middle Aged Memories
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oh yeah francy!! my sister dinkewd her hair in white shoeploish! (from the saddle shoes we had to war to school----we went to public school but my dad said these were practical we always wore hats for any holiday......and my mom made me wear gloves to a sweet 16 party I AM NOT THAT OLD!! sp beside mouse and squirrel, mr peabody's way back machind and his assistant sherman mighty mouse that saved the day, and woops jut forgot felix's parnte i cn picture them ............r. what about BRILCREME? a little dab'l do you?
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Oh the 70's what a riot! Concerts every weekend, Bob Segar, Bruce Springsteen, Journey, Survivor, Boones Farm Strawberry wine, Eric Clapton, Peter Frampton, Jossie and the Pussy Cats cartoon. I loved ThatGirl tv show and The Brady Bunch! The Partridge Family, Cheerleading skirts were pleaded with thick knee socks too, We built pyramids no stunting! I drove a 72 Monte Carlo with an 8 track! I also had cancer free breasts then but only a size A cup now with new ones to replace the bad ones they are a size C Woo Hoo!
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brady bucnh!!! i tried so hard to make my blck hair look like marcias! oy! mine even loner that ners, but didnt have that ''swing you know like walking side to side! i was a hippie! cheerleaders were ferboyen! our hair was long, we wore peasant tops from mexico (i lived in l.a.ca) ;payed the f;ute and read poetry....in otherwords, our olders brother and sisters were beatniks
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OH OH!!! and we all weant braless !! like we need one? but such a political statement that was.....remember "one day at a time" the tv show?0
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creatue geatures and passwrd truth consequences (not the one today)
, the newywed game, the dating game to tell the truth, i've got a secret (didn't i ever have homeork?)
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I had one of the bonnet hair dryers...and remember Paragoric....but don;t know if I ever took it....its funny...I only remember these things because you girls post all these fun memories....would never remember most of these things on my own....Phew...now sure that I'm that old either!!! but when friends comment about turning 40, I realize that 40 was many years ago!!!
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karen many years ago! how wierd is that? yes, the bonnet on my hair dryer was pink. now we might have considered ouurselves hippies: stopped shaving our legs and pits, but hey!!! a girls hair is off limits! into the bonnet i dryed my hair that was wrapped around emptied food cans---MY HAIR WAS ALREADY STRAIGHT! not that i was vein haha did y'all wear stockings under your kneew sox? that we were technically not "wearing" nylons but gossh heaven forfend we didn't seem cool
we always had a frdge that had one door only it held the the fridge part and the freezer doy! not goona do much! so then every few weeks my father had to douse the "ice box" with pots and pots of hot water to defrost it. by the time he was done.....
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Our fridge was an over and under. Nothing like those these days. My uncle had this really cool one that you just pressed the pad on the door and it popped open. It had to be from the 50s or 60s, and he still had it into the 2000s.
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(Back to those garter belts that were mentioned for stockings...) Did anyone attach those to fishnets? Usually put a hole in the fishnets fairly quickly too. The coolest "look" was to wear one pair of fishnets on top of another for a shimmery look. Thank goodness pantyhose came out very soon after I got to wear nylons. And yes, when we still could not wear pants to school, it was an extra layer of warmth to wear both stockings and knee socks.
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I had a pair of hot pink fishnets, I thought they were so cool. I had the usual black and white ones too, but the pink..
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oh fishnets! show how fashioanioble one is how bout maverick marcus wellby and roford fules? father daoughter boding for me
~ ~ nancy carol
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The Flying Nun
Perry Mason
Adam 12
Emergency!
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DH and I were just quoting Emergency a couple of days ago. "Station 51"
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There's a traffic jam in Brooklyn, Harlem's broken out in fights...Car 54, Where Are You? I am feeling quite middle aged today for some reason...maybe the steroids are still working. Or maybe it is because I slept in....woke up at about 6:50 AM and went back to sleep when I saw the TZ marathon had ended at 6 AM, turned the tv off and went back to sleep. The guide said the last episode they showed was one about Camelot and maid Marion and I don't remember that one so am sorry I missed it. I need fishnet hose today, to mask my veins, but they would probably buldge through....gross. I think it is amazing how unchanged Sally Fields is today and I really do not think she has had any work done.
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PS, My dad has an old Servel gas refrigerator in the basement and it still works....the freezer is in the top part of the fridge and you open the one big door for access. We just use it for beer and overflow stuff when the upstairs fridge is too full.
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oh yeah....fishnet stockings!!! and weren't we "cool" wearing them....I remember my grandparents frig when I was growing up...freezer was on the bottom, but I think it had a pedal to open it....My dad's family had a "county house" in the laurentian mountains.....the stove to cook on was a wood stove!!!! even in the mid to late 60's the wood stove was what everyone used for cooking....
I loved the Flying Nun! And Car 54 where are you?
This thread is sooo much fun!!!
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native E X C E L L E N T !!0
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- been watvhing tvland : bewitched, andy griffith, then i remember all those other girls (mydad hadan aversion to anything commercial) pink patent leather hat box for Barbi dollls
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I agree, Sally Field looks very natural.
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Oh N. M - of course you would find the perfect pictures!!!! I just love that!
I loved the Flying Nun and Hazel, also Mr. Ed, and it may have been a local thing but when I was little there was the Popye Club and I got to be on it with my brownie troupe. Oh, also makes me think of Captin Kangaroo, and Mr. Magoo.
Also my Mom used to wear hats to church but not big hats just small things like an oval of black velvet with a ribbon and black netting or a bow with netting and she always wore gloves. Things like that. I remember how beautiful I remember her being and my Dad with his hat and coat. Things were a lot more elegant back then.
I also remember a cheese souffle that Stoffers used to make that was amazing, and there were also frozen cupcakes that came in a package that I remember being wonderful.
Oh my I also remember a beautiful evening gown that my Mom used to let us play dress up in - Boy I so wish I had it now.... it was lovely green chiffon long skirt and the top was all rinestones! It was georgous! Why on earth she let us play in it I'll never know!
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Oh N. M - of course you would find the perfect pictures!!!! I just love that!
I loved the Flying Nun and Hazel, also Mr. Ed, and it may have been a local thing but when I was little there was the Popye Club and I got to be on it with my brownie troupe. Oh, also makes me think of Captin Kangaroo, and Mr. Magoo.
Also my Mom used to wear hats to church but not big hats just small things like an oval of black velvet with a ribbon and black netting or a bow with netting and she always wore gloves. Things like that. I remember how beautiful I remember her being and my Dad with his hat and coat. Things were a lot more elegant back then.
I also remember a cheese souffle that Stoffers used to make that was amazing, and there were also frozen cupcakes that came in a package that I remember being wonderful.
Oh my I also remember a beautiful evening gown that my Mom used to let us play dress up in - Boy I so wish I had it now.... it was lovely green chiffon long skirt and the top was all rinestones! It was georgous! Why on earth she let us play in it I'll never know!
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Remember getting a pack of chalk was such a treat so you could go out to the sidewalk and draw a hopscotch? And you kept a special "chain" or marker that you were skilled at throwing into the grid?
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Remember the Clicker camera? I got one for 6th grade graduation. I loved it
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I don't rememebr the Clicker and failed at Googling it.
I remember the Instamatic camera and the "Magic Cube" flash cube. It didn't take batteries, but you could also make one flash by sticking a paperclip in a hole in the bottom. I doubt my mother would appreciate that little bit of info, flash cubes weren't cheap.
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Running home from school to watch Dark Shadows, then home work, then outside until dinner...wait until your father gets home (the scariest statement in the world)...
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Only heard that one time. Once was enough.
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I think it was Magic Cubes that you couldn't put in a plastic bag when it was hot because it would make the flashes go off. It was fun to watch the flash cubes rotate around after I took a picture.
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Thanks NM - love the pictures - someday I'll really figure out how to do this!
Someone earlier mentioned Tasty cakes - we used to only get these when we went to vist my grandparents in N.J. I still remember what they tasted like. Anyone from N.J.? I still miss Fralinger's Salt Water Taffy and almond maccroons! These are more N.J.memories of the rolling chairs, the Steel Pier and the rides and Mr. Peanut! I think there was also a wax museum and a Ripley's believe it or not. Now it is all casinos and scary stuff.....
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