Middle Aged Memories
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I have two top and bottom fridges - freezer on the bottom in one and on the top in the other. The side-by-side 'American' style fridges are still quite expensive here and sometimes require plumbing for ice making etc so they are not as popular.
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I like my side by side, but my mom had a top bottom fridge with double doors on the top. Makes a really nice wide place to store food.
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Love the pics of Hazel, Mr. Magoo...and the magic cube...oh its amazing how many things I have forgotten....probably forgot more than I remember....
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I think we all go back far enough to remember before there were self-defrosting freezers. My mom would schedule her freezer "meltdown" for sometime in the winter when it dipped below 32 degrees. Then all the food would go outside while she melted several inches of ice off of our freezer.
Did everybody here try to save a snowball in the freezer at least on once? An icicle?
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Yah, then when it was defrost time, you wondered what the glob of ice in a baggie was from.
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anyone have high healed saddle shoes? or the enlarged yarn that we tied around pony tails like ribbons? did that and then played with my liddle kiddles sanka? and fill it to the rim with brim AND AND AND the first time i bought gasoline with my new drivers liscence : TWNETY FIVE CENTS A GALLON aw good times (yeah right)
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I think I bought .39/gal gas. My sister had the high heeled saddle shoes and ones that were blocky and laced up the front. I had two pieces of each color of the yarn because I wore pig tails alot. I found my Little Mouse Kiddle in a box the other day.
Remember old fashioned charm bracelets? (Not the Italian charms or the new bead style.) I have one in my jewelry box.
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I had the hair yarns too...like Meece said...two of each color. Wow! I had forgotten about those.
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thats precious! went shoppin this afternonn into an antiques store ANTIQUE STORE saw a bank like i had as a child. it was made to resemble a cash register with popup $amount tabs and a lever like we USTA have on ADDING MACHINES even this is an anachronism of our age group gues i'm an antique
~~nancy-carol
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I still call them adding machines rather than calculators.
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Phew...happy double nickles on Saturday
If you are an antique, then so am I !!!!I do remember the charm bracelets and the yarm ribbons....don't remember the Little Mouse Kitty...I has platform saddle shoes, but they weren't white and black...I had a pair that were white, with orange and black...they really were ugly then but I still wore them anyways...Love the gas sign.. I remember the long lines to get gas at 0.33 right before the big price increase in 1972 or 73 before the gas embargo!!!
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I'm from that gas era too. Think my first gas purchase was .29/gal. Those were the days when teens could scrape some pocket change together to get a couple bucks for gas. Today you barely get a fume for that price.
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A gallon of gas was only 6 pop bottles.
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meece seriously? i thought that was only in mayberry?0
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Well, you had to redeem the pop bottles at the "Mini market" that sold gas.
NM my dad had one of those on a shelf in his business office for years. I wonder where it went when he closed his store. It made you feel like you had such power to pull that lever.
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gotcha how bout billy barty...& romper room were those only in los angeles? bbut i bet kids say the darndest things w/art linkletter was nationwide? ~~nancy carol
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I heard that there were different Bomper Room stars in different parts of the country. I do think Billy Bary's big Top was a CA local show.
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I remember Romper Room here in Maine--the Miss Nancy that was the teacher was actually named Nancy--I met her years later when I was in college, beleive it or not! My brother got Romper Stompers for Christmas one year:
Romper bonper Stomper boo:
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I remember the clomping sound Romper Stompers made. In CA we had Miss Mary Ann.
I read that Romper Room was a "franchise".
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Waaa! I can't remember my Romper Room hosts name. Wasn't that wand thing what they held up when they looked for a Good Do-bee?
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romper romper romper do.........
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I still like adding machines better than calculators as you can look back and actually see where you made your mistakes which I certainly do.
I remember Romper Room too but I think she sort of scared me....
I like Captin Kangaroo much better and here we had The Popeye Club that everyone child in town I think was on at least once.
It has probably been mentioned but can you believe they actually wanted children to want bubble gum and candy cigarettes. You know they knew by then they were toxic. I hated my Mom smoking so much I used to sneak and throw her cigarettes down the toilet - hated the smell of them and how she never would eat. No I have never tried a cigarette and never will.
I remember when my Dad first brought home a color TV set. It was such a huge thing. It was small too and he had it up in my parents room. I remember we were allowed to watch it when specials came on like Rudolph and such. Also remember watching 7 Brides for 7 Brothers on it.
To that I remember the Huge console TV in the den - I mean it was a huge piece of furniture. I don't remember not having it though.... funny. My Mom moved in 1987 surely we didn't have the thing till then?? Now I'm wondering what was there?
I also remember long car trips - no seat belts - no restrictions at all. We would make these huge beds in the back of the station wagon to sleep in or read ( not that I could). I also remember cause my parents smoked lying down on the floor to try and get away from the smoke and remember how it was cooler down there and how the engine roared. My Dad had a Cadallac ( shoot don't know how to spell it) and it sort of floated down the road. Still can't ride in one without feeling car sick, not that I could buy one anyway these days....
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Does anyone remember "Bowling for Dollars"?
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I lived in Montreal and I watched Romper Room as a little girl...unfortunately, I don't remember the "teacher's" name....and Captain Kangaroo!! and the humongous console TV...who could forget!! oh yeah...I could without reminders!! I loved candly cigarettes and bubble gum cigars!!! candy of my youth was soo good....and in Canada, there was candy that I can't get in the states!!!
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Remember Jack LaLane? His morning exercise show? I think he's still alive and lives with his wife in Morro Bay. He has to be close to 100 by now, but last I saw them on an infomercial he looked pretty darn good.
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I have a Jack LaLane juicer, it works great! I'm hoping to live as long has he does.
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Stanzie yeah, the car! when my sister and i were young, we would stand behind my dad's shoulder while drove. can you imagine! they still do tupperware parties? or fullerbrush? or door-to-door encylopedia sets? or door-to-door vacuumcleaner sales?0
