Middle Aged Memories
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As a kid, I always looked forward to watching The Wizard Of Oz every year on Easter. Then, when my kids were young, they seemed to have it programmed in the Fall, close to Thanksgiving but I see it has moved back to Easter time this year. I have fond memories of pulling my little rocking chair right in front of the t.v. ("Don't sit so close, you'll ruin your eyes") and eating a chocolate bunny.
I didn't even know The Wizard Of Oz was mostly in color til I was about eight and I watched it at a friends house because we didn't get a color t.v. until I was about 10 years old.
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I remember Hiedi being shown in the fall, one year a ball game coverage was cut short to start the movie on time and there was an uproar afterwards, apparently the game had some kind of big change in the score in those last few minutes and people were miffed to have missed it! I remember watching Wizard of Oz regularly, too, but I don't remember if it was any particular time of year. I loved the part where it went from black and white to color! And the big bowl of popcorn Mom let us eat in the living room--we were almost never allowed to eat in the living room.
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I remember as a child watching this wonderful Little Red Riding Hood movie - done like Wizard of OZ and it was around Thanksgiving and I so looked forward to seeing it again and never did. No one I have ever met remembers it either so any of you???
I agree I still think that is such a magical part of the movie but even more so to us who knew what it was like to get color tv. I know it doesn't have the same impact on my kids.
I too remember how upset people would get if programming was changed or ran long and how it was big news and got fixed or there were apologies. Even the censors which I don't agree with most censorship but nowadays watching TV even in the afternoon or commercials showing things that I remember would only have been allowed on after 9 or 10:00 in the evening. I kind of miss that. Seems like it made people think more and have more intelligent shows rather than relying on violence or sex to make people watch. I'd rather think anyday.
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NM, I remember Heidi, too. There were several movies or shows that we were allowed to stay up for. Wizard of Oz and Heidi were a couple. The Incredible Mr. Lippet and the Charlie Brown Specials were others I remember.
My parents were very strict with bedtimes. With three of us, we had bedtimes about 15-30 minutes apart. My sister and Ishared a room, so she came in about 30-60 minutes after I did. Horrible during the summer when the sun was still out when I was tucked in!
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With springtime comes bike riding. As a kid, we gave our bikes awesome "sound effects" by clothespinning on a balloon or playing card so that the spokes hit it as they turned around. Wonder who was the first genius kid to ever think of this? Did kids do this everywhere, or was it just my neighborhood? I have NEVER seen "modern day" kids do this anymore.
Also, why is this thread languishing? I hope chemo brain has not taken away all the memories. Come on ladies...Give us a blast from your part
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We clothespinned playing cards on our bike spokes. I had a good old schwinn but my little sister had a cool banana bike!
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We pinned the cards to our spokes when dad wasn't around, but he told us absolutely not. He said it would bend the spokes and render the bike useless. It was a good explanation from a man who probably just didn't want to hear the noise..
I had two older syblings, so I got hand me down bikes until they got to full sized bikes. The fist new bike I recieved was magenta with a banana seat. We boutght it in a bigger city an hour's drive away and it came in a box. When we opened the box at home, the seat was missing and I had to wait until the next scheduled trip to get it exchanged. That was soooo sad.
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Oh, the Memories thread is languishing again...
Remember when a few pieces of lumber could be fun? I'm talking about STILTS people! We had them in gym class, and I have used them as recently as about 10 years ago at a historical early 20th century village. Still fun!!!
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My Sister was terrific on stilts, I just would fall all of the time. Give me a pool or a bike, that's about all I can accomplish!
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I actually could ride a unicycle and loved it! And adored roller skating and doing ice skating moves on roller skates. I tried to teach my kids how to roller skate. My son did fine but my daughter... well let's just say it make a hilarious video!
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We had metal stilts. They were half blue and half yelloew and had several levels you could set them to. My grandparents got them for us. Don't know what happened to mine, but when I was visiting my brother a few years ago I saw he had made a pair of stilts from wood. We played on them for awhile, smart for two forty-something kids.
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Aging is inevitable, growing up is optional.
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NM, where is the "LIKE" button!!!
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Ditto
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I remember going to play paintball with DS1 several years ago. We played so hard and had so much fun, but when I got home that night, I could barely walk. I announced that I supposed I wasn't 16 anymore. My heart is though.
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I can still do a cartwheel. I didn't say it wasn't sloppy, but not bad after all this time. Must be the skipping that keeps me young!
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I skipped way ahead on this because I didn't have time to read all 51 pages so can't say if anyone mentioned Ricky Tiki Stickies (I'm sure I spelled that wrong) they were bright colored flowers and maybe peace signs. My big sister had them I couldn't keep my eyes off of them I wanted them so bad. We used to have this store called East Meets West that was the 'coolest' store probably something like spencers now that we used to love to go into. I was also such a tom boy that instead of Barbie I had Johnny and Jane West along with the horse (can't remember his name). I also had (and still have them boxed up because I cant' bear to give them away) tons of Breyer horses that I played with all the time.
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Ricky Tiki Stickies sounds so familiar. If I see a picture, I could be sure.
I had a Wild West train set when I was little. My boys played with it when they were little too, with supervision so it stayed pretty much intact. I sold it on Ebay about 5 years ago as a "collectible."
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Jullianna, my best friend had Jane West and her brother had Johnny West. We had a lot of fun playing with them, but I was bothered (at 5 yrs old) that her turquoise blue clothes were molded into her and to put her skirt on, it had to go over the turrquoise pants. I guess since her vests, skirts, and other accessories were rubber, they went well with molded pants!
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I remember the story "Riki Tiki Tavi" about a mongoose, but don't remember the stickees.
My brother is a couple of years older than me and I got to play with most of his toys. I loved taking his Hot Wheels and Matchbox cars outside and and making roads in the dirt for them.
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Did any of you have "tumbling" in grammar school? Once a week each class would spend an hour tumbling. There were two blue mats, probably 4'x8', connected lengthwise backstage in the auditorium. Girls would line up down one side, boys on the other, and we would take turns doing things like; log roll, summersaults, cart wheels, and standing on our heads. We had to take our shoes off and I hated to follow someone who had dirty yucky socks. I was really grossed out when there was some unidentifiable piece of lint or something on the mat. I was such a priss!
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ooooh, i loved my Jane West. I sooo wanted a horse when I was a kid, I got Jane and her horse, oh well.
tumbling was never my fortay, i was the chubby kid. we had to wear our danskin shorts under our skirts for gym in grade school. nothing like rolling down a mat behind the fat kid with her pink shorts under her skirt...
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A few days ago, on t.v., they were selling some kind of cross jewelry with a magnifying center crystal thru' which you could see the miniaturized version of the Lord's Prayer. I was reminded of my neighbor who had something similiar when we were kids, but hers was the Our Father prayer inside. I still don't know how they get it so tiny.
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Speaking of jewelry, remember the "mood ring" fad?
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Here's the one I had...a simple understated classic!
Also from the 70's, the slave bracelet-----and they had them for feet too.
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I remember seeing them, but didn't know they had a name.
It was when things like the mood rings came about, that I realized how tight of a budget my family was on. My friends all seemed to have one, but we didn't spend our money on frivoulous things. I suppose if I had asked for one for Christmas or my birthday I would have recieved it.
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How many grew up with a World Book Encyclopedia set? (Or Britannica, or Compton's?) Were you a card-carrying member of the "Look It Up Club?"
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No I wasn't in the club, but my family had two sets of encyclopedias as we grew up, and I had one set I bought when we were expecting our first. We had sets of small topical encyclopedias purchased at the grocery store. Kid oriented, and Presidents as I recall. Lots of pictures.
My dad read to us most nights and we got to choose the book. Many times it was an edition of the World Book, and he would choose two or three pages to read.
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