Middle Aged Memories
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Oh gosh you all are so great!!! I never had a lot of the toys recently mentioned except the first snow cone machine but I did watch Band Stand and Soul Train.I want to know more about the blocks made of pressed wood- it said you stick them together - Magic Blocks ? OK, confused so how did they stay together? Interesting....
As far as cameras only remember those flash cubes can still hear the click on putting them on and them going off and going poof.
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Stanzie, that girl in your avatar probably got her picture snapped with one of the cameras above...in beautiful black and white.0
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Glad you reactivated the thread Meece!0
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Meece - that girl is my Mom - she would have been 87 this month. I love this thread - love reliving memories.
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Stanzie! It was I mentioning that pic of your mom, not Meece. If you cannot tell us apart, well...she is the real proud Grandma looking one, and I am the dorky looking doggy. Hee-hee. Is that your mom's wedding photo (or was she a prom queen?)0
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I still know what you look like, Elimar!
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Do you? I have added some wrinkles just to throw people off.
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I remember when you came out of hiding for that one day...
I am surprised my gray hair doesn't cause a great big glare each time the flash goes off. Can't pull 'em out anymore, just too many!
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Has anyone mentioned Clackers? You know, the acrylic balls that could put your eye out if they broke? PAINT BY NUMBERS is my favorite. I started collecting them. Wish I had the old ones that I painted.
Lisa
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We discussed clackers here at one time. I mentioned how my grandparents had bought some for me at the county fair, but they seemed to disappear not long after I brought them home. Go figure!
I liked the black velvet posters that you could color in with felt tip markers.
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That brought back a memory I didn't know I had. I did one picture with markers on black velvet, a huge one with dozens of butterflies.
Did the paint-by-numbers. I know I made these two. Also, horses.
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I remember Paint By Number! I think I did horses, too but I remember doing scenery.
I've done the velvet ones, too. I actually enjoy those, and still do one now and again when I see them in the dollar store.
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I think my grandmother had one of those winter scenes hanging in her living room.
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awwwwwwww that paint by numbers!!!
that's a happy cry. I remember doing a German Shepherd and 2 thoroughbreds. I was very into horses. I have about 6 PBNs now and looking always to add more. I'm trying to get some more dogs. I want to do a gallery wall with them. Do you remember the smell of the oil in the paint?? That was such a good memory.
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I think that is why I didn't get to do them more, my mom didn't trust me with the oil paints.
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My sister is an accomplished artist. Website: www.neworleanstable.com
I, on the other hand, couldn't even do paint by numbers. I was terrible. I used to sit next to her as a little girl. We were poor and had one color book and one box of colors. Even as a very little girl, I learned to just give up. I couldn't stay in the lines very well and she was doing shadings, mixing colors, etc. It still is a fond memory. I can even smell the paints.
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I regocnize theat Shepherd from the back of the box.
Meece, my mom also painted two farm/country scenes and they hung in my living room for years. She painted them while she was pregnant with me, maybe those fumes from the oils explain what happened to my brain.
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Mary, Took a look at your sister's website. She is quite talented in deed. Beautiful pics! I only ever remember do one paint by numbers. It was of The Last Supper on black velvet. My mother loved it and got it framed and hung it in her kitchen, and it's still there! I was not much of an artist either though. Also remember clackers and, surprisingly, mine disappeared too! What a coinicidence!
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Love the German Shepherd! I think that was the one that I did! I'm still scouting for my next purchase this week. I try to get one about every month or so.
Mary, your sister is a very skilled painter for sure! I love her bold colors. I don't paint in that style but I do paint, sculpt, and several other things (call it creative ADD). But I still love those paint by numbers!
Here is the last one that I bought:
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I always wanted to play with this at my neighbors house. I got an updated version for my kids when they were tots. Don't know if they still have them now, in the "What's a record?" generation.
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Tiki's were very 60's. I had a Tiki necklace that I made. Not carved from wood; it was ceramic and I painted it and put orange "gems" in as eyes. Very cool!
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That little record player brought back memories. When I first started babysitting in 75, i used to play with the kids and play the records, their attention span wasn't near as long as mine. I remember on record played Edelwiess.
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Another record played Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star (aka Baa, Baa Black Sheep, aka the Alphabet Song.)
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Other songs on the Fisher Price Hit Parade...
Oh Where Has My Dog Gone
Edelweiss
Jack & Jill
London Bridges
Twinkle Twinkle Little Star
Au Clair de La Lune
Children's Marching Song
Humpty Dumpty
Hickory Dickory Doc
Camptown Races
No, I didn't remember them all, I Googled it.0 -
Does anyone remember these? What did you call them? (Bad Picture...)
We called them "flying saucers." The outside was like a communion wafer and they had tiny candy beads inside.
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elimar I don't remember that one at all, it looks like colored ravioli to me (could have used this as the mystery pic on the Middies site...LOL)0
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Why didn't I think of that?!?!!!
I saw they were also called "satellite wafers" too. 0 -
That candy sor of reminded me of Zitz candy from the penny candy shelf. It appears it still exists. I was/is a hard candy and when you suck it down the middle was/is filled with foaming powder.
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We recently went to a Cracker Barrel. I don't know if these restaurant/general stores are across the country but you can find sooo many of the old candies and toys great place to visit and the food isn't too bad--they had the Zotz there...
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