Middle Aged Memories
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This was our little Pepe, renamed him Sage
who nneeds a diswasher?Remember washing dishes at Grandma's, she didn't have running water when I was little, so we used the pump and heated water in the old pewter teapot on stove.
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I have never seen a brown and white skunk....how long did you have him? I had a baby squirrel who was totally hairless when I found him on the sidewalk....named him Socks since I would cut the ends off of socks and wrap him in them. I liked Top Cat....TC....and the little fat one named Bennie. Remember the cartoons from Captain Kangaroo?....Tom Terrific with his Mighty Manfred the Wonder dog. And then there was Crabby Appleton and Isotope Fennie. I forget if Clyde Crashcup and his assistant Barnaby were part of that group or where they came from. And then there were Fractured FariyTales with Evert Evert Horton narrating.....think those were part of the Rocky & Bullwinkle show.
When my sister and I were little, my mother would have someone take us to the movies on Sat. early and they would show something like 100 cartoons....Mr.Magoo was always one of them. That would get us out of her hair for hours!! If you stayed there was always a feature movie that was uaually a Disney film like The Shaggy Dog or sometimes a scary one like House on Haunted Hill. Since it was a matinee it was cheap, but I forget how cheap, 50 cents maybe?
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Shaun Cassidy? The Bay City Rollers?
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Saturday Night...
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Marybe, the kids in my neighborhood went to the "show" almost every Saturday. I think it was only 25 cents there in the early days because I remember getting 35 cents total, the extra 10 cents for candy. The parents never took us, they dropped us off. Cheap babysitting! Like yours, our "show" had Disney and horror movies, Elvis, James Bond, etc.and they usually showed an older movie first, then a cartoon intermission, then the featured movie. That was before movie ratings, of course, and I saw a lot of movies that would be at least PG-13 WAY before I was 13. They did have an age cut-off sometimes, but I think it was 7 or 10 years old. I remember this because a few times the little brothers and sisters had to stay home. Unfortunately the theater closed around the time I became a teenager. Then it re-opened as an X-rated place. NO, I never went again!
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I remember two of the movies the babysitter got into trouble for staying and watching A Patch of Blue and David and Lisa. An extra dime for candy would have been a lot then....a box of something,..nonparells (sp?) or Juju fruits , Jr mints or something and some necco waffers or maybe a candy bar. Now the candy and popcorn cost more than the movie!!!
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I saw about a million movies with Vincent Price in them, Ghidra the Three Headed Monster, Santa Claus Conquers the Martians, etc. Goobers, Raisinets, Red Hot Dollars, Lemonheads, all 10 cents a box. Jujubes lasted the longest.
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Whoa Essa - you HAVE pet skunks? Can't let that one pass.... tell us more. I used to adore Peppe LePew!
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I used to be the "Babysitter" who took neighborhood kids to the show. My parents were very strict about movies I saw. I think the first R movie I saw was Escape from Alcatraz.
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We used to get dropped off at the movies on Saturday afternoons too! Mom was always running late and usually we'd miss the first part of the movie, but you could stay and watch the part you missed. Popcorn came in those red and white striped boxes for 50 or 75 cents and you could get a pop too and still have some money left over. Jujubes, jujifruits, milk duds, sugar babies, -----the candy group aka 'cavity pullers' !
When I was in jr high, I remember the theater was showing some old movies, and a friend and I went and saw the Disney film 'Flubber'. I remember us laughing and laughing------years later when I saw it again I couldnt remember what we found so hysterical. Just a case of the jr high girl giggles, I guess. It does feel so good to laugh like that sometimes----I could use a good belly laugh!
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I'm so middle-aged, I remember when you could get Mardi Gras beads without showing your boobs!
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Isn't that the truth.
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Just sitting around thinking this morning----
what is it about the smell of Jergens hand cream that I find so intoxicating--------maybe it just reminds me of my Mom. Missing her lately---she is at the center of so many of my memories...
What were your favorite perfumes or colognes--------I remember wearing Muget de Bois---a pretty lily of the valley scent-------then later Charly or was it spelled Charlie?
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Evening in Paris
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Native Maine: thanks for the Evening in Paris reminder. I remember riding my bike down to Woolworths to get a fountain soda & buy nailpolish for my Mom for Christmas. I wore Evening in Paris in junior high, then went to L'Air du Temps in late High School. My Mom liked Arpege. My Grandma wore White Shoulders. Many "memory scents" are available at Vermont Country Store but they are pricey. Also I've read that quite a few are not the same "base" so the scents are different.
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I was thinking of Jergen's at noon today. My dad was close friends of a Chinese herbalist named Doc Sue. He had his herbs and Chinese medical stuff in the back of his corner market. When I was young, Doc Sue died and my dad was in charge of clearing out the store. We were allowed to go in and pick out a couple of items. I got writing paper and a bottle of Jergen's. I remember my mother picked up waxed paper sandwich bags. Crazy litle memory jogs.
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I remember Love's Baby Soft,
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I wore L'air du Temps, Opium and Lauren back when. I'll bet smelling those might bring back memories.
Mother had Prince Machiavelli, I loved the bottles.
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Grandma had Desert FLower lotion on her kitchen counter.
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One of my early favorites was Jungle Gardenia.
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Evening in Paris was my first scent. Grandma gave it to me. Kitty
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Oh, I forgot about Love's Baby Soft----remember wearing that one too! One of my Aunts always had lots of avon colognes and hand creams, I remember thinking those bottles were pretty too.
Love looking in the Vermont Country Store catalog. Has anyone been to the actual store? I have always wanted to buy DH some of that product they call 'Tired Old Ass Cream" lol They must sell a ton of that one for gag gifts!
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Haven't been to the store but I have ordered quite a bit from the catalog over the years. Always quality merchandise. I've been wearing nothing but Tangee lipstick again for the last two years. Remember - it looks orange but turns a different color on each person depending on their skin tone.
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Haven't seen that in years----am going to have to send for a current catalog. What color does it turn on you. I am not much for wearing lipstick-----have never been able to find a good color for me
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Jaytee - I'm not much for lipstick either. It turns sort of light rose on me, but I have a friend who gets red. I started using this because whenever I did remember to put on lipstick, it migrated (ran) out into the pursed age lines around my lips (ugh). Tangee doesn't seem to do that, so now I try to remember before I leave for work in the AM and after lunch.
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I will have to give that one a try. What else have you bought from Vermont General Store? So many things in the catalog remind me of some of the stuff my Dad used to sell in his little variety store.
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Sweet honesty perfume or Old Spice cologne....
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Old Spice and English Leather-------wonder how many bottles my dad got over the years at Christmas! 0
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How about glass bottles..Breck shampoo, baby oil, Aunt jemima..
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Oh, we always had Prell in the bottle. Loved the emerald green! How about the tin boxes that saltine crackers came in? Kitty
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