Middle Aged Memories
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But it sure got a lot rainier by 1968!
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I have a picture of my Mom going to a costume party dressed as the Morton Salt Girl. Love seeing those pictures!
I remember Kiddles - some of the first pictures, didn't they have sort of a floral smell or am I imagining that.
It might have already been done but every so often I will smell a smell and it totally brings back the smell of cooking creepy crawlers - even writing about them conjures up the smell.
This also might have been done - but I was recently thinking about when my Mom would make spagetti she would bring out the old Mateus wine bottles with the staw on the bottom and the all the colorful wax we would let drip down the bottles.
I also remember for a short time some company made these wonderful frozen cupcakes - there would be a variety of flavors like chocolate, lemon, orange, vanilla, strawberry, and carmel - maybe?
Oh two other things, we used to eat something called Sandwitch spread. It came in this plastic tube (maybe oscar myer) and it had a distinctive taste with lots of pickles. We used to adore it.
Then the other was Ideal cookies, I still dream about them. They were made my Nabisco with such thick rich dark chocolate and peanut butter - probably would cost about 20.00 a box now a days.... sigh. wonderful things.....
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I remember Space Food Sticks, Instant Breakfasts, and something I can't remember what it was called. They were like brownies and came two in a package, they were some sort of breakfast squares. I still remember how the icing tasted, but that 's about all I remember.
Well, I just went and Googled Breakfast squares, and found them...
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I remember dripping wax on a Mateus bottle, like Stanzie wrote. I bought two candles that were white, but had multi-colored wax on the insidem so with just those two, it ended up looking good.
Wow, both Ideal cookies and Sandwitch rings a bell, but I don't seem to have any personal experience with them. Maybe just saw the marketing. I think I had a Breakfast Square or two, tho'.
Before sugar was a bad word...................
I think they all changed to "Honey ______," but the sugar still there. Tricky!
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All those breakfast items aside, I LOVE coming HERE to start my day. It wakes my brain up!
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Its it funny how just the name of something or seeing the pictures just brings the memories flooding back. I remember the breakfast squares also, weren't they somewhat dry but the icing was sweet.
I also remember eating those push up frozen sweet tubes..... you can still get them they are long tubes filled basically with sugar water and sweet flavorings. I remember just loving them and wondering my Mom thought they were too sweet. Well blech I know understand.... loved Frosted Flakes but wow talk about sugar!!!
A friend brought some cupcakes for dessert from some fancy bakery and oh my gosh I couldn't eat them for all the sugar......
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Did anyone else wear crinkle shirts and fish net stockings in all different colors?
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Have we talked about the Spirograph? My favorite wheel was #52, hole 1 (If I remember right)
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Does anyone remember tis toy? Our neighbor had one and he and I played with it while our mothers were "patterning" his brother who had nuerological problems.
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no picture for me Meece
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Hmm I'll try again with a different one...
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hmmmmmmmmm....looks familar but I don't think I had one.
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Seeing those freeze pops reminded me of this..... We used to make our own Popsicles.......they actually had molds you could buy that I think tupperware made, but sometimes we would freeze kool-aid in ice cube trays and stick a toothpick in and it would be the stick to hold it by.
I am not familiar with the bizzy buzzy pen.
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What a coinky-dink! I have those clear plastic popsicle (fruit bar) makers. I got them out of the back of the cupboard last week when I was putting in new shelf liners, and now they are bagged up to pass along to a mom of a six-year-old. They are Tupperware.
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I remember the clear Tupperware popycycle makers, but hope I don't still have them since my son is 41. If they're still in the back of the cupboard, I am in need of more help from the "de cluttering" site than I thought.
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Oh I have several sets of Ice-tups. I need to clear things out. Maybe my DS need to have them for DGS. Some of mine were my mother's when I was little, others were from my days as a Tuperware Lady.
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Yes, Marybe,
Kool-aid popsicles with toothpicks, which always broke off from the weight. Remember how hard it was to hold those toothpicks, even with our itty bitty hands? Many times they'd end up on the sidewalk on their way to our mouths!
Does anyone remember making Boondoggles, those colorful woven cords we wove from long, thin plastic straps? I can still remember the smell of the plastic and the beautiful colors. Can't remember what we did with the cords. We just wove on and on until we ran out of straps. This would have been back in the mid-50's.
Lane
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I remember the stuff we made them with was called "gimp"
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Did anyone have a ZIP chimpanzee stuffed animal? I got one for my 6th birthday, and still have him, although his face is now covered with black sunspots from my leaving him in the sun. But, then, I have the same problem, ha, ha! I used to put diapers and other baby clothes on him. His yellow shirt has a red ZIP. I've lost his pants and his ears have been sewn back on a few times. He has white plastic built-in boots. He's now 56 years old. My favorite toy of all time.
Good memories!
Lane
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"Gimp" and the chimp? Not familiar with either. Actually, we did make those keychains, but we just called the stuff plastic laces or lacing. If a "boondoggle" is the same as a "lanyard" then I crafted a few of those too..
Love seeing the pics of them NM. I should make a few now as therapy.
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I remember this red long spool like thing that had silver plastic nubs on it and you would weave a long cord like chain on it....but I don't know what it was called. it was really stretchy. Did you ever make chains out of gum wrappers?....you would make a strip out of the wrapper first and kept folding it....sort of the same way you would do a situpon, but miniature in size. I had one of those gum wrapper chains hanging up in my bed room.......also one made from pop tops, but that was much later and when I was into collecting beer bottles also. Rolling Rock, Robin Hood Ale, Black Label, Black Cat, PBR,Little Kings.........my drunken college years made possible by 3.2 beer.
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I made lanyards out of lacing as well, Eli~
As soon as you said Zip the Chimp, I knew what you were talking about and immediately thought aboutthe plastic boots, LWD.
I used to make the gum wrapper chains, now most gum come in foil only.
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I know this isn't exactly as described, I can picture that in my mind but can't find a pic of it. Was something like this, if I'm right:
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The spool thing is called a knitting spool. I'll let NM look for a pic if she wants to. I think I may have posted one 40 or so pages ago, but who can remember? I had one too. At the time, I did not have a crochet hook, but it was easy enough to just do with fingers. Nimble kid fingers, that is.
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Aha-- a knitting spool:0
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I love this thread-it always makes me smile. And praise God for you computer girls that can always find a picture.
A couple of pages ago i saw a picture of what was then called Sugar Crisp-my absolute favorite cereal. It is now called Super Golden Crisp-still full of sugar. Also now professes to contain whole grain. My best friend let me know she just saw on a wb site it is the absolute worst cereal out there. Second place goes to Captain Crunch with Crunchberries.
We grew up as a Ford family and always had the Country Squire station wagon. To this day I can remember the beating me and my brother got for peeling off the "wood" on 1 side of it. The decal had a ;loose place on it so we peeled it all the way off. That was in the days where you could paddle your kids in the front yard without someone calling the police.
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OH, THERE'S MY ZIP IN HIS YOUNGER YEARS! Thank you so much. He looks so YOUNG and HEALTHY. It just makes me cry to see it. I might have to pull him out of a box and put a diaper on him today! He probably needs one due to old age and incontinency, lol. And maybe I'll bandage his forefinger where I chewed on it! And hold him tight!
And the gimp - definitely the same plastic straps. The ones I learned to do were a square pattern. I remember when just starting the cord the straps were so long they got all tangled up. Thanks for the memories.
Yes, and I made the gum wrapper chains, too. Love all of you guys.
Lane
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