Middle Aged Memories
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I loved the crafts for the kids, but one can have too many picture frames made out of puzzle pieces.
I was remembering this weekend when in the 70s the Avon Lady would come by with her little turqoise case of new products. I loved when she would leave those little sample "tubes" of lipstick even though I was much too young to wear any. I was looking at an Avon catalogue recently and there is so much that isn't toiletries that I was surprised.
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I remember those tubes of lipstick-loved them!!! And loved the smell!
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Those are the ones! (Cute little girls!) My mother used to give me the ugly ones to play with. I remember a pearlescent orange one in particular.
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I had a 70's pearly white sample from my neighbor's mom. She was a little old to embrace the mod lips of the time.
That reminds me...cake eyeliner was very big at that time. I had a cake of white eyeliner. I ACTUALLY WORE IT. I cannot say I looked good.
p.s. I had blue mascara too. Maybelline.
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Remember the lipstick called Tangee?...it smelled like tangerines. I used to wear that white lipstick....and coal black eyeliner....I went for that hood look, but was never really able to pull it off. We had this really strict dean of women at our school and she used to march me into the restroom and make me take my eyeliner off. We also could not wear the really short shits and our hem had to touch the floor when we knelt down....bangs were not supposed to cover our eyes, but somehow I got away with that one. And no, I did not go to a Catholic school, we just had a really strict dean.
To this day I do not like wearing lipstick unless it is really pale or a nude shade.....guess it's from growing up with the white stuff.
Why is it they don't have lightning bugs out West?....we are loaded with them here this summer. When we were kids we used to catch them and put them in a jar with holes punched in the lid top.
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hahahahahaha; we were sooooooo stylin' Thanks for the laugh NM
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Marybe gave me a chuckle with the short ???s that she wasn't able to wear.
My mother had one eyeshadow during my whole childhood. It was blue and in a tube like a lipstick. Since she had it the whole time, you can guess how often she wore it.
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Oh my, that was supposed to say skirts.....Freudian slip perhaps?....Should I go back and edit it? I really did not do it on purpose and only went back to read it when I saw what Meece wrote.
Yep, that is the tangee lipstick. I never did the lips THAT white..that looks more like zinc oxide you would put on when going to the beach. I did do that white eyeliner however in college days. Had a roommate from NY who showed me a lot of makeup tricks that had not yet hit the midwest.
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Ladies: I've been wearing nothing but Tangee lipstick for several years now. It doesn't "run" into those senior creases around the lips. Below is the link where I buy it.
If you've never seen it, you would all enjoy the catalog from this store. It has almost everything we had as kids. Oh the candies & the toys & the Lanz nightgowns. I've been holding off on purchasing "Evening In Paris", but I'll splurge one day to remember high school.
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In the 70's my mom was an avid sewing gal and made wonderful clothes. She would let me and my sister make bikinis and halter tops. I always admired her sense of style and still do - she's 79 now. I didn't see a sewing machine for years once I left for college but I have recently gotten back into it and thank the 70's for teaching me that DIY is cool!
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I remember SenSen, the little breath sweeteners; but we thought they were just exotic candies. Mmmm!
Then again, I remember Parke-Davis Throat Lozenges, in the slide out box. Tasted kind of like ginger/clove x 10, and would numb your mouth. Used to have contests with them, who could eat the most at one time. Then it got a new formula, so you would not get numb. No fun after that.
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Came back to see if anyone else loved the SenSen.
What about Pine Bros. Coung Drops? How did they get that slimy smooth texture, not a hard drop, yet not quite a gummy either? Was it the glycerine?
My favorite flavor was Honey, but I got assorted a lot too.
Smith Brothers were good too. Wild cherry, but even the black ones. The guys with beards made those sugar drops seem like a real medicine. "Mom, my throat is scratchy." Hack, hack!
That was before I successfully completed the Cough Drops Anonymous program. It's been years since I had one. (They all seem yucky now.)
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I did not like SenSen....my grandfather who was a smoker used them, I think to cover the nicotine breath. I tried them thinking it was going to be something good and it was a bit of a shock to my tongue. Cherry cough drops...OMG....I could go through a box of those in ten minutes....I loved both Luden's and Smith Brother's. I am not familiar with the Pine Bros. brand. My grandmother used to get horhound drops and would give us one of those if we had a cough, but I always wanted the wild chery ones.
I checked out that catalog Minus2....I used to love those coconut balls in the pastel colors....those were something else we always had at Grandma's house. She had a candy dish that always had something in it....those jelly filled mints seemed to be a favorite of hers and also the wintergreen mints that were pink....the white ones which were peppermint I did not like so much. The ones I really hated and still do are Starlight mints....she would send one of us over to the dime store to buy a half a pound of those from the candy counter.
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I remember Pine Brothers and Smith Brothers cough drops! And I love the Vermont Country Store.
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I don't think I ever tried SenSen, but Luden's mmmmmmmmmmmmm. I loved it when my mom got them for my "cough" but hated it when she got "Halls" they tasted like medicine! Go figure!!!
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How about 8-track tapes! I had a stereo when I was in my early teens, which had an 8-track tape player, tape deck for the newer tapes coming on the scene and a record player. God, I wish I would have kept that stereo just for ol time sake, it was sooo cool! But even before that when I was younger I had a tiny record player which would play 45s (when you could still get them). As you could tell, music was a big thing for me back then....still is!
I would sing and dance in my room for hours, magic marker as a microphone, pretending to serende the clothes in my closet who were my adoring fans..LOL! 0 -
Of course 8 track tapes. We had a player in our station wagon, and we thought it was just the height of coolness! The only tapes we had for it were Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass and Andy Williams. Looking back I guess it wasn't so cool after all, lol. But, I do know the words to Moon River, thank you Andy.
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Wow, dutchgirl6...we sound a lot alike...my father still has the Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass album and Andy Williams, I grew up with those songs! Yeah, it probably wasn't all that cool at the time..lol..but I too know all the words to Moon River, one of my all time favorite songs of his. We had a range of music flowing through our house from CCR rock, to my dad's Andy Williams and Mr. Herb. Great stuff and Great memories!
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My mother had Herb Alpert as well. I remember having 8 tracks of Santana and Simon & garfunkle.
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You win, Meece. Your musical selection was way more edgy than ours. However, my mother loved popular music and was a huge Beatles fan. I remember that she got my sister and I out of bed (7 pm bedtimes in those days) to watch them on the Ed Sullivan show.
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Wow, NativeMainer what an absolutely cool 8-track player! Never seen one like that before! Thanks for sharing.
Dutchgirl6, you are right...Meece is the winner! Our song choices are a bit more "less edgy" then hers.
Although I will say that even though I did not play it myself, my brother listened to RUSh and ACDC. 0 -
I am trying to think if I ever had an eight track player and for some reason think I skipped that era altogether....I had tons of 45s (still do) and albumns and then I also had lots of cassettes, but just don't remember much about the eight tracks ....this could be old age or chemo brain.
Dutchgirl....I think you must be enough younger than me and had a way cooler mother, if she got you up out of bed to watch the Beatles on Ed Sullivan. I remember that night very well....I was at youth fellowship and the minister's daughter was our age so a whole group of us went over to the parsonage and watched them that night. One of my good friends and I were very into the Beatles and we got tickets to come see them when they played at Crosley Field (long since torn down and replaced with a new stadium). I was not yet 16 and neither was she or the guy who also went with us( not that we would have had a car or been allowed to drive that far anyway) ....her parents drove us the 110 miles from out hometown to the concert and IT WAS RAINED OUT!!! So we went back home and the next day when the concert was rescheduled, my father drove us. So I guess in a way we did have cool parents also for them to do that.....that could not be done today because all of the big name acts are booked so closely that they would have to be off to another show, but this was back in the very early days for the Beatles and I think their lst tour or maybe the 2nd to America. They flew them by helicopter into the stadium and they had on their gray suits with the black velvet collars and everyone was screaming their lungs out. The acts before they came on were the Circle ( Red Rubber Ball, Turn Down Day) and Bobby Heab (sp?) who did Sunny. It's amazing how I can remember that like yesterday....even know what I wore....remember those babydoll dresses with the empire waist? I wore a yellow and white one to the show we didn't get to see, and a pink gingham checked one to the show we did attend.
To this day, I still love The Beatles music.
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Our 8-tracks were my siser's hand me downs. She went away to college and somehow had plenty of oney to buy 8-tracks and send home the ones she was tired of.
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Remember these "flip flops" from the 70s? You could get them in all sorts of color combinations, and could get several layers. I don't know if this was the main brand, but it is the only picture I could find.
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Marybe - Didn't have 8 track at home but mom had one in her car a cool Dodge Charger if I remember right. Remember it got broken into and her tapes stolen. Luv the spaceage one NativeMainer posted!!
My mom called us in from outside playing 6th grader then, well me, don't remember about DB whether he came in or not. Said it was something to remember. Mom loved Elvis and western music. Don't think she EVER listened to Beatles though
Ah concerts. My college age buds and I were John Denver groupies.
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Ah, Meece, I remember Deckers well, and have worn flip flops all summer ever since. Before them, my flip flops were those thongs with rubber straps and hard rubber between the toes. Breaking them in involved getting a blister/callous between the toes. Yow! Then came Deckers and no blisters ever again. Deckers, the shoe that made my summers painless, love 'em!
p.s. I am wearing a current variation of them today (only two color stripes.)
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Who was the person who posted on here, at least I think it was here, that they used to be called thongs, but of course now that term is reserved for sexy underwear ? That made me smile. Well, I did wear thongs, the foot kind, but am afraid I was never built for the other. Funny how terms change....I also remember when corn hole meant something entirely different from that game they play now with the beanbags.
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