Middle Aged Memories
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My mother bought an organ and one of the books it came with was all Beatles tune. Much to my mother's dismay I used that book to teach myself how to play the organ...every day! Ob-La-Di and Hard Days Night. I think I played the book thorugh daily.
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Good job, Meece!
Also, you brought back a real old memory for me. My mom either rented, or took some special offer to try, a piano for three mos. It was an upright player piano. It was huge and kind of dwarfed the furniture in our small living room. I had an ear for songs and could pick out the proper notes, but never applied myself to really learn to play. My loss. I remember the player piano rolls, and the foot pumps and the keys going up and down. Guess my mom got to pick out some rolls as part of the deal and the only one I remember was the movie theme for Alfie.
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I remember how hard Super balls were. Once they were out of your control they could really do some damage!
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My brother has a chipped tooth in testament to that fact!
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Yeah, those superballs were dangerous! I think that's why they were pulled from the market (love the Nerf toys instead). Had a 6th grade teacher who would bounce them at us if we weren't paying attention.
Again, don't remember if I saw this earlier. Didn't anyone else had a Patty Play Pal doll? I remember getting one when I was 3. If I remember correctly, we were about the same height.
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One Christmas, I got a Patti Playpal doll. My two year old cousin could not tell if she was a real person. Finally, he poked her in the eyes.
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I don't remember this doll. That is funny about the little cousin, tho. LOL!
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I thought this was a cute Pinterest. Eli - I don't remember her either. Says made 1959-1962.
http://pinterest.com/70ssinger/patti-playpal-my-old-friend/
I think I'd find them creepy. Read a story that someone bought a naked one at a garage sale and auctioned on EBay for $800. Maybe, maybe not. Story said she had to hide it it a box 'cause it creeped her kids out.
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I don't remember this doll either & I was a doll addict & that's the right time frame. Could it have been an East Coast offering & not on the West Coast since Meece & I don't remember her? Where'd you grow up luvmygoats?
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My doll of choice was the Chatty Cathy, and I wasn't a real doll collector, becoming more tomboyish by the school years.
This is from goatsy's link, so the dolls were definitely out West, Eph.
That "doll" in the red dress looks like a ringer to me tho'.
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Elimar, you are such a doll! Ha ha! I grew on the east coast, had both Chatty Cathy and Patty Play Pal. Was introduced to Barbie around 1961 if I remember correctly.
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2nd_time_around, Ahahahahaha! Yeah, they made a movie about the kind of doll I am!
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I'm not sure if I'm just a tad bit too old for Patti or the expense of her made her out of our league. I grew up those years mostly in Albuquerque. Gosh maybe DM discouraged things that big.
I know none of you are soap addicts but on Young and Restless one of the characters is an Easy Bake Oven addict.
Have any of you just for nosiness gone on Google Earth and looked at your childhood homes? We moved frequently so I have a lot to chose from but alas the house in Hawaii has been demolished and replaced with some modern condo thingy. Memories are strange. One house (and this was late high school so I should have been at least moderately aware) I thought was a mansion. Looks like ordinary 2 story house now to me.
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Have spent part of the afternoon watching/listening to John Denver top tracks on YouTube.
Oh I read you could dress Patti up in your own clothes.
I agree Eli. The "doll" in the red dress looks like someone's kid sister.
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Eimar, NO, say it isn't so!!!! But good for a laugh.
Yup, Love, have googled my old area. It was considered rural back then, definitely not now. (parents moved there in 1056 so times have changed). I remember dressing Patty Play Pal in my dresses.
Never got into Y&R, it was All My Children, Ryan's Hope (remember that one?), my dad was bestie with a General Hospital veteran's (Jackie Zeman) dad. As a matter of fact, cleaning up at my parents and came across photos of Jackie and her sisters (I remember playing with them when I was very young, thinking how pretty was....)
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2nd time around-you must be related to Barnabas Collins if your folks moved to your childhood home in 1056!
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2nd, If you were a long time watcher of AMC, you might like the online version that just started a few months ago. They brought back a couple of the OLD characters that have not been on for years. I remenber RH, and during the winter the SOAP channel showed some episodes from the 70's (at 4 a.m.) that I enjoyed in my insomnia. I remember Nurse Bobbie too, but was not a regular GH watcher. I still remember thinking...this is Luke's sister? They look nothing alike!
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Eph3_12, big OOPS! That's what I get for using BCO as my break from working! I'm old, but not THAT old! Of course, I meant 1956.... Elimar, I'll have to check that out. I agree about Nurse Bobbie.
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Oh, Boy 2nd time....I've heard of "dog years" but are there "hat" years as well? Oh, we all hit submit before we proof our posts. Sometimes we just need a little laugh so we make our own.
I think this doll was the one that made me have an aversion to talking dolls. "I'm Talky Tina and I don't like you."
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I didn't even see the episode of TZ, but that doll is creepy. It was bad enough when my beloved Chatty Cathy aged and her voice sounded like she needed an exorcist.
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Might have to watch this on YouTube later. Evidently she was made after the Twiligt Zone episode. In 2009 voted as one of the top 10 TZ's. To this day if TZ comes on b4 something else I have to turn the sound off esp. if later at night.
http://entertainment.time.com/2009/10/02/top-10-twilight-zone-episodes/
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What a wonderful thread! I hadn't noticed it before and now will have to make time to go back to the beginning and read through.
As I head out for today's rads, I am thinking back to my one and only TV 'appearance.' My cousin and I, about 6 years old, were in the Peanut Gallery of the Howdy Doody show. My memory is foggy, mostly because of my age then, but I do remember how excited we both were to meet Buffalo Bob Smith, Clarabell, Princess SummerFall-Winter-Spring(?), can't remember any others; But excited mostly because we were on TV! Our moms didn't have to worry about what colors to dress us in because it was black-and-white back then.
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Meece, I certainly need to s.l.ow. down and proof-read better, and get more sleep!
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Encyclias, I remember Howdy Doody, now that brings back memories sitting around sitting the big TV (unit) with little screen
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For some reason I did not watch Howdy Doody much. More so Captain Kangaroo and Romper Room. DH has an old Howdy Doody marionette so I think he watched it.
My one and only TV appearance was on a dance show out of NorthPark Center in Dallas in 1968 called Sumpin' Else. It had for a local show really good bands making appearances. My DM asked why I kept looking at the camera and not at my date. I was a sophomore in HS at the time.
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I never went on any of them, but for the kids' shows with audiences, I remember Bozo's Big Top and he always picked out a kid sidekick to be his "Butchie" or "Belinda." Another hilarious memory is of the Mickey Mouse Club (with the host "Jimmy"), where at the beginning the kids all said their names, like, "Hi! I'm Tommy!" except there was a middle-aged, balding Mousketeer with a deep bass voice and a "Hi. I'm Roy," said in a way to make you know he hated that job. Will have to Google "Roy" one day and find out what his deal was.
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Welcome Encyclias. We have a rockin' good time on here.
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yikes! (re: the Tina doll)
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My first appearance on TV was on a telethon for kidney disease. A friend from school had a mother who was in charge of it and she asked if I would come on TV with her son. I remember I felt bad because the donation I gave was one that she had given to me to give. It wasn't my own money.
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