Middle Aged Memories
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Electric Company, Zoom, Captain Kangaroo, Mr. Rogers... Walkmans. skates that came with a key for adjusting, Scooby Doo, colorful Jelly shoes. Hee Haw..Carol Burnet.. Odd Couples...pro keds sneakers, Bruce Lee, Chuck Norris. Rubik's Cube, Pac Man. Riding on the handle bars of a bike. Mr. Potato head. Caldor's, Alexander's. Woolworth..
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My grandparents had Hee Haw on every Saturday evening when we'd stay there while my parents went out to dinner. I still remember many of the skits.
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I remember my parents watching Lawrence Welk and Sing Along with Mitch Miller
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Newbie here, tried starting from the beginning, these may have been already mentioned?
Rawhide, with Clint Eastwood
Adventures in Paradise
Bonanza
77 sunset strip- Kookie lend me your comb
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WHERE'S THE BEEF?????
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Grandmotherly Clara Peller raised that question in 1964...to which the adequate answer still remains elusive even to this present day.
(p.s. Spookiesmom, just enjoy the thread from wherever...don't worry about repeating because we already forgot what we wrote in the beginning anyway!)
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That reminds me of...
Rodney Allen Rippy. He did 70's commercials for Jack In The Box's "Jumbe Jack." This year he had an unsuccessful run for candidacy for mayor of Compton, CA.
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I'll give a virtual nickel to the first one who knows what L.S.M.F.T. used to really stand for? (We all had our "neighborhood versions.")
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Loose Straps Means Floppy Tits?
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Lucky Strikes means Full Tobacco
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Very close, not quite.
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Lucky strikes means fine tobacco......although I never smoked those, started with Dad's Kool's and Mom's Viceroy...WHAT!!!!!!
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Here you go Loral...one for your coin collection.
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Wait a minute that's not a nickel it's a dime...Thank you twice as much....0
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That IS a nickel. It is the front of a buffalo nickel.
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It looks like a dime.........
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Does anyone still use "snowing down south"?
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I really have seen snow here,1989 actually. But not familiar with that phrase.
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I was trying to explain to my kids about Rodney Allen Rippy just a couple of months ago when I mentions that something at dinner was "Too bigga eat."
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"Snowing down south" meant that your slip was showing below the hem of your dress or skirt. Not sure anyone uses that anymore, I don't think anyone wears slips anymore!
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I had forgotten that expresion, NM. It didn't even register when you wrote it on the last page, but yes, we said that as kids because we did wear slips as needed. I don't think I have worn a slip for about ten years. Also used the phrase, "XYZ"...examine your zipper.
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Never heard "XYZ" before!
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Gosh I must be old fashioned. Had a slip on for church today. But then I wear skirts or dresses usually to church. I do have 2 pair of black pants that I wear occasionally. But I've never heard NM's epxression. Yes, I have heard XYZ or "close your barn door".
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I still wear slips with my dresses. Never heard the expression though. Heard both of the zipper ones though.
OUt of the blue this morning I had a memory of The Salvation Army. They used to come by and put a huge paper bag on our porch with a note stapled to it stating when they would be back to pick it up if it was filled. The bags were like 30" by 20". Does anyone else rememebr these?
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I don't remember the Sal Army coming into my neighborhood.
We did have a knife sharpener guy, that came through the neighborhood with a pushcart, who was a tinker also and he fixed our broken collander once. We had a "sheeny man" too. I've heard this is an ethnic slur (at least if you read Ulysses by James Joyce) but we never used it that way. It's what we called the "rag-picker" who came thru the alleys. Old school recycling. Parents back then used to threaten our naughty behavior with, "I'll tell the sheeny man to come get you." My kids don't even know what a sheeny man is.
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I never head the sheeny man phrase before! Fascinating language stuff going on here.
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Depending on where you live, Coke is pop or soda.
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sheeny man, junk man, alley picker...My brother still looks at trash people throw out, if it's good he sells it on craigslist, its a side job i guess....
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My dad was a "Mr. Fix It," so he had a bit of the "sheeny man" in him too. He'd see something broken, set out as garbage, and take it home to fix it. Only he would get into phases. I remember one where he was all about fans, box fans, standing fans, rotating fans. He had quite the collection.
The coolest thing to come thru' my old neighborhood was the vegetable truck, the classic kind with little awnings coming out of the side. When I was very little, we had a home delivery milkman; our house had a milk chute too.
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