Middle Aged Memories
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OUCH! I'm very happy my grands haven't seen those cans. They would be throwing them at each other.
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Today I was able to see the video. Looks fun, but I am super clutsy so I would never have been able to maneuver them.
When had the plastic cups with the ropes on them as toys for the playground.
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This memory is very random, but I remember that our corner drugstore (as well as some others) used to make you pass thru' a turnstile to enter. That was how they kept track of their customer count back in the day.
p.s. I make those "tin can high heels" to play with for Cub Scout Camp.
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Our corner drugstore had a huge brass scale that we always weighed on when we walked in the door. It was something we didn't pass by, but mother only lets us weigh on it once each trip. (Like our weight would change!)
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Our drugstore had a soda fountain. Had a long counter with a soda "jerk", stools. He would make sodas, and the best malts.
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My best friend growing up in the little town I was lived until I was in 3rd grade was the child of the local pharmacists who owned the drug store with the long soda fountain. It was a great honor to get to sit there tho cause the parents (hers & mine) made it just be something that was for special times.
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Eph - I just saw that video of those dangerous things the kid's show gave you! Haha, parents today would scream about that - someone would surely get sued! Did you notice the little girl had a bandaid on her knee?
Of course, we didn't know what danger was in those days. I'll never forget riding down a huge hill in my neighborhood, on a bike, no hands no feet. We were little idiots, weren't we?
My father was a soda jerk when he was in high school. He looked like a movie star anyway, so I'm sure that just made him doubly popular with the girls!
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Ind yet we lived to tell the story, HNS.0 -
I know we had a small segment of cigarette jingles and slogans a while ago, but just yesterday the jingle "Filter, Flavor, Pack or Box" popped into my mind. Wasn't that for Marlboro cigarettes?
As far as dangerous toys...everyone knows I still have my Jarts!0 -
Remember when companies would put a vinyl record in a magazine. Not sure if I still have it, but I had one from Marlboro cigarettes. Also remember some cereal boxes had records on them.0 -
The ones in magazines were called "flexi-disks." I remember having one from a cereal box too. It was "Jingle Jangle" by The Archies.0 -
Sorry for the poor quality
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Come on now...no memories for a month? Even tho' it has passsed, I have some Halloween memories.
Did anyone get a candied apple or caramel apple for Halloween as a kid? I did. The apples were always on the nasty side (like dry or bruised) tho'. Guess I should have been thankful that no razor blades were in them. I also got homemade popcorn balls (which I saw that pre-packaged ones are still available these days.) I always liked to get Pixie Stix, even tho' it was inevitable that one would break inside the pillow case and the sugar dust went onto everything else. Did anyone have a PLASTIC Halloween costume? That's really old school, and they weren't very comfortable, but if it was a typical rainy night, that plastic sure came in handy to keep you dry.
We used to call it "going begging" for Halloween. Did anyone trick or treat for Unicef? Did any of you former hippies use the chant, "Help the poor, make love not war?" That was trick or treating during the Vietnam years.0 -
I remember candy cigerettes and these masks that scratched my face and the eyes never lined up.
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I remember help the poor and UNICEF, also trick or treat, smell my feet or give me something good to eat..WHAT????0 -
I remember those awful masks too as well as treat or treat for UNICEF (NY burbs), also bubble gum cigarettes that came in a pack like the real ones0 -
One little girl about five years old came up with a group and and did the "smell my feet" thing. Her three year old brother echoed it. They got the little hard candies, not the candy bars. I told her that wasn't very nice. About twenty minutes later, she came back with a group, I told her I recognized her that she'd already been here because of what she was saying, the whole group turned and left. They didn't argue at all.0 -
I never had a plastic costume. I was usually sick on Halloween and rarely trick or treated.
I remember the candy cigarettes and how they had a little hole in the middle so when you blew into them powder would puff out.0 -
Why were the Xmas lights in the 1950's so cool? My aunt had a set that percolated. Like these but the colors were prettier...
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Thinking of those liquid-filled ornaments made me also remember those pretend "Magic Coffee Pots" that you could tip to pour and the liquid would go somewhere hidden inside. Just like the "Magic Baby Bottle" that did the same thing. Fascinating, weren't they?
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Oh man, those baby bottles were a lifesaver back in the day. I had a GIANT family of dolls & for about 4 years running (6 to 10 I'm thinking) I would dress & feed everyone of those dolls. The babies were plentiful so I had lots of those bottles.
We didn't have any of those cool liquid lights, but I would see them other places. They were da bomB0 -
I remember my Grandmother having percolating lights on her Christmas tree when I was young!
I remember those bottles, too!0 -
We had a string of Bubblers which were my grandfathers. We loved to watch them warm up and be the first to announce when the bubbles would start.0 -
Well, my memory has finally given out. I can remember many designs of Christmas wrapping paper that I have used to wrap my own kids gifts in over the years, but I can't recall a single design from the Christmas' of my own youth. I took a look on a site for vintage wrapping paper and not a single one stuck a familiar chord with me. That's a little sad.
O.K., I went to another site and this one looked vaguely familiar (but being so generic, I can't be 100% sure it's the same one we had.)
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This is one I remember
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Glad I saw this thread while things are still kind of Christmas-y! We had an aluminum Christmas tree in the 60's. I always loved it. Hated selling it at a garage sale about 10 years ago, but I haven't figured out a way to save everything, lol.
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That is a beautiful tree!
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We had aluminum Christmas trees in our classrooms in elementary school.
Your picture reminds me I should take one of our trees this year. I change them up a little each year.
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Meece, I also vividly remember having aluminum trees in the classroom. Every year was exciting to set them up and decorate the room with all the craft projects!
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And remember the colored light wheel?
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I remember candy cigerettes and these masks that scratched my face and the eyes never lined up.