Middle Aged Memories
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We must, we must, we must increase our bust.
The bigger the better, the tighter the sweater,
The more the boy like us!
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I have not read thru the entire thread, but who remembers space food? Tang, and these weird chocolate chewy sticks that came in a foil pack. I loved those!
I so remember figurines - and immediately got part of the jingle in my head : "figurines do a lady proud. There the diet lunch that you can crunch out loud" or something like that.
I loved Gee your hair smells terrific shampoo and remember sitting under the shower cap hair dryer with a hose.
I love this thread - so many fun memories!
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...with a calorie rate 138 a bar...my shape belongs to figurines...
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I loved watching "Love, American Style" and room 222 - especially when I stayed home sick. I was in grade school - most likely not the best shows for an eight year old!
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I still rememebr the theme from Love American Style...greater than the red, white and blue.......
Green Acres. Today if a husband wanted to move from a penthouse in NY to become a farmer in the country, they'd just get a divorce ! LOL. Zsa Zsa always seemed to be wearing negligees with feathers. And Petticoat Junction, which I think was a spin off
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OMG - I loved all of those -and can also hear all of the theme songs!!!!! Zsa Zsa was ALWAYS in those negligees! I should get some for myself!
Now I'm going to go to bed with the song ...petticoat...junction....
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MTG, speaking of Love, American style.....how about LOVE BOAT? I loved that show.
Fantasy Island anyone? THE PLANE, THE PLANE! Loved that too.
Guess I was young watching such shows but sure enjoyed them. Sue
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We should do a theme party...come as your favorite tv show character from the 60's and
70's'..heck, maybe even 50's. Sounds as if a lot of people want to be Lisa Douglas I liked the Bob Newhart show, both of them. When he was the dentist and when he had the inn. Oh and Dick VanDyke...that was a good one.
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My Toni Doll, I still remember seeing her as I came down the stairs Christmas Morning! Beautiful dark hair and a white and red dress! She was absolutely beautiful! Ginny dolls, were also a delight and yes, I think my sisters had the tiny tears doll!
TV was the best! I Love Lucy, Mickey Mouse Club, December Bride, Then there was a music show on saturday nights that the name escapes me! My dad took turns dancing with all of us! Oh, it's the Hit Parade!
Maypoles, Red Light Green Light, Dodge Ball (which of course is now banned). Crazy people!!
All of these "RE" membrances are healing to our spirit!
I was the first one in my highschool to wear a mini dress! The big trouble I got in, though was when my girlfriend, and I wore "grannie" dresses to our ankles! They asked us not to wear them again, as they drew too much attention! Imagine that!
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What, what's wrong with long dresses ???? Although maybe the teaches were havjng flash backs to hippie days. Hee, hee. Come to think of it, I do remember wearing the greatest floor length denim skirt with a huge lion hand painted onto it.
In addition to I Love Lucy with Ricky Ricardo/ Desi Arnaz, how about the Lucy Show with Mr. Moony. And then there was one where she had a son; I think Viv Vance was in that one too. She always played basically the same character and I loved her.
As for the Dick Van Dyke Show, I remember the earlier ones had him falling over the hassock and in later shows he deftly avoid it.
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My dad would laugh so hard at the Dick Van Dyke Show he would have tears.
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Oh, Yes! Dick Wan Dyke was a master of body language!!
MTG.... I am even older than the hippie era. It was in 1966 that my friend and I were asked not to wear the grannies!! I graduated in 67. They were not mean about it at all either, though... they just asked Please don't wear them again as they draw too much attention! In 67, the only comment on my mini was from my typing teacher: " Wow! I heard about that dress and had to see it! ' I was very thin like Twiggy and have long legs, so even though it was short, there was a lot of leg left between the dress and my derrier!
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How about Mary Tyler Moore and My Three Sons, which me and my brother would call My Three Feet.
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That Girl !
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Knots Landing!
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I like TVLand just about as much as any other network.
Remember when we went to the store, and had no choice but to let a bag-boy (aka courtesy clerk) take your purchase out to the car? When every item had the price on it, either on a sticker or written in grease pencil. When the checker asked of you collected S&H Greenstamps or Blue Chip Stamps?
A trip to the Blue Chip redemption store. Pointing out what you liked, counting out the stamp books, and waiting for it to come up front on the conveyor belt. The last purchase I made there was for a crib toy for my firstborn.
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OOOOOOO, I remember filling up those books with the stick on stamps. And didn't they also have catalogs to pick and choose and decide what you were saving for ?
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Meece,
Where I live we still have a grocery store chain that still escorts you and your cart to the car...... so I am guessing that most places don't?
Pat
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Well, there are people who will take it to your car, but they used to always take it to your car, no matter how much you bought.
Kind of went the way of full service gas stations. You pulled up, branked your window open and asked for a fill-up. The attendant asked "can I check under your hood?" He opened the hood, wiggled hoses for tightness, opened the battery to check the fluid level, check your oi and brought the dipstick to your window to show you if he neded to add some. The one of the other atendants was checking the air pressure in your tires and washing the windows.
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I liked it when they checked your tires and so on......
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Yes, I remember those days when our windows were always clean. Sigh...
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Some places are still like the following, but any new housing development around here cannot have mailboxes off of the street. Remember when the mail man put your mail through your front door ot in a box on your porch?
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I haven't thought about our mailman in years. He did have the push-cart, or somedays just carried the big leather bag. We had a little hinged slot on our front door where the mail went in. Our screen door had one as well, for summer delivery when the big door was open. This was back before the 5 digit zip codes. We had a 2-digit postal zone number.
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Our kitchen was that beautiful avocado green. Our tv was the big console that sat on the floor. My grandma had a big tv with a remote control, but you could make the channel change by jingling your car keys. Her furniture was covered in plastic. We lived in San Diego for awhile and on a trip to Mexico, my parents bought those big velvet paintings to hang in the living room.
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Telephone numbers. I specifically remember when it only took 5 digits to call my grandma. If you were out of town, you added a two digit prefix, delineated by the letters i.e. grandma's number was ROger XX-XXX. One of the other prefixes I remember well was RIchmond. What other Word prefixes do you remember? I thought it was horrible when they started making us dial...with the dial phone, seven numbers! When I was a young adult, "they" changed our area code!
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telephone numbers! MUrdock9-7401 was our phone number, Before that it was FAirfax3-3266. But I can't remember what bills I paid this month! LOL
When I first moved to this town 15 yrs ago, you could still give your number as 5 numbers. We had only 2 exchanges 552 or 553. Now thanks to cell phones and fax lines everywhere, we have added 2 more LOL!
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I know someone already mentioned "party lines" on the phones. We had one in my early years with just one other family. I liked to listen in to the teen girl chatter from the family that we shared with. Naughty? Oh, like you wouldn't!
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We also had a party line with a person whose last name was BULLMAN! SHE WAS A BRUTE and would never get off the phone.
Our exchanges were either PLeasant or SWift.........gosh, that was a long time ago! Sue
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I forgot that the dash was between #1 and #2. It used to be our small town had two exchanges 763 and 765, the large city in the county had 3 maybe 4. You could tell where you were calling, by the exchange number. I agree, due to cell phones and every family having at least 3 or more phone numbers we have so many exchage numbers yoy never know where you are calling.
We are guilty...We have 3 people in our houshold and 5 phone numbers!
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Where I live we have to include area codes even on local calls ............. so 10 numbers just to call across the street or across the county......grrrrrrrr.
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