Middle Aged Memories
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Ah, the wax bottles with sugar water. Not sure what the attraction was, but it was there!
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Does anyone else remember pouring regular dry jello into your palm and licking on it? Sure made some interesting tongue colors.
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Yes, but that was only when the returnable bottle pickin's were to meager to get a few cents to buy a couple pixie stix or some Lik-m-aid.
Those packs remind me off various stickers I had as a kid that came with a stick of awful stale gum. One was Wacky Packages...
The other was Ugly Stickers. Kids put these on their closet doors. I put mine on the outside of my bedroom door. My hardwood maple bedroom door. The sticky residue would not come off and it was on there for YEARS but somehow my mom never really got onto me about that damage. Looking back, I was a real moron.
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Where there was gum, there were gum wrappers...and then gum wrapper chains. I made a pretty big one out of Doublemint, tho' I actually preferred Fruit Stripe gum or Teaberry, but my best friend contributed a lot of the green wrappers to my cause, and I got Juicy Fruit and Beemans wrappers from mom.
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What also came to mind just the other day was this gems of preadolescence...
16 Magazine (Love me some Monkees!)
And to a lesser extent, Tiger Beat.
Bobby (squeal!) Sherman and Leonard (the DiCaprio of the 60's) Whiting. This was my era... When the covers changed over to have that squeaky clean Donny Osmond, or that Shaun Cassidy (who even upped the unappealing wholesome ante over his older bro') it was time to grow up and go buy some Led Zepplin 45's, ya know?
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I do remember making gum wrapper jewelry...(beautiful!)
Oh and Hey Hey for the Monkees, and Bobby Sherman and David Cassidy too....
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I have made countless yards of gum wrapper chains. It was a sad day when I realized they no longer sell gum in wrappers.
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Oh my - Teaberry gum. Haven't thought of that in years.
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Cracker Barrel has all three of these.
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Thanks for the snaps. My Dad's favorite was Black Jack.
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My grandma always had a box filled with Beemans in her side table drawer. I always buy Beemans when I see it. It totally brings me back. Also, Davy Jones was so damn cute. Even Marsha, Marsha, Marsha got to do an episode with him.
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Oh, you can buy sticks of gum, but do they have inner double paper wrappers?
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MinusTwo--I never did the licking dry jello thing, sounds like fun, though!
Elimar--oh my goodness those Wacky Packages!I never saw those before!What a hoot!I do remember the gum wrapper chains, never did learn how to make them.
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The other day, I told my husband how we used to "call out" our friends by going to their doors (even in winter with the doors closed) and calling their names in a sing-songy way (i.e. Kaaa-ren, Daaa-vid, Re-naaay.) He said he never did that. He just tapped at his friends door or rang the doorbell. I was surprised because I thought all kids just did that back in the Sixties. Did anyone else remember calling out their friends as a kid?
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elimar, we did, but I think this was a girl thing. In fact... now I recall the movie "Warriors" in the late 70s. One gang called for the other "Waaarrriorrsss, come out and play!" This is exactly what a lot of us did.
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Rockym, it was both boys and girls in my neighborhood. At what age did it stop? I think we still did it through junior high, at least. Not sure when I stopped hearing younger kids still doing that but by the Eighties, I don't think anyone still did that.
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I did that too...Debbieeeeeeee, Maryyyyyyyyyyy, can you come out and play....We probably stopped once we went to junior high.0 -
There is something so quaint about doing that. Old fashioned, like rain barrels. (Those are coming back, you know.)
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My grandmother used to sing this song. The mention of rain barrels tripped the memory.
Hey, hey, oh playmate,
Come out and play with me
And bring your dollies three
Climb up my apple treeSlide down my rain barrel
Into my cellar door
And we'll be jolly friends
Forever more, more, more.0 -
I remember that song! We also used it as a jump rope rhyme.
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We jumped to this song...........
Miss Susie had a steamboat
the steamboat had a bell
Miss Susie went to heaven
the steamboat went to
Hello operator please give me number nine
and if you disconnect me
I'll kick you from behind
the refrigerator there was a piece of glass
Miss Susie sat upon it and cut her little
ask me no more questions
tell me no more lies
the boys are in the bathroom zipping up their
flies are in the meadow,
the bees are in the park
Miss Susie and her boyfriend are kissing in the
dark is like a movie
a movie's like a show
a show is like a tv screen and that is all
i know i know my ma
i know i know my pa
i know i know my sister with the 80 acre alligator bra(anyone who could jump all the way through this rhyme was considered very very good)
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MinusTwo, that rhyme reminds me of a song I heard on an album from my childhood. First verse:
I don't want to play in your yard
I don't like you anymore
You'll be sorry when you see me
Sliding down my cellar door
You can't holler down my rain barrel
You can't climb my cherry tree
I don't want to play in your yard
If you won't be good to me.Don't worry, the friends make up at the end and all friend access gets restored.
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Speaking of songs, I think my first 45 was "Snoopy vs. the Red Baron," by The Royal Guardsman.
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Elimar - that song reminds me of the roller rink! ✌️❤️ Lindaa
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Loral--I never heard that jump rope rhyme, that is cute!And long!
El--that song sounds familiar, I think I've hear it a time or two in my childhood.
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I don't post on this thread often, but I have enjoyed reading it.. It brings back great memories :-)
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Remember this song?
Oh Little Playmate
Hand Clapping Song
Oh little playmate,
Come out and play with me,
And bring your dollies three,
Climb up my apple tree,
Slide down my rainbow,
Into my cellar door,
And we'll be jolly friends,
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SlowDeep, I don't remember that little song. Is it one where you do the "pat-a-cake" kind of clapping with a friend? I do remember doing that to some kind of sing-songs rhymes.
I remember a lot of radio songs from a young age. I remember being with a teen babysitter while she was watching American Bandstand with this song:
Never did learn the dance. The first dances I learned (not counting the waltz from my dad) were The Twist (of course!) The Monkey and The Jerk and The Hitchhike, then The Shingaling. Now that I think of it, I would really love to go to a dance studio and learn some more of the dances from the 50's and 60's. Like The Mashed Potato. I have watched videos but cannot seem to pick it up from watching those. I never learned to moonwalk either. Do you think it is too late for me?
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On another tangent, I was trying to remember some Olympics memories but they were not really coming to me. The Olympian that I can go the farthest back to was from a Winter Olympics: Peggy Fleming, the skater.
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El--I don't think it's too late for you to learn those dances. Go find a place that teaches them and have fun!
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