Middle Aged Memories
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I loved Kerplunk!!!
I still have Pick Up Stix for the kids when they come. They used to put them in a pot and pretend they were spaghetti. I also have a Barrel of Monkey somewhere in this house.
Remember this one?
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I don't remember 3 Blind mice, but I definitely remember the barrel of Monkeys!Never saw the matching tie, though!It's pretty wild!
Pick up stix, yup, remember them, never got very good at them at all!
KerPlunks was never a very popular game with my crowd growing up, but I do remember it.
And those slidy things, drove me, and still drive me,NUTS!!!!!!!
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I used to love this game as a kid, but when my kids wanted to play who do you think had to reset the ice cubes? When I was younger I could play this with a friend over and over and we didn't mind resetting the cubes. Of course we played this when we were pre-teens. Can you imagine pre-teens playing this today :-)
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I used to go to a Christmas party from my mom's work and the kids always got gift bags. That sliding numbers puzzle was in there every year. Also, the table walking animals with a weight on a string that hung over the table pulling them forward. Who even knows what they were called?
Only mine was a spotted cow. "Plastic walking cow?"Then there was the perennial Chinese finger trap...
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I did play don't break the ice!
The table walking animals I've never seen.
I have seen the Chinese finger trap, but I never had one.
How about the phone prank - Do you have Prince Albert in the Can??
We were so easily amused back in the day!!
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Or "Mr. Lion is calling from the zoo". Yes, we were easily amused. We played games w/our family & friends all the time, and Pick-up-Stix was one of my Dad's favorites.
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Anyone call the bowling alley ;-) Excuse me sir, do you have10 pound balls? Very easily amused!
SlowDeepBreaths, I grew up in So. Cal Sounds like we were into the same things.
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I grew up on No. Cal so we have some of the same references. But I was so naive I wouldn't have understood the bowling alley joke. As my DH said, I was raised in a paper bag. Things sure changed when I went to college.
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I didn't bother with college, I just went straight to playing house with my boyfriend. In 1972, that was very risque. I think my folks were completely mortified & embarassed to the highest degree.
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Do you have Prince Albert in a Can? Yes? You better let him out before he suffocates!
Is your refrigerator running? Yes? You bet go catch it!
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I don't remember Sajid Kahn, but Sabu I do remember from The Jungle Book.
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I saw another shirtless child actor from my youth on t.v. over the weekend. It was Bomba, the jungle boy.
But he started out as "Boy" in the Tarzan movies.
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I remember Tarzan, Jane, Boy, Cheeta!
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When finding a photo for the Mid-Age thread, I put up some water skiers from Cypress Gardens. Remember how that and Weeki Watchee were both "a thing" back in the 60's? Here's a more vintage pic of those gals. It just does not get any more summery than that!
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I've been going through old HS scrapbooks. We had an aquatics team and held very involved Aquacades w/programs and everything. I doubt I can still float on my back & lift one leg straight up, let alone propel myself around in a circle while holding the leg up.
I loved Ester Williams and the swimming movies.
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Oh, MT, I always opted for Swim in H.S. and loved the synchronized swim the most. We never had Aquacades or any spectators even.
One of my best friends and I got quite good at "The Dolphin."
Just don't make me remember those red COTTON swimsuits we had to wear. They just got wet and hung on your body. So ugly.
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Elimar--great pic!Women with thighs and waists that aren't pencil thin, are we sure these are Human women?Very summery pic, I agree!Very different time, too.Today's water skiers wound not wear so much fabric, there's enough in one of these ladies' suits to make suits for a dozen of today's girls!
The swim suits must have been like the gym suits we used to have to wear--I hated them, so ugly!
Ours, right down to the color:
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NativeMaine - our gymsuit were one color blue & had snaps instead of a zipper. Yup - ugly!!!
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we had blue shorts with white shirts that had metal snaps.
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I don't remember having to wear a gymsuit at all, just our own shorts and t-shirts.
We definitely called it "Gym Class" and not "P.E." But then, I opted out for "Swim" after one semester of Field Hockey. (Ugh!!!)
My kids mocked me when I referred to it as "Gym." So glad I could give them yet another laugh!
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Eli - isn't it amazing how much amusement our kids can find in the way we used to do things?
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Rockym, 1964? If that is the year your were born, I am one year ahead of you. No wonder we remember all the same things!!
NativeMainer, why was that so darn amusing when we were young? It sounds so silly now!! haha
I think gym is an east coast thing. At least that's is what we called it when we lived back east. When I moved to CA, I started calling it P.E. like everyone else.
Kinda like roof back east and ruff in CA. I never did adjust to ruff.
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SlowDeepBreaths, Yep, 1964 here. I tried for a long time to get BCO to allow us to just put our year into our profile. There was so much back and forth about the whole thing I ended up putting it in my avatar area :-). Awhile back I found myself always asking ladies how old they were when they were looking for advice and answers.
I grew up in West L.A. area. I hung out at the arcade in Westwood near UCLA. What about you?
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Rockym, I was born in New York and moved to CA in 1977. During HS I lived in Lakewood, CA.
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Let's see, in 1977 I was in Jr. High. Gosh I was so wild back then. I recall hitch hiking to get to the beach or even to school sometimes. It was right around the time the hillside strangler was on his murder spree. It's amazing I'm still here :-). Lakewood was worlds away from West L.A. When my best friend moved to the valley it seemed like she moved to another country.
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I think 'gym' must be an east coast thing. We called it Gym until high school, and even then it was referred to as "gym" even though the paperwork said "PE"
I never heard of having a choice of gym classes. We had one option, whatever the Gym teacher decided we would do that class. I hated it, and took extra classes to qualify for getting OUT of gym class!
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Rocky, sounds like you had a ball when you were younger! I regret I wasn't a wild child!! haha
Although, I did have tons of fun!! I never would have hitch hiked. I was too cautious. My mom was Italian and paranoid so that should explain many things about me. I'm lucky I even got out of the house!! Although, I did used to sneak out when she was working.
NativeMainer, In HS I had the best P.E. teacher. One year he made bowling part of our P.E. class. We would meet at the bowling alley. I was really bad about getting there on time every morning. He was so nice about it though. He would always tease me saying it was nice of me to finally show up. I was his TA in my senior year. He was my last class of the day. As long as I got all of my work done, he would let me leave early. I sure did love that teacher. He looked like Clark Kent, so I used to call him Clark. By far my most favorite teacher I ever had.
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Native - I'm from No Calif and we called it Gym Class. We didn't have choices either, but we had swimming every year. At the time, you couldn't graduate HS until you could swim. My Mother referred to the gymnasium from her younger years. And we had sock hops in the gym when I was in Jr. High & HS.
In college it was called PE & we had to take two semesters in college to graduate. I took "Folk Dancing", a fun mixed class taught over a lunch hour; and what was then called "Modern Dance".
Wow, Slow - gym class at the bowling alley? And Clark Kent for a teacher? Be still my heart.
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MT, I know! The man didn't have an ounce of fat on his body. He wore the same kinda glasses that Clark Kent wore. The kindest teacher you could ever meet. Very tall. He was good to all of us.
I had an English teacher that wasn't as excepting of my tardiness. She used to get so angry at me. She was strict and mean at times. But I learned more from her than any teacher I ever had.
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I must have missed this page of memories last time...the hitchhiking!!!! Yep! Did that A LOT in my teen pre-driving years.
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