Middle Aged Memories
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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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I was singing along to the Playmate song in my head!
We always sang "rain barrel" instead of rainbow. And in the second verse, "my dolly has the flu, boo hoo hoo hoo hoo hoo" :-)
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Yes - rain barrel is what my grandma sang to me.
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Slow... NO.. I don't remember that.?? Maybe it wasn't an Australian thing? Now I feel like I had a deprived childhood !!! We did, however, sing " If you're happy and you know It, clap your hands " :-)
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I could not think of the name of this one, but it finally came to me. We did the 2-person hand clapping to it a lot.
(I changed the video...worse audio, but it shows the hand moves. We did the Shirley Ellis moves, not the go-go ones.)
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What about "Hand Jive". Of course I remember the Eric Clapton version from 1974, but this older one actually shows the dance that goes with the song.
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Doin' that crazy hand jive!
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It's August, so don't ask me why my husband and I were talking about snow tires the other day. Remember those? Before radials, you would have to get them put on your car each fall and taken off each Spring. In some areas, you could get a ticket if you did not have your snow tires on. I bet you would get a blank look if you said "snow tires" to your kids.
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I think snow tires are still used regularly in the Rocky Mountains and the Sierra Nevadas. Looks like the DOT in Colorado calls them "winter tires". I know there are passes that are closed each year unless you have chains. Boy were those a nightmare. I also agree that 90% of my adult neighbors in Houston wouldn't have a clue what we're talking about, let alone the kids.
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Believe it or not they are still sold here in Michigan too...No chains, but you can buy Winter tires, I have all season tires and they work well!!!!
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I do remember snow tires, and even studded tires!Still get the studs put on in October.Can get ticketed if I don't get them off before May 1st.Talked my out of a ticket the last time I got stopped in mid May with the studded shoes still on the Jeep!
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I guess I am not Northern enough to have seen them in many years.
Also, on an automotive topic...do any of you go to classic car shows? I manage to catch one every few years or so, but they are smaller ones. Went to one two weeks ago and I love to see the cars that the boys all drooled over in high school...the Plymouth Baracuda, the Chevy Camaro (RS & SS) and the Ford Mustang.
The opposite of those cool looking cars was what I first had...the Olds 88 Holiday. Mine didn't have the fancy exhaust like the one below, but still looked fairly decent for a used car back in the 70's. It did not have seatbelts, but it was a tank.
What was your first car?
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My parents didn't believe that "girls" should have a car, so I didn't get my first 'car' until after I was married. I drove one of their cars when I was home and I walked or rode the bus in college. My DH had a VW bug when we married. We moved across country from San Francisco to Albuquerque right after the wedding with everything we owned packed inside. After a year of 'carpooling' with each other, I got my own. It was a red truck that did not have a driver's side window. The space was covered with plastic. Also it didn't come with a key so I had to hot wire it to start every time. I only drove it to & from work so the price was right - $50.00.
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I had a Gold Pontiac Grandville Convertible, then a cool Blue Chevy Nova!
Wish I had one now...We have the Woodward Dream Cruise here largest Classic car event in the world, it runs a whole week every August.
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Are only three people reading this thread now? Has everyone else lost their memories? Come on, people...
Here's one I have...back in the 70's for about a year or two, snuff was fashionable. If you blinked, you might have missed this fad, but it lasted long enough for me to have purchases strawberry scented snuff. Oh, it was still nasty brown powder, but obviously had some chemical on it to give it the strawberry scent. (Amazingly, I never got nose cancer!) Anyway, I remember having a little round tin of it with a hippie looking label (could not find an image) but there was even some jewelry to fashionably hold your snuff. Does this cloisonne necklace look familiar?
Also, there were some attractive carved repro Chinese snuff bottles being sold at the time, and I had one similar to this...
I think these remained popular into the next decade but the contents changed a little.
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