Middle Aged Memories
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minustwo, thanks for the morning laugh! I have a former schoolmate/Facebook friend who posts songs/music videos on Facebook. Those songs often stay with me or pop back into my head at weird times.
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It's really kind of amazing how songs and memories can just pop out at random. The brain works in mysterious ways. Surprise me brain!
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I'm going to sweep the cobwebs off your minds with this one:
A toy heavily marketed to boys. If you were a girl and had this, you were probably the Gloria Steinem of your neighborhood!
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I never had this toy but I did have an Annie Oakley smoke rifle. It did not make noise (no caps) but produced white “smoke.”
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Wow, great memories. I remember candy cigarettes, but my mom wouldn't let me have them. haha
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sunshine - ditto for the candy cigarettes.
Since I was the only girl in the neighborhood (although the oldest), my parents finally bought me a cap gun to I could play with the group without always being the one to be tied up or hung. I remember all the little boys had double holsters. I was grateful to finally have one. I'm older than many of you so this was the days of the Lone Ranger and Sgt Preston of the Yukon… On the radio - pre-television. And another memory from the distant past - Fibber McGee and Molly
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Oh, just reading this brings back memories. Can you smell the caps right now? Did you ever put them on the ground and hit them with a hammer or rock?
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Oh yes and didn't my Mother yell about that!!!
Another old memory that's still available this season - candy corn!!!
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sunshine99—That was definitely my preferred way to blast those caps off, and with skilled technique you could slide a rock along a whole short strip…pop, pop, pop, rapid fire! Loved the smell of caps…just like catnip for a child.
Looking back at my childhood, it was full of danger and ingenuity. If you ever want to make a homemade smoke bomb from bottle caps, duct tape, and kitchen matches, just let me know. (Can't get those good bottlecaps too easily anymore tho'.)
Wink! 😉
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@elimar thanks for the morning memory. A good start to my day. I've been watching Bob Newhart on Amazon Prime. Blast from the past…
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Getting my school supplies from a five and dime store. Covering school books in brown paper bags
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Good one Mommy. I remember making the brown paper bag book covers.
I remember the first time my Mother let me ride my bike "to town" with a girl friend. We went to Woolworths. We had a rootbeer float at the lunch counter & I bought my Mother some nail polish for Christmas. And looked longingly at new 'outfits' for my Ginny doll.
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Minus,
the Woolworth’s where I lived had creaky floors.0 -
My favorite mixing bowl and hand chopper came from Woolworth's. I used them both today to make orange cranberry bread.
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Something else just popped into my head…probably a long ago Christmas gift.
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Oh, and here's a stocking stuffer from long ago. Got any Mid-Age Christmas memories? Post 'em!
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Playing Yahtzee
Giving our parents a hard time about going to bed early on Christmas Eve
trying to sneak a peek at our Christmas presents
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Anybody remember Dippity-Do? I did not set my long hair with frozen orange juice cans. But I did have huge brush rollers that I slept in several nights a week. I can't even imagine how I did that.
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I used that sticky, icky green gel with orange juice cans. I then graduated to putting up the ironing board and using an iron for clothing on my hair. Why did it take so long for them to invent ceramic flat irons?
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I remember the big brush rollers, the cans, and the Dippity-Do! Nice to remember, thanks!
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I visited a friend this week in California. She's 98 years young. She still puts rollers in her hair every night. Said she's been doing it since she was a kid and didn't know how she'd sleep w/o them!
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Zogo - WOW… I too have an elderly friend - 87. She has given up sleeping with brush curlers, but sets her hair with them after she washes several times a week. Lot of hours that she doesn't want to see anyone or answer the door while her hair is drying. Not to mention - wet hair just makes me colder now.
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I remember all that hair straightening. I was more often the ironer than the ironee, since my BFs had beautiful wavy, curly hair when the lank, straight hairdo was the pinnacle of style. What are best friends for, right?
Who else had one of those hair dryers that was round like a hatbox, but it had a hose and plastic cap to put on your head? What a fright.
If you remember that appliance, what about the thing that looked a little like a blender, but it was a steamer for your face, to open and unclog your teen pores? I would give a million dollars for my teen pores at this point.
Hot rollers were pioneered in our youth. Who else got burned on that appliance?
Moving into the kitchen, the Salton Yogurt Maker. Why was mine always runny? Saw a lot of those in garage sales a few years later.
Best for last, the Hoover Constellation vacuum. Not a lot of suction but so fun to pull this space age floater around the house. It had a little bit of that R2D2 thing going on. I can almost hear young George Lucas saying, "I'll vacuum for you, Mom."
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I had to get an oversized bonnet for the hairdryer to fit my large rollers. The hot rollers weren’t large enough to straighten my hair. I was jealous of my sister’s stick straight hair when we were teenagers. Now she is jealous of my waves.
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Watching Green Acres & Petticoat Junction.
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I had the precursor to the round hatbox hair dryer with the hose & cap. I actually still have the base with the hose & use it to defrost the freezer in my garage.
Feeling Old?
The Beatles split up 50 years ago. The movie, ‘The Wizard of Oz,’ is 85 years old. Elvis died 47 years ago. He’d be 89 today. Michael Jackson’s “Thriller” video is 42 years old. Mickey Mantle retired 55 years ago. The movie, “Saturday Night Fever” is 47 years old. “The Ed Sullivan Show” ended 53 years ago. The Corvette turns 71 this year.
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Oh, my! What fun memories. I remember all of those. Do you remember the TV commercial (or was it a radio ad?) with the jingle, "Curlers in your hair? Shame on you!" I think it must have been an ad for hot rollers.
I always had straight hair, too. I paid for a perm while my sister paid to have her curls straightened. Those were the days…
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My mother had a hair dryer with the bonnet, but I never liked it, because I wanted straight hair and the dryer didn't do a good job. ( My hair is naturally wavy and just didn't cut it in the stick straight days.) At some point I discovered that if I took the bonnet off and just bent over the straight shaft of air that normally fed into the bonnet, I could get my hair straight. Later, I used to kid/ kick myself for not trying to patent that idea, because later they came out with blow dryers that did the very thing I wanted. I was just a young teenager at the time. I still can't get used to my naturally wavy air and am always inclined to make it straight.
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Remember the teased bangs and big hair of the 80s & 90s? I cringe when I think of all the hair spray that was used. My hair never held any style.
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Oh yes mOmmy. I had recently moved to Texas, and that hair was twice as big as other states.
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