Please tell me What were you doing????????????????

Mena

Born in 1961. A definite bogarting chick hahahah Oh, and milk was delivered every day fresh and in glass bottles. The milkman put the milk in a silver tin milk box that sat outside our front door...omg...how very tacky ahahahaha...

Deese

I'm getting choked up. I wanna go back!



Whats, I'd forgotten about black lights. Never wore white to a party...didn't want to stand out! Motorcycle trips to KY and Gatlinburg, TN.



Mena, you knew it was a good day when you opened the tin box and there was chocolate milk!!!



Sierra, not sure what you mean about px? Am I in trouble?? lol.



Denise

csp

Whats,
lol you reminded me of when a friend of mine was shaving her eye brows and her dog Tuffy ran between her legs and she shaved half of one eye brows off!! We had school pics the next day and there she is with her hair pulled down over one eye brow in the year book !!

We had a phone # you could call, we called the beep line
tons of people could get on it and talk??? I still don't know what that was but it was fun !!

Did anyone else have the egg lady or the bread man- my favorite, he delivered donuts too. Or milk that was in these big plastic containers with a spigot on the front of it?
How about making popsicles out of kool-aid
or building tents out of blankets in the back yard and sleeping out.
Going down town to the drug store to have a coke at the soda fountain that was served in one of those white cones in a metal silver holder.

Sierra

Hi Gals:

For Deese:

Denise



Sorry about that, I'm
getting mixed up with another lady
here..

It is not you..
unless you want to send me a px

LOL

ttul

beachcottage

OMG I am just loving this thread..

Every day is a treat

I love reading everyone's

recollections...



I went back to the beginning tonight

and I am so glad because some how

I managed to miss some of the posts..



Carrie we had the egg lady

the milk man and the vegetable man...He would pull

up with this dilapidated truck with an open back..Now that I look back..I think it was a dump truck...LOL!!



Carrie I forgot all about the cool-aid popsicles...I loved those back then...

remember the frozen ice machineI think it was called sno-cone machine ..Shaved ice with

some kind of flavoring...



Deese..Speaking of white..I think we followed this crazy rule about wearing white..I think you could wear it After Memorial day and no later than labor day because you did not want to stand out..So glad anything goes now..Love winter white....



What's in a stage nice to see you posting

I still have some of my 45s...I drag them out every now and then....

Looks like we all had our day with boonsfarm..what about tango and black berry brandy?...I still get a weak feeling when I think about Tango and Boonsfarm...



Mena I have a silver milk container..

I keep all of my favorite little garden tools

and gardening gloves in it ....



Tawana a friend a the family

was on American Bandstand too!!

I wonder if he was dancing with your mom?LOL!!



Sierra I love hearing about your

days in SF....It must have been

so cool back then....



Ravedeb yes those were the days my friends



Mrsbeames I loved the clash ..B52's and Blondie..Joan Jett and Pat Benitar...

Now who remembers having

Chinese fire drills

at the stop light?



Keg parties in the woods...



My grandmother had a Silver Aluminum X-Mas Trees and

a white table top X-mas trees...The vintage ones are popular again...Remember the bubble lights?



Signing off for tonight..Spinning a record to bring you all back...



End of the spring

and here she comes back

Hi Hi Hi Hi there

Them summer days, those summer days



That's when I had most of my fun, back

high high high high there

Them summer days, those summer days



I "cloud nine" when I want to



Out of school, yeah



County fair in the country sun



And everything, it's true, ooh yeah



Hot fun in the summertime



LOL...Looking forward to the next post!



xoxo

Patti

Tawyna-2005Mar17

patti as much trouble as mom got into she must of danced alot.
god bless

beachcottage

I know what you mean Tawyna...



Halloween ..WE would get loose candy..Candy corn was big back then... ..Dunking for apples..Candy apples the hard coated ones and the ones with caramel.... Shaving cream ................





And Sierra cover charges and bouncers..Wow..I remember that...



Listening to Grand Funk...





OMG...Polyester..POLY Freakin Ester...LOL! LOL!



The shag haircut...



I think someone mentioned Tab a few posts ago

diet rite was another soda that comes to mind...I remember my mom bringing Pringles home when they first hit the supper market...



Choking on my uncles unfiltered Pall Mall Cigarettes...



When bell bottoms were out and straight legs ruled!





xoxo

Patti

csp

Halloween , we use to have to come home and empty our bags
and go out again.
Polyester oh my gosh!! I remember, it was so popular because you didn't have to iron it wash and wear. lol

Patti tight roll the bottom of the straight legs I bet Taywna remembers that! and wearing scrunched socks and your shirts layerd.

Did you ever take off with someone still out side of the car at the stop light lol lol!
Going to the pine forest close to the college people would come there to... ummmm... meditate and play guitars and sing songs.
I love this thread it is so fun to read everyones post to revisit the past where we feel safe, we grew up all over but yet share the same fond memories.

Tawyna-
As we wind on down the road with our shawdows taller than are souls there walks a lady we all know who shines
white light and wants to show how everything still turns to gold ,to be a rock and not to roll.

normalcani

What a great thread.....!!!!

1966 here...... Will be 40 in a couple months and this sure brings back alot of memories.......

How about gouchos(sp)?...... And plaid polyester pants that were bell bottoms..... Or the granny glasses that were so popular...... I had to wear glasses a 4 years old (had a lazy eye) and my dad told me he would catch me rubbing my glasses on the driveway concrete so I wouldn't have to wear them..... I have school pictures of me wearing those fabulous glasses.....lol......

I used to deliver pizza coupons on Saturdays, made a dollar an hour, and my first pay went and bought me a Sean Cassidy album and had money left over for Taco Bell.... Plus I did this alone.... They would drop us off in a neighborhood and we would leave the coupons in the door or mailbox.....It was all kids that did it..... I would never let my son do that now......

What about playing Marbles or Jacks...... I had a Tether Ball in my backyard...... God, I loved Tether Ball..... I would play it for hours.... Or ride my bike for miles and miles...... Be gone all day and no one ever thought anything...... I had to be home when the streetlights came on.....

My sister and I were always dressed alike on Holidays.... Even our P.J.'s for Christmas Eve were alike....

About the Musk.... I still wear it...... And guess who it's made by..... Bonnie Bell....... It's called Skin Musk and it's one of two perfumes I wear....... I have quite a few friends who comment that after twenty years, I still smell the same..... I like that.... It's comforting to me and to them...... Still burn incense too..... I'm a hippy at heart.......

My first concert was Tom Jones...... I was nine...... My first rock concert was Journey and Foreigner..... I was 13..... I still love them to this day...... I'm still a rock-n-roll girl at heart......

How about Jordache, Calvin Klein, Gloria Vanderbelt Jeans......??? You had to lay down to get them zipped.... Had a wire hanger just for that purpose..... lol.....

Gas Light in the front yard that actually ran on gas......

Garage Door Openers were the new technology...... lol.....

Great thread..... This will have me thinking all day......
Good Calming thoughts........ Thanks guys.......

Hugs......
Candi

Anonymous

WHAT FUN! And what a laugh! I was born in 1954

I, too, remember rolling up our skirts before going to school - why didn't I mind the big roll at my waist? We had to kneel on the ground and if our skirt didn't touch the ground, back home to change! LOVED cruising with my friends in my Toyota! Remember TOO LONG bangs and white frosted lip gloss! Remember a wine called Annie Green Springs (yuck now as a wine snob!)Won tickets on the radio to a Hamilton-Joe-Frank and Reynolds and Grass Roots concert! Had dinner with them after the show with my girlfriend Georgia! Remember my 3 girl cousins coming over and practicing the twist in the llving room!

Tawyna-2005Mar17

carrie, that is beautiful.

Fitztwins

I want to play!

I was born in 1964.

I remember, my folks listening to Carole King Tapestry,
Cherokee people, the sound track of Jesus Christ Superstar.

Tv shows growing up??

Brady Bunch, Partridge family, Fantasy Island, Love Bove,
Carol Burnett show, Strees of San Fransciso, Night Stalker, Columbo....

Music...late rock n' roll gal...then in college the british invasion of the 1980's!!!

loved...jiffy pop popcorn, pop rocks, barbies, and board games.

Drive in movies...

Movies that stick in my memory

Fast times at Ridgemont High
16 Candles
Pretty in Pink
St. Elmos Fire
Flash dance

Clothing? Preppy for me, button down collars, green and pink, wide whale cords, whales, turtles...
Baggy pants
Acid wash jeans
wearing our sweat shirts ripped and inside out!

Dancing to B-52's

Classic Rock
Peter Frampton
Genesys

Sierra

Hi Patti:



I remember those cigarettes

but mine were Kent

and True Blue LOL

re: Bouncers.. THEN they were

only keeping us in a line

NOW: THEY look for guns

and drugs.. how life changes!



and.. Normalcani: what are gauchos??

those wide sort of pants

I remember ponchos.. wearing those

when in Arizona for a trip



Anyone remember the song

Midnight at the Oasis

oh, I know, before some of your

times, but someone must know it

Who sang it please??



Doobie Brothers

Boz Scaggs



If anyone here is from San Francisco

or been there

they used to have

Carol Doda..

on a billboard

always saying

She was the perfect 36

My Word.. North Beach area





Anyone from Connecticut

Lake Candlewood?? by chance?



Thanks for sharing

everyone.



Patti, any more from you?



I remember those days

men would go and buy you

your cigarettes if you

were going on a date and

did not have any. Anyone else?

Convertibles LOL Corvettes?

Deese

Hi all, Why don't I have any Norman Rockwell pictures in my house? I just love this stuff!

Sold Girl Scout cookies door to door (not in front of the grocery store). Had tons of Match Box Cars, (there's the tomboy in me again). Wish I had them now, very collectable. Halloween...popcorn balls, cookies and BIG candy bars. I would hit these houses over and over. Didn't like getting apples though, made my bag (pillow case) too heavy! Choking on my Grandma's unfiltered Camels. Farrah Faucet hairdo (feather those bangs).

Denise

MargaretB

1955, just turned 51. I remember fake candy cigarettes and Marlboro was our favorite cigarette of choice at fifty cents a pack from the vending machines. Fresca, party lines, hot pants, bell bottoms, the suede vests and purses with fringe, I loved my bell bottoms and platform shoes, Motown. Sierra, I think the Renaissance Fair is still around, it just changed locations and the Haight is still great.

Margaret

beachcottage

LOL!!

Sierra I wore that 45 out
It had so many skips
from playing it over and over!

Midnight at the Oasis
send your camels to sleep
Shadows paintin' our faces
Traces of romance in our heads
Heaven's holdin' a half-moon
Shinin' just for us..
and something about a belly dancer...LOL!
...Her name was Maria Moldaar (sp?)

I am getting tired..
I will check back
tomorrow...I want to read all the new posts

I have to be quiet...everyone else is sleeping..I get hysterical every time I read this thread..SSHHHHHH...See you all tomorrow...

xoxo
Patti

csp

Sierra,
Maria Muldare it was on her waitress in a donut shop album
Midnight at the oasis, send your camel to bed,
shadows painting are faces traces , romance in our head

Candi we did the same thing when we were kids ran the neighborhood from one end to the other all summer long had to be in when the street lights came on we only came in to eat I never could let my kids do that either.

I remember when we could all put our money together and buy a 1.00 worth of gas and ride around all night!
We would get .50 allowance when I was 12 we could go see a movie or walk down to the 5&dime and buy a bag full of candy or a 45rpm.

Okay so I can't remember wear I put my glasses but I remember words to songs from 20 some yrs ago lol!!
Okay who remembers who this is?

busdrivers

Gee BooBoo!

I love this thread! I was getting paid 50 cents an hour for babysitting, watching the midnight music with Wolfman Jack, eating T.V.time popcorn, smoking *()&*)&(), thinking getting kissed meant you could get pregnant ha ha, clogs, bell bottoms, going to the mall with my sisters to spend 5.00 on a pair of Levi's, going to Kresge's and buying a cherry coke and french fries for 1.00 and fingernail polish was 25 cents. WoW! I am a true old fan of rock and roll especially Aerosmith and Foghat!!!!!

Deese

Sierra, Midnight at the Oasis was sung by Maria Muldare (or something really close to that), Carrie had her album when we were teens. That was a great song.

Fitztwins, I loved the movie, Jesus Christ Superstar, and also Tommy (with Elton John and Roger Daultry from The Who). Is that a new avatar? You look great!

Fiat convertible.

Denise

Deese

Daggone Carrie you are quick! You slipped that in right under me.

Paper dolls (Haley Mills).

Bosombusdriver, I thought you got pregnant from door knobs!?

Denise

busdrivers

OMG, doorknobs. My sister used to think holding hands ha ha!! I loved Donny Osmond and when I got in high school Peter Frampton!

Sierra

Hi Everyone:



tks for the Maria Muldaur

name. .that was it

somehow that song just

grabbed me

yes remember the 45s..



Margaret: the cherri cokes

and oh that Fair.. think it was

out near Tiburon or somewhere

Tiburon is so lovely (or was)



Babysitting and Kresges

for sure, I remember



Pin curls in the hair

sleeping with rollers in

can you believe it? oh the headaches



back later



tks again EVERYONE



Marg: O/T

While I am on here

they used to have a magazine

called Sunset out there

think they were out in Palo Alto

loved that mag...

riding bikes in Golden Gate Park



Guess NO One remembers

Desert Boots or Pixie boots

they were suede



See through blouses



DEESE: re Norman Rockwell

Was he from Portland, MA area, seems

to me I saw some of his px

at the Gallery there

duh (but forget)?

beachcottage

WE must have a foot of snow here already..
Reminds me of praying for snow as a kid
so we could have a day off from school..My niece spent the night..
she is nine years old...She is praying to get snowed in at my house for a few days...LOL!!

Carrie yes tight roll the bottom of the straight legs
LOL It had to be just so!!

And Tawyna the scrunched sock look and the movie Flash Dance!

Stairway to Heaven was our Senior Class Song!
When all are one and one is all
To be a rock and not to roll
Woe oh oh oh oh oh
And she's buying a stairway to heaven

Candi...I loved tether ball...I forgot all about that..
OK ...Potato sack races were big in my time..
Simon Says
pogo sticks
kick the can
dodge ball
Who remembers the Jordache jingle...Hint..You/ve got ........

burn la--The skirt measuring? Sounds like Catholic School to me....Remember chapel veils
if we forgot ours we would
have to bobby pin a tissue to our head!!! LOL!!!

I sure do remember Hamilton-Joe-Frank and Reynolds and Grass Roots ! Played those 45's over and over too!!

Janis...I forgot all about Jesus Christ Superstar!!
And Hair....I loved Peter Frampton...He owned a house in our Community
! Needless to say how many trips we took to see if we could catch a glimpse..Such groupies we were! LOL!

Sierra I was a Cool and Newport girl...
I had dessert boots ...I loveD them...

Deese I had match box cars too...My dad used to take me to thE slot car track...

Margaret I forgot all about Fresca...

Carrie BooBoo Bear! Who was the girl bear? I forgot..

Bosombusdriver...
Yes .50 cents an hour...
I do remember that...And the midnight hour! LOL!

A dollar took us a long way...If we didn't have cherry coke with our fries we would have Vanilla coke..and sometimes had vinegar on the side for our fries...

OK who remembers

Blue eyeshadow and blue mascara

ban de soleil

Mai Tai's were served in really cool
ceramic glasses
and it was always served with a pineapple attached to a paper umbrella

Trivia...Sing me the
the Jordache jingle....

Time to make breakfast !!


XOXO
Patti

TingleToes

OMG!!! You are ALL young'ns!! Just babies!!!!



19 (cough) 42



Laying on the floor, listening to RADIO shows... "The Shadow", "The

Green Door", and scared sh*tless.



Music?? Bill Haley and the

Comets, "Rock Around the Clock." It started it ALL!!



The first TV, with the 13 inch round screen, and a choice of 2 channels

to watch!!! A multi-colored plastic thingy that was placed over the

screen to make it "color." (didn't take much to make us happy! lol)



Arthur Godfrey and Patsy Cline. (Walking after Midnite) Ed Sullivan

with Topo Gigio, the June Taylor Dancers, Elvis, (from the waist up. lol) and the Beatles!!!!

(much, much later, with a bigger TV, but not in color yet! And "remote"

still meant a far-away place.... lol)



Full skirts with 5 or 6 crinoline petty-coats, starched with sugar so

they'd stand out. Felt "Poodle" skirts, complete with telephone

applique. "Petti-shell shoes, dyed to match skirts and sweaters,

Dad's white shirts, with the collars turned up at the back, down at the

front with REAL Levi's. (boys Levi's of course, they weren't making

them for women yet) Mom was horrified!!!



Getting caught smoking in the bathroom at school, and ditching school. Mom was horrified! Again!!



Fighting with my niece: American Bandstand vs. Mickey Mouse Club!!

(She was a sucker for a bribe!)



Red Mountain, Thunderbird, and Ripple wine! Boone's Farm and

Annie Green Spring's came much later... (for our last reunion, we

found the Red Mountain and Thunderbird, but no Ripple to be found

anywhere...<sigh>)



Cruising "Paxton's"...... our local drive-in, long gone..... and drive-in

theaters. Also long gone.... Watching "Submarine" races at the airport.... lmao....



I sure would like to have that '46 Ford coupe, '57 Chevy and the can't remember year Woody wagon back!



Watching live on TV, the first landing on the moon... Apollo 11. Watching the first Space Shuttle launch..

What a thrill.....



Oh...... the memories!!!! Too many to post here.. but I'm still thinking.



I love this thread!!!!

Carol

csp

Was the girl bear Cindy, Patti ?
Oh my gosh tissue on our heads with bobby pins haa-ha-ha-ha! I swear I thought that pratice was regional lol!

Okay did anyones parent ever spit on a tissue to wipe something off your face!! I swore I would never do that to my kids until the first time I did .

That is going to drive me crazy trying to remember the Jordache jingle Patti!??

Janis did you ever where your pj's to the drive in when you were little ?

Do you remember when Life and Look magazines were big ?

I loved going to Kresges they had everything there even parakeets. I think Kresges served their soda in those paper
cone shaped cups in the silver holders somehow soda tasted better that way !

Who remembers Sandy Duncan and the Skinny Dip commercial
was that shampoo ?
trivia:
What was his horses name???

Tawyna-2005Mar17

patty i wore every color of scrunched socks. i still love flashdance.


carol, my mom was born in 1942. loved full skirts and american bandstand.

busdrivers

My husband just bought me for Christmas the DVD of Flash Dance and Footloose. OMG, this is such a cool thread to remember. I totally remember American Bandstand. We (sisters) were supposed to clean the house on Saturday mornings but got hooked on watching it instead. Still got the work done though ha ha!

Love this remembering when thing!

Deese

Patti, was it "You've got...junk in your trunk"? LOL, just kidding. Don't remember.

Carrie, my parents never spit on my face! You must have been a very bad child! Haaaaaaaaaaa Heeeeeeee Owwwwwwwww!

Okay, too much fun.

Carol, I'm jealous! I always wanted to wear poodle skirts and tight sweaters. I want to go out and buy some blue mascara right now (if only I had something to put it on!) Somethings don't change...caught smoking in bathroom and still love Patsey Cline!

Sierra, I wore desert boots but we called them Chugga Boots. I just figured that out! Don't know where Norman was from, but I love his nastalgic paintings.

I was wondering about the snow Patti. Didn't watch the news today. How much have you got now? It missed us (western/central Ohio), just got dusting. Hope you can stay indoors.

Denise

normalcani

Ok, how bout these......??





That's all I can find for now...... But I did think of a few other things......

ABC AfterSchool Specials..... Came rushing home to watch them......

The 'good' cartoons...... I miss them..... Tom and Jerry is still on though.......

Still love Brady Bunch, I Love Lucy...... My son makes fun of me when I watch those.....

The old christmas shows....... I watch them every year without fail...... lol.......

Hugs.......
Candi

djd

What a fun thread! Here's my contribution...

Born in 64.

Soylent Green, Jaws, Star Wars (the "real" first one!)

All in the Family, Mary Tyler Moore, Rhoda, Maude, Jeffersons

Flip Wilson, Laugh-In

Peter Frampton (Frampton Comes Alive album)

Coke in 16 ounce bottles (for a dime) - the anticipation of waiting for the machine to dispense the bottle, the sheer joy of talking that first gulp, the throat burning...

Candy cigarettes (real ones, too)

Jarts!

White patent leather boots, Earth shoes, Flannel shirts, bell bottoms

The football game where the board just vibrated and the players moved around at random.

Pong

$80 for a 4-function calculator

Eight tracks.

My mom's ford Pinto, that got rear-ended twice without blowing up

Jim Croce, the Carpenters, Elvis, the Jackson Five, The Osmonds

Posters of David Cassidy all over my room.

Watergate, Patty Hearst. In a day of only three major networks, there was NO escaping the non-stop coverage of those stories.

UHF channels - every one in a while you got board with the normal channels and switched over to UHF and tried to find something - usually it was all snow and static.