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

csp

Oh gosh I forgot the UHF, before cable we use to try to get our little sisters to stand in certain places to get better reception lol!!

Patti, the Jordache jingle all I can remember is.. You've got the look I want to know better, The jordache look ???

Candi, Mighty Mouse, Mr. Magoo!
I miss the good caroons too!


Dudley Do Right's horse name is Shemp.

Tawyna-2005Mar17

oh candi,
mighty mouse, mr magoo love them.
my sister used to call me holly hobbie.
god bless

Pegk

I can't believe I've gotten to page 3 and no one's mentioned the Beatles!

1952 checking in:
I can remember where I was standing in the playground the day the Beatles first landed in America 42 years ago last week! My best friend Donna kissed the ground. She had an older sister and I thought she was crazy, but Beatlemania soon took me over, too.
By Junior High School, I had long straight hair with bangs, just like Jane Asher. My transister radio was my constant companion and I kept accurate lists of this weeks Top 20 Countdown.
Remember Battles of the Bands, between British music and the California sound?
I think someone mentioned "Where the Action Is". I loved that show, rushing home to see Paul Revere and the Raiders and the Action dancers.
Remember Hullabaloo and Shindig?
My heart was either in England or I wanted to be a surfer girl in California, but I was stuck in the middle in New York.
I grew up in LI and my social life during my teenage years was at the Levittown Roller Rink. I was so proud when I got my own skates and didn't have to rent anymore. (That's 4 wheels in a rectangle, not in line)
It's hard to believe but until my senior year in HS (69/70), there was a dress code and girls were not allowed to wear pants even in the dead of winter.
Girls were always being sent to the office wearing pants, or their skirts were too short, or they'd drawn flowers on their knees. Finally one bitterly cold day so many girls came in wearing pants, the administration finally relented on that issue.
Thanks for the trip down Memory Lane. I'll stop back when I think of anything else.
Peggy

beachcottage

Carol I forgot all about Ripple...

It was right up there with Boonsfarm..LOL



Carrie yes the girl bear was Cindy..

And shemp...I could not remember his name...



I knew the Jordache jingle would come to you!

And yes my mom did the spit on tissue

thing too...



Bosombusdriver...I had Saturday morning clean up duty too...And KP on the weekends....



Denise we had 18-20 inches...My brother in law lives in Salem Ohio...



Candi I loved the pictures of mighty and Mr.McGoo

remember Alvin and The Chipmonks..Christmas Christmas time for cheer...



dsd I forgot all about Jarts....



Tawyna Holly Hobbies are very collectable now..



Peggy how did we miss the Beatles...

And shindig...



The song

Oh Baby come on

let me take you where the action is

was the theme song for a show..I can't remember which one thou?



OK here goes.....



Did we mention..Shirley Temple?

Converse High Tops

Peyton Place

The million dollar movies



Vicks the cure all for everything..Colds Flu..LOL

Bactene in a spray can......

Iodine and micuracome (sp) It stung like hell



gym shorts and bloomers...OMG



Soul train

Princess light up phone...Slim line...I still have one..





Iron Butterfly--- Indagodadavida

The Doors..Love her madly

Mott the Hoople--All the yound dudes

and T-Rex









Trivia-name that tune and band?

I pulled into Nazareth, was feelin' about half past dead;

I just need some place where I can lay my head.

"Hey, mister, can you tell me where a man might find a bed?"

He just grinned and shook my hand, and "No!", was all he said.





Next stop...Who is this man? Can you sing me his jingle?







Sierra...Where are you?



Sweet dreams to all



Lyrics by Dale Evans-Rogers

Some trails are happy ones,

Others are blue.

It's the way you ride the trail that counts,

Here's a happy one for you.



Happy trails to you until we meet again.

Happy trails to you, keep smilin' until then.

Who cares about the clouds when we're together?

Just sing a song and bring the sunny weather.

Happy trails to you 'till we meet again.





Ok One more...Name Roy's famous horse?

christineK

Beach Cottage - don't know the name to your trivia song, but I know all the words and they are using it for some commercial now..."and you put the load right on me"



p.s. Born in '62. LOVE 70's rock classics and this trip down memory lane! Great thread!



OK I cheated, and we may think the name is "Take a load off Annie", but it is not. Anyone know the real name of the song and "The Band" that originally did it?

beachcottage

Christine..
The song -The Weight
Sung by The Band

Pegk

Okay, I'm back with some memories from the 50's.
Remember, I was born in 1952.

We had a round black and white TV in a large console. The other half was a record player.
Saturday morning I would get up so early that there was still a test pattern on TV. Do you remember when there were only a couple of channels and they didn't broadcast 24 hours a day?
Finally the "Star Spangled Banner" came on and a half hour of the Modern Farmer. Finally, what I was waiting for... Saturday morning cartoons like Popeye, Betty Boop, Daffy Duck, and Bugs Bunny.
Some other favorites:
Mighty Mouse
Crusader Rabbit and Rags
Gumby, Davey and Goliath
My Friend Flicka, Fury, Sky King
The Mickey Mouse Club with Annette, Darlene, Cubby and Susan
...Spin and Marty

Sometime in the early 60's one of my neighbors got a color TV!
We would all gather in their living room to watch a show about ballroom dancing. Then Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color which was actually a weekly commercial for Disneyland. (I think that's when I started my California Dreaming) I finally made it to Disneyland in 1980 when I was 28. Of course, my children have been to the Disney theme parks several times already.

csp

oops ! I guess if you ask a triva question , you should know the answer?? The horses name was shep not shemp LOL !!

Our family use to take weekend trips we would go to places like Niagra Falls , Story book forest in PA, camping with tents, Pioneer Village in the moutains. Pack and off we would go eating lunch meat and chips and pop for meals from a big red metal cooler with coca-cola written on the side.

peg I remember the test pattern only I would stay up at night until the test pattern and the siren or whatever it was called would come on.

Does anyone remember lost in space? "Danger danger alien aproaching"
I couldn't miss that show !
I also loved Carol Burnett,Gumby and Davey and Goliath.

How about Mr bubbles when it first come out they advertised that after the kids used it there would be no bath tub ring lol !

trivia:
what comercial was ring aroung the collar ring around the collar from ?

Patti Roys horse was Trigger



WHAT WERE POPEYES NEPHEWS NAMES ???

Sierra

Hi everyone:



Im trying to think of more



DJD soylent Green .. I remember that one



and... about the BEATLES

Someone posted ))

that night I was thinking about them



WE ALL LIVE IN A YELLOW SUBMARINE

How true it is some days

remember dancing to that one..

Do you people remember girls

dancing together?? LOL



and oh they had such good tunes..

I liked the Stones

and the Animals

the British groups were great



another one I liked was



starts

I heard the News today oh, boy

etc. .. cant recall all of it



but wait.. No one has mentoned

Little Richard, Fats Domino

and Chuck.. Berry.. my fav..

Rock N Roll Music



Patti,, come on in here



Chantilly Lace BIG BOPPER

DOCK OF THE BAY Otis Redding

and.. Richie Valens.. La Bamba.....



Anyone remember leaving their purse

with the bartender??



gotta go..

feed the Kitty



Have a fine evening all

and blessings





Marg: if you are listening in

were you in San Fran

when the Zebra Killer was there?

He went round bus stops etc.

just picked people at random

I believe?

Yes, I remember Patty Hearst

lived there at the time

that was really something

saw the Hearst Castle too



Anyone from New York

it sure was different in those

older days .. it was lovely





))

Pegk

This is fun....
I'm finding I'm checking here first after I log on.

My immediate family had a reunion in 2000. I'm the oldest of 5 and there are 13 nieces and nephews. I made a book for everybody, doing research to let the kids know something about the lives of there parents. I'll share some of it with you.

For example: The fifties
1951: first commercial color TV broadcast
TV premiere of "I Love Lucy", "Roy Rogers", "Superman"
Mickey Mantle debuts with the Yankees, Joe DiMaggio retires
sugarless chewing gum, push button garage doors, Tropicana
1952: Jonas Salk tests vaccine against polio
Elizabeth II becomes Queen of England
hit songs: "Your Cheatin' Heart", "I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus"
TV:"Dragnet", "Ozzie and Harriet", "The Today Show"
"Mad" Comics, Kellogg's Sugar Frosted Flakes, pocket sized transistor radios
1953 :first successful open heart surgery
GM introduces Corvette (for $3,250)
Ian Fleming writes first James Bond novel "Casino Royal"
(I remember learning about sex by reading the "good parts " of James Bond books, and "Peyton Place" during Junior High School)
TV:"Make Room For Daddy", "The Tonight Show"
TV Guide, Sugar Smacks, Playboy Magazine
1954 :Large thermonuclear blast at Bikini Atoll
(children of the fifties, remember those duck and cover drills?)
First atomic powered submarine is launched
Hit song:"Rock Around the Clock"-Bill Haley and the Comets
"Peter Pan" on Broadway with Mary Martin
(remember when it was aired at Christmastime every year?)
TV-"Father Knows Best", "People Are Funny" with Art Linkletter, "Lassie"
automatic toll collection, Trix, newspaper vending machines
1955 :Supreme Court orders segregation to end
James Dean killed in car crash
TV-"Lawrence Welk Show", "Honeymooners", "Captain Kangaroo", "Mickey Mouse Club"
Disneyland, Crest toothpaste, Kentucky Fried Chicken, Ask Ann Landers

Tawyna-2005Mar17

i used to watch rainbow bright, i still love strawberry shortcake and she is back.
captain kangaroo that is a good one.
mork from ork .. funny


god bless

Anonymous

Anonymous

DebraLynn

Ok all you Ohio gals,



How about Barnaby? He had pointed little ears (kind of like Captain Kangaroo)

Ghoulardi?

The Ghoul



I too remember Boonesfarm strawberry.

Still can't look it in the face.

What about Alice Cooper--- Smoking in the Boys room and Schools out



Remember Mallow Cups? They are still my favorite



The best commercial in the world: I'd like to teach the world to sing in perfect harmony-- Coke!!!!



Ring around the Collar??? Wasn't that Wisk?

beachcottage

Yvonne

Glad to see another go-cart

veteran aboard ...



Carrie I am having a mental block..

I see Popeye..Olive Oil..and Brutus

Blow me down and Sweet pea come to mind

Was whipmy a nephew? ..LOL!



Peg I love all of you

memories...Keep them coming...This is fun...



Sierra do you remember Melanie

She was from our neck of the woods...NYC





Debralyn and Tawyna..Now I have the jingle from Captain Kangaroo in my head...LOL!! Yes Mallow Cups and back in the day I loved ring dings and yodels...



Ok...A few more thoughts

Otis Reading

Ike and Tina

Wilson Picket

Diana Ross

Laura Nyro

and The 5th dimension

Joan Baez

Joni Mitchell



Our manicures consisted of

Fake fingernails..Lee press ons



Does any one remember the at home hair dryers?

Looked like something from outer space..



dippidty doo

and wide wide head bands...



bandanna's

The Doors...Love her madly...





Catch a ride to the end of the highway

And we'll meet by the big red tree

There's a place up ahead and I'm going

Come along, come along with me

Name that tune? Who sang it?



xoxo

Patti

Anonymous

csp

Debralynn,
Ohio girl checking in, The cool ghoul, Chiller theater,
whoo ha- ha- ha ! Those dirty rings, Wisk them out!! Thats 5 points for Debralynn lol!

Patti,
I am too! All I can remember is he had 3 nephews, peepeye is the only one that will come to me, maybe one was poke eye lol!! Or pink eye? okay I'll quit!!

Oh my gosh the hair dryers and sleeping in those pink foam curlers , if you used dippity - doo would cause a strange chemical reaction and adhere the curler to the hair so to cause you great pain and hair loss to get the mess out ! And the only thing worse than that, was brush rollers!
Raise your hand if you ever had to cut a tangled up brush roller out of your hair. lololol
As Bob Hope would say "Thanks for the memories".

sierrasusieq

Born in 1954 and definetely remember the Patchouly oil. In fact I have some now in my bathroom cupboard!!



I lived in L.A then and remember the loveins in Griffith park . anyone else?



remember the days of segregation! and when everyone who smoked pot was a communist?



I loved the Beatles, the Monkeys, Donovan, Elton John. Used to actually go to lots of concerts in my teens at the Hollywood paladium. SAw, Elton, Leon Russel, Traffic, Frank Zappa, Monkeys, Jimi Hendrix. Loved Motown and still do. Used to lip sing to the supremes.



Allways have and still do LOVE music.



Used to iron my curly hair cause strait was in.



at my high school it was the Surfers and the greasers (low riders).



I did my share of Pot smoking, and even a little dabble here and there in psychadellics.



went off to Jamaica a few years later and spent many times over the years there hanging out with the rastas. Loved and still love Reggae.



Left home (L.A) at 19 to move to a small town in the mountains which has now grown a bit but still consideered small. Now, those are some memories thinking of how this town is now and how it used to be.

VickiTN

WOW! Just found this thread and I'm lovin' it!!!

Okay - I was born in 1957....so here are some of my memories:

Orange "push-up" ice cream

candy cigarettes

wearing candy necklaces

My red bannana seat bike with long fringe hanging from the handle bars. I'd attach playing cards with clothes pins on the spokes of my bike wheels. I can still hear that "flapping" noise they made! Or, sometimes wrapping aluminum foil around the spokes!

I was in love with Davey Jones of the Monkey's - and David Cassidy of The Patridge Family. Oh, and can't forget Donny Osmond! I was a huge Beatle's fan, too - Paul was my favorite!

I collected "Bat Man" cards (the ORIGINAL ones) - actually, still have a few of those! I liked to pretend that I was "Bat Woman".

Halter tops and tube tops. Hip hugger jeans with a wide white belt. My friends and I would make our own halter tops!

I loved "Heaven Scent" cologne or "Tabu" (?)

Someone mentioned "Mr. Bubble" bath bubbles, but, how about the cards inside the box you could collect? I think I still may have some of those, too.

Suede purses with beads and fringe - and suede vests. I also wore hot pants and "Sizzlers" with fish net hose - and, "window pane" hose, too. Yep, and white go-go boots.

Living in a small town, I didn't have access to attending many concerts. But, my first concert was The Edgar Winter Group in Memphis, TN (about an hour away from where I lived). I also saw The Doobie Brothers, Rolling Stones, there. And, when I was about 14, I ran into Three Dog Night in a coffee shop at the Memphis airport. I got them to autograph a napkin with my green flair pen. I kept the autograph and pen for years!

I drove a 1967 red Mustang convertible. Me and 3 of my friends would each pitch in a quarter and put a dollar's worth of gas in my car and make the "drag" all night long in my car. The "drag" was driving down the one major street in my town, circling a "Sonic" on one end of the "drag" and circling around "The Breeze Inn" at the other end of the "drag"....Of course, honking and waving at everyone parked in their cars along the way. Sometimes, in the dead of winter, we'd turn the heat up full blast in my car and drive around with the top down on the car!

I wore "choker collars" - a blue velveteen one was my favorite. It had a cameo on it.

When I'd come home from school, I'd like to make a "Fizzie" - little round thing you'd place in water and they'd "fizz" and change the color of the water and add a fruity flavor.

Oh, and 3-D movies - wearing those 3-D paper glasses. And, before every movie started at our local theater, they would play the National Anthem and we'd all stand up. Our theater had "cry rooms", too....kids would sneak into the cry rooms and "make out"!

Oh, what fun times and memories....

vicki

Deese

Hey all!
Debralynn, I can't place Barnaby?? Do you mean the 'Cool Ghoul'? How about Bun candy bars (they were round with chocolate, nuts and vanilla or maple filling).

Patti, Dippidty doo LOL!

Yvonne, we had an above ground swimming pool growing up and we had way more friends in the summer than we did in the winter! Go figure!

Carrie, I think Wimpy was a nephew too. A big, lazy, hamburger eating nephew! LOL

Peg, Art Linkletter's 'Kids Say The Darndest Things'. I loved that show.

A memory...using the fall leaves to make the outlines of a house, like a floor plan. Dragging all our play furniture out to play house.

What were you doing when you heard about JFK dying? I remember that the school closed, mom crying, and she put a palm branch over his picture in our living room (how many people put a picture of the President in thier living room!?)

Denise

Deese

Opps! Forgot to refresh the screen and missed a couple posts.



Vicki, Three Dog Night are my boyfriends...I'm so jealous!



Denise

Pegk

Yvonne,
Your television free childhood sounds idyllic!
My favorite summer memories include running around at night with the neighborhood kids catching fire flies in a jar. I lived on a busy street, but we would go around the corner to play Kick the Can or Hide and Seek.
My father had a deli and often worked 7 days a week, but on Sundays he got off early (9:00 PM!) and usually brought a treat home for the family, either Carvel ice cream or a pizza pie and we would sit in the back yard and he would tell us stories about his childhood (he came from Germany when he was 7) or his experiences traveling with the army during WW2 He spent time in the Aleutian Islands in Alaska, Australia and India. Luckily he never saw any action.

Pegk

Here's some more information from my book.

(By the way I actually started my research in the 1880's when my grandparents were born, so if anybody wants to request highlights from a particular year, I would be happy to share.)

For now I'll continue with the fifties.
1956 First American test rocket for sending a manmade satellite into orbit.
Popular songs: "Que Sera Sera" Doris Day, "Wonderful, Wonderful" Johnny Mathis, "Hound Dog", "Love Me Tender" Elvis Presley
On Broadway-""My Fair Lady"
TV:"The Price is Right"
Firsts: Disposable Pampers, Comet, Raid, Salem menthol cigarettes
1957: Sputnick launched by Russia, U.S. satellite explodes at Cape Canaveral
Popular song "Tammy"-Debbie Reynolds (this was my favorite song when I was in kindergarten)
On Broadway:"West Side Story", "Music Man"
TV-"Pat Boone Show" (my first crush), "Leave it to Beaver", "American Bandstand", "Perry Mason"
Sports: Brooklyn Dodgers and NY Giants move to LA and San Francisco
Firsts: Hula Hoops and Slinky
1958 -Alaska is admitted as 49th state to the Union
John Paul XXII becomes Pope after Pope Pius XII dies
Explorer I first satellite launched by U.S.
NASA organized for non military space goals
Stereo records introduced
Pop songs: "Catch a Falling Star"- Perry Como, "Tom Dooley"- Kingston Trio
Movie-"South Pacific"
TV- "Donna Reed Show", "Concentration", "77 Sunset Strip" (remember Kookie, lend me your comb?)
Firsts: Grammy Awards, Cocoe Puffs, Pizza Hut (Kansas City)
1959: Fidel Castro takes Havana
Hawaii becomes 50th state
Mercury test pilots selected by NASA
On Broadway: "Sound of Music", "Gypsy"
Movie:"Ben Hur"
TV:"Bonanza", "Twilight Zone", "Many loves of Dobie Gillis" (remember Bob Denver's first roll, Maynard G Krebbs?)
firsts: Lincoln Penny with Lincoln Memorial on the back

Tawyna-2005Mar17

oh my goodness i remember my dad watching the twilight zone. i also remember alfred hitchcock movies.
my dad used to think jane mansfield was beautiful. i don't know how to spell her last name right.
my mom liked that chubby checkers guy.
god bless

beachcottage

Peg my late father in law spent time

in the Aleutian Islands...

He was a radio man with US Navy...



Peg I remember Tammy with Sandra Dee...

Tell us more...



Some one mentioned President Kennedy..

I was in first grade when President Kennedy was assassinated...It was very sad..The nuns were crying...They piped prayers over the PA system..WE all prayed...Early dismal...I remember lots of crying... Parents including my own crying in the hallways as they picked their children up from school....





Sneaking extra Fred Flinstone vitamins because they tasted like candy...LOL<<LOL





OK..Who remembers making bracelets

from used gum wrappers?



Fortune tellers made from paper?



bracelets with a long chain attached to a ring...



The song in the year 2525?



xoxo

Patti

csp

Patti I think my little sister had the worlds longest chewing gum wrapper chain in the civilized world! LOL

Densie I had forgot all about the fall leaf houses and dragging all our stuff out side and playing for hrs. and hrs.
Did anyone else play church? We use to get pieces of bread and pretend they were communion.
Or grocery store ? We would drag all the can goods out and
go shopping, back then it was fun . Dress the dog up like a baby and try to make the poor thing stay in the crib.

Vicky I had a choker too mine was black velvet . and I loved Davey Jones too!
The Edgar Winter group I know the group but I can not think of what they sang????

beachcottage

Carrie..

Yes we played church too!



WE used to play dress up

and parade around the block in vintage clothes..our parents and grandparents old clothes...gloves..boas...hats..high heels..beads...we would have a parade and bang a pot with a wooden spoon..



Carrie Edgar Winter Group sand Free Ride..



Some more thoughts





digging for worms

and placing them in a cigar box with dirt..



catching fire flies and putting them in a jar with holes in the lid



making rings from dandelions





Buying cigarettes for my friends grandmother at the corner store...we were nine..She would send us off with a note..



Playing red rover



Walking to the corner candy store

penny candy...

"hot tamale candy..fire balls..

straws

sugar candy dots on a strip of paper





delivering papers with my friend..we used a wagon to pull the papers around..LOL



The way our parents would call us for dinner..Mine always bellowed out our names..My friends mom rang a bell...LOL!



cap guns...caps..sparklers..sling shots..water balloons





gaucho

crocheted shawls



my grandmothers vintage table cloths..

eating off of jadite dishes...egg cups...

All the things I still use and love..



rootbeer floats

egg creams



making picture frames from ice cream sticks

gluing sea shells to picture frames and boxes..I still love anything with sea shells and have a collection of vintage sea shell boxes



etch a sketch sp?



The soda fountain at the 5 and 10 (Woolworths and JJ Newberry





Nehi Soda

and baseball cards with bubblegum



burning leaves in our back yard



Policemen walking their "beats"



Snow tire chains



The Kinks--LOLA

The Yardbirds--For your love

CCR--Bad Moon on the Rise..Proud Mary



xoxo

Patti

Sierra

Hi Tawnya:



Wow, I used to dance

to old Chubby Checkers

Twist down at the Peppermint Lounge



thanks for all these other

new.. memories Gals



I can not keep up with you

any more



Re: JFK.. I well remember

that.. worked in Montreal

at the time. We were all

in tears.



Fats Dominoe:



Blueberry Hill



some might remember him



Yikes:



Anyone remember when nurses

used to wear the caps/hats



When was that?



Been a long time..





Patti: I don't remember Melanie.. maybe if I heard her..

Jefferson Starship..

White Rabbit.. .. was it??

Crosby stills and Nash



anyone



If I've missed anyone

not ignoring.. just missed

sorry but did read



Yvonne. loved.. Creedence Clearwater..



night to all



Hugs

Tawyna-2005Mar17

my mom loved blueberry hill.
my mom lived in camp washington before i was born.
dad said she sung blueberry hill. i just think of happy days when i hear it.
mom went to cincinati gardens and seen little richard , chuck berry, fats domino.
well i guess you could say she used to go alot. she lived by a funeral home in ohio. they were good neighbors.

sierra, when my mom read your post it brung her back. to the days when she was soooo much younger.

Sierra

Tawna:



heheheheh

bless your heart

and your Mom's heart too

along with a big hug for your Mom







Life is about having fun..



good night now..



Im off to bed..

soon .. yes .. soon



))





or off to fine my thrill on

blueberry Hill