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

csp

Okay I was bummed out tonight, I was reading Sierra and tawyna's post about blueberry hill and now I am humming it,

Pajama party at my house !
I have about 100 45's and 20 albums and believe it or not a turn table to play them on. We will eat junky food, dance, make crank phone calls, crack open some wine!
Sound fun?

beachcottage

Carrie I am packing my
sleeping bag now
sounds like a blast..

I will bring my 45's also!!

I found my late father's poloraid
instamatic
camera today with film...Smile...

Crank phone calls..OMG..Flashback....
That was our favorite pass time for a while..
My mom and dad both worked for the phone company...I was part of a "crank call ring" in sixth and seventh grade...We kept calling the same people over and over..Needless to say someone{a psychiatrist..no less} put a wire=tap on his phone...We were busted...The bulk of phone calls were made from our phone LOL!! A friend of my dad
was a detective with the local police..He came to our house and scared the living daylights out of me and another local detective paid a visit to my friend and accomplice


xoxo
Patti

christineK

Yea I remember those calls-

"Is your refrigertor running?"
"Well, you better catch it"
or calling the corner confectionary,
"Do you have Prince Albert in can?"
"Well, you better let him out"

Chuck Berry is from St. Louis, so he sells out shows here about once a month.

Melanie actually is touring, she has a date coming up here, I think it's like a Woodstock weekend over Labor Day.

Sierra

wow

do you have Pop in a bottle
Well you better let him out
etc. etc.
too funny were these

oh, and Jerry Lee Lewis
wasn't he a rock on out guy

have a great day all
off for a bit


Nicky Nicky nine doors
banging on someone's door
and then taking off LOL
oh dear... too much fun
memory is kind

Namaste

Tawyna-2005Mar17

my mom loved jerry lee lewis. i would swear my dad was jealious. cranks calls was my specialty right up til i.d callers. dang.

i watched happy days today. i love watching older shows.
my little boy sits in his wheel chair watching sanford and son, good times laughing his butt off.

cowgirl

Okay I have refrained from this thread not sure why just because I really feel old most of the time. But my son rigged the bathroom so that when you turn on the light at night Elvis sings Love Me Tender!

My son wants to be a mech engineer, he can drive me nuts at times. I was barely awake thinking Why is Elvis singing in My bathroom?

Deese

Patti...Sugar dots on strips of paper, I ate more paper than candy!!!

The nun's habits...covered from head to toe.

Scavenger hunts.

Denise

beachcottage

Cowgirl great to

see you posting

here! My friends son did the same thing to her..She thought she was losing it ! The song was don't worry be happy...I think she finally shot the darn thing! LOL! Only kidding..



Happy Birthday Denise..



In your honor ...A vintage Birthday Party







Wishing you the best! pick your song...



LOL

xoxo

Patti

csp

Happy Birthday Denise!!

Cowgirl I am lol, that is so funny Elvis singing in the bathroom!

crank call: excuse me madam / sir we are selling a new insect elemenator for your home, easy to use. Would you be interested? hey guys put those boxes over there!
Excuse me for the interruption sales have been good.
As I was saying you simply place the can in the middle of the room and when the insect goes to the can to read the label you swat it!! (hysterical laughter from 3 13yr olds)
Until our friends father caught us!!! LOL

Pegk

Happy Birthday Denise! You and George Washington!

Favorite party games:
Pin the Tail on the Donkey
Musical Chairs
Simon Says
Do the Limbo
Spin the Bottle

Deese

Thanks ladies! I loooove your pictures Patti!

Peg, me and George go way back! LOL

Carrie, quit telling on us!

Denise

cowgirl

Okay so this song is my head over and over again because I am having a reality check that I am no long super survivor(long story)

Anyway the song "Here I am to save the Day!~~" You know Andy on Taxi singing it on SNL!!! I will never forget him he was so funny! That and Steve Martin with an arrow through his head while playing the banjo!

So my son and I love talking music, he has perfect pitch(yeah it bugs me). He was asking me about Ricky Nelson, and I said well if you go by looks and talent Ricky was really talented and Elvis was great at times. But overall talent I was never sure why Ricky didn't become bigger!

Yes I peed this morning to Love Me Tender again!

My son is truly too funny for words!

And here I am "off to save the Day" Cape flying!

Tawyna-2005Mar17

hi,
i would love elvis in my bathroom.
i loved him in his younger days. he was a cutie...

denisa

- seeing Bob Dylan play electric for the first time at Newport Folk Festival (and he got booed!!!). i was there on a summer camp trip with counselors....

-

sholroyd

What fun – thanks. I am a 1957 girl and can relate to the postings – te he – we could be a bit naughty in our teens – nothing like ‘naughty’ today though.

I was the first girl to wear a midi skirt in high school.

Last weekend I showed my grandson a ‘record’ and explained how I used to put them in boiling water to create a fruit bowl.

Sandra from the UK

Sierra

wow..

I can relate to some of the above..


did anyone mention
the Big Bopper..


ittsy bittsy teeny weeny
polka dot bikini

FAME (if anyone here
recalls that song,
plse let me know
what a good dancin' song)

csp

denisa,
Your roller skate key remined me of a song:
I got a brand new pair of rollerskates you got a brand new key.

Does anyone remember the song Windy?

VickiTN

Carrie - yep, I remember the song Windy - "....smiling at everybody she sees...everyone knows it's Windy"

How about "The Archies"? "Sugar, Sugar" ("Sugar...ahhh, honey, honey....you are my candy girl...and you got me lovin' you...")


vicki

wendyintx

Carrie,
Of course I remember "Windy."
I thought it was about me!! LOL!!

"Who's peeking out from under a stairway,
Calling a name that's lighter than air."

Would you like me to go on? I can almost remember what
song was on the flip side of that 45, but not quite.

This has been a fun thread to read.

I'm sure a lot of these have already been mentioned,
but here are some I remember:

Birth year: 1961

banana seats and baskets on bikes
lipstick candy, candy cigarettes, and big flat taffy (country store taffy?)
making gum wrapper chains from fruitstripe gum wrappers
frosty rootbeer

riding our bikes through the dense fog left by the bug man
as he rolled through the neighborhood spraying for bugs.

Dawn dolls and Kiddles!!

a few cartoons: Atom Ant, Johnny Quest, and
Klutch Cargo (& his pals Spinner and Paddlefoot)

baby oil and then Noxzema cold cream straight out of the
refrigerator on our sunburned bodies
(I was the coppertone kid!)

pantsuits (we couldn't wear jeans to school)
double-knit pantsuits
knee socks

body suits (that snapped in the crotch) worn with short skirts.

Brown suede clogs (back in style again - lol)
& white patent leather clogs, too!

Marsha Brady hair - long, straight, and stringy

thongs (the shoes, not the panties)

Black lights and black light posters

On that note, we had a saying (don't ask me why):
"Peace, love, incense, beads, and blacklight posters!"

First rock concert (in 3rd grade --agghh!!) - Grand Funk Railroad
(w/their back up band Bloodrock),
and then later that year -- Elton John just after the
"Madman Across the Water" album had come out. Awesome concert!!

I'll stop there for now.

Patti, thanks again for the thread.

Have a great weekend!

"Who's reaching out to capture a moment,
everyone knows it's....

Wendy

csp

And Wendy had stormy eyes.....
I loved that song , and here I thought it was about me because my Mom use to say "boy your windy"! *sigh*

Vickie I remember Archie too, and I think I had every Archie comic book there was.

My mother had kept all her childhood comic books and we use to sit for hours in the winter and read them.
Little LU-LU, Richie Rich, Superman, Dot,lil'Abner,Beetle Bailey.

Okay who ordered the sea monkeys come on fess up!!

Deese

Ahhhh, Kiddles! I loved my Kiddles! And Flatsy (Flatsy...Flatsy...She's flat and thats that...). Weebles wobble but they don't fall down.

Wow, I think better at 7:00 a.m. Who knew!

Denise

cowgirl

I remember a day I snuck out of Sunday School to go to Denny's! Woo hoo I pick a really swinging place don't I?
Okay I remember a few days like that!

I had a doll that cried until my cousin broke it! To this day we still talk about it, I had a doll and then you broke it!

denisa

OH! i always wanted those sea-monkeys and didn't get them...but i got to have them vicariously later on as my daughter actually had them. they come in their own little sea monkey container. (what? they don't have little crowns on their heads....? )

anybody order the X-ray vision glasses? or the puppy that fit in a tea cup?

- how about chinese jump-rope where you had a rope of all those rubberbands looped together, it went around the ankles of two people and the third did this intricate jumping thing....

-corsages made of dog-biscuits...

beachcottage

Denisa I forgot all about
clove and black jack gum...
and chinese jump rope yes that too!!

I remeber this gum

I think it was called violet scent gum? It looked like violet chicklets

Turkish taffy
lemon drops
Bubble gum in small white sacks..the sacks looked like miniature flour sack bags...I think it was called gold mine bubble gum..

sweet honesty perfume
heaven scent

The game mancala

Cowgirl I am lol...I found a diary journal
that belonged to my late dad
recently...My dad and a buddy were looking for an early recess from eighth grade..It was all plotted out in his diary....They captured a skunk (poor skunk)
placed it in a burlap bag and put it in their school locker...He did not say how much detention time they served or how they managed to bag the poor skunk without getting sprayed...
OMG the body suit with snap crotch..I forgot all about those also..LOL!

The Hollies
Bus stop, wet day, she's there, I say
Please share my umbrella
Bus stop, bus goes, she stays, love grows
Under my umbrella

xoxo
Patti

christineK

So many memories. We've been cleaning out my dad's house since his death, me and my brothers left so much "junk" there, full of memories.

I loved Sweet Honesty and Love's Baby Soft, remember Bonne Bell Skin (musk)and Earth Oils, Peach was my favorite scent, I had a bottle that broke and I think of it everytime I smell fake peach.

I had a "Beautiful Crissy" with beautiful hair that grows.
Named after me, of course.

Remember Mary Quant make up, I had this pot'o gloss. It was sooo sticky and thick.

"That Girl" with Marlo Thomas was one of my favorites. Friday nights with The Brady Bunch and The Partridge Family then staying up to Midnight to watch the Midnight Special. We threw David Cassidy a birthday party, in Oct
(I think) Of course, he knew nothing about it.

John Denver was my first concert, I was 12 or 13.
My second concert was Kiss, Bob Seger opened for them I was about 15.
That is a great topic of conversation, "What was your first concert and how old were you?"

Pegk

Boy, I didn't get to go to a concert until I got to college in 1970.
The bands that performed at my college were: the Beach Boys, Jethro Tull ("Aqualung"), the Chambers Brothers ("Time"... has come today), Van Morrison, America ("Horse With No Name")
Then, I also saw Poco at another local college, Led Zeppelin at Nassau Coliseum, David Bowie at Madison Square Garden)
Recently, I saw the Rolling Stones! They still rock! Which of today's bands will still be performing in 40 years?

Sierra

Patti:

do you mean the gum
THRILLS.. tasted like soap..

rather

LOL

csp

First concert - 14 Doobie brothers festival seating. Couldn't hear for at least 24 hrs after sat on the floor up front it was great!!
Christine, I had a crissy doll too !
Denisa, chinese jump rope, we would go to the notions dept. at kressges and buy long pieces of elastic to make it with.
okay now I can't quit singing-
I went through dessert on a horse with no name and it felt good to be out of the rain......

wendyintx

Recently, I bought the Journey Greatest Hits dvd for my dh.
(It was a bargain at Best Buy!)
We've had so much fun singing those old songs (from college days)
and laughing at the music videos, what they wore, etc.
There are even a few songs that have Randy Jackson (from AI)
playing the bass with his tall flat top and tight leather pants. Too funny!!

BTW, the only reason (i think) that I got to go to a concert at such a young age,
is that I had several older brothers and sisters that would take me.
I wonder now if my parents didn't make them take me? Hmmm.

One of my first "theater" movies:
Born Free

Sat on the front row
I cried and cried
embarassed my brother and sister

Have a good Saturday, everyone!!

"Come Saturday morning...." (ok, afternoon - lol)

Wendy

denisa

first official rock concert was Traffic.

patti- i remember that gum in the little flower sacks... and that ultra sweet bazooka bubble gum w/ the comic in it that i blame for single-handedly ruining my teeth!

the violet scented gum is actually called "violet scented gum"! it's made by c. howard co. and you can still get it in smokes-4-less. i know this because i still buy it sometimes! it does taste like soap.

remember sen-sen? that stuff reminds me of my father....

remember cousin brucey? remember alison steele, the night bird?

....singing into my hairbrush in the mirror and pretending i was Janis....