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

Sierra

So glad you all found the way
to.. make the fortune teller

i must take a peek..

tks for all memories

Here comes BENNY!!!!

Patti.. are you there??

Hugs

VickiTN

Denise, yes, I do remember what you're describing. Can't think of what it was called though.

How about pogo sticks? Anyone remember those? I wasn't very good at hopping along on those.

I can play Heart and Soul in harmony, too!!!

hugs,
vicki

csp

Girl Scouts together that is our song
walking the high trails foggy and long
learning our motto living our creed
Girl scouts together in every good deed

Day is done
gone the sun
comes the moon
comes the stars
day is done
softly rest
God is nigh (sp?)
Goodnight Scouts


Drop out indeed hmph!

Hugs ~~ Carrie

normalcani

I found some great pics I think you guys will enjoy......








Hugs.......
Candi

sharon68

Candi....great pics

Denise....I remember that" ball on the rope thing" too,but can't think of the name...hmmmmm.

Vicki.....yep ..did the pogo stick! ...used a friends....was kind of afraid because we had heard that some little kid was jumping on one and it went through his throat...never knew if that was true or just a scarry rumor.

Ravdeb....Thin Mints my favorite, too...in fact just finished a whole box last week!

cowgirl

Okay my favorite shows were Red Skeleton and the Danny Kay show!

Deese

Great pictures Candi! Give me an old musical comedy any day! Or anything with Doris Day, Rock Hudson, Cary Grant, Debbie Reynolds, Bing Crosby or Fred Astair!



Cowgirl, I love Red and Danny.



Denise

csp

Love the pictures candi
I loved Red and Danny too cowgirl
I still like to watch
Jerry Lewis and Dean Martin movies
or the old musicals with the beautiful dresses
when women wore hats and gloves so pretty
I found a couple of pics I wanted to share with you




The tide pic makes me think of ringer washers
ironing the smell of starched shirts wetting
clothes on ironing day and keeping them in the refrigerator
the sprinkling bottle. Do you remember laundry day at your house? whew!

Hugs,
Carrie

VickiTN

Great pictures!

Yes, I loved Red Skelton, too! And, Jerry Lewis & Dean Martin...And, Woody Woodpecker! Loved to sing the Mouseketeer song!

I remember the sprinkling bottle and startched shirt smells of laundry day.....and the smell of sheets that had been dried by the fresh air on a clothes line. hmmmmm....that was a heavenly smell!

hugs,
vicki

wendyintx

Okay, I don't know if anyone is still reading this thread or not, but a good friend just sent me this list. I can relate to a lot of these. Forgive me, if it's already been posted before. Enjoy!

~ Wendy

IF YOU WERE A LITTLE GIRL IN THE 70s...

You had that Fisher Price Doctor's Kit with a stethoscope that actually worked.

You owned a bicycle with a banana seat and a plastic basket with flowers on it.

You learned to skate with actual skates.

You thought Gopher from Love Boat was cute (admit it!)

Love's Baby Soft was the first "real" perfume you ever owned

You had nightmares after watching Fantasy Island.

You had rubber boots for rainy days and Moon boots for snowy days.

You had either a "bowl cut" or "pixie," not to mention the "Dorothy Hamill" because your Mom was sick of braiding your hair.

Your Holly Hobby sleeping bag was your most prized possession.

You wore a poncho, gauchos, and knickers.

You begged Santa for the electronic game, Simon.

You had the Donnie and Marie dolls with those pink and purple satiny shredded outfits.

You spent hours in your backyard on your metal swing set with the trapeze. The swing set tipped over at least once.

You had homemade ribbon barrettes in every imaginable color.

You had a pair of Doctor Scholl's sandals (the ones with hard sole & the buckle).

You wanted to be Laura Ingalls Wilder really bad; you wore that little House on the Prairie-inspired plaid, ruffle shirt with the high neck in at least one school picture; and you despised Nellie Olson!

You wanted your first kiss to be at a roller rink.

Your hairstyle was described as having "wings" or "feathers."

You know who Strawberry Shortcake is, as well as her friends, Blueberry Muffin and Huckleberry Pie.

You carried a Muppets lunch box to school and it was metal, not plastic.

You and your girlfriends would fight over which of the Dukes of Hazzard was your boyfriend. (BO!!)

Every now and then "It's a Hard Knock Life" from the movie, "Annie" will pop into your brain and you can't stop singing it the whole day.

It was a big event in your household each year when the "Wizard of Oz" would come on TV.

You often asked your Magic-8 ball the question: "Who will I marry. Shaun Cassidy, Leif Garrett, or Rick Springfield?" (ohhhhh it was such an incredibly tough choice!)

You completely wore out your Grease, Saturday Night Fever, and Fame soundtrack cassettes.

You tried to do lots of arts and crafts, like yarn and Popsicle-stick God's eyes, decoupage, or those weird potholders made on a plastic loom.

You made Shrinky-Dinks and put iron-on kittens on your t-shirts!

You used to tape record songs off the radio by holding your portable tape player up to the speaker.

You couldn't wait to get the free animal poster that came when you ordered books from the Weekly Reader book club.

You learned everything you needed to know about girl issues from Judy Blume books (Are you there God, It's me, Margaret.)

You thought Olivia Newton John's song "Physical" was about aerobics.

You wore friendship pins on your tennis shoes, or shoelaces with heart or rainbow designs.

You had a Big Wheel with a brake on the side, and a Sit-n-Spin.

You had subscriptions to Dynamite and Tiger Beat.

Sierra

Candi.. that was GREAT!!!!!

I loved Frank....
LOL.. all that music
but I like all kinds of
music

tks again Gals

3 stooges anyone

Hugs

wendyintx

Sierra,
Oh, wiseguy! I loved 3 stooges!!

When my sil saw my bald head, she called me "Curly"
Then she called me "Kojak", but I said only if she gave me a lollipop.

My sil is older than me, but it mentally challenged and has the mind of a child - a 5 yr old. She's sweet and innocent and loves all of those old shows. Her favorite station now is the Game Show Network.

Remember Charles Nelson Reilly (sp?)? Match game?

Have a good weekend!

Wendy

wendyintx

Carrie,
Just saw your post about the sprinkling bottle. YES, I remember that!! We used a glass coke bottle that had a metal stopper w/holes in it.

Carrie & Candi - thx for the pics -- those are fun. My favorite musical was and still is Singin in the Rain!!

Denise - as for the ball on the rope, are you talking about the one with the paddle? it had the stretchy string with a rubber ball attached.

Just reminded me of "clackers" - one string, 2 glass-like balls and you let them hit together. I remember them getting "banned" from our school -- too dangerous!

~ Wendy

csp

Wendy,

oh my gosh those clackers lethal, but fun!



Densie I remember those you put the hoop around your ankle

it had a rope with a big plastic bell on the end of it and you skipped over it with your other foot it was skip-a -?



Do you remember

NameThatTune,Hollywood squares ,Dating game , Newlyweds,

Password

Sierra- Curly, Mo and Larry ,

more pics for you























hugs,

Carrie

csp

For Wendy ~



hugs,
Carrie

Sierra

Hi Wendy:

Ill be MOe.. LOL

Carrie .. love those px

alright .. anyone here remember
I'M SORRY BY BRENDA Lee??


night
bedtime for me.

rest well

cowgirl

That is one of my favorite Movies Wendy!!!

Oh of course Sierra! She is sooo tiny!

wendyintx

Carrie ~ Thanks for the pic, hon. My dear sweet hubby gave me the dvd for Christmas and it's wonderful!! It has tons of extras on it -- history of musicals, etc. It's somewhat like watching "That's Entertainment" - another great movie about great movies.

Sierra ~ yes, I know that song. Thank you - now I can't get it outta my head! lol

Oh, and I remember that rope around your ankle thingy. They still make them, but they are plastic now and are called "Skip Its". They even have a counter on them. My dd has one, although I wonder who used it more -- me or her?

I also remember those game shows. My mom was the best at Name That Tune. I also remember watching re-runs of the game show with Groucho Marx. There was a duck that would come down from the ceiling with the secret word. It had a mustache just like Groucho...."I'd horse around with ya if I had a horse."

Sweet dreams, all,
gotta go to bed

Wendy

ravdeb

I loved the Mickey Mouse Show and would watch it today if it were on! M-I-C...See ya real soon..........

Anyone play 7-up? It was a game we played with a ball...had to throw the ball against the wall of the house and do tricks and then catch the ball after one bounce. Was that really a game or did we make that up. I used to LOVE that game.

What was the name of the boy who was on a TV show in the jungle back in the 60's I think???? I had his poster on the door of my room...late 60's... must have been about 1968 or so.

And Sonny and Cher...I loved them as a couple...

ravdeb

VickiTN

Anyone remember "The Gong" show?

ravdeb - I do remember the 7-up game! Can't remember the jungle boy you're talking about, but, I did love Sonny and Cher as a couple, too.

Sierra - I LOVED the Three Stooges.....and The Little Rascals - Spanky, Alfalfa, (sp?)

The Wizard of Oz was the first movie I watched in color on t.v.

Wendy - our "sprinkler bottle" was the same thing - a glass Coke bottle with holes punched into the metal top.

Anyone ever make "buttons" out of bottle tops? Remove the cork from the bottle cap - and "snap" the cork and bottle cap together between the cloth of your shirt?

Our local movie theater had special Saturdays where the price of admission was a set number of Mountain Dew bottle caps.

hugs,
vicki

gsg

I LOVE THIS THREAD!!!!

born in 1956....minnesota.
traded in hotpants for hip-hugger bell bottoms.
wide belts hanging around our waists on the outside of sweaters...not through loops.
hair...long...straight...parted down the middle.
going braless...i was such a rebel
vomiting boonesfarm strawberry hill into the snow on the frozen river once. after that, i decided social drinking wasn't for me. lol.
moody blues and fleetwood mac..headsets...rocking chair and burning incense.
posters all over my bedroom walls...clothes all over my bedroom floor.
purse made out of old bluejeans
troll dolls

gsg

oh, 8-track tapes and driving around all night with my friends after putting a dollar's worth of gas into my girlfriend's beat-up old car.

gsg

one more thing....driving by "mark's" house just to see if his car was there. my heart would get all fluttery if it was. i had "mrs. mark ******" written all over my notebooks.

Pegk

I haven't checked here for several days. What a lot of catching up to do, but what fun!

I love the pictures!
I'm not sure what that ball on a string was called, but it reminded me of a game we used to play in the school yard.

We would put a pink Spaulding ball in one of our mother's old nylons and stand with our back to the school's brick wall. You would swing the ball back and forth to bounce it off the wall in different patterns such as
left, right, left, under the leg
or up, down, up, across

This was the ditty we sang:

Hello, hello, hello, Sir
Meet me at the grocer
No Sir
Why Sir
Because I have a cold Sir
Where'd you get the cold Sir
At the North Pole Sir
Whatcha doin' there Sir
Countin' polar bears Sir
How many didja count Sir
One Sir
Two Sir
Three Sir....
That's enough for me Sir

Speaking of nylons...
if you were born in the early 50's like I was, you'll remember "becoming a woman" with your first garter belt with those little rubber slidy things to hold up your stockings. How uncomfortable! and the embarrassment when one slipped off!
And the dreaded sanitary napkin belt to loop the long ends of the pads.
God bless the inventor of pantihose and adhesive pads!

Pegk

I started Junior High School in 1964 and graduated High School in 1970.

What amazing things were happening in the world then.



Here is some more stuff from my book.

1965

News:first combat troops arrive in Viet Nam

25,000 march in Washington to protest

Voting Rights Act of 1965 passes eliminating literacy tests

First commercial satellite put into orbit

Gemini program begins putting 2 man crews in space

Music:"Help", "Satisfaction", "Downtown", "Mr Tambourine Man", "Goldfinger

Grateful Dead begin performing in San Francisco

Books-"Dune", "Autobiography of Malcolm X"

Broadway-"Man of La Mancha"

Film-"Help", "Sound of Music" (Oscar)

TV-"F Troop", "I Dream of Jeannie", "Green Acres", "Get Smart", "I Spy"

(first time all the top shows are in color)

Firsts-Miniskirts, Apple Jacks



1966

News-Bombing of N. Viet Nam resumed

Roman Catholic Bishops rule that American Catholics may eat meat on Friday

Astronauts walk in space

Construction begins on the World Trade Center in NYC

Music-"Ballad of the Green Beret", "Good Vibrations", "Sounds of Silence"

Broadway-"Cabaret", "Sweet Charity", "Mame"

TV-"Monkees", "That Girl", "Batman", "Hollywood Squares"

Firsts-Tape Cartidges, Taster's Choice, Bac-Os, NOW



1967

News-Thurgood Marshall is first Black appointed to the Supreme Court

Israeli 6-Day War

US bombers raid Hanoi

Between 50 and 100 thousand hippies go to San Francisco

Dr. Cristian Barnard performs the 1st heart transplant in South Africa. (The patient lives 18 days)

Music-"San Francisco (Wear Some Flowers in Your Hair)", "Light My Fire", "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band"

Broadway-"You're a Good Man Charlie Brown"

Film-"Guess Who's Coming to Dinner"

TV-"Flying Nun", "Ironside", "Phil Donohue Show"

Firsts- SuperBowl-Green Bay 35-Kansas City 10

"Be-In" Golden Gate Park



1968

News-Viet Cong begin Tet offensive

Martin Luther King assissinated in Memphis

LBJ declares he will not run for reelection

Robert F. Kennedy assassinated in California

Major riots at Democratic convention in Chicago. Humphrey nominated

Astronauts circle moon 10 times

Amniocentesis is developed

Music-"Hey Jude", "Sitting on the Dock of the Bay"

Broadway-"Hair"

Film-"2001, A Space Odyssey", "Funny Girl", "Yellow Submarine", "Oliver" (Oscar)

TV-"Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In", "Mod Squad", "60 Minutes"

Firsts-Clinique Make-up, water beds, multi-color postage stamps



1969

News-First draft lottery held

Neil Armstrong is first man to walk on the moon

Music-"Honky Tonk woman", "Give Peace a Chance"

Woodstock Music Festival is held in Upstate NY

Broadway-"1976"

Film-"Easy Rider", "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid"

TV-"Brady Bunch", "Bill Cosby Show"

Firsts-Automatic teller in a bank (Chemical Bank, NY)

wendyintx

Vicki - I LOVED the Little Rascals! In fact, my family does the "HI sign" at various events, when we're across the room from each other. You rest your chin on your hand, palm down, fingers pointing outward, and then you wiggle your fingers. We do this at choir performances, band performances, you name it! So far, it doesn't embarrass the kids too much.

The Wizard of Oz was my first color tv movie, too. It was an annual family movie watching event!!

As for going to the movies, I remember when we got a 25 cent coupon from school to use at the movies on Saturday. 25 cents won't hardly buy anything nowadays. My first movie in the theater - Born Free

gsg - talking about having "Mrs. Mark" written everywhere reminded me of my sister. She had a major crush on a guy with the initials "RC". Our window sill was stacked with empty (and hopefully washed out) RC Cola cans!

Peg - thanks for all those "firsts". Those were fun to read. I loved the Brady Bunch!

Anonymous

Tawyna I probably watched your mom on bandstand and still remember many names of the first regulars.

csp

Peg- I love your new Avatar! Thanks for the first list, oh jeez those stupid sanatary napkin belts, and the pads were so big and thick, torture!



gsg - I remember my first love he was 18, a carpenter,drove

a chevy van and had a german shepard named Lady that went almost every where with us. lol



We use to have day at the local theatre that you could get in for a can good and .50 I miss real butter on popcorn,

I know,I know but was that good with chocolate candy

the whole buttery, chocolate salty thing- mmmm can you tell I'm dieting?



The early Our Gang ~





and later The little Rascles~









hugs,

Carrie

VickiTN

Oh, yes, I certainly do remember those awful garter belts and sanitary belts! And, I remember being so embarrassed at times when the tops of my hose and garter snaps would show - guess my skirts were too short!

Wendy - that's so funny about your family doing the "HI" sign...

Anyone remember the Beechnut gum jingle? "Yikes, Stripes, Beechnut gum"? I still say this all the time and the younger folks look at me like I'm crazy!

hugs,
vicki

beachcottage

Great pictures!!!!!!!!!!

Oh those garter belts
and sanitary belts..
they were the pits!

Makes me think of my
little day of the week
underwear

I remember my lucky rabbits foot
did anyone else have one?

I remember my dad taking
us to The 1964 Worlds Fair..I was seven
I loved small world

Ok this is bad
ordering pizza and having
it delivered to neighbors house

Toilet papering
the tree at school

Remember when stores
including grocery stores
were closed on Sunday..Blue Laws

I remember Sandra Dee and the movie summer place
and loving the theme song

Cheech and Chong

xoxo
Patti