Middle Aged Memories

elimar86861

Yes, to the white stick, Meece.

The Dawn doll had some serious eyeliner!

I mentioned those wax lips on another thread, but also here are the "wax bottles" otherwise known as Nik-L-Nips.  Classic!

                            

Don't you just remember the flavors of these things?  Nothing else tasted quite like them.

MinusTwo

We raided my Mom's jello boxes - poured the 'powder' in our palms & licked.  No cost thrills.

elimar86861

Even to this day, I like to take a sip of warm jello.  Remember Jello 1-2-3?  When I made it, I would tilt the glass too so the layers made a diagonal...a fancy dessert made by a ten-year-old.

                                                              

luvmygoats

Eli- I loved that 1-2-3 jello. The middle layer was delish.

Never heard of Dawn the doll. It might have been just a little after my youngsterhood.

Oh yes, Minus Two, I was a jello powder eater too. Though again I don't remember Lik-m-aid but do remember the wax bottles but not the name.

You've got me googling food not made anymore. Yes that is a google term and looks like fun when I have time.

Think bed is calling.

Meece

You are right, Eli~  nothing tasted quite like the fluid filled wax.

My Dawn doll quickly went by the wayside since I had Barbies and she was not the right size to interact with them and I only had the outfit she came in.  What fun is that?

lpc

Good morning ladies



I am fairly new here but am really enjoying these posts. Does anyone remember space sticks? Astronaut food from the 70's? No one seems to remember them. Had to google to make sure I wasn't making it up.

dutchgirl6

I remember those, lpc. They came out the year of the lunar landing.  They had the texture of, and tasted like, fudge.

luvmygoats

I vaguely remember these but don't think I ever ate one. Wikipedia says made by Pillsbury in the late 1960s so I may have just been a little too old (graduted HS 1970). I don't think my mom would have bought them. According to "Old Time Candy" it is still made. This is a fun site if you ever want to waste some time. Also try food not made anymore without quotes.

Meece - there are evidently Dawn doll collectors.

I still need to go back and read pages 1-50. Sigh, one of these days.

elimar86861

dutchgirl6, well, only if the fudge was mixed with a new space-age polymer.  Another of those one-of-a-kind flavors.  We've mentioned them before on this thread.  I might be the only one, but I think the closest thing to the way the Space Food Stick texture was, are these "Bull's Eyes" that you can still find today, and the caramel sticks even tasted similar.

                                                

jankc

I've had so much fun  looking at this thread the past couple of years!

Santa left these stylish beauties under the tree in the early 60's...

jankc

One more- A Barbie and Ken "album" from the early 60's that my younger sisters and I would sing to after we argued about who got to be Barbie, who had to be Ken, and who the background singers would be... 

"I learned how to read a book, I learned how to write a letter, but nobody taught me how to fall in love...(We were 8 and younger and had no idea what we were even singing about!) 

elimar86861

Oh. My. God.  jankc, THOSE ARE THE WIGS!  And back me up on this...the plastic was not all that soft so when they came out of the box they might have a fold or bend in them and when you actually put one of them on your head would always look slightly mishapen.  I don't know what Children Of The Corn those wigs were made for, but they were not human children!

NativeMainer

I do remember these, they were a treat in my house for a short time. 

I remember the Jello 1-2-3, too! 

And Shake-a-Pudding:

Meece

I thought the Space Food Sticks reminded me of Tootsie Rolls.  I just remember how tiny they were when they came out of the pouch.

NativeMainer

Yeah, they were pretty small, weren't they? 

Meece

Yesterday my mother and I were going through a box of stuff from my great aunt who will be 100 in 4 months. There were dozens of dress patterns and crochet patterns from the 40s and 50s.  I cannot remember when it cost only .15 for a dress pattern.  I bought some on a special sale the other day for $1 each but their envelopes showed prices from 14.95 on up.

msphil

hot pants, I still have pictures of mine, and rabbit fur coats, go go boots, msphil(idc stage 2,3 nodes, L mast chemo and rads and 5 yrs on Tamoxifen) God Bless Us All 

NativeMainer

luvmygoats

NM - self portrait or relative? I don't think I had the go go boots so much but did have "some" hot pants. I thought I was soooo big then and shouldn't wear them. Now this was college, Texas, in the summers. You've made me want to dig out my pictures. I have to find that dorm room photo with the posters.

elimar86861

I remember the waist length rabbit fur jackets.  If you still had it after a couple winters, it started to "moult."

                                                     

luvmygoats

I have a rabbit fur jacket my mom made for my Barbie out of something I had. Again, making me want to dig in my storage closet. Naughty girls.

Anyone have a cardboard Barbie dream house? I don't remember mine having so much furniture.

On another note one of my favorite movies is on today "Magnificient Obsession" with Rock Hudson.

Meece

I had a rabbit fur jacket that was reversible.  One side the body was fur and the arms a different fabric, the other side was reversed.  The upside, it looked like I had two jackets, thed down side was that I got rabbit fur all over whatever I was wearing.

elimar86861

I've never been much for coloring my hair.  I did use Sun-In, of course...who didn't; but I just thought of that old temporary hair color/rinse Roux Fanci Full.  I tried some "auburn" shade and got something on the orange side (way before orange was a fashion statement and only Bozo had it) and later I successfully used the blackest one they had one Halloween when I was Lily Munster.

                                                         

Meece

I never colored my hair until I was 26, so I don't remember that one.  My sister used Sun In a lot.  I mean she stayed a blonde from the time that product came on the market until this day, although once she was out on her own, Sun In was out and bottle blonde was in.  I've never seen my sister as the brunette she actually is since I was a child.

elimar86861

When I was a kid, Parks & Rec did a summer program at my school right down the block.  Besides the usual lanyards and bead necklaces, we also painted a lot of ceramic placques...horses, dogs, birds, clowns, cherries.  A devil with two glowing rhinestone eyes was somewhat popular.  I also remember when these placques invariably broke, you would be left with some good sidewalk chalk.

We played a version of handball on the school ledge with a red "dodgeball" that was so much fun, even tho' it usually resulted in skinned knuckles and knees.  We were also small enough(*) to walk half way around the school on those ledges, hugging the wall, with the real danger being the bushes you could fall into at some points.  There was the summer softball league.  I played an age up and I was a short stop til an older girl bumped me to 2B.  We were champs one year and I remember the badass attitude we brought to the opponents' field.  Also, I remember jammming nine girls into one car to get to a game once and the radio was playing "Journey to the Center of The Mind."  When we returned, sweaty and victorious, there might be a fire hydrant "street shower" going on, so we went in clothes and all.

With my parents working, the school was a summer hangout for me.  Sometimes I wish my kids could have experienced how I spent my summer vacation.

(*) Once you got need for even so much as a training bra this became impossibe as you could not get close enough to the wall.

Meece

lol!  I could have scooted around their until I was a Sophomore!

elimar86861

Oh how it grieves me that this thread has long spells of inactivity.  Oh people living in the here and now, I await your dementia when the memories of your youth become clear as day and yet you forget whether it rained yesterday or not, forget what you ate for breakfast.  Here is my latest recollection:

                                      

Does it even work?  Who knows?  You can scoff, but these things are still available for ~$100.  You're gonna buy one now, right?

jankc

Elimar, your post cracks me up!

I don't remember a Flowbee around the house, but it must have been a winner because that little kid in the pictures gave himself a great Beatle cut...

elimar86861

I think you might be on to something.

                                                        

jankc

Elimar, like button!  Paul was soooo cute (back then...lol).