Middle Aged Memories

luvmygoats

I just love to put on Top Tracks on YouTube and just let it run. Have CD's galore but not much else techno music wise. So I'll just put on Ed Ames, Kevin Kern (easy listening piano music), Robert Goulet or Glen Campbell and let them play thru while here on net or even while reading.

Meece

Bonanza is on in the afternoon around here.

I remember my brother and I going into our coat closet and crunching Wint-O-Green Lifesavers and watching "sparks" fly.

NativeMainer

Night Gallery, that
was is!!!!!!!Thanks El!

I do remember the
NBC Mystery Movie, loved McCloud.My mom
likes McMillion and Wife better.

I remember Medical
Center, too, and had the usual crush on Chad Everett.Wonder where he is today?

Which reminds me of
Marcus Welby, MD.What was the young
doc's name?

elimar86861

Pretty sure Columbo was one of the NBC Mystery Movies, but I also seem to remember Quincy being one them.  

I loved Night Gallery.  I still remember my favorite episode where John Carradine tells some young boys where to dig for a treasure.  They go at night, of course, and "Surprise" (name of the episode,) they end up digging Carradine out of the ground.  That was one creepy dude.

Sorry if that was a spoiler to anyone who might ever watch the old series.

Anonymous

Marcus Welby: James Brolin's character -  Stephen Kiley?

NativeMainer

Yes!  Stephen Kiley.  Rode a motorcycle.  

Night Gallery was very creepy at times.  I used to watch it just before going to bed on the weekends.  It's a wonder I didn't have nightmares all the time! 

Meece

I am susceptible to nightmares/night terrors so I have to be careful what I watch before going to bed.

Anonymous

elimar86861

LOL!  Those old phone could take the abuse too.

NativeMainer

Anonymous

Sad thing is, I had one of theses!

elimar86861

So did MY BARBIE.  Ahahahahahaha! 

heartnsoul76

Aww, I had one of these:

My 87 year-old mother has had such a hard time with these new-fangled phones that I bought her a tan princess phone.  Not a million buttons to push!  You can still find them on eBay from $50 - $300!

heartnsoul76

I loved Night Gallery, too.  Rod Serling was great - too bad he died so young.

I still love the old series McMillan & Wife, Quincy ME and Columbo plus Twilight Zone/Night Gallery. And I still watch them on Netflix.  If you're bored you can stream them whenever you want them. Everybody seems to love Monk, but he's basically a newer version of Columbo and I like Columbo better.  There was another part of the NBC Mystery Movies that starred Dennis Weaver - anybody remember that one? Was that show on Sunday nights?  We used to watch them with my father and he was always home Sunday nights.

heartnsoul76

Whoops, forgot something else about the joys of slamming the phone down.  If you were REALLY mad, did you ever slam it down over and over?  Hahaha!  That always helped! 

luvmygoats

Seems like I slammed it down on my finger once or twice.

NativeMainer

Dennis weaver, I remember that one.  What was the name of that show? ? ? Aha--McCloud!  

Eph3_12

I never had a princess pink phone & I didn't have any Barbies so I just had to make do with the rotary phone in my mom&dad's room if I wanted to call on the sly.  Ah-phone pranking!

Anonymous

hoping this posts correctly

Dang it, it's animated till I post it here (from my iPad). Will try to post from the Mac later and we'll see if it fixes that

Meece

We had two phones in our house.  The one in my parent's room looked like this:

It was super heavy and you couldn't perch it on your shoulder because of the ridge on the handset.  Kept our "private" calls short.

NativeMainer

This is the phone we had, it was in the kitchen, no such think as a "private" call! 

NativeMainer

Remember these guys? 

elimar86861

Not too much, only watched about the same as I watched Sky King.

I was really more of a Flipper kind of gal...  

Eph3_12

I LOVED Sky King!

NativeMainer

I
don’t remember Skin King, but have heard about it.Do remember Flipper, though!

Loved this one: 

Remember the guy with the imaginary office, with the imaginary door and walls?  

This was one of my favs, too: 

elimar86861

Oh, yes!  Liked Time Tunnel.  Gotta love the "swirl machine," back when special effects cost like $25. 

So, you know I am in the midst of my World Cup viewing right now.  Couldn't help but remember Pele.

While we are at it, have to remember when the sport shorts were short.  Watched a few games of the NBA Final that just finished up.  So funny to look at the photos from back in the 70's now.  Their uniforms were like hot pants!  Ooh, la la! 

Eph3_12

Oh my, Larry Bird's a baby here!

NativeMainer

Sports shorts sure were sure, I notice that every time I see an older picture. Seems like the cheerleaders were more covered up and the players less so, over time it looks like things have reveresed! 

elimar86861

Too true, NM!

Also, look at those basketball shoes.  It the era where they are a notch above Converse All Stars, but not yet AIR anything.  I can imagine the shin splints.  

I think it was around that time that Gatorade first came out.  Back then, it was something that I would see the pro teams have in a big water jug on T.V.  I don't think I even tasted it as a kid, even tho' I was on a few sport teams.  Was is too expensive for our mom's to buy, or had it not yet gotten the mega marketing that now has shelves and shelves of it in the stores?

Eph3_12

I personally think the original stuff tasted nasty, probably because I wasn't a sportster!

BORN IN THE LAB

In early summer of 1965, a University of Florida assistant coach sat down with a team of university physicians and asked them to determine why so many of his players were being affected by heat and heat related illnesses.

The researchers — Dr. Robert Cade, Dr. Dana Shires, Dr. H. James Free and Dr. Alejandro de Quesada — soon discovered two key factors that were causing the Gator players to 'wilt': the fluids and electrolytes the players lost through sweat were not being replaced, and the large amounts of carbohydrates the players' bodies used for energy were not being replenished.

The researchers then took their findings into the lab, and scientifically formulated a new, precisely balanced carbohydrate-electrolyte beverage that would adequately replace the key components lost by Gator players through sweating and exercise. They called their concoction ‘Gatorade'.

PROVEN ON THE FIELD

Soon after the researchers introduced their Gatorade formula to the team, the Gators began winning… outlasting a number of heavily favored opponents in the withering heat and finishing the season at 7–4.

The team's success progressed even more during the 1966 season, with the Gators finishing at 9–2 and winning the Orange Bowl for the first time ever in the history of the school. Word about Gatorade began to spread outside of the state of Florida, and both the University of Richmond and Miami of Ohio, began ordering batches of Gatorade for their football teams. Orders from other college football programs across the country soon followed, as playing without Gatorade on your sidelines began to be likened to playing with just ten men on the field.

Today, Gatorade can be found on the sidelines of more than 70 Division I colleges as the official sports drink of their men's and women's intercollegiate sports.