Remember When!!

L8Blmr

I'm with you ceanna - I miss my Reese's peanut butter cup eggs! They're the best.

I've been following this thread when I can - so much fun!

Happy Easter everyone!

JACK5IE

Spookie...my daughter loves stale Peeps!

Yogatyme

Remember when Easter was the only time you saw Peeps?

ruthbru

I just saw this on Facebook.....

ceanna

Oh, ruthbru, such cute pictures that remind so much of my growing up era!!

Those were the dresses and those scratchy crinolines!! It was so itchy to sit on a hard bench in church on Easter morning!!

flashlight

Remember when we read paperback books? I was just downloading a book on my kindle. I used to send my read books to my Mom in Vt and she would read it and pass it on. Or we would buy them for a dollar at the used book fairs.

ceanna

Hi flashlight. I still prefer to read fiction in paperback--I just find it more relaxing and not as taxing on my eyes to not look at screen. I do download non-fiction though.

Remember playing hopscotch--drawing out the boxes in chalk or in the dirt and finding just the right stone to toss!!

Yogatyme

How about those wooden paddles with the rubber ball attached by an elastic string. My brother and I use to have contests to see who could keep them going the longest without missing.

ceanna

That elastic could have lasted longer, but yes, I do remember them well!

Did everyone have a Barbie doll? I even had a Ken doll with "hair" not plastic hair!

Spookiesmom

yo-yos. And the “tricks” you could do, maybe. Without bonking yourself.

Spookiesmom

I had/still have, a Little Miss Revlon doll. Came out shortly before Barbie. After that Barbie doll came out, everybody thought it was cute to call ME Barbie. I hated it then, still do. Just call me Barb.

grammamuses

Remember Mrs. Beasley? No I didn't have her , my daughter did along with all the doll of the day whatever it happened to be. I had Bonnie Blue Eyes----the popular doll that was named after the little girl of Gone with The Wind. I was 5.

Aussie-Cat

I had a blonde Barbie doll in the 1970s and also a brunette doll called Cindy.

ruthbru

I had Barbie, Ken, their friends Midge & Allen, and Barbie's little sister, Skipper. I also had her Dream House and blue convertible. For awhile, during a breakup, Barbie dated my little brother's GI Joe. 😄

ceanna

Wow!! Barbie stepping out on Ken with GI Joe!!! LOL!!!

Remember watching Bonanza on Sunday nights!!! And Lassie!!! And the Smother's Brothers?!!

Yogatyme

And Ed Sullivan and The Wonderful World of Disney.

JACK5IE

Anyone have the Dawn dolls? I also had the Fashion Show and Beauty Pageant stages for them.

Beaverntx

Ok, since it was my sons who had GIJoe, anyone remember Betsy Wetsy?

bcincolorado

Mrs. Beasley the doll from Family Affair. Loved that doll.

ruthbru

Remember Paper Dolls?

grammamuses

Yes .paper dolls and cutting out clothes for them from catalogs--Sears, Pennys, and others. and drawing them and coloring them plus using fabric scraps. Hadn't thought of those in years.

Spookiesmom

Sears wish books. Mr Potato head, with a real potato you always forgot about.

Yogatyme

I found some paper dolls at T.J.MAXX @ Christmas several years ago. Bought them for an 8yo great niece....she was thrilled.

Aussie-Cat

Ruth, LOL! I had a pink Barbie townhouse and I think the pink car too. I also remember paper dolls.

ceanna, I remember watching Little House On The Prairie on Sunday nights.

bcincolorado, I remember the Mrs Beasley doll from Family Affair but I don't think they ever sold them in Australia.

flashlight

I never had a Barbie! I remember when my Mom dressed up with a hat to go to the grocery store. When people dressed up to go on an airline flight. Not wearing shoes all summer, playing badminton and croquet in the field, shucking beans with my Grandmom, and picking wild blueberries. Watching the Beverly Hillbillies, Walter Cronkite, Star Trek, and the Twilight Zone.

grammamuses

I remember the time before TV when radio was the thing. Listening to FDR and his fireside chats during WW2 and a variety of programs such as Amos and Andy, Fibber MeGee and Molly, Inner Sanctum--enough to scare the daylights out of me--and The Life Of Riley. No visuals, the imagination ran wild. We went to movies to see the news reels . We kids were not spared the gory details of the war, we went where our parents went, No one hired a babysitter. or very seldom. And yes, we kids played war, and we older ones were the Americans, the younger ones were the enemy. Yes we even played was at school.. Imagine how that would go over today.Wjen tv came along all those entertaining radio programs came to an end.

ruthbru

I remember dressing up our long-suffering cat in doll clothes and wheeling her around the neighborhood in a baby carriage.

MinusTwo

Oh my radio - yes to Amos and Andy, Fibber MeGee and Molly. How about The Lone Ranger or Sargent Preston of the Yukon?

I didn't mind being sick. I had to stay in my bed, but I had a radio right there for all those day time programs - Guiding Light, Helen Trent, Stella Dallas, Young Doctor Malone - and could spend the whole day with paper dolls.

My Mom made clay with flour & salt and water - long before PlayDoh - and would bring it up to my bed on a large breadboard with cookie cutters & old buttons and...

ceanna

Remember Angie and Eddie on the General Hospital soap opera? Quite tame by current standards but oh, my, quite scandalous back then!

Yogatyme

Remember Captain Kangaroo, Mr. Green Jeans and Grandfather Clock? My generations Mr. Rogers. Whenever I see the children’s book, Make Way For Ducklings, I think of that show.