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  • lvtwoqlt
    lvtwoqlt Member Posts: 6,162
    edited November 2008

    ivylane - what do you mean about remember the outside tv antenna and turning it to get the channel you want to watch? I do that now! 

    the UGLY gym uniforms for gym class at school!

    Speaking of school, getting sent to the principals office when you misbehaved at school and getting a spanking there and another one when you got home!

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  • rumoret
    rumoret Member Posts: 685
    edited November 2008

    Petty-Pants (lacy bloomers little girls in the 60's wore under their dresses). White GO-GO BOOTS (Those Boots Were Made for Walking??) Bee-hive hair.

    Terry 

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  • Ivylane
    Ivylane Member Posts: 544
    edited November 2008

    how about wax lips!

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  • Ivylane
    Ivylane Member Posts: 544
    edited November 2008

    Terry:  I never got Go-Go boots, my parents said they weren't PRACTICAL....some day I'll get over  that disappointment!

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  • rumoret
    rumoret Member Posts: 685
    edited November 2008

    Those Go-Go Boots weren't PRACTICAL......but I sure felt good wearing themCool

    Love,

    Terry 

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  • faithandfifty
    faithandfifty Member Posts: 10,007
    edited November 2008

    "Red Rover, Red Rover send ________ right over."

    (Then holding on for dear might and nearly breaking your wrist as someone came crashing thru.)

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  • mzmiller99
    mzmiller99 Member Posts: 894
    edited November 2008

    OMG - Dark Shadows!!!  I do remember that! 

    Not quite the same as "Cecile, the Seasick Sea Serpent", but very good. 

    Oh, tell me someone else remembers Cecile!  I believe we were living near Boston when that show was on and it was 50's, not 60's!!  I'm an old boomer!

    Susan

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  • Ivylane
    Ivylane Member Posts: 544
    edited November 2008

    Double Dutch Jump Rope

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  • RIV54
    RIV54 Member Posts: 359
    edited November 2008

    Spin and Marty,

    78 RPM vinyl records,

    Bertie the Bunyip, Sir Guy d'Guy, Fussie and Gussie

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  • wahine
    wahine Member Posts: 8,231
    edited November 2008

    Hi Susan, Yeah, Cecile the Seasick Serpent sounds familiar...but I am also thinking of "Beanie and Cecile"...Beanie was the little boy and Cecile was his friend the serpent....am I remembering correctly? Talk about going down memory lane!!

    Someone mentioned "fizzies" a few posts earlier...I sure liked the root beer flavor! But I hated the colored metal "glasses" we drank from sometimes.

    I remember riding in the back seat of my friends car with her dad driving, and 3 of us little girls in the huge back seat...and sliding back and forth everytime he went around a curve...with lots of room left on the seat. Days of large cars and cheap gas....

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  • Ivylane
    Ivylane Member Posts: 544
    edited November 2008

    Car radios with only an AM station and you had to push the buttons to change them

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  • Lucy47
    Lucy47 Member Posts: 183
    edited November 2008

    How about watching the Ed Sullivan show....that was a big one for us on Sunday nights.

    ivylane....I remember the once a year wizard of oz, I loved it but I also was scared of the witch and the flying monkeys. 

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  • susan_CNY
    susan_CNY Member Posts: 276
    edited November 2008
    invention of pantyhose was a great thing, girdles and garters were torture Smile
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  • mzmiller99
    mzmiller99 Member Posts: 894
    edited November 2008

    Rumoret and susan_cny - Old lady underpants, then girdle with garters, then stockings, then pettipants, and then the big honking sanitary pad with belt!!  How did we do it??

    wahine - Yes, Beanie and Cecile!!

    Groucho Marx and "You Bet Your LIfe".  I was in love with George Fenneman, the announcer!

    Susan

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  • Daffodil
    Daffodil Member Posts: 829
    edited November 2008

    YellowRose: David Selby, who played Quentin Collins, married one of the beauties from my women's college~~~they are still married! He has recently reprised the role of Quentin Collins for a new series of Dark Shadows audio dramas from Big Finish Productions.

    My mother and I lived for Sunday nights and Loretta's grand entrance in her
    Dan Werle gowns. (At my son's wedding in a small, picture-book chapel , an older friend said that when they opened the doors,I sailed in like Loretta Young.Wink)

    Wax lips; I think you chewed them?

    Black Jack chewing gum; it was flavored with licorice.

    Dyed-to-match sweaters and straight skirts.

    Cheerleaders wore corduroy knee-length circle skirts and letter sweaters for b-ball; wool skirts and heavy sweaters for football.

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  • yellowrose
    yellowrose Member Posts: 886
    edited April 2009

    We called those pants "elephant bells"  I had a pair so big that a few years later I cut them apart and had enough material to make a skirt from the bell portion!  I just about killed myself a couple of times when the bell got caught in my bike chain!  Surprised

    Girls sports were different, too.  In my school girls played 1/2 court basketball because someone thought we couldn't handle full-court.  Girls weren't allowed to take carpentry or auto shop and boys weren't allowed to take home-ec. 

    Did anyone else have a main street where everyone cruised (like in American Grafitti)?  We called it "dragging Polk street."  We were soooo cool. Cool

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  • kjbell
    kjbell Member Posts: 974
    edited November 2008

    Watching "Love American Style" and Chad Everett on "Medical Center"

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  • vicliz
    vicliz Member Posts: 159
    edited November 2008

    Trolls with the wild hair and Rock Hudson and Doris Day movies!

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  • suemed8749
    suemed8749 Member Posts: 1,151
    edited November 2008

    The original, dark-green Herbal Essence shampoo - I can still remember that smell.

    Being crazy in love with Paul Revere and the Raiders.

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  • Ivylane
    Ivylane Member Posts: 544
    edited November 2008

    OMG...Loved Chad Everett...is he still alive???

    I remember the Trolls dolls....Loved Rock Hudsin and Doris Day

    Remember the movie "Where the Boys Are"?  I think it was with Annette Funicello and Troy Donahue.. 

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  • Ivylane
    Ivylane Member Posts: 544
    edited November 2008

    I meant HUDSON...sorry for the typo

    Remember "Heaven Scent" perfume? 

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  • suemed8749
    suemed8749 Member Posts: 1,151
    edited November 2008

    Yes! I loved Heaven Scent! My husband couldn't tell you ANY perfume that I've worn in the last 30 years, but he certain recalls "Ambush" from junior high - there's a story there, I'm sure!

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  • suemed8749
    suemed8749 Member Posts: 1,151
    edited November 2008

    Yes! I loved Heaven Scent! My husband couldn't tell you ANY perfume that I've worn in the last 30 years, but he certain recalls "Ambush" from junior high - there's a story there, I'm sure!

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  • Ivylane
    Ivylane Member Posts: 544
    edited November 2008

    Ambush!  I can STILL smell that.....

    How about Dirndle skirts with matching "villager" sweaters (may have been a regional thing, I was a CT girl 

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  • suemed8749
    suemed8749 Member Posts: 1,151
    edited November 2008

    Bobbie Brooks in Illinois - plaid wool skirts or kilts with the giant safety pin. I used to roll up the waistband when I got to school to make my short skirts into super minis.

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  • spar2
    spar2 Member Posts: 6,827
    edited November 2008

    banana bike for a penny

    taboo perfume, which i still like

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  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Member Posts: 1,376
    edited November 2008

    Not to mention all those fabulous rock bands we grew up with! The days of true rock n" roll! Some of them are still as great now as they were then! One of my faves.......THE GUESS WHO........I still love them and would see them any chance I get!

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  • Daffodil
    Daffodil Member Posts: 829
    edited November 2008

    We "circled Finley's", a real drive-in with curb service.....

    "White Shoulders"~~~my father said the scent was "suggestive"Wink

    Shirt dresses, Pappagallo flats~~~

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  • mzmiller99
    mzmiller99 Member Posts: 894
    edited November 2008

    OMG - yes!!  Wool kilts and matching sweaters and white button-down Ship and Shore blouses!  And being sent home from school for too short skirts!!

    And, I'm sorry to say, cat-eye glasses and bouffants.  Sandra Dee, eat your heart out!!

    Fabian

    Ricky Nelson

    Penny loafers

    Old Spice

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  • ihatesnowihatesnow
    ihatesnowihatesnow Member Posts: 859
    edited November 2008

    i have one ..you can still buy them

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