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  • Ivylane
    Ivylane Member Posts: 544
    edited November 2008

    Tommy James and the Shondells...

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

    Crimson and clover, over and over. . . ivylane, I can always relate to your posts. I graduated from high school in 1971 - what about you?

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  • Ivylane
    Ivylane Member Posts: 544
    edited November 2008

    1970

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  • Mary-Lou
    Mary-Lou Member Posts: 2,230
    edited November 2008

    I remember watching gun-smoke and eating popcorn with Lawrence Welk on Saturday night. Oh, I forgot about Hee Haw LOL!

    And I even danced with them on soul train......I was good for a white kid....Cool

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  • Ivylane
    Ivylane Member Posts: 544
    edited November 2008

    I remember as a very young girl in Toronto that the "milkman" came to the door and left glass bottles of milk and took away the empties.

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

    Yes...milk bottles being delivered...and the cream that would float at the top that my siblings would fight over! I wonder how long the milk would be left unrefrigerated if we weren't at home? Also, my aunt still had ICE delivered, as she had an "icebox", not a refrigerator. Progress IS good!!!

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  • abinneb
    abinneb Member Posts: 550
    edited December 2008

    One year I got a set of paper dolls that was really fun!   >>>>>sigh<<<<<<< simple pleasures...

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  • Texgirl
    Texgirl Member Posts: 211
    edited December 2008

    pick-up-sticks, mini 6 packs of wax bottles with a drink inside, my Chatty Cathy and my beloved "Revlon" doll..playing outside all day till supper/dark..pin curls..............going to sleep with the front door wide open and just the screen door closed

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

    Speaking of paper dolls - My mom used to get McCall's magazine and I would cut out the Betsy McCall paperdoll and her wardrobe every month. I even glued it on a piece of cardboard so it wouldn't tear so easily.

    Simple pleasures indeed!

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  • gymgirl
    gymgirl Member Posts: 121
    edited December 2008

    How about roller skates that clamped on your shoes with the key, skating in the street and using clothes pins to attach playing cards to your bike spokes to make noise? Did you watch the Beatles on the Ed Sullivan Show? My daughters can't believe I wore a garter belt and stockings before pantyhose was invented.

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

    suemed8749, YES...I remember those paper dolls! It was so neat to get that from the magazine. And gymgirl, the clothes pins on playing cards to the bike spokes brought back memories too!

    We had live Christmas trees, and the tree holders were so small that we had to refill the water every day....and the large colored bulbs on the christmas lights would get so hot, you'd have to watch how close the ornaments were placed. Remember tinsel? And trying to get as much of it off the tree as you could, before disposing of the tree. Then they came out with those silver imitation trees....so strange looking, but my neighbors got one and I thought it looked "cool".

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  • Ivylane
    Ivylane Member Posts: 544
    edited December 2008

    Rmember those little booklets that had what I can only describe now as "plastic window decals", but they were wardrobe pieces and shoes and accessories that you peeled off and dressed the doll in the book?

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

    That sound alot like colorforms.

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  • footprintsangel
    footprintsangel Member Posts: 43,890
    edited February 2009

    I remember stopping the Popsicle man to get ice cream cone for 10 cents

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  • Texgirl
    Texgirl Member Posts: 211
    edited February 2009

    The luxury of being able to roam the neighborhood .."till dark.or supper " which ever came first

    stilts

    Chatty Cathy

    my Revlon Doll

    going to sleep at night with only a screen door..and it wasn't locked

    real cherry cokes

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  • honeygirl
    honeygirl Member Posts: 1,718
    edited February 2009

    I love this thread! OK , colorforms , glitter paints , my Suzie Smart doll , Betty's beauty palor-a doll with the palor chair and dryer! Ben Casey doll , Tressy doll , Thumbelina doll , Bewitched doll , Heidi doll-very small came in a case , you pressed her button and she waved hi! Loved my dolls.lol Remember the game "Mystery Date" that was so fun ,except I always got the dud!

    Captain Penny , Frans the toy maker , Capt. Kangaroo , Beany and Cecil , Johnny Quest , The Bowery Boys , Roy Rogers , Route 66 , Honey West , Batman , Oh yeah , how about "Nosey books?!

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  • darsura
    darsura Member Posts: 71
    edited February 2009

    Yes - The Wizard of Oz was on once a year!  We didn't have a color TV, so I never knew (for years at least) the difference when the house landed in OZ.  And my mother made popcorn and served grape juice, which was such a treat for us!

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  • footprintsangel
    footprintsangel Member Posts: 43,890
    edited February 2009

    Sheri Lewis and the lamb puppet

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  • abinneb
    abinneb Member Posts: 550
    edited February 2009

    Lamb Chop!!!  I got one with a Christmas hat a few years ago.  I put him out every Christmas - I loved Lamb Chop!

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  • GramE
    GramE Member Posts: 5,056
    edited February 2009

    I had a Flash Gordon lunch box with matching thermos. 

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  • abinneb
    abinneb Member Posts: 550
    edited February 2009

    How about phones with party lines?  I also remember my mom contacting the operator to get a call through to Boston. The operator had to call her back when it was available!  And I remember all our phone numbers started with a word prefix - I think ours was Liberty 9-3210 (which would be 549-3210).  I remember answering the phone with the last 4 digits!   Oh my - such a long time ago!

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  • footprintsangel
    footprintsangel Member Posts: 43,890
    edited February 2009

    How about Bazzoca? Bubble gum and you saved the comics to get free toys

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  • GramE
    GramE Member Posts: 5,056
    edited February 2009

    Anyone mention Howdy Doody?   Clarabelle, Buffalo Bob, Flubadub, Mr. Bluster, Princess Winter Fall Summer Spring and the Peanut Gallery.   Or all of you much younger???   

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  • EWB
    EWB Member Posts: 2,927
    edited February 2009

    Capt Kangaroo, Mr Green Jeans, ping pong ball tricks?

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  • footprintsangel
    footprintsangel Member Posts: 43,890
    edited February 2009

    American band stand

    The little rascals

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  • GramE
    GramE Member Posts: 5,056
    edited February 2009

    S & H Green Stamps. 

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  • Sierra
    Sierra Member Posts: 1,638
    edited March 2009

    I just saw gum

    does anyone here remember that horrid

    Thrills Gum??

    and double bubble.

    Sierra :)

    bolo bats

    and..

    did anyone here ever play hard ball

    against the wall

    think it goes: Onesies

    twosies and so on..

    that goes away back LOL

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  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Member Posts: 1,376
    edited March 2009

    Thrills Gum! MMMMM......tastes like soap!

    How about a skip it.......that plastic ankle hoop with a length of skipping rope and bell on the end???? Yoyo"s anyone???

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  • Sierra
    Sierra Member Posts: 1,638
    edited March 2009

    Yes I know about the YO YO's

    some with lights NO??

    what about moccasins

    dont spose any here would remember the

    Brotherhood Jackets.. they were in Toronto

    Hugs, Sierra

    blackballs LOL

    and those toffee cones

    that tear out the fillings

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  • mizbabygirl4
    mizbabygirl4 Member Posts: 163
    edited March 2009

    Remember Dancing Bear on Kaptain Kangaroo--and how he (the Kaptain) would read a children's book aloud into the cameras--and how he always had puppies or kittens. (I spenta lot of time watching KK.)

    Janet

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