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Crying over Lassie episodes

I vaguely rememebr Fuzzy Wuzzy Soap.  We didn't get much stuff like that when I was young.  My grandmother got us bubble bath in the figures of cartoon characters.  They were about 10 inches tall.  When they were empty she glued their heads on them and were used them as toys.  I remember Porky and Petunia Pig, Mickey and Minnie Mouse and Bullwinkle.

   I have been sharing memories from the good old days on another post and just saw this one.  Yes, I remember pogo sticks .  My sister got one for her birthday, but I was actually quite good at it....also was good with the hulahoop. We used to play a lot of jacks.  And I loved Ambush by Dana and Yardley and Mary Quant..  I think I liked Lady Bug better than villager because of the cute little pin you got.  I didn't like Black Jack gum so much, but loved  Teaberry and Juicy Fruit.  Remember how they used to make chains with the gumwrappers? And they came out with those hospital shirts because Ben Casey and Dr.Kildare made them so popular.

I saw those also in a magazine and saved it to show one of my girlfriends since she and I used to make those chains all the time. On the plane back from TX when I went to MD Anderson I had her show me how to make them again and we did a few on the plane, but they didn't look all that great.  I think the paper they use now for wrappers is not the same...or maybe it is the fact our fingers do not have as much dexterity. Remember Sit upons (sp)?  We made them at girlscout camp out of newpaper and then would have something to sit on other than the hard ground around the campfire? 

The late, great Soupy Sales, who was on Channel 5 in NY when we all got home from Middle School.

With his friends, White Fang and Black Tooth.

Marybe, were the sit-upons the squares that also tied aroung your waist so they were always ready for you to sit upon?  I made one that was flourescent green.  Hadn't thought about that for years.

Barbies whose legs did not bend.  How about Midge, Barbie's red-headed best friend?  I still have her, but when bendable leg Barbie came out, the local toy store had a trade in, so straight legged Barbie is long gone.

   I am glad to know some things have not changed.  I always liked GS....loved it when we cooked meals on the campfire.  We did camper's stew which was hamburger, onions and potatos I think, wrapped in foil.  Oddly enough I did not and still do not like somemores. I ddin't like the marshmallow part. We did camper's sodas where we stuck a peppermint stick in an orange and could suck the juice out of it....did that on hikes. So many of my memories involve food....that should tell you something about me. .  To this day I can remember the words to the camp songs we would sing.  One thing that has changed big time is the price of a box of girl scout cookies.....outrageous!!  And the cookies are smaller!! 

Did you make them with a spool after you had used the thread up and a rubber band and a toothpic?   I know we did something like that in 7th grade, but don't recall what they were called. 

  Hmmm, am trying to remember those...spoolies, huh?  I used the foam ones that had a plactic tube going thru them and snapped on the ends and I used this pink plastic ones that had another piece of plastic that snapped on top of them and then there were the hot rollers.  I was never able to keep curl in my hair for long...Poker straight.  Speaking of curls......where are these curls everyone told me I was going to have once my hair started coming back?.  I have plenty of hair coming in and it is thick, but there is not one bit of curl to it. 

I liked the Donna Reed Show and Father Knows Best and Leave it to Beaver.   I used to have this huge crush on Clint McCullough on Wagon Train and also Rowdy Yates in Rawhide.  Was that where Clint got his start at being a cowboy?  I also liked The Flying Nun.  Sally Field has held up  very well. 

This morning on my walk my i pod shuffel played "Hey Jude" and I immediately flashed to listening to this song while driving myself to a waitressing job and trying to count all the "Na Na Na NAnana's" there were.  I was about 20 and I was driving a beige 1968 cadilac with huge fins that cost me all of $100.00.  When I started nursing school in 1971 I had to drive to Kalamazoo from Battle Creek for one of my Psych. classes.  About 1/2 way there that car would seize up and I would have to "burp" the gas tank to get it going again.  It always worked! 

It's funny how a song can send you back in time for a few seconds.