Middle Aged Memories

In the spirit of the holiday season of days gone by, check this Nestle's commercial with FARFEL:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-H6tuqbtQDE

That was one dorky lookin' mutt!  Sigh...I remember him like it was yesterday.

I read thru all the posts...here are some I don't think were mentioned:  Pixie sticks, Lik-M-Ade, Hubba Bubba bubblegum, Stripes Gum ("Yipes, Stripes!"), Spaghetti O's ("The neat round spaghetti you can eat with a spoon, uh-oh, Spaghetti O's), pop-it beads, Scooter (Skipper's friend), Twist N Turn Waist Barbie, sewing patches on the bell bottom of your jeans (I had a frog, a teddy bear, and a peace symbol), Smiley Faces (mine was on a tie-dyed hot pink short sleeved sweatshirt--yikes), flower power (on everything), leather fringed belts for your jeans, smock-tops, Angel Face powder, Woodhue and Tabu cologne, Yardley lavender soap, Tame hair conditioner, pet turtles you could buy at Grant's or Woolworth's (right next to the parakeets), Maybelline mascara that came in a little cake that you had to moisten (yeah, we used spit sometimes), lip gloss that came in a tube with a litte roll-y ball applicator, nylon scarves that hung on that twirly thing at the Five & Dime for 59 cents, green licorice sticks (like Twizzlers, but spearmint), Sister Belle doll (You can tell it's Mattel, it's SWELL), Go to the Head of the Class and Careers board games--oh, and that lipstick that changed color so that it would be the PERFECT shade for you!  The Patty Duke Show, Whacky Racers, Chilly Willy, Woody Woodpecker, Tom & Jerry, Mr. Magoo, My Favorite Martian (can you tell we loved our tv??), Mr. Ed.  That's all I got right now! 

More--What's My Line?, Concentration, Password, You Bet Your Life, 3 Stooges, Gumby & Pokey.  The potato chip delivery guy (Charlie Chips), the newspaper boy collecting once a week for the paper (with the little change thingy on his belt), getting My Weekly Reader in the mail in the summertime, the ice cream man (ours was "Winky")--Nutty Buddys for 25 cents, clipping (with WOODEN clothespins) baseball cards to our bike spokes to make that cool sound, bike baskets, Betty & Veronica comic books.  St. Josephs aspirin for children (orange flavored), Aspergum (gum with aspirin for sore throats).

Yeah, well, anything to not have to think about my other "issues."  LOL 

We got Weekly Readers at school too, but you could also get a "subscription" to get them at home in the summer.  Mom paid for it because I guess she thought at least it was educational, unlike Mad magazine...

How cool is that??  No wonder she was well liked!

I had to look up the song, cause I only remembered to last three lines...

Meet Cathy who's lived most everywhere,

from Zanzibar to Berkeley Square

But Patty's only seen the sights a girl can see from Brooklyn Heights— what a crazy pair!

But they're cousins, identical cousins all the way;

one pair of matching bookends, different as night and day.

Where Cathy adores a minuet

the Ballets Russes, and  crepes Suzette;

our Patty loves to rock'n'roll, a hot dog makes her lose control — what a wild duet!

Still they're cousins, identical cousins and you'll find

they laugh alike, they walk alike, at times they even talk alike.

You can lose your mind ... when cousins are two of a kind!

Remeber Madge the manicurist?  Relax you're soaking in it.  Probably smelled better that the nail salons these days!

Coke, it's the real thing!

Be a Pepper

Wouldn't you like to be a Pepper, too?

10 - 2  -  4

I remember having a whole book of paper dolls.  I loved them.  How about the books of valentines that you'd pop out of the page, saving the prettiest ones for Mom and the cuties in class.  It was so cool when they came out with a Barbie that had bendable legs!

Wow, I am wanting to remember this, but I can't quite do it.  I know I had some paper dolls.  I do remember being frustrated getting those little tabs to stay on the dolls cardboard shoulders, but I can't remember the name or look of the actual ones I had.  I remember creating some mod paper fashions of my own design for them.  I might have had a theme Paper Doll set of 101 Dalmations, or else that was a Colorform Set.