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  • footprintsangel
    footprintsangel Member Posts: 43,890
    edited October 2010

    When we were broke we ate alot of beans and.....

    My dad love them later,

    Remember on Easter we could walk up a hill to

    the cross and now there not there.

    Alot more Jerry Lewis films(funny) then now.

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  • iodine
    iodine Member Posts: 4,289
    edited October 2010

    My Dad loved beans, too, he almost always said: if we just had some pineapple, we could have made Hawaiian "music".  LOL

    i remember the girl next door teaching me to ride a two wheeler.  Playing all day, dirt "necklaces in the summer along with hot street tar on bare feet.  Catching fireflies and playing outside till after dark.  Mudpies. Seeing my first TV at an uncle's house: must have been all of 6 inches wide.

    Sadly watching my home burn when I was preschool age.  Having my tonsils out and Trying to drink a coke at the nurse's demand.  Whew---awful!  I even remember counting backwards for the ether anesthesia. 

    "acting" on the Sat. radio kid's programs.  Honest!  Girl Scout camp and the deep affection we all had for the counselors.  Peeing in a big empty green bean tin can to keep from walking in the dark to the toilets!

    My mom using strips of crepe paper to make a "treasure ball" with a silver dollar in the center of it.  At my birthday parties, girls sat in a circle and you unrolled the ball, which had other fun little prizes wrapped in it, by passing to the next girl and if the prize fell in your lap, it was yours.

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  • footprintsangel
    footprintsangel Member Posts: 43,890
    edited October 2010

    I like the pineapple and beans, Hawaiian music.

    Did You do the tooth fairy

    And the angels bowling, thunder

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  • Stanzie
    Stanzie Member Posts: 1,971
    edited October 2010

    OOH I have never heard of the treasure ball - what a great idea!!!

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  • lmd685
    lmd685 Member Posts: 2
    edited October 2010
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    lmd685 Member Posts: 2
    edited October 2010
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  • footprintsangel
    footprintsangel Member Posts: 43,890
    edited October 2010

    I liked to wait for Saturday and we would go have a

    ice cream and had to eat it fast(sometimes the heat

    was 105)

    Watching  the wizard of oz on a black and white RCA TV

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  • squidwitch42
    squidwitch42 Member Posts: 2,228
    edited October 2010

    Foots,

    The wizard of oz was scaaaary :) My mom used to put creme de menthe in our vanilla ice cream, do you think my mom wanted us to go to sleep?

    iodine,

    lots of wonderful memories, keep em coming!

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  • footprintsangel
    footprintsangel Member Posts: 43,890
    edited October 2010

    I was very scared of the witch..................

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  • squidwitch42
    squidwitch42 Member Posts: 2,228
    edited October 2010

    yes, she was fierce wasn't she?

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  • footprintsangel
    footprintsangel Member Posts: 43,890
    edited October 2010

    Remember when the street lights came on You

    went home. Now kids are out late.

    Tinker Toys, Logs, and Metal pieces to screw

    together(I forgot the name)

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  • squidwitch42
    squidwitch42 Member Posts: 2,228
    edited October 2010

    That's right Foots, we had curfew, didn't we?

    Loved my Lincoln Logs...how about Tiddlywinks?

    Mrs. Beasley doll

    Mr. Microphone (the commercial where the guy is driving in a convertable? and he has his Mr. Mic, and he sees a good looking girl, and says into the Microphone..."Hey Babe, I'll be back to pick you us laaaaater, and his "girlfriend" pretend hits him.

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  • squidwitch42
    squidwitch42 Member Posts: 2,228
    edited October 2010

    Brace Yourselves:

    I can bring home the bacon, fry it up in a pan

    and never, never, never let you forget your a man

    cause I'm a woman

    Enjoli.

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  • iodine
    iodine Member Posts: 4,289
    edited October 2010

    The metal things were erector sets.  My big brother had one, I think.. I know he had Lincoln logs. Switches for spankings, and we had to go pick one for Mom to use!  ( I was NOT an abused kid)

    Looking at big girls socks when riding home on the bus (the CITY bus, we had no school buses) and wondering how come her shoes didn't "eat" Her socks like my shoes ate mine. 

    Feeding the rabbits in the backyard pens---then finding out that Dad had BBQ'd one for our family to EAT!!!  Tears and hysteria from me took away all his enjoyment of the meal, I'm sure.

    45 RPM records and my grandma telling me it was too small a record to get a full album on, and I was being cheated!  I'm sure all the tech. advances confused her like the ones these days confuse and confound me! 

    I actually WORE huge petticoats and had a poodle skirt---and it was the style, not a retro look!  And pony tails tied with rubberbands and a small square silk scarf that hung down. 

    Sequin earrings made from cork, short straight pins, and tiny little beads.  Pierced ears were trashy at our school, as was long hair not in a bun or pony tail.   Boys with long hair in DA (duck ass) style were greasers and wore their shirts sloppy.  "Good" boys wore chinos and button down shirts with penny loafers----and had a penny in the vanp. 

    Pin curls, dippity-do, rollers with TP under them so the bristles wouldn't hurt while sleeping in them.  boys used wax to keep their crew cuts sticking up.  Bobby socks and loafers.  Sneakers were worn only in gym class.  Awful white shirt and shorts for gym class, followed by Worse one peice short things --uggggg.

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  • footprintsangel
    footprintsangel Member Posts: 43,890
    edited October 2010

    I remember alot of that, Thanks iodine.

    What about the pink stuffed animal that play

    songs

    Pick up sticks

    Mom would take her dress and make a smaller one for me

    the boys too.

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  • squidwitch42
    squidwitch42 Member Posts: 2,228
    edited October 2010

    oh, dear God thy gym uniform. We had a onesie, and (now this is a girl moment.) The absolute horror of wearing a large pad with that awful uniform. Not exactly a Cathy Rigby moment.

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  • Leah_S
    Leah_S Member Posts: 8,458
    edited October 2010

    Oh, yes, gymsuits! now why are they in a thread of favorite childhood memories? When I was in high school I was able to take Modern Dance instead of regular gym and wore a leotard & tights. I love dancing but I think not wearing a gymsuit played a part in my decision to take that class!

    Leah

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  • footprintsangel
    footprintsangel Member Posts: 43,890
    edited October 2010

    The first time You helped make Thanksgiving dinner

    I made chocolate cream pie with graham cracker crust.

    I was so proud

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  • Stanzie
    Stanzie Member Posts: 1,971
    edited October 2010

    Oh Iodine - so sorry about your bunny - now that can't be a favorite memory either along with the horrid gym suits and why didn't the boys get similar tortue uniforms.... Who thought of that?

    Anyone remember Ideal cookies? I think they were made by Nabisco. They were peanut butter sort of cruncky cookie with a soft middle and they riches most decadent chocolate a store bought cookie has ever seen and it was thick! My favorite!!! I guess if they still made them they would be about $15.00 for a package at least - LOL!

    I so wish I had saved my childhood games! Now when I have bought games I loved as a child they are so poorly made they fall apart or don't work properly to begin with.... sigh. 

    Also actually being able to get into a toy without all the crazy packaging of today. We didn't need our parents help to open a toy!

    Halloween memories!!! My favorite was when my best friend and I went out. I went as a hobo with my Dad's torn shirt, soot on my face for a five O'clock shadow, ragged pants and an old hat of my Dad's. My friend went as a woman who just woke up with bathrobe, curlers, coldcream and slippers. So we walk over to this really big house down the street and they are having a party and they invite us in and pretend we are regular grown up guests. For Years!!(I'm a little slow) we thought we fooled them into thinking we were guests! You would think we would at least figure out we were awfully short!

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  • Leah_S
    Leah_S Member Posts: 8,458
    edited October 2010

    Stanzie, what nice neighbors you had!

    Leah

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  • Stanzie
    Stanzie Member Posts: 1,971
    edited October 2010

    They were really sweet. They had this fabulous property - now would seem as fabulous with some of the mega-mansions they build these days, but it was a big old house, with a long driveway that had this small fish pond where we spent hours playing, tennis courts and old abandonded empty swimming pool, a large open field with climbing trees and a garden with this maze of bushed and a statue in the middle. A totally perfect playgound. Anyway, they were elderly and one day a neighbor friend called and told us to go over to their house they were going to tear it down. So we ran over and there it was with this tremendous wrecking ball. I can still see in my mind that ball hitting that beautiful old house and crying.... Their kids still own the propery but they built a modern odd sort of house that doesn't fit the setting and has signs everywhere no tresspassing and a chain across the driveway. Ok, sorry not exactly the best memory but the elderly couple were lovely.

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  • footprintsangel
    footprintsangel Member Posts: 43,890
    edited October 2010

    I remember in In High School I went after

     school and was teacher aid to kid in first grade.

    It was so different then. I loved them all. Now its

    so different.

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  • nfljerseys
    nfljerseys Member Posts: 5
    edited October 2010
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  • footprintsangel
    footprintsangel Member Posts: 43,890
    edited October 2010

     Getting my black and white shoes that were in in the 60's

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  • squidwitch42
    squidwitch42 Member Posts: 2,228
    edited October 2010

    Dr. Sholls :)

    falling off my Dr. Sholls  :(

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  • DesignerMom
    DesignerMom Member Posts: 1,464
    edited October 2010

    Okay, I'm remembering my favorite outfit.  It was a little mini skirt with a matching jacket with covered buttons.  It was orange and yellow paisley and had bell sleeves.  I wore it with my white go go boots. I set my hair on orange juice cans so it was real straight. It was 1964.  By the way, I think I wore that outfit every day of the week!

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  • squidwitch42
    squidwitch42 Member Posts: 2,228
    edited October 2010

    Designer Mom,

    Wow, now that's an outfit!

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  • DesignerMom
    DesignerMom Member Posts: 1,464
    edited October 2010
    squid-  Yes, one of many "fashion statements" that I came up with.  Though I had many traditional, corporate career journeys over the years, I ultimately became a designer.  I guess it was always in me....go go boots and all!  Oh, let's not forget the 60's makeup!  Yardley frosted white lipstick and later all the great Mary Quant things!  I can still smell that lipstick!
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  • squidwitch42
    squidwitch42 Member Posts: 2,228
    edited October 2010

    Did you become a fashion designer? If you did way cool. Do you happen to watch Project Runway? My lip gloss memory is Bonnie Bell, Bubblegum flavor. There was a time when the lip gloss was smeared on so thick, it was kinda gross to watch the actors and actresses on TV kiss. Two characters in particular, one was Leslie on General Hospital. I just always watched her lips and prayed for her to BLOT! BLOT!

    Then Donna Mills on Knot's Landing...and oooooo, that eye makeup.

    I absolutely love you pic :)

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  • DesignerMom
    DesignerMom Member Posts: 1,464
    edited October 2010
    squid-  Bonnie Belle! I'm remembering a red, white and blue striped lipstick tube? That's a blast from the past!  I might be older than you (54), but here are some more product memories!  Noxema, Prell Shampoo, Dippity Doo, Tame cream rinse (I thanked God for that one as my mom didn't have to comb out the "rats" in my wet, long, blonde hair anymore).  I ended up designing kids clothing for my own company (karinalexis.com).  It's so much more fun designing for kids.  There is no right or wrong, no "it makes me look fat".  We should all think  (and dress) like kids.....or at least wear purple now and again!
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