Middle Aged Memories

Thanks NM - love the pictures - someday I'll really figure out how to do this!

 Someone earlier mentioned Tasty cakes - we used to only get these when we went to vist my grandparents in N.J. I still remember what they tasted like. Anyone from N.J.? I still miss Fralinger's Salt Water Taffy and almond maccroons!  These are more N.J.memories of the rolling chairs, the Steel Pier and the rides and Mr. Peanut! I think there was also a wax museum and a Ripley's believe it or not. Now it is all casinos and scary stuff.....

I like my side by side, but my mom had a top bottom fridge with double doors on the top.  Makes a really nice wide place to store food.

I think we all go back far enough to remember before there were self-defrosting freezers.  My mom would schedule her freezer "meltdown" for sometime in the winter when it dipped below 32 degrees.  Then all the food would go outside while she melted several inches of ice off of our freezer.

Did everybody here try to save a snowball in the freezer at least on once?  An icicle?

anyone have high healed saddle shoes?  or the enlarged yarn that we tied around pony tails like ribbons?  did that and then played with my liddle kiddles    sanka?   and fill it to the rim with brim  AND AND AND the first time i bought gasoline with my new drivers liscence : TWNETY FIVE CENTS A GALLON    aw good times (yeah right)

I had the hair yarns too...like Meece said...two of each color.  Wow!  I had forgotten about those.

thats precious!   went shoppin this afternonn into an antiques store ANTIQUE STORE   saw a bank like i had as a child.  it was made to resemble a cash register with popup $amount tabs  and a lever like we USTA have on ADDING MACHINES  even this is an anachronism of our age group   gues i'm an antique

~~nancy-carol 

Phew...happy double nickles on Saturday   If you are an antique, then so am I !!!!

I do remember the charm bracelets and the yarm ribbons....don't remember the Little Mouse Kitty...I has platform saddle shoes, but they weren't white and black...I had a pair that were white, with orange and black...they really were ugly then but I still wore them anyways...Love the gas sign.. I remember the long lines to get gas at 0.33 right before the big price increase in 1972 or 73 before the gas embargo!!!

A gallon of gas was only 6 pop bottles.

gotcha    how bout billy barty...& romper room    were those only in los angeles?     bbut i bet kids say the darndest things w/art linkletter was nationwide?     ~~nancy carol 

Waaa!  I can't remember my Romper Room hosts name.  Wasn't that wand thing what they held up when they looked for a Good Do-bee? 

I still like adding machines better than calculators as you can look back and actually see where you made your mistakes which I certainly do.

 I remember Romper Room too but I think she sort of scared me....

I like Captin Kangaroo much better and here we had The Popeye Club that everyone child in town I think was on at least once. 

 It has probably been mentioned but can you believe they actually wanted children to want bubble gum and candy cigarettes. You know they knew by then they were toxic. I hated my Mom smoking so much I used to sneak and throw her cigarettes down the toilet - hated the smell of them and how she never would eat. No I have never tried a cigarette and never will.

 I remember when my Dad first brought home a color TV set. It was such a huge thing. It was small too and he had it up in my parents room. I remember we were allowed to watch it when specials came on like Rudolph and such. Also remember watching 7 Brides for 7 Brothers on it. 

To that I remember the Huge console TV in the den - I mean it was a huge piece of furniture. I don't remember not having it though.... funny. My Mom moved in 1987 surely we didn't have the thing till then?? Now I'm wondering what was there? 

I also remember long car trips - no seat belts - no restrictions at all. We would make these huge beds in the back of the station wagon to sleep in or read ( not that I could). I also remember cause my parents smoked lying down on the floor to try and get away from the smoke and remember how it was cooler down there and how the engine roared. My Dad had a Cadallac ( shoot don't know how to spell it) and it sort of floated down the road. Still can't ride in one without feeling car sick, not that I could buy one anyway these days.... 

I lived in Montreal and I watched Romper Room as a little girl...unfortunately, I don't remember the "teacher's" name....and Captain Kangaroo!!  and the humongous console TV...who could forget!! oh yeah...I could without reminders!!  I loved candly cigarettes and bubble gum cigars!!!  candy of my youth was soo good....and in Canada, there was candy that I can't get in the states!!!

I have a Jack LaLane juicer, it works great!  I'm hoping to live as long has he does.