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  • suzwes
    suzwes Member Posts: 1,740
    edited February 2011

    Are you thinking of Shrinky Dinks?  AND, don't ask how that toy popped into my mind when I can't even remember my name half the time?

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  • suzwes
    suzwes Member Posts: 1,740
    edited February 2011

    Does anyone remember clackers?  I had some and played with them a lot but I swear I hit my hand and wrist more often than not - maybe that's what contributed to the arthritis I have in my right hand and wrist.

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  • elimar86861
    elimar86861 Member Posts: 7,416
    edited February 2011

    That was a Vac-U-Form.  It could make little plastic cars and models.  Then, it also could adapt to make Creepy Crawlers and Fun Flowers, since the heating unit was the same shape as those metal plates.  Yes, I had one.

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  • Stanzie
    Stanzie Member Posts: 1,971
    edited February 2011

    I remember Vac u form - but how on earth you remembered the name ! Wow! I can still smell that smell too JB. Funny how smells stay with you.

    My Mom always wore aprons for holiday cooking but one thing I remember they always had sleeves which makes so much sense but then they wouldn't be as cute as your picture elimar. If looking for cute old fashioned aprons take a look at Anthropologie - they remind me of those ones from way back when....

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  • elimar86861
    elimar86861 Member Posts: 7,416
    edited February 2011

    I say, How on Earth could you forget the name, what with the nasty smell and the second degree burns from the metal plates.  I also had the set that made Creeple People (that went on pencils)...

                                                

                                              

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  • elimar86861
    elimar86861 Member Posts: 7,416
    edited February 2011

    Another thing I remembered (but this one I forgot the name of til I went hunting for it) was called "Wacky Packages" stickers.  It was a pack of stickers and it might have ahad a piece of gum with it too.  I found this one:

                                                   

    There was another 60's sticker series that came with gum, and the stickers were all weird cartoon-like drawings of monsters.  I stuck those on my bedroom door before my mom could approve.  She was right about it taking off the varnish.  Uh-oh!

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  • NativeMainer
    NativeMainer Member Posts: 10,462
    edited February 2011

    I had one of these and loved it!  If I wever seen another one I'm snapping it up! 

    Those wacky package things are fun!  

    While this isn't the prettiest of materials it is a good picture of the kind of apron both my grandmothers used.  I still have the pattern, got to make some more when I get the sewing room cleaned out and re-organized! 

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  • dutchgirl6
    dutchgirl6 Member Posts: 673
    edited February 2011

    Well there's Uncle Joe he's a moving kinda slow at the Junction....

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  • dutchgirl6
    dutchgirl6 Member Posts: 673
    edited February 2011

    We had a Thingmaker that made creepy crawlies, kind of funny because my sister was terrified of any kid of bug.  The one that we really wanted was the one with the flower molds.  Speaking of toxic fumes, I can remember the yearly event in grade school when we could make sculptures with asbestos!  I could never get the hang of clackers, I was kind of uncoordinated as a kid.   

    NativeMainer, keep those pictures coming!

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  • Meece
    Meece Member Posts: 19,483
    edited March 2011

    Wow, you ladies have been on a spree.

    My grandmother, mother and myself all wear/wore aprons.  The picture you have, NM, is on I have the pattern to as well. 

    Those stickers, and I remembe them, remind me about MAD Magazine.

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  • Stanzie
    Stanzie Member Posts: 1,971
    edited March 2011

    NM - those wheelie things ARE still around!!!! I recently got one for my son and he likes it and I find my self playing with it - totally addictive. No clue where I found it but I'll keep my eyes open.

    I loved all those old TV shows why don't they ever come on TV land? I thought that was the point of TV land but they rarely have any of the shows I loved as a child.

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  • Meece
    Meece Member Posts: 19,483
    edited March 2011

    Once in awhile I run across the old Bewitched and Bonanza shows on TV Land, but in the evening now they have newer shows.

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  • Meece
    Meece Member Posts: 19,483
    edited March 2011
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  • NativeMainer
    NativeMainer Member Posts: 10,462
    edited March 2011

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  • Meece
    Meece Member Posts: 19,483
    edited March 2011

    to the Junction...Petticoat..Junction!

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  • suzwes
    suzwes Member Posts: 1,740
    edited March 2011

    I loved that show.  I wish they'd show it on TV land!

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  • Meece
    Meece Member Posts: 19,483
    edited March 2011

    Oh the innocence of days gone by.

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  • elimar86861
    elimar86861 Member Posts: 7,416
    edited March 2011

    I have this thread marked in my "faves" but it has been winding up on the bottom and staying there for days.  Are we forgetting to have memories? 

    T.V. shows from my childhood seem so "innocent" compared to today's shows, but I have to admit some of them were really dumb, including one of my old favorites, "Mr. Ed."  ("A horse is a horse, of course, of course, and no one can talk to a horse, of course; that is of course unless the horse is the famous Mr. Ed.")   Dumb song.  Of course I remember it word for word, of course, of course.

    When I got a little older, I watched Gidget and The Patty Duke Show.  About a year ago, the Patty/Cathy characters made a t.v. announcement for SOCIAL SECURITY.  Ouch!  Now that hurt!

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  • Meece
    Meece Member Posts: 19,483
    edited March 2011

    Cousins, Identical Cousins...

    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 crêpes Suzette;
    our Patty loves to rock 'n' roll, and hot dogs make 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!
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  • elimar86861
    elimar86861 Member Posts: 7,416
    edited March 2011

    Loved Cathy's Brit accent, but otherwise liked the tomboy Patty more.

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  • NativeMainer
    NativeMainer Member Posts: 10,462
    edited March 2011

    Remember this one? 

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  • Meece
    Meece Member Posts: 19,483
    edited March 2011

    The Baxter family, Mr. B and Mrs. B.!

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  • suzwes
    suzwes Member Posts: 1,740
    edited March 2011

    I loved Mr. and Mrs. B - and Hazel!

    I guess as of next year we'll no longer be able to bake with our Easy Bake OvensCry

    http://chicagobreakingbusiness.com/2011/02/politicians-have-killed-the-traditional-easy-bake-oven.html?utm_source=streamsend&utm_medium=email&utm_content=13463121&utm_campaign=Food%20News%20Thursday%20February%2024

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  • elimar86861
    elimar86861 Member Posts: 7,416
    edited March 2011

    Awwww!  I cooked on my best friends oven, and enjoyed many of those round chocolate cakes.

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  • Meece
    Meece Member Posts: 19,483
    edited March 2011

    This is what my Easy Bake looked like new.  I still have it in a box in my garage.  Not the same condition, but I'll bet it would bake something!

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  • Stanzie
    Stanzie Member Posts: 1,971
    edited March 2011

    Oh I loved Hazel! What a nice family they were....

    I hear they were coming out with new easy bake ovens that don't use a light bulb so they will be "greener"

    Anyone remember the old black and white shows of Topper and the Ghost and Mrs Muir  with Hope Lang and Vincent Price? 

     There is an movie rental store here that specializes in old movies and they were selling off the VHS - so I bought a bunch of the old loony tunes an Bullwinkle and Daffy Duck and Bugs Bunny! 

    I so wish they would do reruns of the old Wonderful World of Disney!!! Why are they keeping all those locked away? hmmmm? I bought an animal video which I thought would be perfect for my son with Down syndrome as he adores animals - it was supposed to be funny.  So in my mind I was thinking of those old Disney shows with animals set beautifully to music which would be hilarious.... well this new one was just borrrring! Very sad...

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  • Meece
    Meece Member Posts: 19,483
    edited March 2011

    Topper was before my time, but a friend told me I looked like the ghost wife on Topper the other day, so I You Tubed it to see what she was seeing.

    I remember 7 pm on Sunday nights.  If the movie was really good I was allowed to saty up until 8.  My bedtime was 7:30.

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  • alamik
    alamik Member Posts: 113
    edited March 2011

    You ladies have me missing those days. Going to the skating rink and learning how to skate backwards. Coming home just in time to watch Don Kirshners Rock Concert!! Dressing in the satin pants with the satin vest, wearing Heaven Scent perfume and going to Teen Town! HR Puffin Stuff and the original Land of the Lost!! And Zoom!!! Loved those shows!! And puttin on Sudden Tan or QT and being orange instead of tan and having orange hands for days!! Whew! We were sooo styling back then!!

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  • NativeMainer
    NativeMainer Member Posts: 10,462
    edited March 2011

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  • alamik
    alamik Member Posts: 113
    edited March 2011

    Nativemainer~~~ Thank you so much for those wonderful pictures!!! Oh how I remember them so well!! haha!

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