Middle Aged Memories

My mom's bonnet hairdryer looked like the one in this youtube video and she shared it with my sister and I until we got the blow dryer (like the one E showed)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0kKQnlNTJak

This was my favorite toy, actually belonged to my brothers, but they could not design a house like I could.  No wonder when I was 38 I finally discovered what I wanted to do for a career (I work for an Architect).  The only down side was my Mom was throwing them out block by block because they were shedding the styrafoam pellets everywhere.

The styrofoam building blocks!  We had them for a short while.  A neighbor was moving and gave them to our family.  Ours were white with little blue flecks in the,n, md they made a wonderful squeak when you wiggled them together.  I think they disappeared after I found that you could really pick apart the little pieces once one broke in half.  I had totally forgot about those, thanks for the memory, kal.

elimar, take a look at this one

Any one else have one of these?  I played with mine for hours.  It had a little satnd so when you made the perfect picture you could stand it up for everyone to see, and for your siblings to destroy.

I wanted that Silly Sand, but got the old, "That'll make a big mess" response.  To this day, I enjoy going to the beach and making "drip castles."

I know I also played with The Magic Window, probably just in the toy aisle at the store.  Now, I find it hilarious that they fancied it up by calling it Microdioum Crystals...aha-ha-ha!

Still have a set of "Jarts" as they were once called.  Heard they can be deadly, but I live for danger.

I was always the little sister being threatened.

Wow, Meece!  I love seeing my old snow cone maker.  Came with the cups that had the pointed bottom, but when they ran out had to switch to the standard Dixie Cups.

When my kids were little, I got them the Snoopy Snow Cone Maker.  Cute, but not as cute as the retro snowman one!   I'm going to dig around the cupboard and see if it still is in there. 

I had the Sno cone maker AND I had my peanut butter maker too!  I was quite the entrepreneur on my front lawn with sno cones, peanut butter and lemonade.

elimar, the funniest thing was that we lived on a road that maaaaybe would get 5 cars (other than the neighbors cars) during the course of a week...only the teenagers out trolling.  i would sit there for hours screaming advertisements AND of course, there was always some other kid on the block that i was fueding with that would have a rival stand...LOL!!!

Our best customer was the mailman, Mr. Fink.

Hey hippies, remember the stretched soda bottle vases?

I loved to watch the different dance party shows on t.v., there was a local one that was on M-F after school; and of course, American Bandstand and later Soul Train. Remember Dick Clark had the kids Rate A Record?   ("I'll give it a 7 1/2 because it had a good beat I can dance to.")

I do remember these shows started out all White and all Black, in that "separate but equal" thing they had going back then.  Not sure what year everyone got to dance together finally.