Please tell me What were you doing????????????????

Denise, yes, I do remember what you're describing. Can't think of what it was called though.

How about pogo sticks? Anyone remember those? I wasn't very good at hopping along on those.

I can play Heart and Soul in harmony, too!!!

hugs,
vicki

I found some great pics I think you guys will enjoy......








Hugs.......
Candi

Okay my favorite shows were Red Skeleton and the Danny Kay show!

Love the pictures candi
I loved Red and Danny too cowgirl
I still like to watch
Jerry Lewis and Dean Martin movies
or the old musicals with the beautiful dresses
when women wore hats and gloves so pretty
I found a couple of pics I wanted to share with you




The tide pic makes me think of ringer washers
ironing the smell of starched shirts wetting
clothes on ironing day and keeping them in the refrigerator
the sprinkling bottle. Do you remember laundry day at your house? whew!

Hugs,
Carrie

Okay, I don't know if anyone is still reading this thread or not, but a good friend just sent me this list. I can relate to a lot of these. Forgive me, if it's already been posted before. Enjoy!

~ Wendy

IF YOU WERE A LITTLE GIRL IN THE 70s...

You had that Fisher Price Doctor's Kit with a stethoscope that actually worked.

You owned a bicycle with a banana seat and a plastic basket with flowers on it.

You learned to skate with actual skates.

You thought Gopher from Love Boat was cute (admit it!)

Love's Baby Soft was the first "real" perfume you ever owned

You had nightmares after watching Fantasy Island.

You had rubber boots for rainy days and Moon boots for snowy days.

You had either a "bowl cut" or "pixie," not to mention the "Dorothy Hamill" because your Mom was sick of braiding your hair.

Your Holly Hobby sleeping bag was your most prized possession.

You wore a poncho, gauchos, and knickers.

You begged Santa for the electronic game, Simon.

You had the Donnie and Marie dolls with those pink and purple satiny shredded outfits.

You spent hours in your backyard on your metal swing set with the trapeze. The swing set tipped over at least once.

You had homemade ribbon barrettes in every imaginable color.

You had a pair of Doctor Scholl's sandals (the ones with hard sole & the buckle).

You wanted to be Laura Ingalls Wilder really bad; you wore that little House on the Prairie-inspired plaid, ruffle shirt with the high neck in at least one school picture; and you despised Nellie Olson!

You wanted your first kiss to be at a roller rink.

Your hairstyle was described as having "wings" or "feathers."

You know who Strawberry Shortcake is, as well as her friends, Blueberry Muffin and Huckleberry Pie.

You carried a Muppets lunch box to school and it was metal, not plastic.

You and your girlfriends would fight over which of the Dukes of Hazzard was your boyfriend. (BO!!)

Every now and then "It's a Hard Knock Life" from the movie, "Annie" will pop into your brain and you can't stop singing it the whole day.

It was a big event in your household each year when the "Wizard of Oz" would come on TV.

You often asked your Magic-8 ball the question: "Who will I marry. Shaun Cassidy, Leif Garrett, or Rick Springfield?" (ohhhhh it was such an incredibly tough choice!)

You completely wore out your Grease, Saturday Night Fever, and Fame soundtrack cassettes.

You tried to do lots of arts and crafts, like yarn and Popsicle-stick God's eyes, decoupage, or those weird potholders made on a plastic loom.

You made Shrinky-Dinks and put iron-on kittens on your t-shirts!

You used to tape record songs off the radio by holding your portable tape player up to the speaker.

You couldn't wait to get the free animal poster that came when you ordered books from the Weekly Reader book club.

You learned everything you needed to know about girl issues from Judy Blume books (Are you there God, It's me, Margaret.)

You thought Olivia Newton John's song "Physical" was about aerobics.

You wore friendship pins on your tennis shoes, or shoelaces with heart or rainbow designs.

You had a Big Wheel with a brake on the side, and a Sit-n-Spin.

You had subscriptions to Dynamite and Tiger Beat.

Sierra,
Oh, wiseguy! I loved 3 stooges!!

When my sil saw my bald head, she called me "Curly"
Then she called me "Kojak", but I said only if she gave me a lollipop.

My sil is older than me, but it mentally challenged and has the mind of a child - a 5 yr old. She's sweet and innocent and loves all of those old shows. Her favorite station now is the Game Show Network.

Remember Charles Nelson Reilly (sp?)? Match game?

Have a good weekend!

Wendy

Wendy,

oh my gosh those clackers lethal, but fun!



Densie I remember those you put the hoop around your ankle

it had a rope with a big plastic bell on the end of it and you skipped over it with your other foot it was skip-a -?



Do you remember

NameThatTune,Hollywood squares ,Dating game , Newlyweds,

Password

Sierra- Curly, Mo and Larry ,

more pics for you























hugs,

Carrie

Hi Wendy:

Ill be MOe.. LOL

Carrie .. love those px

alright .. anyone here remember
I'M SORRY BY BRENDA Lee??


night
bedtime for me.

rest well

Carrie ~ Thanks for the pic, hon. My dear sweet hubby gave me the dvd for Christmas and it's wonderful!! It has tons of extras on it -- history of musicals, etc. It's somewhat like watching "That's Entertainment" - another great movie about great movies.

Sierra ~ yes, I know that song. Thank you - now I can't get it outta my head! lol

Oh, and I remember that rope around your ankle thingy. They still make them, but they are plastic now and are called "Skip Its". They even have a counter on them. My dd has one, although I wonder who used it more -- me or her?

I also remember those game shows. My mom was the best at Name That Tune. I also remember watching re-runs of the game show with Groucho Marx. There was a duck that would come down from the ceiling with the secret word. It had a mustache just like Groucho...."I'd horse around with ya if I had a horse."

Sweet dreams, all,
gotta go to bed

Wendy

Anyone remember "The Gong" show?

ravdeb - I do remember the 7-up game! Can't remember the jungle boy you're talking about, but, I did love Sonny and Cher as a couple, too.

Sierra - I LOVED the Three Stooges.....and The Little Rascals - Spanky, Alfalfa, (sp?)

The Wizard of Oz was the first movie I watched in color on t.v.

Wendy - our "sprinkler bottle" was the same thing - a glass Coke bottle with holes punched into the metal top.

Anyone ever make "buttons" out of bottle tops? Remove the cork from the bottle cap - and "snap" the cork and bottle cap together between the cloth of your shirt?

Our local movie theater had special Saturdays where the price of admission was a set number of Mountain Dew bottle caps.

hugs,
vicki

oh, 8-track tapes and driving around all night with my friends after putting a dollar's worth of gas into my girlfriend's beat-up old car.

I haven't checked here for several days. What a lot of catching up to do, but what fun!

I love the pictures!
I'm not sure what that ball on a string was called, but it reminded me of a game we used to play in the school yard.

We would put a pink Spaulding ball in one of our mother's old nylons and stand with our back to the school's brick wall. You would swing the ball back and forth to bounce it off the wall in different patterns such as
left, right, left, under the leg
or up, down, up, across

This was the ditty we sang:

Hello, hello, hello, Sir
Meet me at the grocer
No Sir
Why Sir
Because I have a cold Sir
Where'd you get the cold Sir
At the North Pole Sir
Whatcha doin' there Sir
Countin' polar bears Sir
How many didja count Sir
One Sir
Two Sir
Three Sir....
That's enough for me Sir

Speaking of nylons...
if you were born in the early 50's like I was, you'll remember "becoming a woman" with your first garter belt with those little rubber slidy things to hold up your stockings. How uncomfortable! and the embarrassment when one slipped off!
And the dreaded sanitary napkin belt to loop the long ends of the pads.
God bless the inventor of pantihose and adhesive pads!

Vicki - I LOVED the Little Rascals! In fact, my family does the "HI sign" at various events, when we're across the room from each other. You rest your chin on your hand, palm down, fingers pointing outward, and then you wiggle your fingers. We do this at choir performances, band performances, you name it! So far, it doesn't embarrass the kids too much.

The Wizard of Oz was my first color tv movie, too. It was an annual family movie watching event!!

As for going to the movies, I remember when we got a 25 cent coupon from school to use at the movies on Saturday. 25 cents won't hardly buy anything nowadays. My first movie in the theater - Born Free

gsg - talking about having "Mrs. Mark" written everywhere reminded me of my sister. She had a major crush on a guy with the initials "RC". Our window sill was stacked with empty (and hopefully washed out) RC Cola cans!

Peg - thanks for all those "firsts". Those were fun to read. I loved the Brady Bunch!

Peg- I love your new Avatar! Thanks for the first list, oh jeez those stupid sanatary napkin belts, and the pads were so big and thick, torture!



gsg - I remember my first love he was 18, a carpenter,drove

a chevy van and had a german shepard named Lady that went almost every where with us. lol



We use to have day at the local theatre that you could get in for a can good and .50 I miss real butter on popcorn,

I know,I know but was that good with chocolate candy

the whole buttery, chocolate salty thing- mmmm can you tell I'm dieting?



The early Our Gang ~





and later The little Rascles~









hugs,

Carrie