Middle Aged Memories

I don't know what it is with me and retro stuff.  I love looking at it or finding images of things I actually had as a child, maybe to convince myself that it all really DID exist.

I have enjoyed reading this threads this morning. Thanks so much to all for posting pics ... Wow sure brings back lots of memories.

I had an eight track player in my car when I was 18 and I could remove it at night ... Some one might steal it (lol)

I had orange fishnet stockings with the garter belt .. Very cool

What about hot pants, earth shoes and toe socks?

The hot pants I remember more were 70's era, bold corors, patch pockets, more like these...

When I went looking for that picture, I found another blast from the wearable past...sauna pants, which reminded me of that jiggling belt machine for weight loss.  My friends grandma had one of those jigglers.  It would get your circulation going and just make you itch.

I sw Tony Orlando and Dawn at a State Fair...Tie A Yellow Ribbon...they must have been doing the fair circuit. 

Haha!  You are so right about parking those huge "boats" of cars.  I also remember driving (not for driver's test, thank goodness) a car with manual (not power) steering.  Remember that hand over hand turning.  What a workout.

This one's going to separate the middle-aged from the youngsters...

Remember having to do Air Raid Drills in school?  For me it was only a few early years in elementary school and I don't remember when they stopped.  There was no official announcement that we were done with all that.  While the nice "fire drill alarm" was just a different and longer pattern of ringing the school bells (and then you went outside on a nice day,) those air raid sirens were like air horns that blew your eardrums out and signaled a nuclear meltdown and our school had to go into the basement where all the boiler pipes were.  When I see filmed versions of people cowering in the London Blitz, I think of my school basement. 

If your school didn't have a basement boiler room, it looked more like this.

Here's a link to duck and cover.  

Hey Meece, I've been meaning to ask about your signature line- Here's what I see: "<a href="http://alterna-tickers.com"><img src="http://alterna-tickers.com/tickers/generated_tickers/a/a0old7unt.png"border="0"alt="AlternaTickers-Cool,free Web tickers"><la>  After that is your "cred"

I was at Mardi Gras SO long ago, they still gave out some glass beads, and I didn't have to take my shirt off for them.  The beads weren't all gold, green and purple either, they looked interesting.

I loved Nawlins when I was there in the 90s, but it was crowded then and it wasn't even Mardi Gras.

Laissez les bons temps rouler

I had a small jewel encrusted clover pin (Well I thought it was a jewel).

Forgot to post in time for Easter but...When I was in high school, my girlfriend and I got a special Easter job at the local shopping mall.  We had to wear satin bunny suits (but these were like jumpsuits, not sexy ones) and we roved around handing out coloring books to the kiddies.  The suits had satin hats with them, but also there was one giant rabbit head.  My friend wore this one afternoon and made a little kid cry.  That was one scary, big bunny head.  Haha!

Years later, I could (honestly) use "I used to be a bunny" as a pick-up line.  My boobs just never supported the claim. 

I don't know when bunnies became animated & walked around malls, etc., but I'm glad it wasn't when I was a kid.  That would have been freaky.

Books by Enid Blyton, Phyllis A. Whitney, all those wonderful horse books by Marguerite Henry, The Bobbsey Twins, Nancy Drew, really, whatever I could get my hands on.  We were fortunate that we lived next door to our library, and the librarian got to know our reading preferences, so that when we showed up on Saturday afternoon, she would put our next read into our hands.

As a teen, I loved the novels of Nevil Shute, Susan Howatch, Harold Robbins.  My mother was an avid reader, and even though she was very strict with us, we were completely uncensored in what we chose to read. 

I read Nancy Drew, Cherry Ames and Sue Barton as a child.  Also the Black Stallion books and Marguerite Henry.  We had the Doubleday childrens books series.  Some were short stories others were Alice in Wonderland, The Wizard of Oz.  I still have most of the Cherry Ames and I do have my Misty of Chincoteague.  I remember a door to door salesman coming and offering Highlights magazine.  I was sooo disappointed when DM said no to it.  The funny thing is I don't even remember reading it as a child so how did I know I wanted it.

My mom was a prolific reader, Doubleday book club member.  Housework in the morning, reading in the afternoon.  But then again this was TX and NM b4 air conditioning so that makes sense.  As a teenager I read anything she had.  I think she had one of the censored books but I didn't read it.  Might have been Robbins.  Read Gone with the Wind, all the Daphne du Maurier books.  Magnificent Obssession which is a great movie.

I remember when my GM staunch Baptist took my cousin (wild girl) to see Pillow Talk.  You talk about scandal.  Oh my.  Why my aunt didn't take her is a mystery.