Middle Aged Memories

Yes, to the white stick, Meece.

The Dawn doll had some serious eyeliner!

I mentioned those wax lips on another thread, but also here are the "wax bottles" otherwise known as Nik-L-Nips.  Classic!

Don't you just remember the flavors of these things?  Nothing else tasted quite like them.

Even to this day, I like to take a sip of warm jello.  Remember Jello 1-2-3?  When I made it, I would tilt the glass too so the layers made a diagonal...a fancy dessert made by a ten-year-old.

You are right, Eli~  nothing tasted quite like the fluid filled wax.

My Dawn doll quickly went by the wayside since I had Barbies and she was not the right size to interact with them and I only had the outfit she came in.  What fun is that?

I remember those, lpc. They came out the year of the lunar landing.  They had the texture of, and tasted like, fudge.

dutchgirl6, well, only if the fudge was mixed with a new space-age polymer.  Another of those one-of-a-kind flavors.  We've mentioned them before on this thread.  I might be the only one, but I think the closest thing to the way the Space Food Stick texture was, are these "Bull's Eyes" that you can still find today, and the caramel sticks even tasted similar.

One more- A Barbie and Ken "album" from the early 60's that my younger sisters and I would sing to after we argued about who got to be Barbie, who had to be Ken, and who the background singers would be... 

"I learned how to read a book, I learned how to write a letter, but nobody taught me how to fall in love...(We were 8 and younger and had no idea what we were even singing about!) 

hot pants, I still have pictures of mine, and rabbit fur coats, go go boots, msphil(idc stage 2,3 nodes, L mast chemo and rads and 5 yrs on Tamoxifen) God Bless Us All 

NM - self portrait or relative? I don't think I had the go go boots so much but did have "some" hot pants. I thought I was soooo big then and shouldn't wear them. Now this was college, Texas, in the summers. You've made me want to dig out my pictures. I have to find that dorm room photo with the posters.

I have a rabbit fur jacket my mom made for my Barbie out of something I had. Again, making me want to dig in my storage closet. Naughty girls.

Anyone have a cardboard Barbie dream house? I don't remember mine having so much furniture.

On another note one of my favorite movies is on today "Magnificient Obsession" with Rock Hudson.

I've never been much for coloring my hair.  I did use Sun-In, of course...who didn't; but I just thought of that old temporary hair color/rinse Roux Fanci Full.  I tried some "auburn" shade and got something on the orange side (way before orange was a fashion statement and only Bozo had it) and later I successfully used the blackest one they had one Halloween when I was Lily Munster.

When I was a kid, Parks & Rec did a summer program at my school right down the block.  Besides the usual lanyards and bead necklaces, we also painted a lot of ceramic placques...horses, dogs, birds, clowns, cherries.  A devil with two glowing rhinestone eyes was somewhat popular.  I also remember when these placques invariably broke, you would be left with some good sidewalk chalk.

We played a version of handball on the school ledge with a red "dodgeball" that was so much fun, even tho' it usually resulted in skinned knuckles and knees.  We were also small enough(*) to walk half way around the school on those ledges, hugging the wall, with the real danger being the bushes you could fall into at some points.  There was the summer softball league.  I played an age up and I was a short stop til an older girl bumped me to 2B.  We were champs one year and I remember the badass attitude we brought to the opponents' field.  Also, I remember jammming nine girls into one car to get to a game once and the radio was playing "Journey to the Center of The Mind."  When we returned, sweaty and victorious, there might be a fire hydrant "street shower" going on, so we went in clothes and all.

With my parents working, the school was a summer hangout for me.  Sometimes I wish my kids could have experienced how I spent my summer vacation.

(*) Once you got need for even so much as a training bra this became impossibe as you could not get close enough to the wall.

Oh how it grieves me that this thread has long spells of inactivity.  Oh people living in the here and now, I await your dementia when the memories of your youth become clear as day and yet you forget whether it rained yesterday or not, forget what you ate for breakfast.  Here is my latest recollection:

Does it even work?  Who knows?  You can scoff, but these things are still available for ~$100.  You're gonna buy one now, right?

I think you might be on to something.