Middle Aged Memories

The Flowbee...worked, but not for a beatle cut.  It feathered hair best because it pulled (vacuumed) all the hair  and cut it at the same length.  Sounds like I know, right?  I had one.  We ordered it when I was cutting hair for three boys and my ex.  He liked it, I hated it and only used it on the boys in summer when style really didn't matter.  It had tapered "gauges" for the sides of the hair and it worked  okay. The one benefit was that the hair was vacuumed up as you went along.  Not all of it, but most of it, and it kept the kids from wiggling all over from having hair down their necks and backs.

Good job, Meece! 

Also, you brought back a real old memory for me.  My mom either rented, or took some special offer to try, a piano for three mos.  It was an upright player piano.  It was huge and kind of dwarfed the furniture in our small living room.  I had an ear for songs and could pick out the proper notes, but never applied myself to really learn to play.  My loss.  I remember the player piano rolls, and the foot pumps and the keys going up and down.  Guess my mom got to pick out some rolls as part of the deal and the only one I remember was the movie theme for Alfie.

I remember how hard Super balls were.  Once they were out of your control they could really do some damage!

Yeah, those superballs were dangerous! I think that's why they were pulled from the market (love the Nerf toys instead). Had a 6th grade teacher who would bounce them at us if we weren't paying attention.

Again, don't remember if I saw this earlier. Didn't anyone else had a Patty Play Pal doll? I remember getting one when I was 3. If I remember correctly, we were about the same height.

I don't remember this doll.  That is funny about the little cousin, tho.  LOL!

I don't remember this doll either & I was a doll addict & that's the right time frame.  Could it have been an East Coast offering & not on the West Coast since Meece & I don't remember her? Where'd you grow up luvmygoats?

Elimar, you are such a doll! Ha ha! I grew on the east coast, had both Chatty Cathy and Patty Play Pal. Was introduced to Barbie around 1961 if I remember correctly.

I'm not sure if I'm just a tad bit too old for Patti or the expense of her made her out of our league. I grew up those years mostly in Albuquerque. Gosh maybe DM discouraged things that big.

I know none of you are soap addicts but on Young and Restless one of the characters is an Easy Bake Oven addict.

Have any of you just for nosiness gone on Google Earth and looked at your childhood homes? We moved frequently so I have a lot to chose from but alas the house in Hawaii has been demolished and replaced with some modern condo thingy. Memories are strange. One house (and this was late high school so I should have been at least moderately aware) I thought was a mansion. Looks like ordinary 2 story house now to me.

Eimar, NO, say it isn't so!!!! But good for a laugh.

Yup, Love, have googled my old area. It was considered rural back then, definitely not now. (parents moved there in 1056 so times have changed). I remember dressing Patty Play Pal in my dresses.

Never got into Y&R, it was All My Children, Ryan's Hope (remember that one?), my dad was bestie with a General Hospital veteran's (Jackie Zeman) dad. As a matter of fact, cleaning up at my parents and came across photos of Jackie and her sisters (I remember playing with them when I was very young, thinking how pretty was....)

2nd,  If you were a long time watcher of AMC, you might like the online version that just started a few months ago.  They brought back a couple of the OLD characters that have not been on for years.  I remenber RH, and during the winter the SOAP channel  showed some episodes from the 70's (at 4 a.m.) that I enjoyed in my insomnia.  I remember Nurse Bobbie too, but was not a regular GH watcher.  I still remember thinking...this is Luke's sister?  They look nothing alike!

Oh, Boy 2nd time....I've heard of "dog years" but are there "hat" years as well? Oh, we all hit submit before we proof our posts.   Sometimes we just need a little laugh so we make our own.

I think this doll was the one that made me have an aversion to talking dolls.  "I'm Talky Tina and I don't like you."

Might have to watch this on YouTube later. Evidently she was made after the Twiligt Zone episode. In 2009 voted as one of the top 10 TZ's. To this day if TZ comes on b4 something else I have to turn the sound off esp. if later at night.

http://entertainment.time.com/2009/10/02/top-10-twilight-zone-episodes/

Meece, I certainly need to s.l.ow. down and proof-read better, and get more sleep!

For some reason I did not watch Howdy Doody much. More so Captain Kangaroo and Romper Room. DH has an old Howdy Doody marionette so I think he watched it.

My one and only TV appearance was on a dance show out of NorthPark Center in Dallas in 1968 called Sumpin' Else. It had for a local show really good bands making appearances. My DM asked why I kept looking at the camera and not at my date. I was a sophomore in HS at the time.

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