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  • Meece
    Meece Member Posts: 19,483
    edited August 2013

    So funny, we were at Redondo Beach yesterday and they still have a Tilt-a-Whirl going on the pier. I was tempted to get DH to ride it with me, but decided against it.

    I saw Dr. Hook in the early 80s, actually after the band broke up and he went by his name, Ray Sawyer.  He was a great showman.

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  • Eph3_12
    Eph3_12 Member Posts: 4,781
    edited August 2013

    OK, when I was young, the little mini carnivals would come to town, randomly, never for an event, & set up in the Sears parking lot!  We lived just a couple blocks away.  Once when I was about 12, so my brother would have been 9, Mom let us wander over there after dinner.  We climbed into the octopus ride & the carney just kinda forgot about us.  We were on that sucker for what felt like a 1/2 hour (we were the only ones on).  When it finally stopped, my brother got off, puked his guts out right at the carney's feet & we wandered home-we were probably bobbing & weaving from dizziness!

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  • softness1
    softness1 Member Posts: 217
    edited August 2013

    Electric Company, Zoom, Captain Kangaroo, Mr. Rogers... Walkmans. skates that came with a key for adjusting,  Scooby Doo, colorful Jelly shoes. Hee Haw..Carol Burnet.. Odd Couples...pro keds sneakers, Bruce Lee, Chuck Norris. Rubik's Cube, Pac Man. Riding on the handle bars of a bike. Mr. Potato head. Caldor's, Alexander's. Woolworth..

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  • Meece
    Meece Member Posts: 19,483
    edited August 2013

    My grandparents had Hee Haw on every Saturday evening when we'd stay there while my parents went out to dinner.  I still remember many of the skits.

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  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Member Posts: 1,376
    edited August 2013

    I remember my parents watching Lawrence Welk and Sing Along with Mitch Miller

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  • Spookiesmom
    Spookiesmom Member Posts: 9,568
    edited August 2013

    Newbie here, tried starting from the beginning, these may have been already mentioned?



    Rawhide, with Clint Eastwood

    Adventures in Paradise

    Bonanza

    77 sunset strip- Kookie lend me your comb

    Peter gunn

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  • Spookiesmom
    Spookiesmom Member Posts: 9,568
    edited August 2013

    WHERE'S THE BEEF?????

    Wendy's commercial

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  • elimar86861
    elimar86861 Member Posts: 7,416
    edited August 2013

                                                          

    Grandmotherly Clara Peller raised that question in 1964...to which the adequate answer still remains elusive even to this present day.

    (p.s. Spookiesmom, just enjoy the thread from wherever...don't worry about repeating because we already forgot what we wrote in the beginning anyway!)

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  • elimar86861
    elimar86861 Member Posts: 7,416
    edited August 2013

    That reminds me of...

                                                          

    Rodney Allen Rippy.  He did 70's commercials for Jack In The Box's "Jumbe Jack."  This year he had an unsuccessful run for candidacy for mayor of Compton, CA.

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  • elimar86861
    elimar86861 Member Posts: 7,416
    edited August 2013

    I'll give a virtual nickel to the first one who knows what L.S.M.F.T. used to really stand for?  (We all had our "neighborhood versions.")

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  • Spookiesmom
    Spookiesmom Member Posts: 9,568
    edited August 2013

    Loose Straps Means Floppy Tits?

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  • Spookiesmom
    Spookiesmom Member Posts: 9,568
    edited August 2013

    Lucky Strikes means Full Tobacco

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  • elimar86861
    elimar86861 Member Posts: 7,416
    edited August 2013

    Very close, not quite.

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  • Loral
    Loral Member Posts: 932
    edited August 2013

    Lucky strikes means fine tobacco......although I never smoked those, started with Dad's Kool's and Mom's Viceroy...WHAT!!!!!!

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  • elimar86861
    elimar86861 Member Posts: 7,416
    edited August 2013

    Here you go Loral...one for your coin collection.           

                                                                

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  • Loral
    Loral Member Posts: 932
    edited August 2013

    WinkThank You Very Much........

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  • Loral
    Loral Member Posts: 932
    edited August 2013

    WinkWait a minute that's not a nickel it's a dime...Thank you twice as much....

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  • elimar86861
    elimar86861 Member Posts: 7,416
    edited August 2013

    That IS a nickel.  It is the front of a buffalo nickel.

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  • Loral
    Loral Member Posts: 932
    edited August 2013

    It looks like a dime.........Undecided

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  • NativeMainer
    NativeMainer Member Posts: 10,462
    edited August 2013

    Does anyone still use "snowing down south"? 

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  • Spookiesmom
    Spookiesmom Member Posts: 9,568
    edited August 2013

    I really have seen snow here,1989 actually. But not familiar with that phrase.

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  • Meece
    Meece Member Posts: 19,483
    edited August 2013

    I was trying to explain to my kids about Rodney Allen Rippy just a couple of months ago when I mentions that something at dinner was "Too bigga eat."

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  • NativeMainer
    NativeMainer Member Posts: 10,462
    edited August 2013

    "Snowing down south" meant that your slip was showing below the hem of your dress or skirt.  Not sure anyone uses that anymore, I don't think anyone wears slips anymore! 

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  • elimar86861
    elimar86861 Member Posts: 7,416
    edited August 2013

    I had forgotten that expresion, NM.  It didn't even register when you wrote it on the last page, but yes, we said that as kids because we did wear slips as needed.  I don't think I have worn a slip for about ten years.  Also used the phrase, "XYZ"...examine your zipper.

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  • NativeMainer
    NativeMainer Member Posts: 10,462
    edited August 2013

    Never heard "XYZ" before! 

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  • luvmygoats
    luvmygoats Member Posts: 2,942
    edited August 2013

    Gosh I must be old fashioned. Had a slip on for church today. But then I wear skirts or dresses usually to church. I do have 2 pair of black pants that I wear occasionally. But I've never heard NM's epxression. Yes, I have heard XYZ or "close your barn door".

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  • Meece
    Meece Member Posts: 19,483
    edited August 2013

    I still wear slips with my dresses.  Never heard the expression though.  Heard both of the zipper ones though.

    OUt of the blue this morning I had a memory of The Salvation Army.  They used to come by and put a huge paper bag on our porch with a note stapled to it stating when they would be back to pick it up if it was filled.  The bags were like 30" by 20".  Does anyone else rememebr these?

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  • elimar86861
    elimar86861 Member Posts: 7,416
    edited August 2013

    I don't remember the Sal Army coming into my neighborhood. 

    We did have a knife sharpener guy, that came through the neighborhood with a pushcart, who was a tinker also and he fixed our broken collander once.  We had a "sheeny man" too.  I've heard this is an ethnic slur (at least if you read Ulysses by James Joyce) but we never used it that way.  It's what we called the "rag-picker" who came thru the alleys.  Old school recycling.  Parents back then used to threaten our naughty behavior with, "I'll tell the sheeny man to come get you."  My kids don't even know what a sheeny man is. 

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  • NativeMainer
    NativeMainer Member Posts: 10,462
    edited August 2013

    I never head the sheeny man phrase before!  Fascinating language stuff going on here. 

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  • Spookiesmom
    Spookiesmom Member Posts: 9,568
    edited August 2013

    Depending on where you live, Coke is pop or soda.

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