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  • Monis
    Monis Member Posts: 472
    edited January 2014

    Meece, I also vividly remember having aluminum trees in the classroom.  Every year was exciting to set them up and decorate the room with all the craft projects!

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  • NativeMainer
    NativeMainer Member Posts: 10,462
    edited January 2014

    And remember the colored light wheel? 

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  • heartnsoul76
    heartnsoul76 Member Posts: 1,648
    edited January 2014

    Oh, I loved the color wheel!  My father had the color wheel spinning around while the tree was set up on something that slowly rotated it around.  What a light show in the den!

    My mother would switch the ornaments up a little, too.  Our favorites were all blue or blue & green. Sometimes they would be all gold or gold & red.

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  • Meece
    Meece Member Posts: 19,483
    edited January 2014

    This year I did a Mardi Gras theme on one tree.  Green Gold & Purple.  It' fun to use ornaments I already had and just add a little to them.  

    Our elementary school had a larger aluminum tree with a color wheel in front of it.

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  • elimar86861
    elimar86861 Member Posts: 7,416
    edited January 2014

    Sounds interesting and fun Meece.  Care to post a picture?  I remember your grapes/vinyard tree.

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  • elimar86861
    elimar86861 Member Posts: 7,416
    edited February 2014

    R.I.P. Shirley...loved your movies!

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    I was going to post that my fave movie of hers was Heidi, but then I know I loved The Little Princess and The Little Colonel and Just Around The Corner and Captain January and The Blue Bird.  Who cares how sappy they were?  That's WHY I loved them!

    In my first school photo (from kindergarten,) my mom curled my hair to look like Shirley. 

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  • Eph3_12
    Eph3_12 Member Posts: 4,781
    edited February 2014

    Good Ship Lollipop & Heidi...those are my 2 most favorite things. 

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  • elimar86861
    elimar86861 Member Posts: 7,416
    edited March 2014

    No one's been posting here for a while.  I haven't come close to exhausting all my memories, but if others are tired of posting it would be too boring with just me going on about ancient history (otherwise known as the golden days.)

    I happened to see a bit of that show Let's Make A Deal on t.v. last week.  It's has been on forever, but I remember back to when the host, Monty Hall, used to go up into the audience and people had to get onto the show by trading something to him.  I seem to remember women trading items from out of their purses...lipsticks, used kleenexes.   Or did they just "come on down" and trade with him then?

    I'm a little confused because Letterman had that segment where he used to go up into his audience and look thru' ladies handbags, and then give them a prize for participating.

    Also, I made up the used kleenex part.

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  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Member Posts: 1,376
    edited March 2014

    as I recall, Monty Hall went into the audience and asked for things and gave out some cash.

    Don't know why, but that reminds me of Laugh-in. anyone else remember that?

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  • elimar86861
    elimar86861 Member Posts: 7,416
    edited March 2014

    I liked Goldie Hawn when she was a dancer on Laugh-In.  Also, the psychedelic wall that people would pop out of and say one liners.

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  • luvmygoats
    luvmygoats Member Posts: 2,942
    edited March 2014

    My DM loved Laugh-In and me too. I think I was a sophomore in HS about then. It was a tough year - DM going thru a divorce (well so were DB and I) so any laughter was welcome.

    On another thread we've had a short reminisce about Welcome Back Kotter.

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  • Loral
    Loral Member Posts: 932
    edited March 2014

    Loved Kotter, and laugh-in was funny...

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  • Meece
    Meece Member Posts: 19,483
    edited March 2014

    Remember when Lucky Charms only had four shapes?

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  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Member Posts: 1,376
    edited March 2014

    Lucky Charms: heart, moon, shamrock and ??

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  • NativeMainer
    NativeMainer Member Posts: 10,462
    edited March 2014

    Lucky Charms--heart, Moon, Lucky Shamrock and stars!  

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  • NativeMainer
    NativeMainer Member Posts: 10,462
    edited March 2014

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  • NativeMainer
    NativeMainer Member Posts: 10,462
    edited March 2014

    OK, trying to post some Laugh In pics, but having trouble, I guess one pic is the limit for a while! 

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  • Meece
    Meece Member Posts: 19,483
    edited March 2014

    One ringy-dingy, two ringy-dingy.

    I'm Edith Ann and I'm five years old.

    Very Interesting.

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  • elimar86861
    elimar86861 Member Posts: 7,416
    edited March 2014

    Here come da judge.

    You bet your sweet bippy.

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  • Eph3_12
    Eph3_12 Member Posts: 4,781
    edited March 2014

    hehehehe, wanna a walnetto?

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  • Loral
    Loral Member Posts: 932
    edited March 2014

    What about 

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    Funny Guys....

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  • Eph3_12
    Eph3_12 Member Posts: 4,781
    edited March 2014

    Love Tommy & Dicky!!


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  • MinusTwo
    MinusTwo Member Posts: 16,634
    edited March 2014

    Anybody old enough to remember the Kraft Mystery Theater?  Scary!!

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  • NativeMainer
    NativeMainer Member Posts: 10,462
    edited March 2014

    I don't remember Kraft Mystery Theater, but there was one that I loved in the 70's, mostly scary stories, but I can't remember the name of the series. . . .

    I do remember these: 

    Baretta

    Charlie's Angels

    Mod Squad

    Mannix

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  • elimar86861
    elimar86861 Member Posts: 7,416
    edited March 2014

    Was it Night Gallery?

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  • Meece
    Meece Member Posts: 19,483
    edited March 2014

    Remember the NBC Mystery Movie?  Each week they would have a different series like McMillon and Wife or McCloud.

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  • Meece
    Meece Member Posts: 19,483
    edited March 2014

    How about when the checkout at the grocery had rows of LifeSavers and Certs and gum, candy bars were on and end cap around here. Can you even buy butterscotch LifeSavers anymore?  Now the check out seems like every sort of candy there is. I looked the other day and I didn't see any Certs or Lifesavers.

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  • luvmygoats
    luvmygoats Member Posts: 2,942
    edited March 2014

    Lifesavers are hard to find; some at convenience stores in rolls. I used to frequent conv. stores when doing hospice and always checked out the lifesaver supply. My fav were Sweet Mint and Spearmint. You can buy the spearmint in big pkgs indiv. wrapped but I don't think they taste the same. Rarely see Butterscotch, more the fruity or breath mint flavors.

    My favorite was Medical Center. I was in love with Chad Everett. Not so much a mystery/spooky show gal.

    I actually looked on YouTube for Dr. Kildare and Ben Casey. They were just before my time so missed nearly all of them. I also liked Frontier Doctor with Rex Allen (now that was a long time ago mid 1958 is about when I remember it).

    I also did a bit of looking at Bonanza stuff this week only because I put on some Ed Ames music on YouTube. Led me to looking up Pernell Roberts singing "They Call the Wind Maria" and into the whole Bonanza thing.

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  • Eph3_12
    Eph3_12 Member Posts: 4,781
    edited March 2014

    ahhhhh-old TV.  Man from U.N.C.L.E., I Spy, Bewitched, Smothers Brothers, Father Knows Best... now there's some TV!

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  • MinusTwo
    MinusTwo Member Posts: 16,634
    edited March 2014

    Oh Luv - What a great memory.  "They Call the Wind Maria" by Gogi Grant was on the juke box of a tiny log store in a one horse mountain town where we always stopped to use the facilities on the way to girls summer camp.  Hadn't thought of that in years.  Thanks.

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