Middle Aged Memories

Bonanza is on in the afternoon around here.

I remember my brother and I going into our coat closet and crunching Wint-O-Green Lifesavers and watching "sparks" fly.

Pretty sure Columbo was one of the NBC Mystery Movies, but I also seem to remember Quincy being one them.  

I loved Night Gallery.  I still remember my favorite episode where John Carradine tells some young boys where to dig for a treasure.  They go at night, of course, and "Surprise" (name of the episode,) they end up digging Carradine out of the ground.  That was one creepy dude.

Sorry if that was a spoiler to anyone who might ever watch the old series.

So did MY BARBIE.  Ahahahahahaha! 

I loved Night Gallery, too.  Rod Serling was great - too bad he died so young.

I still love the old series McMillan & Wife, Quincy ME and Columbo plus Twilight Zone/Night Gallery. And I still watch them on Netflix.  If you're bored you can stream them whenever you want them. Everybody seems to love Monk, but he's basically a newer version of Columbo and I like Columbo better.  There was another part of the NBC Mystery Movies that starred Dennis Weaver - anybody remember that one? Was that show on Sunday nights?  We used to watch them with my father and he was always home Sunday nights.

Seems like I slammed it down on my finger once or twice.

I never had a princess pink phone & I didn't have any Barbies so I just had to make do with the rotary phone in my mom&dad's room if I wanted to call on the sly.  Ah-phone pranking!

We had two phones in our house.  The one in my parent's room looked like this:

It was super heavy and you couldn't perch it on your shoulder because of the ridge on the handset.  Kept our "private" calls short.

I LOVED Sky King!

Oh, yes!  Liked Time Tunnel.  Gotta love the "swirl machine," back when special effects cost like $25. 

So, you know I am in the midst of my World Cup viewing right now.  Couldn't help but remember Pele.

While we are at it, have to remember when the sport shorts were short.  Watched a few games of the NBA Final that just finished up.  So funny to look at the photos from back in the 70's now.  Their uniforms were like hot pants!  Ooh, la la! 

I personally think the original stuff tasted nasty, probably because I wasn't a sportster!

BORN IN THE LAB

In early summer of 1965, a University of Florida assistant coach sat down with a team of university physicians and asked them to determine why so many of his players were being affected by heat and heat related illnesses.

The researchers — Dr. Robert Cade, Dr. Dana Shires, Dr. H. James Free and Dr. Alejandro de Quesada — soon discovered two key factors that were causing the Gator players to 'wilt': the fluids and electrolytes the players lost through sweat were not being replaced, and the large amounts of carbohydrates the players' bodies used for energy were not being replenished.

The researchers then took their findings into the lab, and scientifically formulated a new, precisely balanced carbohydrate-electrolyte beverage that would adequately replace the key components lost by Gator players through sweating and exercise. They called their concoction ‘Gatorade'.

PROVEN ON THE FIELD

Soon after the researchers introduced their Gatorade formula to the team, the Gators began winning… outlasting a number of heavily favored opponents in the withering heat and finishing the season at 7–4.

The team's success progressed even more during the 1966 season, with the Gators finishing at 9–2 and winning the Orange Bowl for the first time ever in the history of the school. Word about Gatorade began to spread outside of the state of Florida, and both the University of Richmond and Miami of Ohio, began ordering batches of Gatorade for their football teams. Orders from other college football programs across the country soon followed, as playing without Gatorade on your sidelines began to be likened to playing with just ten men on the field.

Today, Gatorade can be found on the sidelines of more than 70 Division I colleges as the official sports drink of their men's and women's intercollegiate sports.