Middle Aged Memories

When I finally did have it, I didn't like the taste either.  Then, many years went by and by the time I bought some for my kids it was better and there were dozens flavors.  I did hear that Gatorade wears down tooth enamel worse than soda.

Remember the urban legend that a Coke could dissolve a penny?  Did anyone actually do it?

Such a great thread. Sorry I missed it all this time.

My husband uses coke also to clean off his batteries.

I never liked gatorade.....but, I did follow the Lakers back in the day when Pat O'Reilly was the coach. Larry Byrd was always the enemy.

Something else I remember was another predictor , it was a
red celophane fish.Y ou had to hold it in your hand and it would curl up. I kind of remember girls using it to ask
another girl if she liked so-and-so.

Elimar, I remember that fish!  They were kind of creepy, moving around in your hand and curling up.

We made so much out of so little:

Carnations (or pom poms) out of Kleenex.  Those "palm trees" made from newspaper.  I made a little Christmas tree out of TV Guide once.  Reader's Digest worked too. 

And pipe cleaners, just the plain white ones for actual pipes, before the craft store started selling them in multi-colors.

Compared to today, we didn't that have much, but our parents told us we had so much.  Such a parental thing to say.

If that's true, they must have been down to a stick, some dirt to draw in with it and the ever available bottle cap.

It was the Depression after all.

NM, Cobalt cloride...yeah, that's it.  Thank goodness I am not certifiable (at least about the Weather thingy.)  The one I did not make came with a thick absorbant tissue pad cut into a shape (maybe of a cloud) and mounted on a small card.  Like you might carry it around with you.  Can you imagine.  "Hey, I felt a drop, let me get out my card to check for sure."

That is the exact mood ring I had, no frills.  Mine always showed up blue with green in it, which you can see from the chart is pretty open to interpretation.

Pretty sure I mentioned these before, but so worth bringing up for an encore:  The slave bracelet!

I had a couple of mood rings.  I don't remember it ever being any of those yellowish colors!  I'm not familiar with slave bracelets.  Maybe they were before my time?

If you missed out on being a hippie (or trying to look just like one,) then you missed these...the slave bracelet for the feet.

  Went nicely with toe rings, dontcha think?

Hi Meece!   Clint Howard has been in tons of movies, not just his brothers, as a character actor.  You reminded me he was also in original Star Trek on t.v.

Don't let the smile fool you.   He wasn't going to EVER get invited to have one of Aunt Bee's cookies in Mayberry.

"Danger, Danger Will Robinson!"

Oh Yeah We use the "danger danger" line a lot at our house.

Did not know Clint Howard was that ugly kid in the original Star Trek movie. I had to go to the IMDB to verify it!

We watched Sky King but Gentle Ben and Flipper came along too late for me.

Mom would never let me have a chemistry set but I got my fill in college with a chem. minor.

Never seen the creepy fortune teller fish palms. Yuck.

DH and I loved WKRP - see that dates me right there.

Only really remember seeing the Roy Rogers one.  And then, we also had Red Barn.  (factoid:  They had the "Big Barney" burger a few yearsbefore the "Big Mac" showed up.)

LuvMyGoats - If you listened to Sky King, did you also follow Sargent Preston of the Yukon?  I listened on the radio but google says it was a TV series from 1955 - 1958.  We didn't have a TV then but I loved to be sick & stay home from school to listen to the day time radio shows.

Wow, I don't remember those shows or those restaurants. I do remember my mom loved Stuckey's Restaurant when we were traveling.