Middle Aged Memories

Oh, Stuckey's!  They were even started here in Georgia (i.e. we had a LOT of them) and my family never stopped there. My roommate at UGA even knew the Stuckey family and couldn't believe I had never been there.  Are they out of business now?  I feel like I've missed out on an important childhood milestone.  NOW I want a pecan roll... Oh well, another childhood trauma I'll have to relive for the shrink, haha

The first adult movie I ever saw just about knocked my socks off and if you want to see a young, full-frontal nakedness, absolutely beautiful Don Johnson I highly recommend it!  I was 16 years old and my friend worked at the local movie theatre and we got in for free.  It was called "The Harrod Experiment".  Talk about your 70's free love fest!  So, so much nudity and partner-swapping.  I was.... I don't know... stunned?  But I sure had a crush on Don Johnson after that.  

yes, I do! Even remember pouring the liquid solution/catalyst into molds to make "grapes" 

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Remember these?

you got that right!

Often thought those click clanks led to that desk-top gadget where small metal balls are suspended, pull one back, release, the opposite end flies out, then the opposite, ad infin item... Cool for a couple moments, then boring

I remember Op-Yop.  We were smart kids...we made out own with giant buttons on a thread cord, from Grandma.

Looks like these are still in production, and they got pinkified.  Eeeek!

I have never seen op-yop.

Anyone remember colorforms? Now this is something I had!

Yes I wore them and I remember them hurting my head....

I used to use them on my dolls too.

I might have had a barrette or two but, in my house, pony tails were held in place by plain hair-snagging rubber bands, the kind that came off of a shopping news.  I kept them on the doorknob in my room.  A hair fashion that lasted a year or two was wearing a little triangle head scarf.  My cousin sewed some up for me.

Speaking of newspapers...we used to have a paper boy for the daily news and those papers came folded up in that special way.  They gave the boys that coin change thing to wear on their waists on collection day.  Think we used to pay .35 for the week.

  We never had a papergirl.    

My Mother braided my hair every day through 6th grade.  When I went to Jr. High I switched to pony tails & I too used plain old rubber bands.  

We had a coin changer just like that.  My grandpa told us that the train conductors & bus drivers used them.  My brother threw the local paper for awhile.  Girls weren't allowed, but I spent more time folding then he did.  And of course no plastic bags like we have now for the rain.

I still have a couple of those triangle scarfs.  Eventually maybe I grow enough hair back to wear them.

Do they still make those Dr. Scholl's?  I had a pair.  They hurt really bad if you stepped on them wrong.

I was making a smoothie yesterday when I remembered having one of these in the 70's...

Back then, yogurt was a health food craze.  I remember the t.v. ad for Dannon, with some Russians who lived to be 100.  It sure didn't take up a dozen shelves in the dairy case back then.  Making your own yogurt was a fashionable thing to do in the hippy lifestyle so, of course, someone figured they could make a buck selling the little heating units.  The yogurt came out  tasting o.k., but mine was always a little on the runny side.

Remember the Salton bread warmer? I still have this and it works great for keeping rolls warm.

I bet you're right.

We were your typical Italian family so anything to do with bread and pasta we were all over!

Yogurt was way too healthy for us.....probably why I don't remember that one! LOL