THE WAY WE WERE......LOOKING BACK IS FUN

I remember that well! Still amazes me to this day that packaging a rock just right made some guy so wealthy.

Ducky, my toddlers had those McDonald's plates and cups in the early '80s.  We still have some of them.

I hate to admit it but I did own some of those dorky mood rings.  Lots of my friends had them as well.  It's amazing what we considered "cool" back then.  How times have changed.

So true AZ.

I had mood rings. I never got the pretty colors my friends would get.

Remember these guys? I had a huge crush on cute little Ricky. I have pretty good gay-dar, even as a kid. Did not see that one coming.

I think that is Ricky Martin in the middle ducky...at least it looks like him and the "gaydar" comment makes me think I am right. 

I had white boot skates and was a reasonable skater. 

Lots of the things you lot post I don't recognise because in the 60s NZ was a very isolated place and extremely goveremt controlled. My US aunt sent me a Girlfriend magazine when I was I had polio and when my mother tried to get them for me she had to fill on an import request and explain why she wanted it. At that time you could only buy a new car of you had overseas currency and had to apply to bring it into the country which sometimes took years. 

We got TV in 1963 which was soon after it started here so I do know most of the TV programmes that have been mentioned. 

Ducky I so love those 50s dresses and really wanted one and the petticoat that went with it.  I was just too young and so by the time I was allowed to have a longer skirt the hems went up and dresses became slimmer. My sister and SiLs had them. 

By the time I was about 17 the hems went way up and I wore minis and then at university I became rather hippie with long hair and skirts and I protested which might surprise a few. 

Alyson! What fun to see these photos of you at so many different times in your life. You were/are lovely! Thanks for sharing!

Yum...I think

Oh Mema, I love beer, but I never cared for Lone Star. I can remember a place when I was in my late teens that had 25 cent Lone Star longnecks at happy hour and I wouldn't even drink it when it was only a quarter.