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  • NativeMainer
    NativeMainer Member Posts: 10,462
    edited July 2015

    Bubble writing, YES!

    I don't remember the Lindy pen, but they look like fun!

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  • Eph3_12
    Eph3_12 Member Posts: 4,781
    edited July 2015

    I loved the Cowsills....I think the Partridge Family was a rip off of the whole concept. Sad about the one drowning in Katrina.

    Remember Sajid Kahn?

    Maya TV series Sajid Khan 1967.jpg

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  • Rockym
    Rockym Member Posts: 1,261
    edited July 2015

    Speaking of Partridge Family, I saw David Cassidy perform about 10 years ago. He was an angry guy who started getting ticked off when the women in the audience were screaming and saying "I love you" and the like. My friend and I just sat watching the interaction. Eventually he sang his rountine (which I don't recall). All I recall was him telling the ladies to cool it and being angry. What a strange memory!

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  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Member Posts: 1,376
    edited July 2015

    Rocky, Wow....what a memory to be left with.

    Anyone remember this?

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  • elimar86861
    elimar86861 Member Posts: 7,416
    edited July 2015

    Nope, but I have this...

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    AND the matching tie!!!

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  • Loral
    Loral Member Posts: 932
    edited July 2015

    Yes and Yes and these...imageimageimageimage

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  • Rockym
    Rockym Member Posts: 1,261
    edited July 2015

    On a happier memory...

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  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Member Posts: 1,376
    edited July 2015

    I loved Kerplunk!!!

    I still have Pick Up Stix for the kids when they come. They used to put them in a pot and pretend they were spaghetti. I also have a Barrel of Monkey somewhere in this house.

    Remember this one?

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  • NativeMainer
    NativeMainer Member Posts: 10,462
    edited July 2015

    I don't remember 3 Blind mice, but I definitely remember the barrel of Monkeys!Never saw the matching tie, though!It's pretty wild!

    Pick up stix, yup, remember them, never got very good at them at all!

    KerPlunks was never a very popular game with my crowd growing up, but I do remember it.

    And those slidy things, drove me, and still drive me,NUTS!!!!!!!

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  • Rockym
    Rockym Member Posts: 1,261
    edited July 2015

    I used to love this game as a kid, but when my kids wanted to play who do you think had to reset the ice cubes? When I was younger I could play this with a friend over and over and we didn't mind resetting the cubes. Of course we played this when we were pre-teens. Can you imagine pre-teens playing this today :-)

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  • elimar86861
    elimar86861 Member Posts: 7,416
    edited July 2015

    I used to go to a Christmas party from my mom's work and the kids always got gift bags. That sliding numbers puzzle was in there every year. Also, the table walking animals with a weight on a string that hung over the table pulling them forward. Who even knows what they were called?

    image Only mine was a spotted cow. "Plastic walking cow?"

    Then there was the perennial Chinese finger trap...

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  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Member Posts: 1,376
    edited July 2015

    I did play don't break the ice!

    The table walking animals I've never seen.

    I have seen the Chinese finger trap, but I never had one.

    How about the phone prank - Do you have Prince Albert in the Can??

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    We were so easily amused back in the day!!

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  • MinusTwo
    MinusTwo Member Posts: 16,634
    edited July 2015

    Or "Mr. Lion is calling from the zoo". Yes, we were easily amused. We played games w/our family & friends all the time, and Pick-up-Stix was one of my Dad's favorites.

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  • Rockym
    Rockym Member Posts: 1,261
    edited July 2015

    Anyone call the bowling alley ;-) Excuse me sir, do you have10 pound balls? Very easily amused!

    SlowDeepBreaths, I grew up in So. Cal Sounds like we were into the same things.

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  • MinusTwo
    MinusTwo Member Posts: 16,634
    edited July 2015

    I grew up on No. Cal so we have some of the same references. But I was so naive I wouldn't have understood the bowling alley joke. As my DH said, I was raised in a paper bag. Things sure changed when I went to college.

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  • Eph3_12
    Eph3_12 Member Posts: 4,781
    edited July 2015

    I didn't bother with college, I just went straight to playing house with my boyfriend. In 1972, that was very risque. I think my folks were completely mortified & embarassed to the highest degree.

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  • NativeMainer
    NativeMainer Member Posts: 10,462
    edited July 2015

    Do you have Prince Albert in a Can? Yes? You better let him out before he suffocates!

    Is your refrigerator running? Yes? You bet go catch it!

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  • elimar86861
    elimar86861 Member Posts: 7,416
    edited July 2015

    I don't remember Sajid Kahn, but Sabu I do remember from The Jungle Book.

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  • elimar86861
    elimar86861 Member Posts: 7,416
    edited July 2015

    I saw another shirtless child actor from my youth on t.v. over the weekend. It was Bomba, the jungle boy.

    But he started out as "Boy" in the Tarzan movies.

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  • NativeMainer
    NativeMainer Member Posts: 10,462
    edited July 2015

    I remember Tarzan, Jane, Boy, Cheeta!


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  • elimar86861
    elimar86861 Member Posts: 7,416
    edited July 2015

    When finding a photo for the Mid-Age thread, I put up some water skiers from Cypress Gardens. Remember how that and Weeki Watchee were both "a thing" back in the 60's? Here's a more vintage pic of those gals. It just does not get any more summery than that!

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  • MinusTwo
    MinusTwo Member Posts: 16,634
    edited July 2015

    I've been going through old HS scrapbooks. We had an aquatics team and held very involved Aquacades w/programs and everything. I doubt I can still float on my back & lift one leg straight up, let alone propel myself around in a circle while holding the leg up.

    I loved Ester Williams and the swimming movies.

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  • elimar86861
    elimar86861 Member Posts: 7,416
    edited July 2015

    Oh, MT, I always opted for Swim in H.S. and loved the synchronized swim the most. We never had Aquacades or any spectators even.

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    One of my best friends and I got quite good at "The Dolphin."

    Just don't make me remember those red COTTON swimsuits we had to wear. They just got wet and hung on your body. So ugly.

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  • NativeMainer
    NativeMainer Member Posts: 10,462
    edited July 2015

    Elimar--great pic!Women with thighs and waists that aren't pencil thin, are we sure these are Human women?Very summery pic, I agree!Very different time, too.Today's water skiers wound not wear so much fabric, there's enough in one of these ladies' suits to make suits for a dozen of today's girls!

    The swim suits must have been like the gym suits we used to have to wear--I hated them, so ugly!

    Ours, right down to the color:

    https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/dd/8d/84/dd8d84ecdb76df53ae4724cf45d5b375.jpg

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  • MinusTwo
    MinusTwo Member Posts: 16,634
    edited July 2015

    NativeMaine - our gymsuit were one color blue & had snaps instead of a zipper. Yup - ugly!!!

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  • Eph3_12
    Eph3_12 Member Posts: 4,781
    edited July 2015

    we had blue shorts with white shirts that had metal snaps.

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  • elimar86861
    elimar86861 Member Posts: 7,416
    edited July 2015

    I don't remember having to wear a gymsuit at all, just our own shorts and t-shirts.

    We definitely called it "Gym Class" and not "P.E." But then, I opted out for "Swim" after one semester of Field Hockey. (Ugh!!!)

    My kids mocked me when I referred to it as "Gym." So glad I could give them yet another laugh!


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  • MinusTwo
    MinusTwo Member Posts: 16,634
    edited July 2015

    Eli - isn't it amazing how much amusement our kids can find in the way we used to do things?

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  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Member Posts: 1,376
    edited July 2015

    Rockym, 1964? If that is the year your were born, I am one year ahead of you. No wonder we remember all the same things!!

    NativeMainer, why was that so darn amusing when we were young? It sounds so silly now!! haha

    I think gym is an east coast thing. At least that's is what we called it when we lived back east. When I moved to CA, I started calling it P.E. like everyone else.

    Kinda like roof back east and ruff in CA. I never did adjust to ruff.

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  • Rockym
    Rockym Member Posts: 1,261
    edited July 2015

    SlowDeepBreaths, Yep, 1964 here. I tried for a long time to get BCO to allow us to just put our year into our profile. There was so much back and forth about the whole thing I ended up putting it in my avatar area :-). Awhile back I found myself always asking ladies how old they were when they were looking for advice and answers.

    I grew up in West L.A. area. I hung out at the arcade in Westwood near UCLA. What about you?

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