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  • elimar86861
    elimar86861 Member Posts: 7,416
    edited May 2016

    I can almost still taste that purple "wax bottle" sugar water. (Don't know why that one stands out it my memory.) Sure did hate the way the paper backing on those dot candies peeled off along with them. (Not to say I didn't keep buying them!!!) I think the pink dots used Red Dye #2, which had it's own nasty taste. To this day I still avoid red M&Ms because of the original Red Dye #2 flavor they used to have.

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  • Loral
    Loral Member Posts: 932
    edited May 2016

    Yep, smokin our Cigs and drinking wax pop...Yummy....Oh and I love m&m's, actually my favorite.

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  • NativeMainer
    NativeMainer Member Posts: 10,462
    edited May 2016

    Ah, the wax bottles with sugar water. Not sure what the attraction was, but it was there!


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  • MinusTwo
    MinusTwo Member Posts: 16,634
    edited May 2016

    Does anyone else remember pouring regular dry jello into your palm and licking on it? Sure made some interesting tongue colors.

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  • elimar86861
    elimar86861 Member Posts: 7,416
    edited May 2016

    Yes, but that was only when the returnable bottle pickin's were to meager to get a few cents to buy a couple pixie stix or some Lik-m-aid.

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    Those packs remind me off various stickers I had as a kid that came with a stick of awful stale gum. One was Wacky Packages...

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    The other was Ugly Stickers. Kids put these on their closet doors. I put mine on the outside of my bedroom door. My hardwood maple bedroom door. The sticky residue would not come off and it was on there for YEARS but somehow my mom never really got onto me about that damage. Looking back, I was a real moron.

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  • elimar86861
    elimar86861 Member Posts: 7,416
    edited May 2016

    Where there was gum, there were gum wrappers...and then gum wrapper chains. I made a pretty big one out of Doublemint, tho' I actually preferred Fruit Stripe gum or Teaberry, but my best friend contributed a lot of the green wrappers to my cause, and I got Juicy Fruit and Beemans wrappers from mom.


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  • elimar86861
    elimar86861 Member Posts: 7,416
    edited May 2016

    What also came to mind just the other day was this gems of preadolescence...

    16 Magazine (Love me some Monkees!)

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    And to a lesser extent, Tiger Beat.

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    Bobby (squeal!) Sherman and Leonard (the DiCaprio of the 60's) Whiting. This was my era... When the covers changed over to have that squeaky clean Donny Osmond, or that Shaun Cassidy (who even upped the unappealing wholesome ante over his older bro') it was time to grow up and go buy some Led Zepplin 45's, ya know?

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  • Loral
    Loral Member Posts: 932
    edited May 2016

    I do remember making gum wrapper jewelry...(beautiful!)

    Oh and Hey Hey for the Monkees, and Bobby Sherman and David Cassidy too....

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  • zogo
    zogo Member Posts: 20,329
    edited May 2016

    I have made countless yards of gum wrapper chains. It was a sad day when I realized they no longer sell gum in wrappers.

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  • MinusTwo
    MinusTwo Member Posts: 16,634
    edited May 2016

    Oh my - Teaberry gum. Haven't thought of that in years.

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  • elimar86861
    elimar86861 Member Posts: 7,416
    edited May 2016

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    Cracker Barrel has all three of these.

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  • MinusTwo
    MinusTwo Member Posts: 16,634
    edited May 2016

    Thanks for the snaps. My Dad's favorite was Black Jack.

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  • Rockym
    Rockym Member Posts: 1,261
    edited May 2016

    My grandma always had a box filled with Beemans in her side table drawer. I always buy Beemans when I see it. It totally brings me back. Also, Davy Jones was so damn cute. Even Marsha, Marsha, Marsha got to do an episode with him.

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  • zogo
    zogo Member Posts: 20,329
    edited May 2016

    Oh, you can buy sticks of gum, but do they have inner double paper wrappers?


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  • NativeMainer
    NativeMainer Member Posts: 10,462
    edited May 2016

    MinusTwo--I never did the licking dry jello thing, sounds like fun, though!

    Elimar--oh my goodness those Wacky Packages!I never saw those before!What a hoot!I do remember the gum wrapper chains, never did learn how to make them.

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  • elimar86861
    elimar86861 Member Posts: 7,416
    edited May 2016

    The other day, I told my husband how we used to "call out" our friends by going to their doors (even in winter with the doors closed) and calling their names in a sing-songy way (i.e. Kaaa-ren, Daaa-vid, Re-naaay.) He said he never did that. He just tapped at his friends door or rang the doorbell. I was surprised because I thought all kids just did that back in the Sixties. Did anyone else remember calling out their friends as a kid?

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  • Rockym
    Rockym Member Posts: 1,261
    edited May 2016

    elimar, we did, but I think this was a girl thing. In fact... now I recall the movie "Warriors" in the late 70s. One gang called for the other "Waaarrriorrsss, come out and play!" This is exactly what a lot of us did.

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  • elimar86861
    elimar86861 Member Posts: 7,416
    edited May 2016

    Rockym, it was both boys and girls in my neighborhood. At what age did it stop? I think we still did it through junior high, at least. Not sure when I stopped hearing younger kids still doing that but by the Eighties, I don't think anyone still did that.


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  • Loral
    Loral Member Posts: 932
    edited May 2016

    I did that too...Debbieeeeeeee, Maryyyyyyyyyyy, can you come out and play....We probably stopped once we went to junior high.

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  • elimar86861
    elimar86861 Member Posts: 7,416
    edited May 2016

    There is something so quaint about doing that. Old fashioned, like rain barrels. (Those are coming back, you know.)

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  • MinusTwo
    MinusTwo Member Posts: 16,634
    edited May 2016

    My grandmother used to sing this song. The mention of rain barrels tripped the memory.

    Hey, hey, oh playmate,
    Come out and play with me
    And bring your dollies three
    Climb up my apple tree

    Slide down my rain barrel
    Into my cellar door
    And we'll be jolly friends
    Forever more, more, more.

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  • NativeMainer
    NativeMainer Member Posts: 10,462
    edited May 2016

    I remember that song! We also used it as a jump rope rhyme.


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  • Loral
    Loral Member Posts: 932
    edited May 2016

    We jumped to this song...........

    Miss Susie had a steamboat

    the steamboat had a bell
    Miss Susie went to heaven
    the steamboat went to
    Hello operator please give me number nine
    and if you disconnect me
    I'll kick you from behind
    the refrigerator there was a piece of glass
    Miss Susie sat upon it and cut her little
    ask me no more questions
    tell me no more lies
    the boys are in the bathroom zipping up their
    flies are in the meadow,
    the bees are in the park
    Miss Susie and her boyfriend are kissing in the
    dark is like a movie
    a movie's like a show
    a show is like a tv screen and that is all
    i know i know my ma
    i know i know my pa
    i know i know my sister with the 80 acre alligator bra

    (anyone who could jump all the way through this rhyme was considered very very good)

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  • elimar86861
    elimar86861 Member Posts: 7,416
    edited May 2016

    MinusTwo, that rhyme reminds me of a song I heard on an album from my childhood. First verse:

    I don't want to play in your yard
    I don't like you anymore
    You'll be sorry when you see me
    Sliding down my cellar door
    You can't holler down my rain barrel
    You can't climb my cherry tree
    I don't want to play in your yard
    If you won't be good to me.

    Don't worry, the friends make up at the end and all friend access gets restored.

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  • elimar86861
    elimar86861 Member Posts: 7,416
    edited May 2016

    Speaking of songs, I think my first 45 was "Snoopy vs. the Red Baron," by The Royal Guardsman.


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  • BookLady1
    BookLady1 Member Posts: 253
    edited May 2016

    Elimar - that song reminds me of the roller rink! ✌️❤️ Lindaa

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  • NativeMainer
    NativeMainer Member Posts: 10,462
    edited May 2016

    Loral--I never heard that jump rope rhyme, that is cute!And long!

    El--that song sounds familiar, I think I've hear it a time or two in my childhood.

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  • Lucy55
    Lucy55 Member Posts: 3,044
    edited July 2016

    I don't post on this thread often, but I have enjoyed reading it.. It brings back great memories :-)

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  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Member Posts: 1,376
    edited August 2016

    Remember this song?


    Oh Little Playmate

    Hand Clapping Song

    Oh little playmate,
    Come out and play with me,
    And bring your dollies three,
    Climb up my apple tree,
    Slide down my rainbow,
    Into my cellar door,
    And we'll be jolly friends,
    Forever more, more, more!

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  • elimar86861
    elimar86861 Member Posts: 7,416
    edited August 2016

    SlowDeep, I don't remember that little song. Is it one where you do the "pat-a-cake" kind of clapping with a friend? I do remember doing that to some kind of sing-songs rhymes.

    I remember a lot of radio songs from a young age. I remember being with a teen babysitter while she was watching American Bandstand with this song:

    The Locomotion -- Little Eva.

    Never did learn the dance. The first dances I learned (not counting the waltz from my dad) were The Twist (of course!) The Monkey and The Jerk and The Hitchhike, then The Shingaling. Now that I think of it, I would really love to go to a dance studio and learn some more of the dances from the 50's and 60's. Like The Mashed Potato. I have watched videos but cannot seem to pick it up from watching those. I never learned to moonwalk either. Do you think it is too late for me?

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