Memory Lane

Originally Posted by abbycats

Remember the Toy Slinkey. I used to love putting that on the stairs and watching go down!!

What about the little ovens you could bake little cakes in. Mine was blue and it heated from a lightbulb. I guess the original ones are collectors items now!!

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I never had an EasyBake Oven. I had access to the real thing. Mom started me baking at age 4 (under her supervision).

I still enjoyed playing with Slinkies.

Originally Posted by gemlady

I never had an EasyBake Oven.

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Memory: hard lessons from your parents - never abuse a toy or it will be taken away from you:

I got an Easy Bake Oven for Christmas. My best friend talked me into making the cake dough and eating it raw. When mom found out what we had done, she took it away from me. I never did make a cake in the oven.

Oh my gosh! This has been the best thread! REALLY takes me back to happy times.

What about wax lips (you could buy them with your candy cigs)?
My brother bought my dad a PONG Christmas of 1976. It was the hit
of the neighborhood.
I had a "Tammy" doll - which was the Barbie knock-off (my mom sewed
clothes for her - in leopard print).
We played "Kick the Can" outside till dark.
Also, we read "Trixie Belden", "Bobbsey Twins", and "Happy Hollisters".

LIL MAGGIE: yes, caps do still exist. My kid had a cap gun a few years
ago.
I LOVED the pictures of Burger Chef - we had one close to our elementary
school, and if we had a permission slip from parents, we could walk there
and eat lunch during school. Imagine that happening now?
Also, MOMOFMANY: I laughed out loud when I read of your "Suzy Homemaker
Easybake Oven" experience. My friend had one, and we used to eat the
batter raw, too. It was so much better that way.

Did you guys have chatterings in the States? Oh my gosh - they take me back

Also things like:

Furbies
Pokemon
Suzy's World
Scooters

Yes I wasn't a child that many years ago.

Remember:

shake-a-puddin
great shakes
baby doll carriages with little blankets and hoods on the carriage.
Barbie Dolls on the Stoop, changing their clothes, (then someone would have the fancy big Barbie Doll box, with all the accessories)
Jump rope with a group
Red light green light
Take a giant step
Paper doll cut outs (always cut one of the tabs by mistake)

Spinning on the sidewalk on a REAL Bigwheels.
rollerskates with keys.
Shrinky Dinks.
Playdough made out of flour, food color and water..I know there was a secret ingredient but don't ask me what! (I think I ate more than I actually used).
Red Rover, Red Rover

playing hide and seek.. we had the biggest yard in the neighborhood
tree houses
underground forts - my dad made cool ones!
barbies with the girl next door
riding bikes without helmets
I wish I still had my Chatty Cathy!
clackers - I loved those
Dolls that walked (they had batteries)
3 foot dolls
B&W TV with only 3 channels
going to my Uncle's house and seeing a color TV for the first time
lincoln logs
sparklers that were wire. You had to have a bucket of water to put them in afterwords or you could step on one and burn feet
running barefoot all summer
water fights
swamp coolers
drive-in playgrounds
trick or treating and going to every house in a 4 or 5 block radius. You didn't have to worry about the candy you would get. No one was out to poison kids
riding on my brother's home made skateboard.

I totally forgot about Play-Dough and Silly Putty

Remember when Pogo Sticks first came out? We played for hours with that.

Remember "Incredible Edibles"? You made them and then you ate them - they were like plastic?

Getting popcorn balls in a baggie in your Halloween sack (which was a brown paper bag)?

And speaking of Halloween, going trick-or-treat with your friends instead of your mom or dad? And throwing together a costume from what you had lying around VS paying $20 at Wal-Mart? (And because Wal-Mart didn't exist)

Putting on your best clothes to fly on an airplane?

"Little Kiddles" dolls (the pre-cursor to Polly Pockets)?

Suzy Cue dolls? (she had TONS of accessories)

When you and the "Garbageman" were friendly and he knew all the names of the kids in the neighborhood? (And the mailman and the milkman) And your parents TOTALLY trusted them?

Digging tadpoles out from the pond and trying desperately to get them to live to frog-hood?

Playing "army" with toy machine guns? (Now there is something I want to encourage my own kids to do!)

Sleds that were actually sleds?

Wearing dresses only to school? (We girls weren't allowed to wear pants in my county until I was in the 5th grade in 1969- how absolutely unfair, since we walked to school)

Speaking of school - a morning recess, an afternoon recess, and after-lunch recess - every day, even if it was snow flurrying? (My kids are lucky to get 15 minutes of social time a day.)

Lil Maggie - thank you for this thread - it has been such fun!

You're very welcome my friend! It is fun reminiscing about the good ol days! There are so many things I had forgotten until I read other's posts and laughed out loud thinking, oh yeah!

Speaking about popcorn. I remember when JIFFY POP came out and we would stare as if it was magic LOL

I could fast forward us a bit and we could remember things like: Mood Rings, Macrame Purses and Belts, Bell Bottoms, Desert Boots, Magic Eight Balls, Pet Rocks, Ouija Boards, Streaking, Dukes of Hazzard, Disco, The Fonz, Crusin the Local Steak n Shake, Peace Signs and Smiley Buttons
Sorry, I'm a nostalgiaholic!!

Originally Posted by threecatowner

Remember "Incredible Edibles"? You made them and then you ate them - they were like plastic?

And speaking of Halloween, going trick-or-treat with your friends instead of your mom or dad? And throwing together a costume from what you had lying around VS paying $20 at Wal-Mart? (And because Wal-Mart didn't exist)

"Little Kiddles" dolls (the pre-cursor to Polly Pockets)?

Wearing dresses only to school? (We girls weren't allowed to wear pants in my county until I was in the 5th grade in 1969- how absolutely unfair, since we walked to school)

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My neighbors had Incredible Edibles. Blech.

The only bought part of my Halloween costumes were the masks and most of them were simple and not character ones. I did have Morticia Addams one year.

I had Skediddle Kiddles.

You could wear slacks to school but only in extremely cold weather and you wore them under your dress and took them off when you got to school.

Remember when all male teachers wore ties and dress shirts?

Originally Posted by gemlady

You could wear slacks to school but only in extremely cold weather and you wore them under your dress and took them off when you got to school.

Remember when all male teachers wore ties and dress shirts?

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Oh my gosh, I'd forgotten that - we had to wear pants under dresses, too - and take them off at school.

And yes, I think through high school (mid 70's) the teachers dressed up.

Also, moving up to the 70's now (per lil maggie) - dancing the "bump"

McDonalds serving pop (soda to everyone out of WV) in GLASSES (I still have my Ronald McDonald one)

Lying out in the sun all day using baby oil (I'll pay for that one!)

With more time I could think of more...

Oh, remember Gremlins? (It was a car - oddly shaped) And Pacers?

Originally Posted by threecatowner

Oh, remember Gremlins? (It was a car - oddly shaped) And Pacers?

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Yep. Friend across the road had a Gremlin (magenta IIRC) and I rode in a Pacer. Small, but seats wide enough for my fat butt. I liked it. We had station wagons.

Captain Kangaroo before he moved to PBS.

Tom Terrific!

Beanie and Cecil!!

Creepy Crawlers
Fun Flowers
Lead soldier kit (you actually melted lead and poured it into soldier shaped molds)
Spirograph
inkwells! (ok, my school didn't still use ink, but we had the inkwell holes in our desks)
black & white TV
sizzler dresses
hot pants
little drinks in wax bottles
candy cigarettes
I loved staying up late to watch a "cartoon movie."


I don't miss white lipstick and typewriters though.

BTW, I think clackers and Jarts (lawn darts) were outlawed - at least in some states, as were candy cigarettes.

We didn't have inkwells but I remember fountain pens that you had to put ink cartriges in. They use to leak all over your clothes

I'm glad I kept my lawn jart game!

Originally Posted by Rockcat

sizzler dresses
hot pants

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I wore sizzler dresses in the 7th grade - much to my mother's unhappiness. The undies always matched the dress. I was tall, so they were even shorter.

And hot pants were big the same year - I loved them.

You are correct - candy cigs were outlawed - they have "candy sticks" now (pretty much the same thing)

I had forgotten about "Beanie & Cecil" - but I watched it! And "Rocky & Bullwinkle".

Speaking of TV in the 70's - remember that great Saturday night lineup?
All in the Family, Mary Tyler Moore, Bob Newhart, and Carol Burnett?
(It shows that I had no social life, huh?)

I miss variety shows like Carol Burnett and Red Skelton.

I have a DVD player but also have an old VHS player. I ran across a special on VHS I forgot I taped geez, it's been a long time ago, about Carol Burnett's Life. It shows a ton of The Carol Burnett Show, yep...I miss that show too. It's an hour program and I'm going to copy it to DVD and keep it

Does anyone remember the cartoons Big World of Little Adam and Mr Wizard with professor Peabody? Was that part of The Rocky and Bullwinkle cartoon? I'm going senile


I use to love the old SNL with Chevy Chase, John Belushi, Dan Aykroyd, Gilda Radner and Bill Murray!!

TV:
Land of the Lost
Electra Woman and Dyna Girl
Shazam
Nancy Drew Mysteries
Hardy Boys Mysteries (Shawn Cassidy and Parker Stevenson!)
Donny and Marie
Sonny and Cher
Josie and the Pussycats
The Partridge Family
Brady Bunch
I Dream of Jeannie
Petticoat Junction
Hee Haw
The Wonderful World of Disney
Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom
Columbo (still love those)
Perry Mason

We watched a lot of TV it seems Always on a small black and white TV.

Toys:
Timey Tell
Baby Tender Love
Dawn dolls (tiny things)
Chrissy
Kologne Kiddle dolls
Mrs Beasley
Barbie - remember the wigs?
Lincoln Logs

Trying to catch fireflies.
Watermelon, seeing who could spit seeds the best
Hot summer nights spent sleeping in front of a box fan (still do that)
Sleeping with my little brothers in the backseat of big, ol' cars. Plenty of room!
Drive-in theaters
Dairy Queen sundaes after races on Saturday nights
A&W root beer in my own little glass mug