Remember when?

[tuxluvr]

Originally posted by moosmom
OMG!!!

Tuxluvr, I am laughing so hard, my sides hurt!!!

I was born in 1953. My Mom was the "in" type. Long before they had wonder bras, she used to wear "falsies" in her bra! She'd wear them in a bra that would "push them up and squeeze them together"!!

It was also the time WAY before pantyhose, when you had to wear a girdle with "hose" and those hook things to keep them on.

Thanks Tuxluvr for the walk down memory lane. It really brightened my day and made me think of how young and innocent I once was!!

Oh yes, the "falsies" and those push up bras! Even those today, the "wonder bras"...I saw a woman in one of those a few months ago and they were so "pushed up" they looked like one big round breast with a "plumbers crack" down the middle!

And hose with garter belts - geez I hated those things! They would snap or dig into your skin - I always had those little garter indentations in my legs...

Go Go boots - ok on the count of 3, everyone emulate Nancy Sinatra:
"These boots are made for walkin
and that's what there gonna do
and one of these days these boots
are gonna walk all over you"

ARE YOU READY BOOTS, START WALKIN!

[tuxluvr]

And what, exactly, was the marketing genius behind the term "training bra"?


Whom or what were we "training" anyway?

I do distinctly remember having conversations with my girlfriends about these and we honestly believed that wearing them would "stimulate" the growth of, well, you know...

And does anyone remember this saying?

"What nature has forgotten, stuff with cotton"


Today I guess is replaced with
"Where nature hasn't gone, there's always silicone!"
"Where nature left you less to brag, find a surgeon with some saline bags"

[trayi52]

OMG, tuxluvr I was thinking about that song last night!! I started to mention it and got all excited and forgot to.

I remember spoolies too!

Willie

[jonza]

This seems to be a thread for the ladies among us, but here's a bit of male input:

When I went to Maidenhead County Grammar School in the late forties and early fifties, we were forced to buy and wear the official school uniform, a grotesque purple and gold creation with a very silly cap. If you were seen going to or from school without it, it was caning time. The girls' Grammar School, (on the opposite side of town of course), had similarly gross uniforms (but with skirts).
To be seen talking to one of the girls while in uniform would produce serious repercussions, even expulsion. How's that for segregation!

I don't remember much about our dress codes, since we had little money for such luxuries as new clothes, and rarely got close enough to a girl to check out her hair (let alone anything else), but I distinctly remember the "Teddy Boys". They were the bad (rock & roll) kids, who had velvet lapels on their jackets, "DA's" (duck's *rse hairstyles) all brylcreamed and shiny, "drainpipe" trousers and "winkle-pickers" (pointed Italian shoes). They used to sew fishhooks behind their lapels, so if anyone grabbed them threateningly, they got a handful of hooks. Not pleasant people.

You got new toys twice a year if you were lucky (Christmas and Birthday), and I remember my pocket money going up to sixpence a week (about 2 cents?).

Yes indeed, those were the days! - Or were they?

[Randi]

LOL! This is fun to read!

If we go back to when I was 16, I remember buying packs of cigarettes called York or Eifel - with only 5 in.

Creme rinse .... oh yes, I used one with a wonderful aroma of peach. It came in a small yellowish tube. Does anyone remember the shampoo "Breck"? I really liked it! Also, about a decade later, there was this almond/marcipan smelling shampoo I was crazy about. It had like small bubbles in the bottle.

Oh, and Patchouli, I remember that too.

OK guys, Tom Jones and Engelbert H didn't do much for me, but P.J. Proby!! He had a wonderful voice - I can't remember the specific song I liked, though. It WAS quite a few years back. LOL!

Clothes!! Oh the things I was wearing!! My parents refused to take me along to big family do's - but that was the plan. LOL!

The sixties were a great time! I happened to be living in London when Stones played in Hyde Park too!

Did any of you go to Woodstock? I would have loved to be there!!

[tuxluvr]

Jonza, thanks for finally explaining what the DA stood for...I laughed out loud, because they did really look like a Duck's. *rse

And did you have, as a Billy Joel song lyric stated "a mint called Sen-Sen" - those little seeds in a red foil packet? I always thought they were some kind of illegal drug, in fact they were just really awful-tasting breath mints!

Winkle Pickers in our country were not Italian boots, but I suspect rather the equivalent in pointy-toed cowboy boots.....referred to as "roach killers".

Randi, I think the green-bubble shampoo with almond smell was called PRELL - always liked it, too - it came in a clear squeeze tube.

Breck is actually still around, but I think they were bought by Dial Soap - I still see their label on hotel shampoo mini-bottles.

[trayi52]

This is a great thread, and men are welcome to share their memories too, fact is I would love hearing them. Jonza, I remember when I was a kid, Christmas was getting just apples and oranges and peppermint candy.

I do remember one Christmas getting a jump rope, and a pair of pajamas.

Willie

[Lilith Cherry]

Yes Trayi I got to see the Beatles and Rolling Stones in my dim and distant youth LOL!
And Jonza, the Grammar school I went to had the same purple and gold uniforms ... yuck and yuck again

I remember all those awful perfumes too and even wore patchouli in my teens!

I am still an overaged flower child exploring the world in my retirement
and my husband still loves garter belts to this day

This is such a funny post!

[tuxluvr]

Originally posted by All Creatures Great And Small

Dialing a rotary phone - I distinctly remember arguing with my husband when we were first married (in 1983) that we didn't NEED to spend extra on a push button phone and "touch-tone service", just because we were too lazy to dial a number!
We actually have one old rotary phone downstairs that we keep just for the fun of it - it still works, amazingly!

There's some Tom Jones and Engelbert Humperdinck songs I still like to listen to once in a while - what the heck, I'm over 40 (hee hee). Remember this one?: "so I sing you to sleep - after the lovin' " HAHAHAHA what a cheesy song!

My mother had a rotary phone until about a year ago - we finally got her into the 'pushbutton' age - we also had a "party line" when I was growing up...which meant you shared a phone line with one or two other houses in the area...I used to get in trouble for picking up the phone and listening to this old woman talk to her friend about all her medical problems. My sisters used to get in trouble for hogging the phone lines from the neighbors.

Yeah, but sometimes a cheesy song is just what the doctor ordered.

"And I know that my song isn't saying anything new....
but after the lovin, I'm still in love with you"

Personally, I think our world needs more cheesy songs

[tuxluvr]

And I DISTINCTLY remember actually having to walk over to the TV set and TURN THE CHANNEL with a KNOB!


Remember the first "remote controls"? A friend of mine had one that not only responded to the "clicker", (mind you it only had 3 BUTTONS, change channel, volume, and on/off) - if he stood in front of the TV and jingled the change in his pocket it would change the channel.

[jonza]

Originally posted by tuxluvr
And did you have, as a Billy Joel song lyric stated "a mint called Sen-Sen" - those little seeds in a red foil packet?

No, all I can remember was a sort of sherbert powder one sucked up through a straw, and ice cream on VERY special occasions.

Originally posted by trayi52
I remember when I was a kid, Christmas was getting just apples and oranges and peppermint candy.

Yes! We had "Christmas stockings" hanging in our bedrooms as well as the normal Christmas gifts, but they were mostly filled with apples and oranges and other less expensive items.

Originally posted by Lilith Cherry
Yes Trayi I got to see the Beatles and Rolling Stones in my dim and distant youth LOL!

I was offered a helicopter trip into the Isle of White Festival (back stage), but declined, since "I didn't have the time". How stupid can one be?!

[tuxluvr]

remember was a sort of sherbert powder one sucked up through a straw

Pixie Stix?

[moosmom]

My brother used to have Sen-Sen in his room all the time. They were GROSS!!!!

Anyone remember the perfume Midnight in Paris??? I got it one year from a girl I went to Jr. High School with. Just THINKING about that stuff gives me a lump in my throat!!!

Ah yes, Prell Shampoo! My mom used to use that stuff. I got it in my eyes once and it burned like the dickens!!!

[leslie flenner]

no one has mentioned PSSSSSSST? Song on commercial: "It's the neat shampoo you can do on the run!" (I think- correct me if i'm wrong!) It was a dry spray one could spray on that "cleaned the hair" (same as baby powder does).
I grew up using Breck (which has just come back on the market!) and Tame creme rinse! There is no such thing as creme rinse anymore and Tame really got the tangles out good! And yes, Prell was one of the best!
I was in grade school during the 60's. My mom was a protester in the vietnam war and before that had been in Mississippi during the civil rights movement. My best friend's mom had same interests and we were close. Me and Rena would go to the head shop and buy "love beads" and comics (we were not allowed to buy Fritz the Cat or Cheech and Chong!). we bought glasses where each lense was a different color and Kalaidascoped (sp). As in Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds (and kalaidascope eyes.....). I sure wish I had those glasses now- when you looked through them you saw a million of the same- like how a fly sees things!
Tom jones is doing well with his cd with KD lang! They have been on pbs several times and I cannot believe how good he looks!
Remember red wax lips?

[leslie flenner]

I hated bell bottoms then and don't like them now! Same with platform shoes! ICK!