Remember when?

[trayi52]

Twisterdog, I haven't heard anything about him in so long. Did he still have a good voice?

Debbie, I remember all the things you mentioned! I got a laugh out of the thongs, I mentioned it to my teenage daughter and she is just like noo way, mom!

I am really enjoying this thread, fact is I love it.

Willie

[All Creatures Great And Small]

Originally posted by sirrahbed
gum wrapper ropes?

OMG - I didn't think anybody else remembered those! My sister (born in '57) had one that had to be about 20 feet long - we went through a lot of Wrigley's to help her make that chain! Somehow you folded the gum wrappers really small and intertwined them so they zig-zagged. I'll have to ask her if she remembers making that rope!

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!

[trayi52]

I remember that song! That was a good song! Men, they don't do that, they just go to sleep! LOL!

How about, well when I was in school, girls would sneak up on boys and yank that little loop off their shirts, and make bracelets and necklaces out of them.

I remember the gum wrapper ropes too. Groovy......

Willie

[trayi52]

Corinna, your about the same age as my baby sister. She came along the year Kennedy was assinated.

Yes this is a nice walk down memory lane.

[Corinna]

I admit it I'm 43 Turned it in April. I still get carded some times . I love the commercial where the guy cards the gal for something . The announcer says you may even make a 35 year olds day.
I'm so glad for moms genes. shes 60 and looks 40. Son got them unfortnuly , not the girl.
Oh here is the engagment pic for the paper (local)

[Corinna]

here is my favorite and going in to our home town paper in Washington. Tim (hubby) took all the photos .

[trayi52]

Corinna, they are such a cute couple.

I knew you was just a young sprout! LOL, I am 51. Now isn't that just groovy?

[Corinna]

Hubby is 46 , most of my friends are 50+ I have always hung out with people older than me. Did cause problems when I was younger,they all wanted to go to the bar so I would then go home and hubby (bf at the time) would stay with me and would do something to gether . I knew he was for me then and 25 years of marriage prove it . I am the youngest at work , for now we are going to have 2 college kids this year.All the others are the work campers , retirees that work at parks and places as they travel from the south .
Hey do you have instant messaging with msn? Then we wouldn't have to hijack threads.

[Lilith Cherry]

LOL I am REALLY old then! Im 54 and I remember Englebert Humperdinck when he was Jerry Dorsey and not famous yet! He was from the next small town and sang at the local dances quite often! That was in Leicestershire in England.

I remember sleeping out overnight on the sidewalk to buy tickets to see the Beatles in 1963 ( when I was 13) telling my mother I was at a friends house overnight.

I remember white stockings and lipstick to match with Op Art clothing in black and white only. Teenagers were either Mods or Rockers....


The 60 s were fun but I love being me now even better!

[Pam]

Hey Tom Jones is STILL going strong!!! Trust me on that!! He performed recently down in Atlantic City and my co-worker (age 50) and her daughter (age 22) got to go! Her daughter thought he was as hot as her mom did! LOL! He still has that voice! Aah that voice! And for being as old as he is (late 50's? early 60's?) I think he is still lookin' quite good!

PS: Just did a Google search. He was born in 1940! That makes him 64! Lookin' good Tom! Lookin' good!

Anyone remember S&H green stamps. I always had the job of licking the stamps and putting them in the books for my mom but I don't ever remember sharing in the fun of turning them in for the merchandise. She must have done that while I was at school.

[All Creatures Great And Small]

Originally posted by Pam
Anyone remember S&H green stamps.

Sure do! I remember having a drawer full of them in the "buffet" (piece of furniture designed to hold dinnerware, but it was our extra "junk" storage ), and sitting around the table with a damp sponge, pressing the sheets of stamps against it and then into the little books. I remember going to the S & H store, full of anticipation of the marvelous prize we were going to get (a full-size trampoline, maybe, or a swingset for the backyard?) Wow - we went home with a car blanket in a plastic bag to keep in the trunk for emergencies. I guess you had to collect a garage full of them to get anything good.

[trayi52]

I remember S&H green stamps too. I remember I got a toy farm set with them. I had to share with my sister Ann. LOL, but I always love going and just looking at the wonderful things you could get.

They changed and Quality stamps were given, After I married, I saved those and got all kinds of stuff for my house. Even saved and got a baby bed once!

Lilith Cherry, did you get to see the beatles? Wow, I thought they were so cute, with their cute little haircuts. Oh my, I am really loving this thread.

Willie

[tuxluvr]

I do remember S&H Green Stamps - and A&P Yellow stamps...but for thelife of me don't remember if we ever got anything for them - I just remember finding them in the bottom of my mom's purse covered with the same lint that collected on the loose life savers.

Gum wrapper chains! OMG I almost forgot about those - some early form of origami....we also had those little fortune teller paper things...you would fold a square piece of paper so that it looked like four little cones, put "fortunes" or sayings on the inside, and number on the outside and played this little game...silly.

I remember ADORN hairspray, and also remember some really hideous perfumes..

TABU - with an aroma destined to suck the oxygen out of a 10x10 room in the matter of seconds..
PATCHOULI--became closely associated with those who enjoyed incense and other less legal burning weeds!!

AND my old time favorite
EVENING IN PARIS - this was stuff in a deep blue glass bottle - I accidently dropped and broke my sister's stash of this awful stuff and the upstairs bedrooms reeked for months!

MUSK OIL-the name says it all

Then there were the odd home remedies - my mother used to put drops of olive oil in our ears to unclog them..YUCH...when I got older and started watching chefs on TV and saw them cooking with olive oil, I couldn't believe they were using "ear cleaner" to cook food!

[moosmom]

How about, well when I was in school, girls would sneak up on boys and yank that little loop off their shirts, and make bracelets and necklaces out of them.

OMG!!! Those were called "Fairy Loops"!!

ACG&S,

Green Stamps!!! My Mom bought my very first guitar with Green Stamps! I learned to play it on my own, and eventually for my 15th birthday, Mom and Dad invested in a Gibson guitar!

Anyone remember Spoolies??? They were little pink rubber things that you curled your hair with.

How about the Veg-O-Matic? It was one of the FIRST infomercials on TV. My grandfather, rest his soul, saw it on tv and absolutely HAD to have it!! He tried the "ripe tomato" trick and it went "splat" all over the kitchen counter! We never let him forget that!!!

I LOVE this thread! Keep it going!!

[Corinna]

ok Adorn was bad but what about the enviromentaly safe pump spray of final net . if you could get it unclogged to spray it cenemted the hair to gether.