Bring back the good o' days, Things ..........

[AlexWyattMommy]

Did anybody else have the doll with changing color hair? Her scalp turned. She would be white blonde with bangs or twist that scalp and she was black/brunette with no bangs. I can't remember her name. It was around the same time as Princess Leia dolls.
And who else was mad that she didn't have really long hair? Just these stupid plastic donutes that the hair spread over and was held down by rubber bands. I never could get her to look the same after I took them out. Poor Princess.

 

[tinkarooni]

Oh I just noticed my new tag. Thanks tag fairy!

 

[jamesmommy]

Funny story:

Years ago, when I was single, I was at a bar talking to some guy and he was complaining that people watch too much TV, and more people would know the theme to the Brady Bunch than something important, say, the words to the Constitution. I told him I knew them. He bet me a drink (or was it 2?) that I didn't.

Well, I won. But I didn't tell him it was because of TV - Schoolhouse Rock.

And it was very hard to say the words rather than sing them.

"We the people
in order to form a more perfect union...

Lol, I missed this question in school BECAUSE of Schoolhouse Rock. I forgot to include "of the United States" after "We the People".
However, I find it quite interesting, a noun's a person, place or thing.

 

[MrsNick]

You took mine . Do you remember almost killing yourself when the rubber on the bottem of the Dr. Scholl's wore off and you were left walking on some hard plastic. When I got alittle older my mom bought me Candie's basically Dr. Scholl's with high heels.

I'm also convinced that the reason I am not a good cook is that my mom refused to buy me an easy bake oven. She thought I'd get burned from the light bulb inside.

Shrinky Dinks (funny I couldn't play with a light bulb in a play oven but could help use the real oven for shrinky dinks)???

Colorforms

Jelly Shoes

Banana bike Seats

Using Sun In and turning my hair a nice shade of orange/blond/brown

Oh yeah, nearly killed myself more times than I can remember wearing Dr. Scholl's and my high heeled Candie's knock-offs

I LOVED Colorforms. I had the Betty Boop ones

I also didn't get an EasyBake Oven. No fair! My big sis had one! She also had the play chemistry set

Someone else mentioned Christmas carolling around the neighborhood. We did that too, and people would give you hot chocolate

Remember trick-or-treating with a big group of kids (no parents) and wearing the plastic mask with the rubber band that you could barely see out of? And making your costumes out of whatever crafts scraps you could scrounge up?

Going to the movies with a gang of kids and buying the real buckets of popcorn (not the bags) to watch Jaws II in a movie theater with just one real big screen (not like the small divided up screens they have today).

Little House on the Prairie and The Muppet Show were GREAT TV I hated that witch Nellie

 

[Kaa]

I forgot go-go boots! I wanted a pair so badly when I was a kid, but we lived overseas and the only way to get them was to order them from a catalog and my parents wouldn't do that.

I also remember when girls weren't allowed to wear pants to school. I wore a pantsuit to school in the 6th grade and the school called my mom to come and get me. She told them to get over themselves and they started to allow pantsuits. Not just a pants and blouse, but pantsuits.

 

[MeggerasMa]

You have the description of SPUD correct! Also, we used to braid a single little section of our long straight hair on each side and then pull to the back. And todays low jeans are just another version of our hip-huggers (although now there are lots of things that hug my hips)! Does anyone else remember the first "Ecology Day" way back in the 70's? I just threw away an original pair of "ecology" knee socks. They were green and white stripes with a funny looking e on the side. I also remember not being allowed to wear pants to school. Being the rebel that I was (not), I wore them on a very cold winter day (because I walked to school and was too old to wear pants under my skirts anymore) and got sent home to change! You guys are too much. I've had more laughs reading this thread and it has brought back so many things...

 

[Local_Girl]

Wow...this thread has brought back tons of memories!

I remember...Little Kiddles dolls. Remember, they came in different types, like little lockets, soda bottles, ice cream cones, lollipops, etc.? They had different colored hair and smelled pretty. Going back further...Chatty Cathy dolls, the black haired barbie that I got as a toddler and later used as a Barbie "mom" doll; a "Hi Heidi" doll--you pushed a button on her tummy and her arm popped up in the air to wave.

I also remember double knit pantsuits, white hot pants, peasant blouses, white boots, flower power and peace signs on everything (including a pony tail holder I had with the stick you stuck through). Seems some of the strangest stuff is coming back into fashion now, lol! We loved to shop in a store called "India Imports" which was a hippie haven--incense, black light posters, macrame stuff, beaded everything, lol.

Summer sewing lessons at Singer and making my own clothes. Transistor radios.

 

[newcomer52]

We also played on the railroad tracks and in the woods without parents and stayed outside until dark - no one ever worried about us.

We drove our cars on the RR tracks. Underinflated the tires, got on at our town crossing, sat back, floored the gas, and 'flew' the 15 miles to the next town!

js

 

[newcomer52]

Did anyone elses Mom take bread bags and put them on your feet, inside your snowboots for snow protection?? Or was my mom just weird?

No, your mom was not weird. You're about the same ago as my kids and I did that to them. Of course, we're not weird, just practical!

js

 

[dbarker]

.....and our playgrounds didn't have six inches of woodchips or a rubber surface. They were on concrete or asphalt. We fell, we got hurt, we got up and kept playing.

I used to love summer nights waiting for the ice cream man. The real Good Humor man, in his white uniform. Mostly I remember all the kids in the neighborhood playing together. Nothing was organized, but we could keep ourselves busy all day....outside!!! Now when my daughter has a friend over and they get bored, they ask me what they can do. I don't ever remember asking my Mom for ideas.

Ahhhh, those were the days.

I learned real quick not to tell mom I was bored. There was always some other chore around the house mom could come with to cure that boredom. And I didn't get out of that chore just by telling her I wasn't bored anymore. It's like once she heard that phrase, I was committed.

 

[maxtomsmom]

Did anyone had Slam books in HS. We called Middle school, Junior High back then. Also I remember buying the denim binders so all my friends could sign them back in JH, I mean Middle School. Sometimes I slip and still call it Junior High and my son said when is that after college?

Did anyone watch Magic Garden with Carol and ???? I forget her name now. We loved it. They had the chuckle patch. We also loved the Smurfs and we used to play it on the playground back in third grade. How many of you had a zillion pictures of unicorns?

 

[SunKat]

I see you are from Long Island. I grew up there not too far from Robert Moses Beach. We would go to the Town of Babylon beaches with our passes. As a kid I camped out by Smith Point in Shirley. It has changed sooo much since I went there in the late 70's. My brother and I would buy Italian ices and eat them under the boardwalk that led to the beach. Starting with the crinkles (the ice part) first.

I used to go to Smiths Point all the time as a kid back in the 70's. Back then, we were actually allowed to play in those huge dunes. Now, the dunes seem to be gone and the beach is getting smaller every year. I remember cutting my foot on one of those soda pop tops (anyone remember those?) at Smiths Point. Ouch!

 

[SunKat]

Remember the slides were metal and how hot they got? We used to dare each other to go down them in our short - shorts.

Wow...I just noticed you got a tag out of that! Yep, I remember. Between the hot slides and the short shorts sometimes we just got stuck midway down the slide.

 

[rentayenta]

Thrifty's. It was a drug , back it when drug meant Rx, store that had the best chocolate chip ice cream and rainbow sherbet anywhere. You could get a double scoop on a cone for .40

 

[mrsbornkuntry]

How many of you had a zillion pictures of unicorns?

Guilty! Not only pictures, though, I had figurines and books and jewelry...

Oh, yeah, who could forget the smurfs? And does anyone else remember the cartoon Shirttails? My Mom got me all 5 of the stuffed animals from that show and filled my stocking with them (I will even admit I still remember all of their names, but maybe that should go on the "useless information" thread, lol).

I had the biggest crush on Kirk Cameron from Growing Pains, I had posters all over my room of him from teen magazines.

When I was little my neighbor and I were thick as theives and we would spend sun up to sun down in a patch of dirt that we were allowed to dig up playing Star Wars (the originals of course) and GI Joes (I was a tomboy).

 

[samanthacatangel]

Did anyone had Slam books in HS. We called Middle school, Junior High back then. Also I remember buying the denim binders so all my friends could sign them back in JH, I mean Middle School. Sometimes I slip and still call it Junior High and my son said when is that after college?

Did anyone watch Magic Garden with Carol and ???? I forget her name now. We loved it. They had the chuckle patch. We also loved the Smurfs and we used to play it on the playground back in third grade. How many of you had a zillion pictures of unicorns?

We had Slam books in Junior High, and lots of girls got in trouble for them - if yours were like mine, the first page had the list of numbers, where all the girls put their NAMES next to the numbers. When you answered a question, and signed it with your number, all you had to do was refer to the front page to see who wrote it. Pretty stupid, especially when you were being so mean (or the victim)

I wound up teaching in Junior High many moons later (it was called Intermediate School by then) and slambooks made a quick resurgance (sp?) but were quickly squashed by the administration because they still put their names in them! So, although the girls at this age were still mean, they were just as dumb

And I loved the Magic Garden. Carol came to an assembly to perform when I was in Kindergarden - and I still remember it. I even remember she brought the Chuckle plant instead of the whole Patch.

I even remember the theme song...

Here in the garden what we say and do
We'd like you to join us and do it too.
Can you crow like a rooster?
**** a doodle do.....

Why do I remember every song I ever heard from the time I was 4, but I cannot remember what I ate for breakfast yesterday?

Samantha

 

[klineyqueen]

And we also could sleep with our windows opened and front doors unlocked. You all know of course that we are sitting here sounding like our parents................LOL But I would take it all in a nano second.

I live in the country where nothing much happens. I never even thought about people not sleeping with their windows open. We usually use AC but there is nothing like sleeping with the windows open on a warm spring night.

This thread is a lot of fun.

The things I loved to play with as a kid are coming back!!! Yah!!!!

 

[aprilvaca04]

Lol, I missed this question in school BECAUSE of Schoolhouse Rock. I forgot to include "of the United States" after "We the People".
However, I find it quite interesting, a noun's a person, place or thing.

Loved Schoolhouse Rock...conjunction junction what's your function....

 

[aprilvaca04]

We used to play it like this...

everyone had a #, and one person was "it." They threw a ball up in the air and called a #, and whoever had that # would run and catch the ball as fast as possible, while everyone else ran and scattered. Once they caught it, they would yell "spud" and everyone would have to freeze. The person who caught the ball would take 4 giant steps towards the closest person (one for each letter S-P-U-D) and then WHALE the ball at the person. If the person caught it, the thrower was out, if not, vice versa.

I can't believe I remember that. I haven't played it in at least 28 years.

Samantha

Former SPUD player here...now that you reminded me about it I think we will try to bring it back to life in our neighborhood this weekend. My DD's are game so hopefully it will catch on and we can get all these kids moving!!

 

[hallie615]

After school specials
Hong Kong Phooey
HR Puffenstuff
Sigmond the Sea Monster
Land of The Lost
Yes I had Baby Alive and Mrs. Beasley
Under Roos (spelling??) and I was very upset cause my mom did not buy me the one with a bra, but I got the undershirt kind instead

I also just noticed I got tagged, so thanks tag fairy