How about a do you remember thread

[Pam]

They have them again! The straws!

I saw them at the Rite Aid Pharmacy today.

 

[GeorgeG]

when we were putting my parents things away ......I lost my Howdy Doody and Clarabelles autographs......I was so upset......I also had someone elses with it...It was a clown that always had a sad face.......but heck if I can remember it

So did you watch the Howdy Doody show in your childhood?

The sad-faced clown may have been Emmet Kelly.

 

[Diznotyzed]

Mr. Bubble "Gets you so clean your mother won't know you"

We wanted Fuzzy Wuzzy Soap so bad, but never got it.

How about Silly Soap or Crazy Foam?

Stripe Toothpaste

 

[GeorgeG]

One of the fun things about being old is remembering more years back than the younger people.

Okay, here's an easy one: What cowboy sidekick had a jeep named "Nelliebelle?"

 

[LUVMYTINK]

Remember Mr. Bubble--do they still make that? I can remember those commericals.

Mr. Bubble is still alive and kicking. Got some in the kids bathroom.

 

[I Love Pluto]

I remember Rootie Cazootie!
I appeared on Captain Kangaroo and Howdy Doody. (I sang - "I'm a Litte Teapot" with Princess Summer Fall Winter Spring.)

Who remembers when you could fill your tank with gas - and get change from a 5 dollar bill?
Bread was 17 cents a loaf.
Stamps were 3 cents.

Oooopppps! This doesn't make me old, does it?!?!?

 

[DisneyMommyMichelle]

Anyone remember slap braclets???

 

[Blueeyes101817]

Anyone remember slap braclets???

LOVED them!! i remember they got banned from school

 

[Steffi]

Anyone remember Romper Stompers?

 

[suzimar57]

not only do i remember, but i had used these things!

today i'm 50 - woo hoo - yep, that old!

so of course i'd remember!

 

[barkley]

who remembers when gas stations gave out premiums to get customers? i remember my mom choosing witch station to go to based on what was being offered-sometimes is was glassware, sometimes it was dishes. i always wanted to go to arco because they did the noah's arc, and each week you got a different set of animals (finaly got the whole set because my older brother had a friend whose dad ran an arco station ).

remember when you got premiums inside boxes of laundry soap? i remember juice glasses at one point, and dish towels at another point.

blue chip stamps (or greenstamps)-mom went to stores that were offering 'double stamps this week' and we had to put them into the little books to save for stuff. when 'that 70's show' was on i saw props and set dressings that were right out of the blue chip stamps book (esp. a couple of the bedspreads and items in kitty's kitchen).

we were just reminising the other day about nehi blue cream soda-looked identical to windex

 

[JunieJay]

I remember almost everything on this thread.

One of my favorite drinks in the summer was this stuff called Funny Face drink mix. It was powedered sugar and you added water to it, and it if you bought enough of it they sent you a Funny Face pitcher. I love all the names of the different flavors:

Jolly Olly Orange
Lefty Lemon
Loud Mouth Lime
Rootin Tootin Rasberry
Freckle Face Strawberry
Choo Choo Cherry

And a bunch others that I can't remember the names of. I do remember a grape one that I loved but can't remember that either. They took them off the shelves in the late 70s because they contained cyclamates. I think they were brought back for a short while in the 80s but they were never the same. Some stuff you can't change the formula, even if its poison.

 

[JunieJay]

Also, I was telling my kids the other day about some of the stuff my siblings and I played with back in the 60s and 70s when we were growing up. They of course got that glazed over look, they just couldn't understand how we could have lived without video games? And I really think they felt a little sorry for me after I told them I could play jacks on my front porch with my sister or one of my little girlfriends for hours. Of course the cheap jacks they know of were nothing compared to the good metal kind we had back in the day.

Some other long ago toys:

Lemon Twist: Does anyone remember this? It was this lemon attached to a string which was attached to this band that went around your ankle. You would sort of swing the lemon in a circle and jump over it. I LOVED that thing, would play with it for hours.

Other outside games I played for hours: Four Square, Jump Rope, Chinese Jump Rope, Red Rover, Mother May I, Hide and Go Seek, TV Tag. We also would lay in the grass and look for 4 leaf clovers or lady bugs. Finding either one was a real highlight, even if it was your friend and not you who found it.

Also, clackers. Two GLASS balls attached to a string that you clacked back and forth. We all had them until some kid down the street broke his, the glass flew across the room and almost put his baby sister's eye out. Of course the story got bigger and bigger each time, until the baby was BLINDED by the clackers. Clackers all around the neighborhood were gathered up and disposed of, never to be seen again. They came out with plastic ones a few years later, but again, they just weren't the same as the original.

Board games we loved: Hands Down (big fights ensued with this one), ****y Trap, Battleship (You Sank My Battleship!), Monopoly, The Game of Life, Go To The Head of the Class, Mystery Date. Again, board games kept us entertained for hours. We have lots of board games around here that I've tried to get my boys interested in, and they do like them a bit, but there is just so much other visual stimulation, its just impossible to create that sort of innocence that we had growing up.

 

[Steffi]

I remember when giant boxes of powdered laundry detergent came with "prizes" in them. Like cereal toys for adults. I remember my mom getting plates and towels from her detergents. Really ugly plates and towels, too.

Edited because I missed this in Barkley's post:

remember when you got premiums inside boxes of laundry soap? i remember juice glasses at one point, and dish towels at another point.

 

[pumba]

I know i am older then most of you kids....rofl....some of the stuff that has been mentioned after my kids have played with ......we used to have some type of crepe paper attached to a wand type thing and made designs with it in the air.....we loved it......ten cents I think....
when our kids were growing up and wanted candy we established a candy day..they could have 25 cents on Sunday and after Sunday dinner they would get their quarter and they would go to the corner store and get their penny candy....only day of the week that they could have candy. Their dentist was amazed that this worked and he tried it with his six kids.......worked for him eventually......

I wonder if the straws of chocolate mix is similiar to the type we had......cause I thought it was pretty darn good...

 

[pumba]

GeorgeG...
Yes it was Emmett Kelly.......he was at a circus that came to Maine one year and I was about ten I think and got his autograph.......he always looked so sad

 

[Glynis]

How about H.R. Pufinstuff and Witchiepoo? Freddy the Flute.

I remember the Space Food Sticks. They were great!!! I really miss those.

 

[barkley]

How about H.R. Pufinstuff and Witchiepoo? Freddy the Flute.

I remember the Space Food Sticks. They were great!!! I really miss those.

oooh those were nasty!!!! a few years ago my kids got some kind of knock off tootsie rolls in their halloween bags and i stupidly popped one in my mouth MID DECEMBER stale, grainy knock off tootsie rolls taste just like space food sticks

i remember taking coffee cans (when they were still made of metal), using a tool to make a hole on opposite sides of the end that still had the metal bottom, stinging twine through it and using them as stilts.

i also remember clackers-i remember a few sets hanging from the phone wires on our street i also remeber 'superballs'-bounced realy high-and you usualy lost them over the fence (i always wondered why instead of making them black and hard to see under bushes they did'nt make them red or orange or another color so we could find them). i remember mr. potato head when he only came as parts and you had to get a potato from the kitchen to play with him.

 

[TimeforMe]

Jolly Olly Orange
Lefty Lemon
Loud Mouth Lime
Rootin Tootin Rasberry
Freckle Face Strawberry
Choo Choo Cherry

Yes! I remember those as well and always wanted the pitcher, too. Was the grape called Goofy Grape?

 

[DISNEYFANRI]

My dad still has the "Shake-a-pudding" container - he always used it to make chocolate milk for my kids when they were young!!

Happy Birthday Suziemar!!

HOw about paperdolls? I used t paly with them for hours. I remember having a set with George and Martha Washington - hahahah.