Just for Fun: Childhood Memories

Dogpatch USA

Star Wars

Drive In Theaters

Getting up to turn the channel with the dial on the tv

Jukeboxes

Birthdays at Ferrel's Restaraunt

Ronald Reagan (particularly the tear down this wall speech)

Iran Hostage Crisis

Billy Joel

Neil Diamond

Chicago

Airshows

Playing in the woods

Visiting the Atlantic City Boardwalk

Hee Haw

Hogan's Heros

Happy Days

Harlem Globetrotters (with many of the originals: Geese, Curly, Nate, Meadowlark, etc...)

Circus

Ice Capades

Space Shuttle Challenger explosion

Jacksonville Christmas Parade

Michael Jackson before he became a freak

R. A. 's at church

That's all I can really remember right now


Joseph Botwinick

 

Now I know how old LadyEagle is, but I wont tell.

The first moon landing

UnderDog and Bullwinkle

Billy Graham Christmas specials.

Charlie Brown

Star Trek

Slim Jims and Spam

Driving with the windows down in summer

The Children's Bible

Thinking there was more to life than there is.

Rock em sock em robots and slinky

Lost in space

Benji and Willie Wonka

Innocense.

Movie stars NOT thinking they were philosophers that we should all learn from.

The concept of Honor.

Certain folks still being in the closet because I had never heard of them.

No youth culture

 

Jelly shoes

Rolled up jeans

big hair

Dolly Pops

Different Strokes

Dallas

Da Plane!!

Atari (course we didnt get one til it was obsolete!)

Menudo -

Boy George

Fame!

Weebles Wobble but they dont fall down! (I see they are coming back in!)

The Dukes of HAzzard (the first time around)

E.T. phone home!

 

Raiders of the Lost Ark

New Edition

Super Bowl Champs Chicago Bears with Mike Ditka and William the Refrigerator Perry

Tom Landry

Knight Rider

Hong Kong Fuey

Captain Caveman

Mr. Rogers

Captain Kangaroo

 

"There was a doggy, his name was Dinky, he was the cutest little doggy in the neighborhood..."

Gary Coleman as a cute kid

Solid Gold

Funny Saturday Night Live shows

Romper ROom

The great Space Coaster

Da da da da da In-spec-tor Gad-get

underoos!!!

bag phones

wings as THE haircut

 

Fat Albert and the Gang (the original).

Moonlighting

The Great Passion Play in Eureka Springs, Arkansas

Getting swarmed and stung by bees while living in Guam

Seeing the Liberty Bell in Philadelphia

 

Superman staring George Reeves

Batman & Robin(original of course) Robin never dies---because he has to be on for the next show!!

I love Lucy!

Bonanza!

Lost in Space

Combat

Gunsmoke

The Three Stooges

Our Gang, The Little Rascals

The Red Skelton Show

Andy Griffith Show

The Lucy Show

Dragnet---I work here! I carry a badge! Just the facts, M'am!!

Get Smart! Missed it by that much!!!

Beverly Hillbillies

The High Chapperal

 

Cadet Don and Seymor the Space Monster (brought to you by Jello - it wiggles!), Beanie and Cecil, King Leonardo and true blue Odie Colognie (plagued by Biggie Rat and Itchy Brother), Kitrick's Carousel (brought to you by Wonder Bread)

playing in the woods

Charlie Brown (when Snoopy was still a dog and the children were different sizes)

Golden Book Encyclopedias

Playing Red Rover at the bus stop

New Math - and Alan Sherman's song about it or was that Tom Lehr?

The Smother Brothers, Laugh-In

The Eggplant That Ate Chicago

Rin Tin Tin, Lassie, My Friend Flicka, Flipper

Dark Shadows - Barnabus Collins, David & Sarah - I Dream of Jeanie, Bewitched

Tennessee Ernie Ford and his Jordanaires, Peter, Paul & Mary, Joan Baez, Burl Ives, Mitch Miller, The Beatles, Bob Dylan

West Side Story - Leonard Bernstein and his Young People's Concerts

Nehru jackets, paisleys, hip-hugger jeans, bell-bottoms, go-go boots. Pantyhose, fishnet stockings, miniskirts - then granny dresses. Pink frosted lipstick and blue eyeshadow (not a good look for most). Evening in Paris Cologne, Yardley Lavendar soap, Shalimar!

Elephant jokes, Knock-knock jokes, Aggie jokes.

 

Johnny Quest

Star Trek (Original Series, of course)

Laugh-In, Smothers Brothers, Love, American Style

Variety Shows - especially Carol Burnett

One TV with dad controlling what was watched

Aong with the above - a total of four stations in Jacksonville, FL

Movies that rely on good writing and an actor's skill and not special effects

Hardy Boys and Tom Swift Jr. books

Satr Wars, Raiders, 2001 - etc.

Christmas TV shows (variety shows and Charlie Brown, Rudolph and The Grinch

AM radio

 

Mickey Mouse Club

Soupy Sales

Sally Starr, Chief Halftown, Gene London. (You have to be from Philadelphia)

Kennedy Assasination

Richie Ashburn

Lassie

Sunday Dinner at my Nana and Pop-Pop's house on Greene st in Philly. Boy do I miss them

Games of pick-up baseball and football with all the neighborhood gang in the field behind my house.

Remember how everyone got all dressed up on Easter Sunday?

The Hardy Boys books

Singing Christmas Carols in public school. (you mean all that time we were misinterpreting the US Constitution?)

 

My mom being grateful the Korean war was over

Mary Martin in Peter Pan

"String of Pearls" by Glenn Miller was my first 45

The shock of Elvis in the music world.

playing jacks on the kitchen floor

Pez shooters, old style

Roy Rogers and Dale Evans

Lassie

The Mickey Mouse Club
Annette
Karen and Cubby
Darlene
Doreen
Sharon
Spin and Marty
Jimmy and Roy

"I like Ike, 'cause Ike is good on a mike..."

the Kennedy-Nixon debates

Sputnik

"Brusha brusha brusha with the new Ipana; it's dandy for your teeeeeeeth..."

Burma Shave

guys using Vaseline in their hair

56 Chevys

Danny Kaye

Red Skelton

the D'Oily Carte Opera company's presentations of Gilbert and Sullivan shows in San Francisco

Nancy Drew Mysteries -- the first ones

getting lost in a walnut orchard behind our house

days before Safeway existed -- and then when they were the intruders

long before seatbelts, lying on a mattress in the back of the family station wagon on family trips at night and watching the colored lights of the big trucks as we passed them.

holding wet towels up to the car windows to make our own air conditioning on family vacations during hot summertimes

cutting my own hair so I could have bangs instead of always having it combed to the side and put in a barrette.

curled up for hours in the big easy chair next to the piano and listening to my daddy play.

being taken to nice restaurants to practice our good manners in public and sneaking the sugar cubes and hiding them in our socks (my two sisters and me) so we could eat them on the way home.

I'm getting lost in the past...time to come home...

 

"My mom being grateful the Korean war was over

Mary Martin in Peter Pan

"String of Pearls" by Glenn Miller was my first 45"

You are not that old in your picture

 

I was born Leap Year Day, 1948.

So, really, I'm only 14 and a little bit over...

 

Ooooohhhhh, your husband is in trooooubleeeeeeeee!

 

Pack of old codgers

Battlestar Galactica
Bewitched
Dr Who
Get Smart
John Wayne movies
Sesame Street
Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em
Space 1999
Star Wars
The Goodies
The Muppet Show
Thunderbirds
Warner Bros & Hanna-Barbera cartoons

Hey....how come all mine are TV/movie related?

 

red-hot block shaped suckers

Tutti-frutti flavored popsicles

marching around the school yard with my class singing the US Marine Corp anthem in second grade

little girls coming to my birthday parties in pretty dresses and Mary Janes

Captain Kangaroo, Romper Room, Captain Satellite

Sky King, Gidget, Gilligan's Island (the originals), The Flying Nun, The Brady Bunch, The Ghost and Mrs. Muir, Family Affair, Please Don't Eat the Daisies, being afraid the Munsters were under my bed

Andy Williams and Claudine Longet Chistmas specials

coming back from summer vacation and finding out that a girl I really liked at school had died over the summer from a heart defect

tasting paste that our teacher had made for our art projects

the smell of the newly printed school sheets with purple ink hot off the presses of the ----- machine....HELP!!! I can't remember the name of it!!

carrying home piles of books without a backpack

 

the smell of the newly printed school sheets with purple ink hot off the presses of the ----- machine....HELP!!! I can't remember the name of it!!

silk screening?

Andy Williams and Claudine Longet Chistmas specials

OH YES!

 

HELEN!!! GESTETNER INK HOW COULD ANYONE FORGET THE BEST PART OF SCHOOL


Just found this on wiki "In our U.S. school we just called it a mimeograph or even shorter the "ditto" machine."

Ah Wiki, is there anything it doesn't know...