PLOP PLOP FIZZ FIZZ......

I used to play Canasta with my Mom on rainy days, and my Grandma any time !! Now.... only on the computer !!

My Dad and Grand dads would play Cribbage, 15 - 2, 15 - 4 etc.
Watching them hour after hour is how I got to be the worlds best Crib player !!

I learned to drive with a "new" 1958 willys jeep in the Nevada desert. 4 banger, top end, wide open.... 45 mph !! Dusty, washboard dirt roads. I did so well that my Dad let me use his pride and joy 2 years later, 1960 Buick Invicta convertable, Big a$$ Wildcat engine, all leather bucket seats.... Oh, I wish I had that car now. I still can see it, Pearl Fawn and trimmed in white....


Phone numbers had letters for prefix, Party lines, telephone ediquite... limit your calls to 3 minutes !! Long distance calls were expensive and were reserved for emergencies or family business, never lasted more than 3 minutes.

Comunications with out of town friends and relitaves was done by postal letter or post cards. Post Card stamps were 3 cents, letter stamps were 5 cents.

Pogo sticks, stilts, rope swing over the swimming hole, Jerry Mahoney talking doll, Silvertone radio. Boys Life magizine, Buddy Burner stoves, camping out in the backyard during the summer, Stink Bombs, Mumblepeg, enough for now !!!!!

Oh....... my brain hurts so good !!!

Well I'm so old that I can remember .....remember .....remember ....remember when I didn't have to ask for help when I stopped along the side of the road to pee.

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Reading this thread makes me happy in a lot of ways! :p The only thing I can remember from back in the 60's is when Dad pulled the car over to the side of the road and gave all the back seat occupants a lesson on who owned the road. :3DSMILE: :CRY: :rolleyes: :D I remember that he had big hands. :D

Jamie
Got your attention didn't he:LOL: bet you and your siblings thought twice before doing whatever:LOL:

Been there--didn't do it again:LOL:


The Three Stooges(can't believe no one has mentioned them--N'yuk, N'yuk)--every afternoon at 3:30.. (on Denver station)followed by The Mickey Mouse Club-- "Spin and Marty"--saga continued every day---

Going fishing with my Granddad--he'd always nip on the bottle coming back home, "Good for what ails you, boy"--he always drove a Lincoln (as did my Grandmother until about two years ago) a new one every other year.


So many memories some good some bad :)

I remember the day Kennedy got a huge headache.
Priests were feared and respected.
Nun's didn't take any sh!t.
We wore uniforms to school.
Cub Scouts had to hike to the campground, not be driven.
If the neighbors father told you to sit down and be quiet, you better cause your dad would back him, not sue him.
you didn't sass back.
when mom said wait until your father gets home...you begged her not to tell on you.
If you got caught rabble-rousin with your friends...youtook your lumps.
We worked for our spare cash, not ask for an allowance.
When dune buggies were cut down vw pans with a roll bar.
when our house in redondo beach was taken off the septic tank and put on the sewer system.

Last, the donut man would drive around the neighborhood, he was called " Helms Man" and sold donuts to the kids for 2 cents each.

I'm so old I remember when Cal was broke.

Remember when there were only 48 States?

Douglas Edwards showing pictures of the newborn "Bonnie Prince Charles" on TV.. and I mean showing pictures (snapshots)
First Howdy Doody show. Watched them through someones front window...Our TV was still years away.
Cream in the neck of the milk bottles...
Blue oil in the glass bottles next to the gas pumps 100 weight....
Creme Soda that my dad couldn't get me to try because it looked like water.....
Birerleys Orange Soda....
Fewer attorneys
Respect for police
You could order a rifle, chihuahua or a monkey from a comic book..
You could order "clowns of the sea" (brine shrimp) for 50cents from the back of a comic book...
Charles Atlas... Nobody will kick sand in your face again... Isometric exercises...
Bishop Fulton J. Sheen....
"Our Miss Brooks", "The Shadow", "The Lone Ranger", Jack Benny, Burns and Allen, etc, on Sunday nights on the radio....
My crystal radio that I clipped to the bed springs for better reception....:)

And never forget.......


"the shadow knows"!

Jim,
Here's one that YOU will appreciate. Remember Ernie Anderson aka "Goulardi" on channel 8 Friday Fright Night Movies ?
How about Mamma Santa's in Little Italy? We still go there when we're attending Cleveland seminars!

Dan,

"MY DAD WANTS TO SELL YOU A NEW CAR" and then Goulardi blows the hell outta a plastic car.... To this day the jerks around town still pull that crap on Del Spitzer...

Big Chuck and Little John.....

I remember going to the corner store for cigarettes with my dad and they put the change for a quarter in the cellophane wrapper.
23 cents a pack and they stuck the 2 pennies down the side of the pack... I got the keep the 2 cents... He was a great guy!!

I'm so old that I remember the days when it was it socially acceptable to throw coke bottles from moving vehicles, among anything else that was unwanted !!

If you stomp on a empty pack of Lucky Strike cigarettes, ya get to slug your buddy !

You were cool if you had a slingshot hanging out of your back pocket.

Spent many hours reading the Boy Scouts Handbook.

Glass insolators on telephone poles, the real old ones were transparent purple color !

Steel Pennies !!
"V" victory nickles.

Everyone of the boys carried a pocket knife and their marble bag.

In the early to mid 60s, the funny guy by the name of Bro. Dave Gardner. He made several albums, I've got them all on a reel to reel tape somewhere !!

And lastly...... Smokie the Bear cigarette snuffers on the dash board !! Right next to plastic Jesus !! (ridin on the dashboard of my car) the song !!

What a great trip down memory lane
Does anyone remember Sally Star show?
And how about, when you did something
dumb, how the news beat you home. and
you would ask how your parence knew and
the answer was a little bird told me.

I remember that if I screwed up in school the nun would smack me around and then when I got home my parents would smack me around for causing the nun to smack me around... Christ, I got smacked around....

I remember one time in grade school I got called to the principals office and was asked if I knew why I was called there... I said yes, and then proceeded to confess to several things that were new to the principal. Christ, she solved a crime wave in one interview... AAHHHH!!!! Parochial education... After confessing to several things, I still hadn't gotten to the one that I was called to the office for....

Does anybody in the Chicagoland area remember afternoon T.V. w/ Speed Racer, or Bill Jackson's Show on channel 32 after the Sox games w/ Harry Caray? Fri. and Sat. nights spent watching Screaming Yellow Theatre, or Creature Features ? How about Science Fiction Theatre or One Step Beyond on Sunday am T.V.?

-Bob

Chick Hearn on "Bowling for Dollars." Hobo Kellyand Crusader Rabbit. Captain Kangaroo and Mr. Greenjeans. Winkin, Blinkin, and Nod. Burgess Meredith as the Penguin. "Cartooniverse" on Saturday mornings. Bob McAllister on "Wonderama" on Sunday Mornings..."every one here has a right and left ear, but nobody here has an Aardvark." Bishop Sheen on TV. JacK LaLanne. Figure-eight racing from Ascot Park, "Where the Harbor, Artesia, and San Diego Freeways COLLIDE!!!" "Whoa, Nellie!!" Late-night commercials for the local car dealers on TV. Earl Scheib, "I will paint ANY car for $99.95" "BOSS" radio, 93 KHJ-AM. Game shows and talk shows, on television, where the "celebrity panel" and the hosts smoked cigarettes. Test Patterns at midnight, with that eerie sound: oooooooooooooooooooh....Air raid sirens on the last Friday of the month, at noon. Civil Defense (CD) shelters. Sparkletts water delivered in GLASS bottles. Banks were open from 9 to 2 on weekdays, and open til 6 on Fridays. NO 24 hour grocery stores. 7-11s were open from 7 to 11. Painting cars in the garage with lacquer paint.

Floyd Cramer (listening to him right now)... it ain't rock & roll, but boy does it bring back memories (my parents used to listen to him on the radio).

I actaully bought a new 1965, HiPo, Fastback Mustang from Ralph Williams in Encino.

Bish

Do you remember the chrome Toastmaster toasters and the old KitchenAide MixMasters? How about that wonderful aroma of real, fresh baked apple pies with crunchy crusts made from lard.
Or Isley Klondike ice cream bars that had "free" on some of the wooden sticks which entitled you to a free ice cream bar? A solid chocolate rabbits at Easter? Cherry Kool Aid packettes for a nickle that required real sugar. Red Ball Jet tennis shoes.

Edley,
I remember when Earl would paint ANY car for $29.95. and if you left the windows down he'd paint the interior for free.....