Do You Remember.?

[Born2Dtect]

Anyone remember,

Matchbox cars or Dennis the Menace?

Ed

 

[Michelle]

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WHAT WONDERFUL DAYS THEY WERE! Christmas time ....wanting the simiplest of things like a bicycle from western auto,LINCOLN LOGS,,,THE REAL ONES THE CRISSY DOLL WHO'S HAIR WOULD GROw WHEN YOU PULLED ON IT....[]TIPPY TUMBLES]....ANYONE REMEMBER HER?

 

[Michelle]

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My sister and i tried that once...they would send you everything you needed in the mail all you had to do was invite the people....Id forgotten about that ...ahhh fond memories they are! What's the old western with clint eastwood...herd em up and move em out...keep rollin rollin.....fails my brain to think of it....branding song....RAWHIDE!!!

 

[PBK]

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I liked Western Auto when I was a kid because they had cool stuff.

You betcha... but if you were an Arkie or Okie kid, the real Fort Knox of boys toys was the Oklahoma Tire & Supply Co. or, in later years, OTASCO for short. A lot of noses got flattened against their windows around Christmastime in my hometown. I can still hear their old radio spots... "Thank you! Here's your change!" I'll bet some of the other guys like Monty and Stoney remember 'em, too.

 

[Michelle]

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THIS IS GREAT....buckwheat and alfalpha and darla....the chuckwagon dog commercial.....madge and the palmolive dishdetergent....

 

[Michelle]

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I have a Buckwheat coffee cup...I love little rascals...It says "BUCKWHEAT SAY O'TAY"...just gotta love em! what about the creepy crawler thing where you bake your own creepy worms.....and the smell of them baking...hey,i miss the old things...remember the footsie thing.....a loot with a rope and bell...you put it on your ankle and swing it and jump .....footsie

 

[Michelle]

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Yes,That one was good! .......

 

[gord]

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? Nobody's old enough to remember The Bowery Boys movies but me?

 

[EDDE]

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O TAY

 

[Glenns5900]

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"Those were the days my friend...
we thought they'd never end..
we'd sing and dance..
forever and a day..."

Nat King Cole - Those Lazy Hazy Crazy Days of Summer

Playing Batman and Robin...
Playing The Lone Ranger and his faithful sidekick Tonto...
Making secret codes to write notes to your friends.
Weaving lanyards in summer camp to make key chains.
Roller skates you had to clamp on your shoes with a key.
Lego's
Mouse Trap board game.
Playing cards in the camper at night on the back of dad's truck when we were on vacation.

I still have an old 78 RPM record of the overature to William Tell (The Lone Ranger theme song). I would play it so much that the hole got too big and I had to center it on the record player spindle - otherwise it sounded really warped. I'd gallop through the house while it played pretending to be "The Lone Ranger". I'm sure my mom got sick of hearing it.

Listen here: http://www.melaman2.com/cartoons/singles/mp3/lone-ranger.mp3

 

[Michelle]

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oh the sweet smell of those old cap guns......and the pony on a stick.....

 

[Michelle]

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my favorite martian...going to bed while it was still light outside..i live in the country...hula hoops....cowboys and indians....are we running low on the good ole days?/?Cracker jacks...they use to have the best little keeper toys inside....

 

[RON (PA)]

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Speaking of the Lone Ranger - "Happy Birthday, Tonto" - He was born 87 years ago today. (Unfortunately, he has passed on).

Games of wiffle ball at the local intersection.
Building tree houses and "forts".
Riding your bike everywhere and having to be forced to come in to eat dinner on summer nights.
Lighting bugs in glass jars.
Camping out in your friend's back yard.
Saturday morning cartoons.
The TV show "Emergency" with Johnny Gage & Roy Desoto. (It influenced my career choice)
The metal rockets that took one cap at a time & cap guns.
Lego's & Matchbox cars (I think my mom still has mine).
Coming in the house when the street lights came on.
Wondering "Who shot JR"
Dukes of Hazard & Dallas on Friday nights. Daisy Duke was cute.

I also think that the Little Rascals fire truck episode was the best, too

 

[jeff194307]

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How about Gabby Hayes on Saturday Morning. "Quaker Puffed Rice is shot from guns"

 

[lucky1777]

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Putting Stompers in girls hair, and spending the rest of recess in the principals office.

 

[Michelle]

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pippy longstockings...mr.magoo....I WATCHED EMERGENCY ALL THE TIME...I miss that show...potted meat and crackers.....(sometimes)...TANG

 

[surfrat96]

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Popo Giggio (sp?). the mouse.

Always looked forward to Topo Giggio on the Ed Sullivan show when I was a kid!

HH 8) surfrat

 

[Born2Dtect]

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I remember as a youngster, taking my bath on Sunday evening and then watching "Red Skelton". They just don,t make 'em like that anymore.

Ed Donovan

 

[PBK]

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Any other Fifties Fossils around here who can remember these?

Carbide cannons
Match rockets and bent paper clip launchers
Squawkers made with rosined twine and a big tin can
June bugs on strings
Swiss warblers
Dixie Boy firecrackers
Flip-book comics
Black-eye "telescopes"
When Hallowe'en masks were sweltering hot latex "false faces"
Orange wax Hallowe'en whistles
Playing 45 records at 78 for "chipmunk" music
Getting the teacher to run the film backwards instead of just rewinding it
Party-line telephones
Butcher paper
Banana stalks hanging on hooks at the neighborhood grocery
Buying bologna by the slice
Bread wrapped in wax paper (Mom saved the wrappers to "slick" her iron.)
Weekly Reader
Indelible purple pencils
Hitting all the dime stores the day after Easter for discounted candy
Little yellow bumps on rock-hard Super Bubble gum
Getting your teeth stuck ( I mean really stuck!) on a Sugar Daddy

 

[Michelle]

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June bugs on strings
We would tie a piece of thread on their legs and play for a long time flying them around.....wow...and I thought I was wierd!!!! My 4 sibblings and myself all took baths as kids on Sunday evening too....Then we would huddle up in front of the T.V. and watch Walt Disney Movie then Wild Kingdom........super fun times.....My sister and I would fall asleep in front of the sofa and dad would pick us up and carry us to bed...oh, we would have ice cream too after the baths.....with pop......