Truman and I were talking about these a couple of days ago...
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Do you remember that you could (if you had a telephone) pick up the reciever...dial your own number (on a rotary dial!) and hang up real fast ....and your own phone would ring! LOL!
I got a whupping one time for doing that....
Truman and I were talking about these a couple of days ago...
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and these....ya'll remember these??
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Do you remember that you could (if you had a telephone) pick up the reciever...dial your own number (on a rotary dial!) and hang up real fast ....and your own phone would ring! LOL!
I got a whupping one time for doing that....
Let's see what we can all remind one another of!
For some reason I was thinking today of back when I was a kid....how much of the tools in the kitchen were metal....and of course we didn't have no stick pans....do ya'll remember soaking the pans while you washed the rest of the dishes and having to scrub them?
Do you remember the first dish washer you ever saw?
and these....ya'll remember these??
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Oh they were hard for a seven year old to pop....but we would work on it til we got it!
Tell us about what you remember....about things we have lost...
the rumble seat of the station wagon...and no seat belts...you could waller all over the place.
do kids today get the 'stop short' arm anymore? I am 42 and my mother still will throw her arm out in front of me if we have to stop suddenly....see? we DID have safety devices...who needs a seat belt or air bags if you got your momma's arm??
Truman and I were talking about these a couple of days ago...
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they are like really stale marshmellows...a thicker consistancy. fresh they aren't too bad, but stale? UG!!
Anyone remember their phone number looking like LINCOLN 5-1126? (That was our old phone # on Radnor Rd.)
Or CIRCLE 7-5252?
Or is everyone else around here younger than me? ???
Aaaaah now I see.... :P We call them schuimpjes, but they are usually strawberry or lemon flavored and in different shapes...
The first part of our phone number was Pershing 7 -- Which meant that the first 2 numbers were 7 and 3 for the P and the E. Sometimes we just gave our number as P.E.7-2231. Later on it just changed to 737-2231. And I think we had to call 0 and tell the operator which number we were going to call if it was a long distance number, and she would connect us. Wow! It has been a long time since I thought about that---thanks for jogging that sleeping part of my brain! Long distance calls were limited too; they were expensive.
How many of you remember the clackers?
How many times did you knock yourself upside your head with one of them?
Did anyone else play this game when they were a kid in the 1960's?
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Oh my brother had Green Ghost! We loved that game! We also loved Mousetrap and Go to the Head of the Class.
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But my all time best loved game, along with all my Beatles Bubble Gum Cards was this one....
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We had a party line too until I was 9. Our ring was three short bursts. We also had a real live operator at our telephone exchange. My Grandmother use to make her tea in the afternoon and sit on the sofa with her hand over the mouth piece and just listen to other people's conversations :laugh: drove my Mom nuts!
I still remember what a big deal it was in 1964 to stand on the sidewalk and watch the color TVs in the store window!
It was 1966 before we got one at our house. And TVs then were big pieces of furniture with these decorative wood ( or simulated wood) cabinets. Teddy and I would lay on the floor on big pillows and were glued to the TV , especially on Sundays when Disney was on because the opening of the show splashed all that color across the screen and then again on Thursday nights when Star Trek was on.
Do you all remember the cinnamon tooth picks? Maybe this was something we only did in Indiana. They sold little bottles of cinnamon liquid at the drug store and we would soak toothpicks in it. Then we would bring them to school the next day. I remember once I tasted a little bit of that cinnamon liquid and it nearly set my mouth on fire! :laugh: :laugh:
Did you all make friendship bracelets when you were in school? I had a HUGE box of colored beads of all different colors, shapes and sizes. I made friendship bracelets for all my friends at school and around the neighborhood. :D
Talking about those friendship bracelets reminded me of chewing gum wrapper chains---did ya'll make those? I had a 10-12 foot one draped over the mirror in my bedroom. Whose posters did you have up in your room?
We didn't have cinnamon toothpicks, and we never had a color TV while I was living at home. Or a remote control. The games look fun, but my gran's dad had been a drunken gambler who gambled away all the money they'd saved for the dentist---so---she wouldn't let me play any games that used dice!! That was an odd thought process. I played them when I went to a friend's house. And I could have games with spinners. :P
I made chains out of pull tabs Shasta. Remember the pull tabs from coke cans? I would collect them until I had about a hundred, and then I would stick the tab through the hoop of another tab and bend it down. I kept doing this until I had a chain. Then I would take the chain and hang it in my bedroom. I had an entire curtain of pull tab chains. Sometimes I would paint the tabs with shiny metallic paint; red, blue, pink, green, purple, etc. I placed the chains in the center of my room and the "curtain" helped divide the room into two separate spaces. a bedroom area and a lounge area. :D
WOW!! ::) That's a lot of coke can tabs!! Are they still somewhere in the house where you grew up?? Isn't it funny how kids liked their rooms to be "sections" like that? I didn't have any dividers, but I thought of different parts of the room as separate. My room was added on to the house--it was nice and big, but it had very little insulation and no heat source. Winters were the pits!! Water left in my room actually FROZE once in a while. Quilts, blankets, whatever---were piled on the bed. MAN!! It was hard to get up in the mornings. :o
Yeah, I sectioned off my bedroom and I had the whole black lights, strobe lights, florescent posters, incense, flashing lights theme going on in there! I would go in my bedroom, turn off the overhead light, turn on the black lights and strobe lights and jam to Boston, Styx, Kansas, Kiss, Pink Floyd or Black Sabbath on the stereo! :D
Like I said, those were the days!!
Did anyone else play this game when they were a kid in the 1960's?
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Anyone remember POW bracelets. I wish i still had mine
I didn't know about the POW bracelets at the time, Dev. The first one I ever saw was in the late eighties I think...(also the ONLY one I have ever seen)
Kelda, they were ID bracelets that had the name of a service member that was MIA/POW in Vietnam. People wore them in protest or in memory until the person returned home.