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  • XyetztXyetzt Posts: 27,546
    DanaTA said:
    Miss Bad Wolf said:
    Ron Knights said:

    I just figured out what this is all about. I'm too lazy to read much right now. Everytime I see the title of this thread, I can envision Lesley Gore singing: "It's my party, and I'll cry if I want to!" I don't know how many of you are old enough that you might have played her records as a teenager.

    Congrats on the spirit, and logevity of this thread! I may pop in again later. But I want to be careful not to spoil the mood.

    I heard that song recently AKA when I was at the outdoor pool at the YMCA.  Today is not a good day to go to the pool here.  Mainly because the outdoor pool is closed for the season and another thing I think the YMCA is closed for the day due to some weather issues.

    Is Florence bearing down on you there?

    Dana

    Yes, and apparently it caused some brown outs and internet to go down for a bit, which caused me to get logged off and I lost the post I was working on explaining that.

  • LeatherGryphonLeatherGryphon Posts: 12,464
    edited September 2018

    I remember ...  Burl Ives Christmas albums.  Nat King Cole albums.  Jose' Jime'nez on the Ed Sullivan show  Topo Gigio on Ed Sullivan. Patti Page singing "How Much is that Doggie in the Window?"  Kate Smith singing "God Bless America".  "Science Fiction Theater" on TV as well as  "Rocky Jones,  Space Ranger" and  "Howdy Doody".   I remember only one minute of commercials during a commercial break on TV and only one every 15 minutes.  I remember Milton Berle on TV, as well as Jack Benny, George Burns & Gracie Allen, and Bing Crosby.  I remember the "Bob Cummings" TV show, as well as "I Remember Mama" and "The Ann Southern Show", and that guy who played the voice of Mr. Magoo before he became Mr. Howell on "Gilligan's Island".  I just barely remember Dwight Eisenhower being elected President for the first time.  I watched "I love Lucy" shows when they were new.

    God, I'm old! surprise

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  • kyoto kidkyoto kid Posts: 42,406
    DanaTA said:
    LeatherGryphon said:
    DanaTA said:
    LeatherGryphon said:
    DanaTA said:

    I don't talk sports much...at all...but tonight the Red Sox won their 100th game of the season.  That hasn't happened since Truman was president!  Gas was $.27/gallon!  surprise

    Dana

    True, I remember those days of "cheap" gas.  But remember, in the early '50s,  $0.27 was like $2.70 today.  Candy bars were a nickel ($0.05), as was a 6oz bottle of Coke.  It was a dime ($0.10) for a 12oz bottle which is equivalent to a $1.00 today.  A new car was $2,000.  Equivalent to $20,000 today.  A nice new house was $10,000.  Equivalent to $100,000 today.  A good salary was $8,000/yr.  Equivalent to $80,000 today.  Nothing's changed except the decimal point. surprise

    I remember the $0.05 candy bars.  I forget the name of one that was solid chocolate, but it was really good.  And Schwitzers licorice!  The best black licorice bars I've ever had!  Do you remember the penny candy?  Western-themed white chocolate...cowboy hats, sherrif stars, cowboy boots, revolvers.  Ice Cubes, Squirrel Nuts, coconut chewy candy, some looked like watermellon slices, some pink-white-brown striped.  Those silly "flying saucers", that tasted like the host at Catholic church, with hard candy beads inside.  Lick-m-aid!  A straw filled with flavored sugar!  Yum!  laugh  So healthful!  Lipstick!  I liked those.  Bright red, soft, candy in a silver foil paper wrap, some of it sticking out.  Can't quite describe the flavor and texture, but I liked them.  Red Hotz.  Gold treasure coins, gold foil-wrapped chocolate coins

    By the way, today is International Chocolate Day!

    Dana

    I remember long paper strips of penny candy dots.  Howdy-Doody lamps.  Roy Rogers & Dale Evans cowboy hats.  Hop-along Cassidy horses & guns,  Cars with a rope hanging across the backs of the front seats to grab to help you get out. Juke boxes.  Schlitz Beer signs in tavern windows.  Huge lobster dinners for sale at dumpy little beer taverns.  Bowling alleys with the pins reset by young boys.  78 RPM records.  Bakelite radio cases.  TVs and Radios with real wood cabinets.  Dial telephones.  4-digit phone numbers.  No air conditioning in cars or average people's homes.  Houseflies & housefly sticky strips hanging from the ceiling.  Bazillions of lightning bugs during the summer.  Frogs and toads in the yard and gardens.  Crayfish under rocks in the streams.  Vegetable gardens.  Huge ellipsoid watermelons with viable seeds.  Trash burning barrels in the backyard.  Narrow rickety wooden bridges across miles of swamp when crossing the center of Florida in 1956.  The little cow town of Orlando before Disney.  Florida beaches with no people for miles.  No buildings bigger than a cottage here and there on the Florida east coast beach road A1A from south of Daytona down to Ft. Lauderdale.  Mile long strings of pelicans coasting the shore breeze up and down the beaches.  Blue/Green glow of the sea foam and glowing foot prints in the sand at night.   Florida tourist traps with 10 foot high piles of conch shells & shelves of stuffed baby alligators.  Cars with analog clocks in the dash that never worked.  White wall tires on fancy cars.  Car tires with innertubes.  Cars with no power windows.  The car's headlight dimmer switch being on the floor near the left foot.  Completely flat car windows.  Lead Tetraethyl in the gasoline.  Smog in Pittsburgh & Buffalo steel mill areas. Metal toothpaste tubes.  Brylcream hair grease.  Wire recorders instead of tape.  Home record cutting machines.  Victrola hand crank record players.  Barns painted with ads for Mail Pouch Tobacco.  Strings of Burma Shave rhymes along the road.  Twisted crude telephone poles.  A vibrant fishing industry on Lake Erie.  An era before Interstate highways.  Kerosine lamps in homes.  Coal furnaces.  Kids playing outside.  Dogs running loose.  Home delivery of milk.  Home delivery of potato chips.  Not having a TV.  Not having a color TV.  Only one viewable channel.  Radio was AM only.  Handpumps on the kitchen sink.  I even had a Davy Crocket "Coon skin cap" with the tail dangling in the back.

    Memories: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4-L6rEm0rnY

    I remember some of those things, but some were before my time.  And I only ever lived in Massachusetts, so those out of state things never were in my "view".  Hood milk delivered to my mom, yes.  They put it in these boxes, looked like galvanized sheet metal on the outside and inside, but they were very heavy.  Dogs running loose, yes.  I had a friend who had a BB gun...unsupervised.  I watched them building Rte. 195, including the Braga Bridge that spans Fall River and Somerset and goes to Providence, RI at one end and Cape Cod on the other end.  Rt. 6 is still the only way to get all the way to Provincetown, as far as I know.  My '66 and '69 Chrysler Newports had the high beam switch on the floor.  And Brylcream.  Most of my friends didn't use it.  That was more a '50s kind of "cool" thing.  The Beatles were our big thing.  Although, I had a friend who still liked Elvis.  Maybe he used Brylcream.  The bowling alley I went to when I was young was reset by someone back there, not automated.  My mom's Magnavox console stereo had reall wood, and the record player had 78 as one of the selectable speeds.  I only had 45s at the time, later 33.3 LPs.  And different diners and restaurants had those juke box things on the wall in the boohts.  I don't remember 4 digit phone numbers, they were 5 then 7 when I was young.  But they still had party lines.  Despite their name, they were not fun.  My grandma was on a party line.  If one of the other parties was on the line, we couldn't call her.  Oh, yeah, the dots on the paper candy!  They stole that idea for LSD for a while.  laugh  Glass bottles for soda.  There was a place we would get soda from delivered in a rack, quart bottles maybe (not sure), glass...all different flavors.  It was bottled locally...White Eagle brand.  They'd pick it up and leave another when you were ready.  The racks or crates were wooden.  We only had a B&W TV, and mom didn't buy it, it was a gift from grandma...after the gift from her aunt died.  I never had a color TV until I was married, and that one was used when I bought it.  Those dial telephones were deadly weapons!  laugh

    There was a candy bar that is extinct.  Walleeco.  It was coconut with dark chocolate, but the coconut was more chewy than Mounds.  I liked it a lot.  I guess they're very long gone.  Necco is on the way out, too.  they were right here in Massachusetts.  Some company bought them a couple months ago.  But it's unlikely they'll keep it going.

    Dana

    ...we also had a local soda bottler called Black Bear (they're still in business  but moved to a different location and now use plastic bottles),  Every week remember riding along with Grandad to get a new 24 bottle (wooden) case of mixed flavours.  They even had banana.

    In Wisconsin the local company that made candy wafers similar to Necco was Stark (who also made the Snirkle Carmel bar I mentioned above).  One other local candy bar we had was the Giant bar which is no longer around.

    ...and our hot cocoa of choice was not Nestle, Hershey or Swiss Miss, but locally made Johnston.

        

     

  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675
    kyoto kid said:
    Ron Knights said:

    I just figured out what this is all about. I'm too lazy to read much right now. Everytime I see the title of this thread, I can envision Lesley Gore singing: "It's my party, and I'll cry if I want to!" I don't know how many of you are old enough that you might have played her records as a teenager.

    Congrats on the spirit, and logevity of this thread! I may pop in again later. But I want to be careful not to spoil the mood.

    ..I still remember it.

     

    heard 'never can say goodbye yesterday.  stuck in my head >.<

    no no no  no no no

  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675
    kyoto kid said:

    ...double post due to Cloudlflare glitch.

     

    sounds like a painful condition

    there a special daz topical cream for that?  tee hee

  • carrie58carrie58 Posts: 4,171
    edited September 2018

    I remember Fizzies instant soda tablets , letting them fizz up in your mouth was interesting the best flavor was root beer

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  • carrie58carrie58 Posts: 4,171
    Mistara said:
    kyoto kid said:

    ...double post due to Cloudlflare glitch.

     

    sounds like a painful condition

    there a special daz topical cream for that?  tee hee

     

    nope you just have to "breathe" through th flare up

     

  • kyoto kidkyoto kid Posts: 42,406
    Mistara said:
    kyoto kid said:

    ...double post due to Cloudlflare glitch.

     

    sounds like a painful condition

    there a special daz topical cream for that?  tee hee

    ....maybe better site software.

  • carrie58carrie58 Posts: 4,171

    Holy crap I can't type tonight had to move the computer and it's messed me up

     

  • kyoto kidkyoto kid Posts: 42,406
    LeatherGryphon said:

    I remember ...  Burl Ives Christmas albums.  Nat King Cole albums.  Jose' Jime'nez on the Ed Sullivan show  Topo Gigio on Ed Sullivan. Patti Page singing "How Much is that Doggie in the Window?"  Kate Smith singing "God Bless America".  "Science Fiction Theater" on TV as well as  "Rocky Jones,  Space Ranger" and  "Howdy Doody".   I remember only one minute of commercials during a commercial break on TV and only one every 15 minutes.  I remember Milton Berle on TV, as well as Jack Benny, George Burns & Gracie Allen.  I remember the "Bob Cummings" TV show, as well as "I Remember Mama" and "The Ann Southern Show", and that guy who played the voice of Mr. Magoo before he became Mr. Howell on "Gilligan's Island".  I just barely remember Dwight Eisenhower being elected President for the first time.  I watched "I love Lucy" shows when they were new.

    God, I'm old! surprise

    ...so am I now.

  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675

    waiting for lasix to kick in

    thou shalt not eat sodium,

    cept, petting zoo sunday has 2 hotdogs smothered in yellow mustard with my names on it.  nisty dogs

  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675

    unflateable seat cushion for those cloud flare ups smiley

  • kyoto kidkyoto kid Posts: 42,406
    Mistara said:

    unflateable seat cushion for those cloud flare ups smiley

    ...yes

  • LeatherGryphonLeatherGryphon Posts: 12,464
    edited September 2018

    Does anybody remember the cartoons "Colonel Bleep" or "Beanie and Cecil"?

    Where was "Colonel Bleep's headquarters?

    What was Cecil?

    Post edited by LeatherGryphon on
  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675

    Aww, it’s a cute baby dragon, with spooky glowing eyes.
    And look! It’s grown bigger. It must be close to maturing.

    dunno why i become emotionally attached to hatchlings, messed up maternal instinct?

     

  • AmaltheaAmalthea Posts: 224
    RitaCeleste said:

    I tried Pamela's All purpose flour mix and it is great!  I am going to get the bread mix by Pamela's and make my own pasta.  I have an old pasta machine that never saw much use.  I am cleaning it and getting it ready to use today.  I hope it still turns on.  But if it doesn't I'll roll it out and get a cutter with 8 blades to speed things up.  I can live with thicker cut pasta.  I have been on GFCF, Atkins, extra lowcarb Atkins, modified fat fasts, etc. because of autism and weight.  We eat a lot of whole foods and from scratch cooking.  I got my teeth done about three years ago and it was hard to eat meat for one year and I started eating bad foods again.  I curbed that kind of eating when I got meat and salads back but I still didn't want to diet for weightloss and I still wanted those crackers with my cheese and things.  This is going to be a good thing for our family.  When I am cooking real foods more, everyone is happier and I believe healthier.

    That Pamelas mix is one of the better sellers in th estore I work at. In fact it was one of the items that was specifically requested by a customer years ago.

  • DanaTADanaTA Posts: 13,410
    LeatherGryphon said:

    Does anybody remember the cartoons "Colonel Bleep" or "Beanie and Cecil"?

    Where was "Colonel Bleep's headquarters?

    What was Cecil?

    I kind of remember Beanie and Cecil...was Cecil a worm or a snake?

    Dana

    LeatherGryphon said:

    I remember ...  Burl Ives Christmas albums.  Nat King Cole albums.  Jose' Jime'nez on the Ed Sullivan show  Topo Gigio on Ed Sullivan. Patti Page singing "How Much is that Doggie in the Window?"  Kate Smith singing "God Bless America".  "Science Fiction Theater" on TV as well as  "Rocky Jones,  Space Ranger" and  "Howdy Doody".   I remember only one minute of commercials during a commercial break on TV and only one every 15 minutes.  I remember Milton Berle on TV, as well as Jack Benny, George Burns & Gracie Allen, and Bing Crosby.  I remember the "Bob Cummings" TV show, as well as "I Remember Mama" and "The Ann Southern Show", and that guy who played the voice of Mr. Magoo before he became Mr. Howell on "Gilligan's Island".  I just barely remember Dwight Eisenhower being elected President for the first time.  I watched "I love Lucy" shows when they were new.

    God, I'm old! surprise

    Remember the show after, The Lucy Show (I think), with Vivian Vance (Whoa Viv!) and Mr. Money...I mean Mooney laugh ? I remember Jose (Bill Dana, wasn't it?), Topo Gigio (didn't know the name, but I remembered the act when I saw it on YouTube recently), didn't remember her name, but remember the song about the doggie in the window, vaguely remember Kate Smith singing God Bless America.  I remember Jack Benny (now, stop that...hand on cheek) and Bing Crosby shows.  Bob Cummings.  And who could forget Mr. Magoo?  I saw him in my mind when I watched Gillign's Island (first run).  Also watched I Love Lucy in first run.  The Rifle Man, Paladin (Have Gun, Will Travel), Wagon Train, Gunsmoke, The Andy Griffith Show (can't whistle for crap), Car 54 (Herman and Grandpa before The Munsters), Dragnet, Bonanza, Wild Kingdom (watched that at grandma's house on Sundays...along with The Wide World of Disney), The Twilight Zone, The Doris Day Show (see the USA in a Chevrolet), The Outer Limits.  Saw all these first run.  And more.

    Dana

  • LeatherGryphonLeatherGryphon Posts: 12,464

    Cecil the sea serpent. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AJUs_Am-RpQ  Silly, bad puns.   And their nemesis "Dishonest John, aka: D.J."

    Colonel Bleep's HQ was at longitude/latitude 0/0  aka: "Zero Zero Island" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ntmL1YLJprQ  Really stupid, badly drawn, cheaply made cartoon, but I loved it at one time.  Never saw it in color though.

  • kyoto kidkyoto kid Posts: 42,406
    LeatherGryphon said:

    Does anybody remember the cartoons "Colonel Bleep" or "Beanie and Cecil"?

    Where was "Colonel Bleep's headquarters?

    What was Cecil?

    ..I remember Beanie and Cecil.  Cecil was a sea serpent.

  • kyoto kidkyoto kid Posts: 42,406

    ..Jose Jimenez,  I remember Bill Dana's routine about Jose being the first Astronaut. 

  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675

    a cricket has moved in with me, uninvited and noisy

  • XyetztXyetzt Posts: 27,546
    Mistara said:

    a cricket has moved in with me, uninvited and noisy

    I heard some lizards love crickets.

    On other news, I woke up in a panic, because I dreamt (or is dreamed?) that I lost my iPhone and my purse.  I have found my iPhone so it was not lost.  I have not looked for my purse.

     

  • LeatherGryphonLeatherGryphon Posts: 12,464
    kyoto kid said:
    LeatherGryphon said:

    I remember ...  Burl Ives Christmas albums.  Nat King Cole albums.  Jose' Jime'nez on the Ed Sullivan show  Topo Gigio on Ed Sullivan. Patti Page singing "How Much is that Doggie in the Window?"  Kate Smith singing "God Bless America".  "Science Fiction Theater" on TV as well as  "Rocky Jones,  Space Ranger" and  "Howdy Doody".   I remember only one minute of commercials during a commercial break on TV and only one every 15 minutes.  I remember Milton Berle on TV, as well as Jack Benny, George Burns & Gracie Allen.  I remember the "Bob Cummings" TV show, as well as "I Remember Mama" and "The Ann Southern Show", and that guy who played the voice of Mr. Magoo before he became Mr. Howell on "Gilligan's Island".  I just barely remember Dwight Eisenhower being elected President for the first time.  I watched "I love Lucy" shows when they were new.

    God, I'm old! surprise

    ...so am I now.

    Sorry for the wake up call. indecision

  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675

    big day out, goin for manicure and eyebrow wax.  a pick me up, fix me up, after the hospital stay

    my 12 yo cousin sleeping over tnite smiley petting zoo tomorrow.

    hopin the lasix worn off, or will be xtra busy today.

  • ChoholeChohole Posts: 33,604
    Mistara said:

    big day out, goin for manicure and eyebrow wax.  a pick me up, fix me up, after the hospital stay

    my 12 yo cousin sleeping over tnite smiley petting zoo tomorrow.

    hopin the lasix worn off, or will be xtra busy today.

    That comment brings back memories.   Having to work routes out by availability of "Pit stops" when taking himself's Mother anywhere.

  • AmaltheaAmalthea Posts: 224
    edited September 2018
    kyoto kid said:
    LeatherGryphon said:

    I remember ...  Burl Ives Christmas albums.  Nat King Cole albums.  Jose' Jime'nez on the Ed Sullivan show  Topo Gigio on Ed Sullivan. Patti Page singing "How Much is that Doggie in the Window?"  Kate Smith singing "God Bless America".  "Science Fiction Theater" on TV as well as  "Rocky Jones,  Space Ranger" and  "Howdy Doody".   I remember only one minute of commercials during a commercial break on TV and only one every 15 minutes.  I remember Milton Berle on TV, as well as Jack Benny, George Burns & Gracie Allen.  I remember the "Bob Cummings" TV show, as well as "I Remember Mama" and "The Ann Southern Show", and that guy who played the voice of Mr. Magoo before he became Mr. Howell on "Gilligan's Island".  I just barely remember Dwight Eisenhower being elected President for the first time.  I watched "I love Lucy" shows when they were new.

    God, I'm old! surprise

    ...so am I now.

    I'm getting there. 2 years older than Misty I think. I've got my grandmothers COlumbia CHristmas albums that I grew up listening to. Mahalia Jackson singing Amazing Grace, Sammy Davis Jr singing Candy Man, The Carpenters, The New Christy Minstrals etc.

     

    ETA: Jim is working on a prequil to The Barbarians. SOme of the early stuff is REALLLLY dark as he's got to set up the foundatins for the cultures of the time and ideas like those don't come out of nowhere but it doesn't stay dark.

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  • XyetztXyetzt Posts: 27,546

    ETA?

  • TJohnTJohn Posts: 11,435
    LeatherGryphon said:

    Does anybody remember the cartoons "Colonel Bleep" or "Beanie and Cecil"?

    Where was "Colonel Bleep's headquarters?

    What was Cecil?

    Cecil was a seasick sea-serpent who always saved the day. "I'm comin' Beanie-boy!"

    Villain was Dishonest John (Nyah-ah-ah!).

    Don't remember Colonel Bleep.

  • Charlie JudgeCharlie Judge Posts: 13,629
    edited September 2018
    Miss Bad Wolf said:

    ETA?

    Sometimes means 'Estimated Time of Arrival' but in this case I think it means 'Edited To Add"

    Post edited by Charlie Judge on
  • XyetztXyetzt Posts: 27,546

    I need to eat lipunch soon.  But what is lunch?

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