one thing i remember fondly was time spent at my grand parents farm in upstate new york. in dead of winter. with -20 temps
out door plumbing

 

Here are some shows to add to the list:

Some extra shows to include:

Space Patrol
Commander Cody (Chuckled when I heard this name being used in the recent "Revenge of the Sith")
One Step Beyond
Science Fiction Theater
Boris Karloff's "Thriller"

Beechnut gum
10 cent comics (was kinda upset when they went to 12 cents....took my bubblegum money)
Trading comics with your friends
15 cent Saturday matinees

Watching the Blue Angels go through their practices when they came to Sunbeam Lake NAS Calif. where my dad was stationed in the very early 60s.
Was in 7th grade when Kennedy was shot in La Mesa, Calif. My dad was transferred to North Island NAS by then and remember the San Diego Ferry.

 

o-boy i think some of us are getting to think back to far. and say how old we are.

 

Stop, Stop, Stop, your making me drool!!

Oh, the memories!

I remember a roast on Sunday afternoons.
My Bozo The Clown Lunch box.
Stepping on honey bees and getting stung for my effort.
Getting kissed good night.
President Kennedy's TV speeches.
Trips to my Grandmother's house for dinner.
Teaching my baby Sister how to walk.
Hidding in the house when the Landlord came looking for the rent money.
Making a mad dash to clean the house when my Grandmother said she was on her way over.
Flat taffey that came between two pieces of wax paper.
Black licorice and RC Colas late at night with my Mom and I watching old movies.
The wonderful smell of fresh ground seed at my Grandparent's feed mill. Gawd, I could have ate that stuff!
Watching my older Sister cheat at tether ball.
May Day at school, a day when we had three-legged races and ate hot dogs and chips for lunch!
A grouchy first grade teacher who would not let us go to the bathroom during lunch hour when I had to GO!
Heading for the screen door one Wednessday evening in 1965 and being stopped dead in my tracks by the sound of Skeeter Davis singing "The End Of The World" during a TV commercial for her records. It floored me!
The day President Kennedy was shot.
The day Senator Kennedy was shot.
The day Martin Luther King was shot.
The glass milk bottles with the paper tops that my Grandparents got.
Golden Bear potato chips. The best.
Hearing The Supremes come on the radio in '64 singing "Where Did Our Love Go."
Setting off a whole box of caps with a sledge hammer. My ears still ring.
Herb Albert.
Seeing The Lennon Sisters perform in person.
Seeing "Mary Poppins" at the drive-in (it blew me away).
Seeing "The Great Race" with my Dad in '65 when it came out and those vivid colors on the screen.
____

The Rifleman
Gilligan's Island (Mary Ann!)
Superman
Johnny Quest
Milton The Monster
That Girl
Rat Patrol
Outer Limits
The Twilight Zone (Ring-a-Ding Girl was zzz best!)
Japanese horror films like "Attack of The Mushroom People."
All other horror films
The Munsters
Branded
Cowboy In Africa
Addam's Family
Patty Duke Show
Batman
Flipper
The Wonderful World Of Disney (7:00 on Sundays!)
---Too many to name

Times were so good then. Will they ever be again?

-1bigsteve (o:

 

Every saturday night with popcorn watching the Lawrence Welk and Jackie Gleason Show on a black & white Hoffman tv. T-33's flying over Alameda before the Navy air shows. The sweet sound of a DC-6 on takeoff at Oakland's airport.
.....=o&o>.....

 

Well i somewhat remember everything that ya'll do, but i have to
list my favorite cartoon SPEED RACER Its sad that the kids
today wont get to expierience what we 40 overs or so got to do
without fear of

 

Beemer Nut, a black & white Hoffman TV?

We had a black & white Arvin TV; and then a Muntz console.

My first Andy Pandy toolkit and me taking the tuner dial apart. I remember that spanking. Ouch!

Sitting next to it was our Airway vacuum cleaner that my mom bought from one of those door-to-door salesman.

I also remember fighter jets taking off and landing at the Presidio airstrip, which is now reverted back to a marshland.

Has anyone mentioned those new pair a jeans mom bought for you and then wearing holes on the knee area two days later.

Remember that look she gave you?

 

Yea, I remember the holes I wore thru my Levis and I also remember those patches Mom would iron onto the knees but she alway's ironed them on the "outside" and it made me look and feel like a jerk. Then they would slowly peel off.

-1bigsteve (o:

 

Stretch Armstrong
GI-Joe's
Blanket in front of the door to keep draft out
No A/C (still none)
Cramming around the woodstove for heat in the winter
MP3? Ipod? ...Huh??

Im only 18...the memories can only go back so far

 

"FLOATS"
-All the sugar you could possibly want, in a tall glass, stirred but not shaken...

DO THIS TODAY:

Get a big glass, and fill it 3/4 of the way with rootbeer.

Drop in a huge chunk of chocolate Ice cream

Blast it with a hand blender, and put another big mess of icecream on top of it

Spray that sucker down with whipped cream, add nuts, candy sprinkles, and cherries, and sink a straw into it!

Oh YEAH!!!!

That's right up there with hangin' out down at the drive in....

 

A&W is still operating in some places.

 

They don't make them like the soda fountains used to do, do they?

 

I still make Floats, they are awsome.

The only A&W i know around here is in Nashville down by Rivergate. The rootbeer is still stored in barrles with the Draft handle.

DT

 

Happy Happy good ol days, other things happened too.

Kids could fight and hurt each other bad, without being sent to psychiatrists; it was nothing to lose a tooth or need stitches, now children need to wear special safety gear to play outside on the foam playground with plastic jungle gyms. A bully is a thing of the past since all bullies today are put down with drugs.

Teachers were allowed to hit you and didn't have to worry about it.

My parents regularly whipped me with a leather belt, and I deserved every wack, cause I was a disrespectful punk.

I hate this new generation of sissies. I also hate the word sissies, we didn't call each other sissies and if I used such a silly word when I was a kid I would have been beaten up...we had better ways to describe "sissies."

Many young children are missing out on a great tradition..getting the tar kicked out of them.

 

There used to be a soda fountain close to where I live that served up old syle shakes, splits and other soda/ice cream cullinary treats.

When you asked for a cherry soda (as an example), it was soda water with a squirt of cherry flavoring; or whatever flavoring you wanted.

The person behind the counter was called a soda jerk.

1bigsteve, I forgot about those patches. They were embarrasing. "Gee mom, mine somehow fell off".

I also remember fry chicken; no, not the food but the spanking.

How many of you remember seeing a fat kid? Try none.

Had a buddy that was big framed, but not fat.