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Clancy wrote: Tell you one thing ....you'll know this *and for those that don't know*, the dress kilt is very heavy, and they cost a "lot of money. My son in law has his own kilt. Most people here just hire them when needed. You only buy one if you go to quite a few Ceremonial outings or dinners each year, etc,oh i know, he was going to bring it over last visit, but it would have been too hot, and floridians would not have been receptive. not that we cared, but it is wool and weighed a ton. i was getting some lifesaving award at some fancy dinner, and was concerned that 450 southern deputies would not have understood the guy in the skirt.

"Doing things" by the sound of the eight-track and the glow of the black-light. Enough said.

Clancy wrote: Tell you one thing ....you'll know this *and for those that don't know*, the dress kilt is very heavy, and they cost a "lot of money. My son in law has his own kilt. Most people here just hire them when needed. You only buy one if you go to quite a few Ceremonial outings or dinners each year, etc,


So it's like a tuxedo? :-6

Platform shoes, silk shirts and leisure suits (I'm really trying to forget those days). :rolleyes:

ChiptBeef wrote: Platform shoes, silk shirts and leisure suits (I'm really trying to forget those days). :rolleyes:
Hahahaha....the good old days! Memories! :wah:

The Superball, the Slinky, Mouse Trap game and Chatty Cathy.

Working callouses on your feet at the beginning of summer and by the end of summer you could to walk across glass and never feel a thing.

Mr. Ed, My Favorite Martian, Leave it to Beaver and Bewitched.

Seeing who could hold the breath under water the longest. Eating watermelon with salt and spitting the seeds at each other.

Picnics with real picnic baskets and never locking your door



Ahhhhh, oh well. . . . .

Does anyone remember this old board game? Check out this link: http://www.feelingretro.com/view_toy.cfm?id=58



My sisters and I used to play this all the time!

Ha-my sisters used to play that game too! I loved monopoly........................

chonsigirl wrote: Ha-my sisters used to play that game too! I loved monopoly........................


I used to hate it when I'd get "the dud" - I like monopoly ok too - my mom and dad liked that one more than I did though

Was it the single most dangerous toy ever invented? Yep! And what a blast it was too! Thingmakers! Pour in the goobledy goop, smell the fumes of the plastic curing, then lift it into the cooling water tray and try not to burn your fingers as you peeled the "Creepycrawlers" out of it. Additional sets included Pic-a-doos (which could be strung together to decorate almost anything)

http://www.feelingretro.com/view_toy.cfm?id=16:D

Anyone remember these?

Attached files

:wah: I agree Uncle-or slide rulers?

Only the clever kids in my class could use them. In this period I took great solace in the comfort of my more familiar abacus

:wah: Oh uncle! We used slide rulers when I first went to college. The first calculators came out, big, giant clumsy machines no one would touch with a ten foot pole.

Before calculators, my Dad used to have this huge book full of numbers and tables called a Ready Reckoner. He never stopped calling calculators Ready Reckoners. Only we knew what he was on about.

According to today's regulators and bureaucrats, those of us who were kids in the 60's, 70's and early 80's probably shouldn't have survived, because our baby cots were covered with brightly coloured lead-based paint which was promptly chewed and licked. We had no childproof lids on medicine bottles, or latches on doors or cabinets and it was fine to play with pans.

When we rode our bikes, we wore no helmets, just flip-flops and fluorescent 'spokey dokey's' on our wheels. As children, we would ride in cars with no seat belts or airbags - riding in the passenger seat was a treat.

We drank water from the garden hose and not from a bottle and it tasted the same.

We ate chips, bread and butter pudding and drank fizzy juice with sugar in it, but we were never overweight because we were always outside playing.

We shared one drink with four friends, from one bottle or can and no-one actually died from this.

We would spend hours building go-carts out of scraps and then went top speed down the hill, only to find out we forgot the brakes. After running into stinging nettles a few times, we learned to solve the problem.

We would leave home in the morning and could play all day, as long as we were back before it got dark. No one was able to reach us and no one minded.

We did not have Play stations or X-Boxes, no video games at all. No 99 channels on TV, no videotape movies, no surround sound, no mobile phones, no personal computers, no DVDs, no Internet chat rooms.

We had friends - we went outside and found them.

We played elastics and rounders, and sometimes that ball really hurt!

We fell out of trees, got cut, and broke bones but there were no lawsuits.

We had full on fist fights but no prosecution followed from other parents.

We played chap-the-door-run-away and were actually afraid of the owners catching us.

We walked to friends' homes.

We also, believe it or not, WALKED to school; we didn't rely on mummy or daddy to drive us to school, which was just round the corner.

We made up games with sticks and tennis balls.

We rode bikes in packs of 7 and wore our coats by only the hood.

The idea of a parent bailing us out if we broke a law was unheard of...They actually sided with the law.

This generation has produced some of the best risk-takers and problem solvers and inventors, ever.

The past 50 years have been an explosion of

innovation and new ideas. We had freedom, failure, success and responsibility, and we learned how to deal with it all.

Katy

Oh yeah, and we still get milk in bottles delivered to our house! I think it tastes so much better from a bottle.

Ha-ha, milk to the door.

My father was a milkman for awhile, I remember that.

Ice cream trucks, playing their piper song to us in the summertime to come and get some goodies....................

I think it was in 1971 that the wonderfully non-PC Benny Hill had a No.1 hit in the UK with "Ernie" which was the tale of the fastest Milkman in the West.

I can still remember all the words and more than likely will have it buzzing round inside my head for the rest of the day

I left University with a First Class Honours degree in Calcium Anthropology which is the study of Milkmen

I remember in elementary school when it seemed that every classroom had a piano & every teacher seemed to know how to play it!

Remember in kindergarten, going to get the milk/chocolate milk & cookies for snack? We had a little red wagon to load them into.

Elementary school plays. I felt like a star!

Slumber parties, staying up all night, talking about... what else... BOYS!! LOL!!!

Anyone remember silly puddy? Use to sqoosh it on the comics page of the newspaper to lift the print, then stretch it out in all sorts of ways to make the picture funnier.

Home perms that mom use to give, that made your hair look like Orphan Annies. :wah:

Bobbie socks and saddle shoes.

When apple butter, maple syrup and brandy were made, not bought.

ChiptBeef wrote: When apple butter, maple syrup and brandy were made, not bought.


MMM!!! I remember Mom making us apple butter bread as a snack! She'd spread it with butter, then slather on the applebutter! YUMMMMMY!!!

Remember getting a paper bag full of penny candy at the corner store?

KarazePapa wrote: Am I old enough to remember. Born in '48. Yup I remember. Oh and that is 1948 not 1848!


You're just a tad bit older than me...

I remember getting up before anyone else on Saturday mornings & eating my bowl of cereal while watching Bugs Bunny & Josie & the Pussycats.

I remember going to the roller rink after church on Sunday afternoons.

Saturday morning cartoons.........................

Johnny Quest...................

The Jetsons..............

Kickball in the back yard with the entire neighborhood of kids!

Movies/dances in the evening at the local playground.

Our family used to take summer trips to the Mississippi Gulf Coast each summer in a 27' camper. I remember the HOT nights, sleeping in the bunk. But swimming at the beach all day! And going on the Blessing of the Fleet each May/June. All that Cajun food was DELISH!!

[QUOTE=chonsigirlJohnny Quest


I just got this box set on DVD the other day, it is freakin' AWESOME! I never realized how violent that cartoon was, but Race Bannon runs around a lot of the time throwing grenades into unsuspecting bad guy's cars.

Jives wrote: I just got this box set on DVD the other day, it is freakin' AWESOME! I never realized how violent that cartoon was, but Race Bannon runs around a lot of the time throwing grenades into unsuspecting bad guy's cars.


I never was big on Johnny Quest. But I remember my dad & brother watching wrestling on Saturday afternoons, with Andre the Giant, the Grand Wizard, Capt Lou Albano, etc. I HATED that!!