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Legendary Wise Elder
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#1
telephone booths, less self-service and more being waited on in stores, huge brick-like cell phones, Soul Train show, teachers who paddled students who misbehaved and had no teacher assistants, blackboards and chalk, no stores like Wal-Mart
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Crone
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5 and dime stores. Cloth diapers. No air conditioning. Leaving Windows and doors open for ventilation. Plastic panties that went over the diapers. No car seats for infants.
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metamorphosist
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Shag carpeting, avocado appliances, foiled wallpaper
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the hard sugar fancy easter eggs with hard sugar bunnies and trees inside. I don't know any other way to describe them. They were fragile and you didn't eat them. They were pretty and a keep sake till the sugar broken down and they broke but I would hang onto them forever, they were that special to me.
and yes I remember putting cards on your bike spokes and it made a kinda motor sound and you would fly down the road bothering every adult around without knowing it. why don't kids do that anymore I will have to show my grandkids the trick. __________________ Tams https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Whgn_iE5uc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6FOUqQt3Kg0 YOU LAUGH BECAUSE I AM DIFFERENT, I LAUGH BECAUSE YOU ARE ALL THE SAME Don't only practice your Art, But force your way through into its secrets, For it and Knowledge can Raise men to the Divine. Beethoven |
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#5
the sound of nails on a blackboard
So many old women smelled of Lavender and/or roses & talcum powder Moth balls, the scent of opening the winter coat bag. A line dress & all the rest Mod Squad Metal beach pails and shovels, no Velcro The first blood pressure cuffs I used had no Velcro Clothes lines all down the block drying clothing...airing clean laundry... Smog. (made for some awesome sunsets) __________________ "...don't say Home / the bones of that word mend slowly...' marie harris |
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Legendary Wise Elder
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#6
Getting the job of beating chalk erasers against a tree to clean them
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metamorphosist
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Those metal chalk holders teachers had
Brand new whole pieces of white chalk. Kids who ate the white paste |
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Elmer’s glue, science experiments, pogo sticks and skip its.
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Legendary Wise Elder
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Bazooka guns, playing cowboys and Indians, "Lost in Space," wearing masks for Halloween, the introduction of "Tang," the popularity of "Kool-Aid," nurses wearing nurse;s uniforms with nurses' hats, The Barbie Game and "Twister" game, hula-hoops (I never could get the hang of them)
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metamorphosist
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I can’t do hula hoops either!
Mr potato head with a real potato |
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Legendary Wise Elder
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#11
toy stoves and ironing boards and irons and dolls that wet themselves (Betsy Wetsy), Chatty Cathy Doll, Duncan yo-yos, playing jacks and marbles (I was pretty good at marbles and had a nice collection)
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metamorphosist
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Speaking of marbles...especially those big shooters. My aunt has a marble collection in one of those glass lamps. That’s a lot of marbles!
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Crone
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Polyester pantsuits
Key jars Peace signs __________________ Nammu …Beyond a wholesome discipline, be gentle with yourself. You are a child of the universe no less than the trees and the stars; you have a right to be here. …... Desiderata Max Ehrmann |
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metamorphosist
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Idea from another thread...pen pals!
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Legendary Wise Elder
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#15
My mother had a lamp with lots of marbles in it, too. Must have been the style at the time!
1950's and 1960's cars . I remember seeing a 1964 Mustang when they first came out. |
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metamorphosist
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Have you ever seen a Corvair or Kharnin Ghia?
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Legendary Wise Elder
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I've seen both! I think I even rode in a Corvair.
Anyone remember Thunderbirds? And how the gal had "fun, fun, fun until daddy took the T-bird away"? |
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metamorphosist
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I sure do! The Beach Boys started the California fantasy for me, living in the snowy north grinding away at school. When they resurrected the T-bird they should’ve left the wings on.
Cheerleading without terrifying gymnastics. |
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Mascara in a little tin that you had to spit in and use a little bristle brush. It clumped like crazy
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metamorphosist
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