Originally Posted By Lady Starlight Flash back time! I thought it might be fun to post things we remember about we were younger. (Please let this be a fun lighthearted thread only. It's just to give us a smile and a flashback.) I remember when I used to sleep in the back window of our car when we were on long road trips.
Originally Posted By ShivaThDestroyer I remember looking forward to the annual television airing of "The Wizard of Oz". If there was just one thing on TV we had to see, that was it.
Originally Posted By SoThisIsLove It was always in the spring (it seemed) and my mom always made homemade fudge. I still think of fudge whenever I hear songs from it or think of it. My memory: coming home from school and playing outside until dark. Nobody worried about me...we were safe.
Originally Posted By Autopia Deb I remember the annual watching of the Oz too! Somehow it's less special now you can watch it on DVD anytime (still love it tho). I also remember watching The Muppet Show and how every member of the family loved it. It was one of the few shows we all agreed on.
Originally Posted By SoThisIsLove I remember Walnettos. Man, I miss those. And eating those waxy skeletons and coke bottles. They didn't taste very good to me at all (either the wax OR the liquid inside) but I thought I was SO cool and SO grownup, like my two older siblings.
Originally Posted By Lady Starlight I remember my Mr.Peanut peanut butter maker. All you had to do was add peanuts to him and crank the handle and it made peanut butter. I also remember when I had a Crazy Cart. It had two big wheels on either side of it and a seat right inthe middle of the wheels and the handles were on the insdie of the wheels and you had to turn the handles to get the wheels to move and you couldnt go straight, you went all crazy all over the place. It was so much fun!
Originally Posted By SoThisIsLove (just sent LS an email) I remember those things where you'd pour in the goop and make creepy crawly things...bugs and stuff. What were those things called?
Originally Posted By Autopia Deb Ooooh oooh, remember that cat clock with the big eyes and the tail that swung back and forth?
Originally Posted By ShivaThDestroyer >>What were those things called?<< Creepy Crawlers!!! I loved them!! <a href="http://www.snowcrest.net/fox/cc.html" target="_blank">http://www.snowcrest.net/fox/cc.html</a>
Originally Posted By alphabetmom You can still get walnettos, in Virginia City, NV. and Old Sacramento. My mom loves them too. I just got her a pound for Mother's Day.
Originally Posted By mater4 I remember watching the muppet show in my muppet show bikini. I was still very young back then. In the summer I would make snow cones with my Snoopy snow cone machine. I also looked forward to all the christmas shows at christmas time and still do. Charlie Brown Christmas, Rudolf, and Santa is Coming to Town.
Originally Posted By Lady Starlight ohh mater4 me too! I would wait all year long to see those! Especially the Halloween one called Mad Monster Party. I had to buy it waaay back when , when they came outon VHS. Now I have all of them on DVD.The Christmas ones are in a box set, but the Mad Monster Party is sometimes hard to find.I'm glad I have it though and would share with anyone who would like to see it for old times sake. I loved that Boris Karloff voiced " Baron Boris von Frankenstein" in it and Phyllis Diller " the monsters mate".I also loved then Halloween was getting close and they would play the Monster Mash on the radio.
Originally Posted By smedley I loved the muppet show, I have series one on DVD (the UK unedited version )
Originally Posted By ShivaThDestroyer I remember the first love of my life, Annette Funicello. I couldn't wait to get home from school to watch the Mickey Mouse Club. <--still carries the torch (along with a gajillion other guys)
Originally Posted By smedley I also remember watching Doctor Who from behind the sofa, hiding from the scary Daleks
Originally Posted By FerretAfros I remember when it snowed for Thanksgiving and there was a nice old man driving his tractor around the park behind my house with all the kids on their sleds tied to the back, because it was too flat to try it any other way. As for Wizard of Oz on TV, I've strangely found it on while I've been putting the lights on our Christmas tree for the past couple years. It's usually TNT or something like that, and just happens to be on at the right time (even though we've gotten the trees different weekends). Once, it was even followed by the Sound of Music!
Originally Posted By Autopia Deb I remember how fun it was to watch Jiffy Pop...pop, but I didn't like to actually EAT it.
Originally Posted By eww4 Dude! The Snoopy snow cone machine! I saw one of those a few weeks ago and begged my wife to let me get one. Needless to say, I am still without one. I remember heading to the far end of the playground to play with our Masters of the Universe toys in 3rd grade. I remember when Capri Sun first came out - we drank it after our AYSO soccer matches! I remember thinking Mr. T was the toughest guy around, fool! I remember wanting to be a Goonie!
Originally Posted By Lady Starlight I remember when Id get a scrape while playing and my Mom would put that orange/bright neon pink liquid in a glass bottle with the little glass wand in it 'mecurichrome'( spell?)on me and it would take FOREVER for the color to finally wear off. Man did that stuff ever sting.
