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They don't have these anymore? I remember I used to get cheap sweet rolls in the local day old bread store. I didn't care for the bread that much, it was the iced sweet rolls I was after, LOL! They were SO good, too!
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They don't have these anymore? I remember I used to get cheap sweet rolls in the local day old bread store. I didn't care for the bread that much, it was the iced sweet rolls I was after, LOL! They were SO good, too!
We had one nearby until the pandemic hit. It was worth the gas to drive to Abilene for what they used to sell.Remember
or block the coin chute with paper and collect the money for the lolly shop!
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I saw a commercial the other day about an online game that's supposedly so much fun "to attack your friends and steal their coins," or words to that effect. I was remembering all the good times we used to have back in the early 70s, playing board games. When my parents split up in 1971, mom took us kids and moved in with her mother for a couple of years until she could get back on her feet again. I was so abused. I had to walk a mile to school each way, and I was starting my freshman year of high school that fall, to boot, so I was brand new in a new school and had no friends. But every night after dinner, we played games, all of us, as a family. No TV. We had Chinese Checkers, Aggravation, Parcheesi, and Yahtzee! and a few others, but those were the favorites. I can still remember the clicking sound of the glass marbles in Chinese Checkers, and the smell of the little painted wooden pieces in Parcheesi, and my Nana, yelling, "YAHTZEE!" Those were such good times... 
please monopoly!I saw a commercial the other day about an online game that's supposedly so much fun "to attack your friends and steal their coins," or words to that effect. I was remembering all the good times we used to have back in the early 70s, playing board games. When my parents split up in 1971, mom took us kids and moved in with her mother for a couple of years until she could get back on her feet again. I was so abused. I had to walk a mile to school each way, and I was starting my freshman year of high school that fall, to boot, so I was brand new in a new school and had no friends. But every night after dinner, we played games, all of us, as a family. No TV. We had Chinese Checkers, Aggravation, Parcheesi, and Yahtzee! and a few others, but those were the favorites. I can still remember the clicking sound of the glass marbles in Chinese Checkers, and the smell of the little painted wooden pieces in Parcheesi, and my Nana, yelling, "YAHTZEE!" Those were such good times...
heaven buta strange sight, women wearing a dress!!!
How many looked forward to this back in the day?
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Those WERE the good old days
I used to do tracings of leaves. My dad would take me out in the neighborhood, looking for the perfect maple leaf, and I'd bring it home and make tracings of it. Kept me busy for hours, doing different colors with crayons, and later with colored pencils.
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I can still remember the clunk clunk of Dr. Tom's shoes as he walked slowly down the hardwood floored hall to our bedroom, just before he came in and stuck popsicle sticks down our throats (gag!) and thermometers under our tongues. Followed invariably by a shot of penicillin. It was back when penicillin was a new wonder drug and they gave it to everyone, even kids with a cold.
Uh, coupla those things (the TV with remote and the Walkman) were after my childhood, so I guess I must be old enough to be a GREAT grandparent. That's a scary thought!
Cute meme, but if it was really done by someone that age in the 70s, they'd know how to spell "seem." What has happened to our education system? Nobody can freaking SPELL anymore, much less know what kind of punctuation or grammar or tense to use. (Wow, where did THAT come from? I guess it's been building up for a while, LOL!)
I'm old enough to remember when there was a guy playing an organ at the roller rink. Oh, what wonderful times we had... I used to spend hours every Saturday sweeping around that big oval. What a feeling of freedom, to just be able to glide along and the wind blew your hair back, and the organ played... It was GREAT.
When I was a kid not many families had money to spend on lights so this was sorta special
Near where I grew up in Portland, there was a street called Peacock Lane, and every house on it (NO exceptions) was decorated to the hilt every Christmas. That was back before HOAs, but it was agreed by all the residents, that everyone decorated their house up as fancy as possible, and then the TRAFFIC! OMG, there were cars lined up, sometimes it would take an hour to get through the route, but it was oh, so worth it. What a spectacle, and all of us kids were always mesmerized by all the colored lights everywhere.
I loved the cartoons on Saturday, and watched ALL of them while I was eating my Sugar Pops and Honeycomb cereal, LOL! But Sunday night at 7:00 was the best. That's when the Wonderful World of Disney came on. It was only an hour, and I think it was mostly little cartoon shorts or nature films (I don't remember now), but it was the reason I got to stay up "late" on Sunday night, Monday being a school day and all.
To this day, every time I hear that music, I'm swept back to that family room and the little portable TV we had (it was still a B&W at that point), with the whole family lined up on the couch, watching Disney.
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I remember those little boxes of cereal. They had an I-shaped perforation (Times New Roman "I" with the serif on the top and bottom, do you remember?) so if you were out camping or somewhere without a bowl, you could open that by running your fingernail or spoon along the lines and opening the box. You had to tear the waxed paper open, but you could even put milk in there because the waxed paper kept it from leaking. Remember that? It was fun to eat them that way once in a while, but I usually used a bowl.
And those CURLERS! My mom used those (I don't think I've had curlers in my hair more than once or twice in my life, and it was at a beauty shop for a special occasion). She had those exact spiky black ones with those white plastic "spears" to hold them to your head. Every Saturday she did her hair and walked around all day with those things on her head while we kids watched monster movies on TV. Remember those great movies? The 50's B sci-fi stuff? The one I remember most is the giant ant one (I think it's called "THEM!"), and there was one about aliens that shot people with a raygun and turned them into skeletons, I have no idea the name of it. Boy, those were scarier than Mom's curlers, for sure! And then there were gladiator movies! LOL! You sure don't get Saturday afternoon entertainment like that anymore.
And those CURLERS! My mom used those (I don't think I've had curlers in my hair more than once or twice in my life, and it was at a beauty shop for a special occasion). She had those exact spiky black ones with those white plastic "spears" to hold them to your head. Every Saturday she did her hair and walked around all day with those things on her head while we kids watched monster movies on TV. Remember those great movies? The 50's B sci-fi stuff? The one I remember most is the giant ant one (I think it's called "THEM!"), and there was one about aliens that shot people with a raygun and turned them into skeletons, I have no idea the name of it. Boy, those were scarier than Mom's curlers, for sure! And then there were gladiator movies! LOL! You sure don't get Saturday afternoon entertainment like that anymore.
I give up! What are these?
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Old school hair curlers. See @Lannie's post 2 above yours.
