<p>One of my favorites-
The Rocky and Bullwinkle Show- who can forget that lovable pair of Cold War favorites, Boris and Natasha, and let us not forget “let’s make fun of Canadians” Dudley DoRight.</p>
<p>Doubleplay,
Did you also want a “whatsamatta U” tshirt like this? <a href=“http://www.zazzle.com/product/235832223924208586[/url]”>http://www.zazzle.com/product/235832223924208586</a> I often considered getting one, but never did. Figured I’d be showing my age (more than I already am!)</p>
<p>Sue in Philly,
I definitely remember Dr. Shock–too scary for me even as a teen…</p>
<p>Rocky and Bullwinkle are great-
[Bullwinkle:</a> I’d like to apply for a job as an usher?
Boris: What experience have you had?
Bullwinkle: I’ve been in the dark for most of my life.](<a href=“http://www.jppatches.com/rocky.htm]Bullwinkle:”>http://www.jppatches.com/rocky.htm)</p>
<p>I must have watched a lot of TV because I can remember a lot of televison shows</p>
<p>I liked buddy shows like Alias Smith & Jones and [The</a> Persuaders.](<a href=“http://www.thepersuaders.com/]The”>http://www.thepersuaders.com/)
[And</a> how can I forget the Mod Squad!](<a href=“http://www.chezgrae.com/modsquad/]And”>The Mod Squad TV Show Unofficial Home Page w/ Pictures & Episode Guide)</p>
<p>jym,
Cute T-shirt!
I don’t remember Whatsamatta U, though. I have CRS syndrome (;)) so my memory is limited…I do remember “Watch me pull a rabbit outa my hat!”.
I’m going to look for THAT t-shirt!</p>
<p>Doubleplay-
Tsk tsk- we are going to have to take away your Rocky and Bullwinkle fan club membership card! Whatsamatta U is where Bullwinkle went to college!!</p>
<p>But, all is forgiven, since I have CRS syndrome too!</p>
<p>Does anyone fromthe NE remember Sandy Becker? He hosted Wonderama and some other kids shows in the 60’s and 70’s. I didn’t realize he did the voices of a lot of cartoon characters, including Wonderdog, King Leonardo and many others. (Here’s that CRS kicking in again…) what was the name…the professor and Peabody? that doesnt sound right. They waere always followed by the guy sweeping the street with the big broom … Help someone…</p>
<p><em>WAIT</em>* Peabody and Sherman-- that was it!!!</p>
<p>Sheriff John in Los Angeles. I felt so lucky to be sick and stay home on his last day. “Put another candle on the birthday cake”</p>
<p>NYC in the 1960s-summer was a spaldeen, a jump rope and a piece of chalk. If you were lucky, you had a pair of skates, the kind that attached to your shoes.
You went out to play until the streetlights came on and then you were expected home.
Saturday afternoon confession, Sunday Mass for the Catholics among us.<br>
TV was good and not many channels then ,just enough. Family entertainment and some good old movies. Then bed with a good book.
You knew your neighbors and cared for them and living where I did, your neighbors were of many different religions and national backgrounds.
It was a quieter, simpler time. We shopped at the neighborhood markets and knew all the shopkeepers by name and if someone on the block, owing to illness or age, needed home delivery, they got it. And if someone, owing to illness or a loss of a job, needed credit, they got it.
All the neighborhood boys shoveled snow for the elderly neighbors, happy with a tip and nothing more.<br>
I can say, it is still that way in my neighborhood-maybe not the simple TV and a summer consisting of a spaldeen, a jump rope and a piece of chalk, but thankfully all the rest is true.</p>
<p>I remember Sandy Becker!!! Thanks for bringing that back to my mind.</p>
<p>brooklynmom-
last year’s thread <a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=193692[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=193692</a> morphed into a discussion of the double entendre of the song “I’ve got a brand new pair of roller skates; you’ve got a brand new key”, awful gum uniforms, hair dryers with bonnets, dippidy-doo hair gel, spoolies, snowball marshmallow treats, etc etc etc. Ahh, those were the good ol’ days.</p>
<p>Wonderama, Bullwinkle, Boris and Natasha, The Banana Splits, (I loved them), funny no one has mentioned the one show that engaged children and adults…yes, THE BUGS BUNNY SHOW!!! :)</p>
<p>brooklynmom,</p>
<p>I grew up in Queens in the 50s-60s, I can relate very well to your post! Also: hoola hoops, silly putty, local candy stores where you could get egg creams, and early “dates” that were for a double feature and an ice cream soda at a local “soda fountain”. Teenagers bought lots of 45s. As a little kid, your parents could leave you at the movie house and there was a matron watching over the “children’s section” on Saturday afternoons.</p>
<p>What’s a spaldeen? A spoolie?</p>
<p><a href=“http://www.bookofjoe.com/2006/09/spoolies_a_blas.html[/url]”>http://www.bookofjoe.com/2006/09/spoolies_a_blas.html</a> spoolies-- the little rubber curlers that sort of snap onto your hair. I dont know what a a spaldeen is, but I will look it up. I did see on tv this morning about a revival of the little mini merry go rounds and rides that they had outside stores for a quarter! I used to love those things!</p>
<p>Ahh-- spaldeens. Never knew the name for them. They are the pink rubber balls that are like the inside of tennis balls. But I preferred superballs! They bounced all over the place!</p>
<p>Growing up in Cocoa Beach, our entertainment was the beach. When I was 13, my parents started letting me go by myself (with friends of course). We could all walk there, so we’d meet at around 10 AM and stay until 5 (or until the thunder busters rolled in). My neighbor had a HUGE tractor tire and we’d get half a dozen people on that thing out in the water and sit/jump off it for hours. Another friend had a catamaran parked in the dunes and we’d take that out for a spin. I had my bro’s ex-longboard, which I could barely maneuver but would make a good float if nothing else. </p>
<p>When we felt like a change of pace, we’d walk up to the local Holiday Inn and sneak into their pool. Half the time we were kicked out- the fun was <em>pretending</em> we were tourists (How did we think we’d get away with it? Those people had to have recognized us after a while!) When I got a little older, us girls would walk miles of beach from one lifeguard tower to another visiting our boyfriends. We thought we were too cool. </p>
<p>Life was simpler then wasn’t it? I feel like one of those grandmas talking to my grandkids…“now kids, when I was young, I walked to the beach barefoot…”</p>
<p>Superballs were later, and I remember delighting in how they bounced compared to previous balls. </p>
<p>I used to attempt to sleep in those pink curlers, though had forgotten the name, spoolies. To look well turned out for 7th grade, with an ironed dress. Ick, perhaps we have evolved.</p>
<p>Growing up in Arizona, we made a career out of ‘pool hopping’ in apartment complexes and running through sprinklers in the nicer neighborhoods. After moving to California, the beach, whether winter or summer was the focus of much recreation, though too cold for swimming.</p>
<p>*I did see on tv this morning about a revival of the little mini merry go rounds and rides that they had outside stores for a quarter! I used to love those things!
*</p>
<p>oh they still have those- it was a sad day when my kids realized that they weren’t just to sit on, that if you put money in them they moved!
;)</p>
<p>Pyewacket;</p>
<p>I grew up in Queens in the sixties too! Saint Albans (yes, I’m African Amercian). What High School?</p>