<p>Just thinking of Ghoulardi again makes me laugh! And for a long time, I thought all Romper Rooms had Miss Barbara. Later a cousin of mine was Miss XX, in a different “viewing area.” </p>
<p>For some reason, my mother really disliked Mr. Jing-a-ling–so of course my brother and I sang that song often!</p>
<p>The Higbee’s here (in “not-Cleveland”) became Marshall Fields and then Macy’s, possibly with another intermediate stop along the way.</p>
<p>Our claim to fame: My sister-in-law had a campaign party for Dennis Kucinich in her parents’ basement rec room, when he was not yet the boy mayor of Cleveland.</p>
<p>^^
My claim to fame: My first and only TV appearance was on the Mr. Jing-a-ling TV show.</p>
<p>Remember transistor radios? Putting it under my pillow at night, and listening to CKLW from Detroit - the “Motor Cityyyyyy”. Is CKLW still around? I left the area decades ago.</p>
<p>^^AnyMom99: Wow, as a child, I might have seen you on TV! Just recalled: “Keeping track of Santa’s pack and Treasure House of Toys, wind-up things that Santa brings to all good little girls and boys.”</p>
<p>It’s sobering to think of what I’ve forgotten, while remembering that!</p>
<p>^^ I was the one with the wiggly front tooth. I remember dressing up in my “Sunday Best” and going downtown to Halle’s and going into the studio. There were about 100 kids in the audience, and they selected 5 of us to sit on Santa’s Lap and tell him what we wanted for Christmas. My mom told me that the whole time I was on air, I wiggled my loose front tooth while I was talking. She said her biggest regret was not forcing me to pull it out before the show. It actually came out the next day</p>
<p>H just walked in and wondered if you remembered Big Chuck and Houlihan…</p>
<p>Too late to edit previous post, so I’ll mention that it might have been “the little” rather than “good little.” I probably have the spare room in my memory for some important historical figure, because I’m not storing that datum on Mr. Jing-a-ling!</p>
<p>TV stations I recall: WEWS, KYW, WJW, and radio: WAKR. Also moved out of area & don’t know their fates.</p>
<p>White cotton Carter’s Spanky Pants. They were basically the girls’ version of “tighty whities.” I think I wore them all the way through junior high, along with my white undershirts :(</p>
<p>yes, those “undershirts” I remember the humiliation of being the only girl in my “junior high” class still in one and finally convincing my mother I needed a “training bra” just for the sake of my self-hood…And what were we “training”???-Ourselves to fasten the hooks??? The boys to try to unsnap them? Keeping our straps out of view?? (Now of course the fashion is to display your underwear whereever…</p>
<p>Quantmech:
Was your brother the one who used Brylcreem to style his hair (“A Little Dab’ll Do Ya”), wore suede Hush Puppies with the soft soles and the button down collar shirts with the loop in back, and Brut cologne? Maybe I used to date him.</p>
<p>I remember watching my mother get dressed up to go to the grocery store, and I remember all of us getting dressed up to go shopping. I remember my mother taping two cents to the top of my lunch box for my milk money. I remember Beatles trading cards. I also remember boys at school combing their hair down and the principal making them comb it “properly”. I also remember those cheap rubber thongs that would always break while you were riding your bike and your foot would slip and you’d stub your toe on the street, I wore alot of bandages on my toes in the summer!</p>
<p>Hair and makeup were such a big thing in my pre-hippie junior high/high school years. And I lived in Texas, which means really, really, really big. Ratting (a.k.a. teasing), clippies with little hair bows attached to them to hold the spit curls in place, sleeping on brush rollers every single night of the week, so much AquaNet hairspray that it could have caused brain damage, etc. Then there was the very first blush: Revlon Blush-On, in a white rectangular box/compact thing with a mirror inside. Later came peel-off liquid eyeliner. It was tough to finance these things on my babysitting income.</p>
<p>^^AnyMom99, lol, no, that doesn’t describe my brother–but it does describe at least half of the boys on the debate team and most of the boys with projects at the Regional Science Fair.</p>
<p>^^AnyMom99–My brother just has an insanely good memory for any show he saw on TV as a child. If he saw “Big Chuck” for 30 seconds, he’d probably remember him.</p>