<p>Shrinkrap, I watched parts of a couple of the Wonderama videos with Sonny Fox, and wow. I probably stopped watching it around 1963 or 1964, but I recognized him instantly. (Not so surprising, I guess, given what a faithful viewer I was until then.) I was pleased to find out (I looked it up) that he’s still alive.</p>
<p>I also remember watching Captain Kangaroo a lot, when I was even younger. Hard to believe that Bob Keeshan was only in his early 30’s back then.</p>
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<p>Shame on Ken!</p>
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My wife is another younger sister who remembers with bitterness that her sister had Barbie and she only had Skipper.</p>
<p>Those local kiddie shows were great. I lived in southern Virginia, and the TV stations were mostly from Greensboro, N.C., etc. We had a guy called “The Old Rebel” and another one called “Uncle Looney.” I was on that show for a birthday party once, but they had a substitute host that day so it was a bit disappointing. There was a particularly weird local kiddie show on a UHF channel called “Mr. Green and the Kiddie Scene” which had an old guy dressed as a hippie (as I vaguely recall).</p>
<p>If I remember correctly the “other woman” was Midge.</p>
<p>I had all of them, including Skipper.</p>
<p>Has GI Joe been mentioned? I was most happy when i got the one with a ‘real’ beard, then the GI Joe with kung fu grip…</p>
<p>At one point Skipper was more popular than Barbie because of her Twiggy-like figure. I was one of the lucky few that had a “Grow Up Skipper” doll. When you twisted her arm backwards her torso raised up and breasts popped out of her chest. It was the only way that I could get the neighbor boys to play dolls with me in between epic Star Wars battles. Sadly, she had her arm ripped off and is no more.</p>
<p>I never had Barbie dolls- but I had a Tammy doll. I also had a Skipper ( pre-breasts) & a Tutti Doll.
But I mostly played with my trolls.</p>
<p>Skipper was introduced in 1964,and heyday was late 60’s and last produced in '73… Not sure but i think Star Wars movie was out in '77,so she was probably long in the tooth by then…No wonder the boys didn’t want any part of her. ;)</p>
<p>Has no one has mentioned learning to use a slide rule for algebra 2?</p>
<p>I remember an early PC which read punch cards.</p>
<p>Fizzies.</p>
<p>My favorite TV show was “The Rogues” with David Niven and Gig Young.</p>
<p>Skipper is still being produced, and Grow up skipper was out in the 70s. The boys loved that doll because she had boobs pop out like magic. Barbie couldn’t hold a candle to her, not even Malibu barbie. </p>
<p>I remember the ■■■■■ dolls too…wasn’t there also a set of dolls that smelled like strawberries?</p>
<p>I loved those ■■■■■ dolls. My sister had about every Barbie out there. I remember I had a Francie with “growing pretty hair”. She had a pony tail that you could pull out to make long hair. I also had Dawn and Angie - they were smaller Barbie type dolls.</p>
<p>Re Bozo the clown - I had nightmares after seeing an episode with Bozo trapped in a cannon.</p>
<p>I had a Tressie doll whose hair grew. Then you wound it back up with a key in her back. One of my favorites was Betsy Wetsy. I had a doll that cried until you put a bottle in her mouth and the bottle was one of those magical disappearing milk bottles. Realism obviously meant crying and peeing.</p>
<p>Loved the ■■■■■ dolls too.</p>
<p>I had this as a kid:
[1960s</a> REMCO BIG CAESAR GIANT BATTERY OP SHIP IN THE BOX | eBay](<a href=“http://www.ebay.com/itm/1960s-REMCO-BIG-CAESAR-GIANT-BATTERY-OP-SHIP-BOX-/140596356929]1960s”>http://www.ebay.com/itm/1960s-REMCO-BIG-CAESAR-GIANT-BATTERY-OP-SHIP-BOX-/140596356929)
Recently, my wife bought a vintage one for me (not this specific one). Best gift ever!</p>
<p>I remember being " the remote control". I did not have a name for what I did at the time, but I just know my dad never changed the channel. He had one of us kids get up and go turn the dial through those 13 stations to find the perfect program. </p>
<p>I also remember cooking a frozen Swansons chicken pot pie for 1 hour in the oven. </p>
<p>And in high school, you could find all the facts in the world book encyclopedia. I do think I remember wishing there was something like “google” back then. They had “computer” on Star Trek didn’t they?</p>
<p>Quialah, re slide rules, I remember when guys (some guys!) wore slide rules dangling from their belts.</p>
<p>“In the early 70s, most science-and-engineering students routinely carried around slide rules in cases attached to their belts, rather like a gunslinger.” Scroll down for a photo here:
[Go</a> figure: From slide rules to circuit boards - UB Reporter](<a href=“Welcome to nginx!”>Welcome to nginx!)</p>
<p>In a college class I took in the early 70s, before pocket calculators were ubiquitous, a professor scolded me for having a cheap slide rule that wasn’t accurate enough.</p>
<p>They had a giant slide rule that they used to teach us in high school. I think we were one of the last classes to learn it.</p>
<p>Another bygone event- burning leaves at the curb. No recycling of anything back then.</p>
<p>Ah- slide rules. </p>
<p>I guess microwave ovens have existed more decades than I knew, but they weren’t common. So different when my mom had a leftovers day- so many different pots and pans for each one, even when some in foil in the oven- then there were all of the dishes to do by hand.</p>
<p>I had a sizable ■■■■■ doll collection, even the first one that had “DAM”, the maker carved into the back, before they were patented. I also had a large cow ■■■■■ and a lion ■■■■■, and several little elephant trolls. I still have them. I periodically look on e-bay to see if I can make any money.</p>
<p>wis, in my mom’s town, burning is still allowed, but only 10 times a year!</p>
<p>In my area, we burn leaves too. I’m convinced “leftover” night, with 10 little Corningware dishes drying out in the oven, are why I try very hard not to have leftovers now. Uck.</p>