<p>My mom wrapped ours in foil and said they were “surprises!”.</p>
<p>@Shrinkrap: For a minute I thought you were talking about the leaves.</p>
<p>That’s funny!</p>
<p>I still have two of my ■■■■■ dolls. </p>
<p>Rocky and Bullwinkle on Saturday mornings. The Beatles had a cartoon, as well. All I remember from it was Ringo swinging from a chandelier. Ringo’s still my favorite Beatle! Oh yes, and Johnny Quest.</p>
<p>^^I remember the Beatles cartoons on Saturday mornings. The song they played over the opening and closing credits each week was “And Your Bird Can Sing.”</p>
<p>[The</a> Beatles - And Your Bird Can Sing - YouTube](<a href=“The Beatles - And Your Bird Can Sing - YouTube”>The Beatles - And Your Bird Can Sing - YouTube)</p>
<p>I remember my first pair of patch pocket pants…purple with yellow pockets. </p>
<p>Our school was allowing us to wear pants to school two days a week. This was a trial period to see if students would obey the dress codes the BofEd set forth. </p>
<p>I remember my father discussing the new bussing regulations in our elementary school. Back than African American children were referred to as “Negro children” and it was big news that children were being bussed to our community.</p>
<p>Just found this thread and it is great.</p>
<p>No A/C in school and only one big fan. Our seats were assigned daily to give everyone a chance to sit near the fan. Otherwise your arms would be sweaty and smear your papers.</p>
<p>No A/C at home but a water cooler attached to the window and you would have to fill it with the water hose several times a day.</p>
<p>Running through water sprinklers for fun. The kind attached to water hoses. No one had a pool.</p>
<p>Picking up coke bottles to return to the store and then buying penny candies.</p>
<p>white lipstick!</p>
<p>The Dating Game
Password (something like that – anyway SNL does a spoof of it)
Bonanza
Big Valley
Twilight Zone
The Love Boat
What was that show “…the plane…the plane” with Ricardo Montleblain(?sp)</p>
<p>Fantasy Island</p>
<p>Gay meant happy. My sister said the African country names changed every year as learned in social studies- the 1960’s were a time of many changes. Civil Rights marches on TV- riots in Milwaukee (my father actually drove us past the parks in neighborhoods far from the ones our white middle class relatives lived in on one summer Sunday visit). Antiwar protests. </p>
<p>Nuclear attack drills- how putting your hands over your neck while under your desk would help with radiation never did make sense.</p>
<p>Snow boots that only went over shoes. Having to wear ugly shoes because the pretty ones didn’t come in my size/width (athletic shoes were only for gym class- mainly canvas).</p>
<p>Banquet TV dinners- Swanson was too expensive for us.</p>
<p>Sky King, Lassie, Rin Tin Tin Saturday mornings on our B & W TV. The Monkees. The Three Stooges (I always hated that show). The old cartoons- precomputer generation they had a lot more sophistication in colors.</p>
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This is a pretty good gender test.</p>
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<p>And you applied it at the bus stop, either because your mother would not allow you to wear lipstick or because she would roll on the floor laughing if she saw what you looked like when you were wearing it.</p>
<p>Jonny Quest - Best. Cartoon. Ever.</p>
<p>During the summer, I made sure I was home for lunch in time to watch “The Gong Show” with Chuck Barris as the host.</p>
<p>I hated “The Three Stooges” too. I loved “The Avengers” and would have given anything to be Emma Peel. </p>
<p>My elementary school was heated with coal pot belly stoves in each room. The teachers scared us to death about getting burned so we would stay away from them.</p>
<p>Fair Isle sweaters and Dorothy Hamill wedge haircuts…</p>
<p>Thank you for starting this thread. I’m savoring every memory…</p>
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<p>I have a law partner who still has her Dorothy Hamill wedge. I’m sure it looked adorable on her in 1976.</p>
<p>At the last choir concert I sat behind a woman who had a perfect 1970s feathered cut. It’s amazing she is able to find someone who can do it.</p>
<p>Did anyone grow up in Arizona? We had Wallace & Ladmo! If you ended up on the show you could receive a Ladmo Bag full of stuff. It was a local mainstay for a very long time.</p>
<p>Romper Room–My high school history teacher was married to the Romper Room Lady. She was the one that made the news, got fired, and had a tv movie made about her because she went overseas to have an abortion after taking a drug (before she knew she was pregnant) known for causing severe deformities in babies. (This all happened well before I had him as a HS teacher).</p>
<p>We didn’t have a clothes dryer the entire time I lived at home. With the AZ weather we just dried them on the line. They smelled soooo good when they were taken off the line! </p>
<p>Lawn Darts–another of those toys designed to kill people. Huge darts you threw up in the air so they would come down and potentially land in a marked circle. Much more likely to come down on you and maim you in some way.</p>
<p>“Come home when the street light comes on”.</p>
<p>Gene, Gene the Dancing machine…</p>
<p>The Unknown Comic…</p>
<p>Who remembers Boris Karloff’s Thriller series? I loved those shows but I can’t believe my parents let me watch them. To this day, I remember one with a character named Eula Lee. I still love scary movies.</p>
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We used to stand near the circle and dodge them as they came down.</p>
<p>Good times…</p>