<p>Piels real draft, the kind of beer ,you first loved…</p>
<p>Stuff was terrible,lol</p>
<p>My baloney has a first name,
It’s O-S-C-A-R
My baloney has a second name,
It’s M-E-Y-E-R.
Oh, I love to eat it every day.
If you ask me why I’ll say…
'Cuz Oscar Meyer has a way
With B-O-L-O-G-N-A.</p>
<p>Public service announcement from the 60’s</p>
<p>VD — is for everybody
Not just for the few
Anyone can share VD
With someone nice as you</p>
<p>VD — is for everybody
Darlin’ have no doubt
That anyone can get VD
That’s what it’s all about</p>
<p>Aye, yii, yii, yiiii,
I am the Frito Bandito.
I like Frito’s Corn Chips,
I love them I do.
I want Frito’s Corn Chips,
I’ll get them from you.</p>
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<p>Aye, yii, yii, yiiii,
Oh, I am the Frito Bandito.
Give me Frito Corn chips
And I’ll be your friend.
The Frito Bandito
You must not offend.</p>
<p>“Bucky the Beaver” singing “Brush-a, brush-a, brush-a! New Ipana toothpaste!” (TV ad circa 1957).</p>
<p>When I was real little (in the early 50s), we used Py-Co-Pay tooth powder instead of toothpaste. You shook a little into your palm and mixed water into it with your toothbrush. </p>
<p>We also had an icebox instead of a refrigerator, and a washing machine on wheels that used water from the kitchen sink, obtained via a hose. It had a wringer on the top to squeeze excess water out of the clothes since there was no “spin cycle.”</p>
<p>^ okay, you win!</p>
<p>What I sometimes find hard to believe is that when I was 10 years old, in 1965, the end of the Second World War was only 20 years in the past. Even though it didn’t seem like that to me at the time (given that everything that happened before I was born seemed to me like ancient history and to have taken place in black and white), it was as recent then as 1991 is now. No wonder there were still so many movies and TV programs about World War II, and some kids were still reading World War II comic books. And movies from the 1930’s, which seemed truly ancient to me when I was a kid, were as recent then as the 1980’s are now. Time really does compress as you get older. Although I wonder if things that happened before they were born seem as distant to kids today as they did to me, given the greater continuity of popular culture now, with everything available on the Internet, DVD’s, etc., and everything in color since the late 1960’s. And people certainly listen to popular music from the 60’s and 70’s now a whole lot more than they listened to popular music from 1920 or 1930 in the 1960’s.</p>
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<p>Ditto. I grew up in Arlington, Texas, home of Six Flags Over Texas. We always had a season pass in the summer. I, too, was 10 years old the first time I got the all day drop off. Good times.</p>
<p>One ride we used to love (which is now gone) was the Spinnaker. You would go into this round room, and everyone would be directed to stand with his back against the wall. The room would begin to spin, faster and faster. Then the floor would drop out from underneath you, and thanks to the laws of physics, you would stick to the wall. People would be shrieking, and many would get sick afterward. I used to ride that ride that over and over with no ill effects. Today I would probably barf within minutes.</p>
<p>“You’ve come a long way baby
To get where you’ve gotten today.
You’ve got your own cigarette now, baby.
You’ve come a long, long way!”</p>
<p>Virginia Slims Cigarettes</p>
<p>I loved the Fritos song! lol </p>
<p>Maybe this has already been mentioned, but anybody remember when you had to defrost your freezer? The ice would build up until just a tiny slot was left for the food. After hours of chipping away the ice, several pans of hot water, and aggravation the freezer became, once again, usable. </p>
<p>How about those metal ice cube trays where you had to pull up the handle to dislodge the ice cubes?</p>
<p>The Rat Patrol !</p>
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<p>That was before my time, but I know that commercial because I saw it in the movie Grease. :)</p>
<p>Thanks a lot - now that *VD is For Everybody *song is going though my head. Hadn’t thought of that in decades.</p>
<p>Have you watched any R rated movies from the 70s (ones we weren’t old enough to see first time around)? Some are very tame…and some … are not.</p>
<p>DonnaL, I was 10 years old in 1957. When I was that age, it seemed to me that all that the adults ever thought about or talked about was World War II, and sometimes the Depression.</p>
<p>It was so weird to have missed all of that, totally. </p>
<p>My dad was in the Army (he was a noncombattent in the war because of his age and work specialty), which led to our being stationed in Germany in the early 50s. However, that didn’t lead to my feeling that I knew much, because little kids back then (perhaps especially American kids) tended to be much more ignorant and protected from various kinds of information. </p>
<p>As a kindergartner-through-second grader living in Germany (Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Berchtesgaden, and Heidelberg), I had only the vaguest notion that the war had even happened, much less what it had been about. (It was a bit later that I became aware of the huge collective memory of it that I didn’t share.) I didn’t know about the Nazis or the holocaust, or anything. My parents seemed to like the German people with whom we were acquainted fairly well, and they never talked, in front of me and my sister, about the Germans in a negative way. (I know my parents weren’t sympathetic to the Nazis, g-d forbid, but then again, my dad had not been in combat, so he didn’t have that level of bitterness.)</p>
<p>In one place we lived, we had to take a long, circuitous route to get to the other side of a certain valley, because a big bridge that crossed it had been bombed. You could see the ruins of the bridge. I asked my mom who had bombed the bridge and she said, “The Americans.” “Why?” I asked. “The War,” she said. End of discussion…I don’t recall asking anything else.</p>
<p>My parents later told me that when they had traveled to places in Europe that had a lot of bombed buildings, like Berlin, they didn’t take me and my sister. I guess they thought the sight would upset us. It wouldn’t have, though, because I’m afraid we were a little too young for that level of empathy.</p>
<p>When I later learned about the cruelty and atrocities of the Nazis, it was a strange thing to be layered on top of the pleasant memories I had of living in Germany. I still feel a little guilty about having liked living there so much.</p>
<p>Nrdsb4-- Loved Spinnaker at the time but did get sick a few times. Remember Skull Island (I think that was the name and I’m sure our kids would have thought it to be pretty lame) and the La Salles riverboat ride in the French section?</p>
<p>I know the pop n fresh doughboy is still around but I loved the commercials so much way back then and wanted a doughboy for Christmas. I was naive enough to believe it would be just like the commercials and was so disappointed in the plastic toy I received.</p>
<p>“Ho Ho Ho Green Giant…”</p>
<p>“He likes it! hey Mikey, he likes it…”</p>
<p>“I’m a Pepper” Gotta love my Dr. Pepper in Texas</p>
<p>“The clapper, Clap on, clap off, the clapper.” (Not to be confused with clap the VD)</p>
<p>“Where’s the beef?”</p>
<p>“Two all-beef patties, special sauce, lettuce, cheese, pickles, onions on a sesame seed bun”</p>
<p>“How about a nice hawaiian punch?”</p>
<p>Chatty Cathy dolls – I never got one and was jealous of friends who had them. I did have a Chrissy doll with growing hair.</p>
<p>Fill in the blanks</p>
<p>Would you offer a _________ to a lady?</p>
<p>More _____sausages mom, please?</p>
<p>You sank my _________!!!</p>
<p>An older Italian woman pokes her head out of
her apartment window and calls “Anthony”
and then you see small boy who runs home because it’s Wednesday
and in this area of town Wednesday is _______ Day. </p>
<p>Baseball, hot dogs, apple pie and_______…</p>
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<p>I had forgotten all about Skull Island until you mentioned it. The La Salles riverboat ride was always a good one if you wanted to find a ride you wouldn’t have to wait long for when your feet were tired and you wanted to rest a bit.</p>